It was heartbreaking to find out about the death of Rachel Corrie run over by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza. What is troubling about it is that a young woman with a fiery personality would travel to a combat zone to put her and others in a very dangerous situation. What was Rachel Corrie doing in front of a bulldozer in Gaza from all places? Israel is an American ally and an American passport does insure a preferential treatment in that country. Unfortunately, when the bullets are flying it is hard to check the identity of a person. Our president, George W. Bush, has said that in a war “some unintended casualties are inevitable”.

Gaza is the hotbed for the Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, etc. terrorists, homicide bombers that perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The demolition of houses, as unfortunate as it is, happens to be a necessary deterrent in the conflict against the terrorists. America has gone halfway across the world to fight the terrorist evil. Israel is fighting that evil right in her own backyard. It is known that Israel gives the civilians residing in the buildings an advance notice. The innocent Israeli and even some American citizens who were blown up into pieces by the Palestinian Arab terrorists did not get such notices. The Palestinian Arab leadership has integrated the killings of the innocent civilians into their strategy to defeat and destroy Israel. This is a conflict that is being waged not just on the battlefield but also in the media. In fact, it is expected that Iraq will do exactly the same.

Activism is great! However, it must be combined with a good common sense of reality. Just because Israel is a democratic, open society with more reporters per square mile than any other place on this planet, there is no guarantee of safety when one departs for Gaza, the hub of the Hamas terrorists.

There are many other troubled spots in the world like Chechnya, the Indian province of Kashmir, Columbia, the Philippines, Nigeria, Somalia, etc., that require the activists’ attention. However, the networks cannot afford the liability insurance rates required to send the reporters in there. Consequently, the reporting from such places is limited and does not generate the strong emotions.

It is very sad that the late Rachel Corrie despite her honorable intentions channeled her energy in the wrong direction.

Hello, this is directed at the Zionist cartoonist who desecrated the memory of an American peace activist, and all the lowlives that have made similiar disparaging comments to a PEACE ACTIVIST MURDERED by the Israeli military. Do any of you people have even an ounce of integrity left in your pathetic, plastic, suburban, soul-less bodies? Do you study history much, American morons? Do you think that the Israeli house built upon sand will hold under the growing rage against Israel and it's atrocities against women, children and infants. The death of the first, and probably not the last, American peace activist, at the hands of Israel is a landmark that forever the changes the face of geopolitics, in the middle east and elsewhere....When Rachel was murdered by the Israeli military the Israelis refused any medical aid to this young woman and when the local Palestinians held a memorial for her, the Isreali military, tear gassed the crowd. This was no goddamn "combat zone"!!! The fact is; ONLY the Israeli military own tanks and high tech weaponry and apache helicopters, whose sole aim is to murder civilians who happen to reside in territory that Israel wishes to own. What the military presence on Palestinian land is the same as that of the British occupation in Ireland: since the 11th century it was a means to intimidate the locals so that they would leave their homes. The British would burn down my great grandparents home, and today the Israeli military drop ten ton bombs on the homes of Palestinian civilians, or bulldoze their homes. When they are not bulldozing or bombing residential homes, they enjoy shooting Palestinian children for throwing stones. Israel has been allowed to do this, since 1948, when they drove the native people from their homes and pushed them into concentration camps and refugee camps where there is no running water or electricity. But they surely are aware that the game is up, after the murder of an American peace activist, doing the job that the United Nations should be doing , in accord the Geneva convention. Israel has BROKEN every international law and Ariel Sharon is a war criminal with a lengthy rap of genocide and mass murder. Israel may be cocky now, imagining that the American public are so stoned and zombified that we will forget about what happened to Rachel Corrie...The British military made a similiar mistake by mocking the death of Bobby Sands who died in the The Block Hunger Strike in 1981. His sacrifice galvanized the Fenian cause and a groundswell of throngs of people not even remotely connected to the Fenian cause
where enraged by his death and the British state.
streets around the world where named after the man. Since his death, the world wide support and love for the Fenian Cause has grown rapidly and most civilized nations of the West renamed streets after Bobby Sands.The only chief difference here is that Bobby Sands
chose to be a martyr for his Cause, and Rachel Corrie died in a brutal, Zionist fashion, in the same manner that most Palestinian children die on a daily basis, but not with her consent or with any warning. I will dedicate my life (and I know that many people, millions around the world, who are NOT Muslims, will also do the same)to avenge this unforgivable crime against America's brightest and radiant spark of freedom. Her death on that fateful day of March 16th,2003, sent a shock wave around the world that must forever change the way we view the world and our daily
toil to liberate our country from those blood suckers and theives ....The Archdukes of globalist oppression, all reside in Israel, the land of the so Unholy.Hearken, Israel!!! You will rue the day you murderedthe noblest daughter of America and imagined you could get away with this barbarous act and that we would forget. WE SHALL NEVER FORGET. Every move we make,every step we take, will be in honor to her name and her martyrdom. Israel, your enemies increaseth with
every beating heart of a revolutionary and freedom fighter. How long, oh Israel, will you exist,dependent on our charity, dependent on our tax dollars, dependent on American aid and American weaponry? The day will come when your land is buried in sand and a grim legacy of torture, murder, genocide and deceit is the only memory of your existence......We will turn our backs on you as you wither on the vine like a rotten fruit, just like you turned your back on your Palestinian neighbors after driving them out of their homes, and pushing them into refugee camps with no running water or electricity,
and adding insult to this despicable injury by
bulldozing medical clinics and murdering Palestinian women, children and infants. Your genocide of the Palestinian people rivals that of the Turk massacre of the Armenians and the Holocaust that you love to remind the world of....Where will you be, oh Israel, when you are forgotten and all that we recall is agrim memory of lies and genocide? Rachel Corrie, we love you and you will never be forgotten, so long as
one free man and woman still exist.

