"...i think people really need to look at the facts of the matter. there is no doubt in my mind that negligence was involved as there should have been a spotter and very bad judgement was involved in that the operation should have been discontinued with the presence of civilians..."
You may be on to something there.
Ideally, they probably should have had somebody out in front of the dozer(s), hoping to ensure that those self-appointed Dumbass Interfering Civilians were out of the way.
But, of course, they'd been warned, repeatedly, throughout the course of the earlier confrontation, to get their asses out of the way, and they chose to ignore the warnings.
I have not read the reports from either the Israeli side nor from any source connected to the protesters so I do not know whether there was, indeed, a spotter, or not.
I suppose it is reasonable or possible to speculate that even with a spotter, it might prove difficult to see behind every wall and niche and nook and cranny of structures that are about to be bulldozed to the ground.
But, I really have no clue whether that actually applies in this case; it merely seemed worth mentioning in passing in light of the above.
"...however, i am not entierly convinced that the death of rachel corrie was deliberate..."
Agreed.
"...as for kondor and his 'shit happens'...he should keep that in mind the next time a settler and his family are knifed to death in their sleep. shit does, indeed, happen."
I'm not an Israeli, and I'm not a Jew, and I'm several thousand miles distant from The Troubles, so, frankly, I'm not a True Stakeholder in any of this. Shit does, indeed, happen, and Settler Troubles no doubt come with the business of Expansion Settling; ergo The Barrier, and, of course, that's what they pay the IDF to deal with. Confidence is fairly high that Settlers have more to fear from 'long'-distance rocket attacks than they do from infiltrators with knives sneaking into their bedrooms. But I could be wrong.