April 27, 2005
MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE
Lauren Gunderson at Deepen The Mystery:
Rachel Corrie was 23 year old Americn activist who was part of a peace group in Palestine who was crushed to death by a bulldozer while defended Palestinian housing from demoloition.
Alan Rickman and Katherine Viner have turned her journals and emails (beautiful, wise words from someone as young as 12) into a play.
More here.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie
http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/archives/001138.html
[...]the kind of enthusiastic reviews one would expect from an intelligentsia which has almost universally inverted victim and murderer in the Arab war against Israel. The ISM have been, on the most charitable analysis, attempting to prevent Israel from taking the measures it deems necessary to protect its citizens from mass murder or, according to the less charitable interpretation, actively assisting the Palestinian homicide squads.[...]
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=5058
[...]Rachel Levy (17, blown up in a grocery store); Rachel Levi (19, shot while waiting for the bus); Rachel Gavish (killed with her husband, son and father while at home celebrating a Passover meal); Rachel Charhi (blown up while sitting in a Tel Aviv cafe, leaving three young children); Rachel Shabo (murdered with her three sons aged 5, 13 and 16 while at home).
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[...]The ISM is routinely described as a "peace group" in the Western media. Few make any mention of the ISM's meeting with the British suicide bombers Omar Khan Sharif and Assif Muhammad Hanif, who a few days afterwards, blew up Mike's Place, a Tel Aviv pub, killing three and injuring dozens - including British citizens. Or of the ISM's sheltering in its offices Shadi Sukia, a leading member of Islamic Jihad. Or of the fact that in its mission statement, the ISM says "armed struggle" is a Palestinian "right". "'Israel' is an illegal entity that should not exist," wrote Flo Rosovski, the ISM "media coordinator", clarifying the ISM's idea of peace."
Unfortunately for those who have sought to portray Corrie as a peaceful protester, photos of her burning a mock American flag and stirring up crowds in Gaza were published by the Associated Press and on Yahoo! News on February 15, 2003, before she died. But the play doesn't mention this.
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