Long Live The Spirit of Rachel Corrie!
1979-2003

Ps; Don't you know what is coming?

Sigh...

It is the lopsided HATE comments such as that that makes this problem so confusing.

Who has the answer?

What should we do?

Abandon Israel and let the Arab nations destroy her?

Take back the land that Israel has won (after being attacked) and give it to the Palestine’s?

Anyway we look at this, it is a no win situation.

Either we damn the Palestine’s or we damn the Israelis....

DOES ANYONE HAVE AN ANSWER THAT DOESN'T DESTROY THOUSANDS OF LIVES?

I believe that a TWO-STATE solution-separate states for the Israeli jews and the Palestinian Arabs is the ONLY safe, sane solution to the problem. There's no guarantee that things will be hunky-dory if and when a Palestinian State DOES get established in the GAZA, WEST BANK and EAST JERUSALEM. However, for things to go on as they're going now, i. e. the occupation, etc, is a guarantee for STILL more lives on either side being lost-more war, and disastrous consequences for Israel as well.

When the machine compiles your code, however, it does a little bit of translation. At run time, the computer sees nothing but 1s and 0s, which is all the computer ever sees: a continuous string of binary numbers that it can interpret in various ways.

A variable leads a simple life, full of activity but quite short (measured in nanoseconds, usually). It all begins when the program finds a variable declaration, and a variable is born into the world of the executing program. There are two possible places where the variable might live, but we will venture into that a little later.

Since the Heap has no definite rules as to where it will create space for you, there must be some way of figuring out where your new space is. And the answer is, simply enough, addressing. When you create new space in the heap to hold your data, you get back an address that tells you where your new space is, so your bits can move in. This address is called a Pointer, and it's really just a hexadecimal number that points to a location in the heap. Since it's really just a number, it can be stored quite nicely into a variable.

Inside each stack frame is a slew of useful information. It tells the computer what code is currently executing, where to go next, where to go in the case a return statement is found, and a whole lot of other things that are incredible useful to the computer, but not very useful to you most of the time. One of the things that is useful to you is the part of the frame that keeps track of all the variables you're using. So the first place for a variable to live is on the Stack. This is a very nice place to live, in that all the creation and destruction of space is handled for you as Stack Frames are created and destroyed. You seldom have to worry about making space for the variables on the stack. The only problem is that the variables here only live as long as the stack frame does, which is to say the length of the function those variables are declared in. This is often a fine situation, but when you need to store information for longer than a single function, you are instantly out of luck.

But variables get one benefit people do not