"Heroine" Rachel Corrie burns mock American flag at pro-Hamas rally
Posted on 04/26/2005 3:18:39 PM PDT by SJackson
The Royal Court Theatre, one of London most prestigious venues, is staging a play glorifying a young American radical who was killed after jumping in front of a moving Israeli army bulldozer that was attempting to demolish a structure suspected of concealing tunnels used for smuggling weapons. But what about the real victims of the Intifada? Does anyone remember them?
"My Name is Rachel Thaler" is not the title of a play that is likely to be produced anytime soon in London. Thaler, aged 16, was blown up at a pizzeria in an Israeli shopping mall. She died after an 11-day struggle for life following the February 16, 2002 attack, when a suicide bomber approached a crowd of teenagers and blew himself up.
She was a British citizen, born in London, where her grandparents still live. Yet I doubt that anyone at London's Royal Court Theatre or most people in the British media, have heard of her. "Not a single British journalist has ever interviewed me or mentioned her death," her mother Ginette told me last week.
"Heroine" Rachel Corrie burns mock American flag at pro-Hamas rally
Thaler's parents donated her organs for transplant (helping to save the life of a young Russian man), and grieved quietly. After the accidental killing of Rachel Corrie, by contrast, her parents embarked on a major publicity campaign. They traveled to Ramallah to accept a plaque from Yasser Arafat on behalf of their daughter. They circulated her emails and diary-entries to a world media eager to publicize them.
Among those who published extracts from them in 2003 was the influential British leftist daily The Guardian. This in turn inspired a new play, "My Name is Rachel Corrie," which opened this month at the Royal Court Theatre, one of London most prestigious venues.
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If I posted what I thought of Rachel Corrie's parents, I would be banned for profanity.
Will this also include scenes of her burning the american and israeli flags and teaching small children how to hate jews and advocate violence?
Just say the way she felt about jews, is the way you feel about her parents, you'll probably still wind up being softer in language.
Feb 27, 2002 - Rachel Thaler, 16, of Ginot Shomron
Noa Auerbach, 18, of Kfar Sava was killed and 16 people were injured when a terrorist opened fire on passersby in the center of Kfar Sava.
http://www.ahava-ausliebe.com/2-englisch.htm
Only one critic (Clive Davis in the Times of London) dismisses parts of the play as "unvarnished propaganda." At one point Corrie declares "the vast majority of Palestinians right now, as far as I can tell, are engaging in Gandhian non-violent resistance". As Davis notes, "Even the late Yasser Arafat might have blushed at that one." It is ironic to reflect that there have been some real victims of the Intifada called Rachel — and it is hard to believe that these critics have ever heard of them. All these other Rachels died within a few months of Corrie, but — unlike her — in circumstances that weren't disputed. They were deliberately murdered: 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).
Indeed.
This play demonstrates once again the stupidity and lack of a sense of reality of the leftists of the World. If they want to treat this woman as a hero, let them. But they are way out on a limb of their own creation.
From what I've heard, the performance is a bit flat.
Heck, I'm still waiting for a movie/play/whatever detailing the innocent lives lost on 9-11.
People will probably be dozing off halfway through.
I can think of several Hollywood actresses I'd like to nominate.......if they promise to do their own stunts!
I am sure a good title is " Your arms are too short to box with a bulldozer". She died of stupidity.
Wasn't this the girl who was featured on the cover of TIME (or was it NEWSWEAK?) with a picture of her murderer, and they didn't bother to tell who was the terrorist?
I'm training my kids not to play around heavy equipment and other moving vehicles. Maybe her folks didn't go over that with her.
Sorry, "over that" wasn't intended as a pun...it just slipped. (snicker)
Bad, bad. ;)
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