Steven Zak says Rachel Corrie, the dead “peace activist” currently getting the full whitewash, hot wax, and propaganda treatment from every terrorist front group in the world, had crossed the line between human shield and enemy combatant.

Don’t mourn for Rachel Corrie.

The 23-year-old American “peace activist” was fatally injured when she purposefully obstructed an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer engaging in counter-terror operations. What the Israelis graciously called a “regrettable accident” should never have occurred, because Corrie should have first been arrested, either by Israel or the United States.

The tunnels Corrie was protecting are underneath the Israel-Egypt border. These elaborate structures, often wood paneled and with electricity, communications equipment and even elevators, are typically dug inside residential homes and concealed under bathrooms, living rooms and bedrooms. They are used to smuggle weapons and explosives — not to mention drugs and prostitutes — from Egypt into Gaza.

Corrie, recently seen in a wire service photo angrily burning an American flag, was acting on behalf of the radical Arab-led International Solidarity Movement (ISM), an outfit dedicated to support the “right to resist” what it calls “the occupation of Palestine.” The group’s members once acted as “human shields” to protect Yasser Arafat from Israeli forces and last year, during the standoff at the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, did the same for hostage-holding terrorists holed up inside.

Corrie’s own sentiments were made clear in her writings.

In an email, she makes reference to Arab “homes in historic Palestine — now Israel,” thus reflecting the widely-held Arab view that “Palestine” means the entirety of Israel. In her diary, published on the web by the “nonviolent” ISM, Corrie writes sympathetically of the killing of Israelis by terrorists. “[T]ry to imagine, please, the courage it requires,” she gushes. Yes, imagine.

Since the media’s barrage of images of Corrie looking Caucasian and saintly has not abated, every time I cover a story about her I’m going to repost one of these photographs, unmasking the hidden face of Rachel Corrie. This one was found at the web site of The Olympia Movement for Justice & Peace; when I first discovered the picture, the link was on a page with a note gushing something like “Look who’s in Gaza! See anyone you recognize?” as if Corrie were doing something wonderful. That page seems to be gone from their site now, for some reason, but the photo is still there.