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'October 7' play opens in NYC, telling victims stories through verbatim accounts
Breitbart.com ^ | 5/16/2024 | Emma-Jo Morris

Posted on 05/16/2024 6:53:59 PM PDT by NetAddicted

A play telling the harrowing stories of victims, and heroes, of the October 7 attacks on Israel opened in New York this (my stupid tablet deleted a bunch of words in 1st paragraph; Sorry...) leer and Ann McElhinney as “a cultural mo

The show, which is being put on in Midtown Manhs the blood-curdling accounts of the worst attack in Israel’s history, in the exact words of those who experienced it, collected in a series of interviews conducted by McAleer and McElhinney. The venue is under permanent police protection.

“What we have in this theatre is a piece of magic, a piece of history,” McAleer told Breitbart News Daily on Wednesday. “We’re journalists, our background is journalism, and we thought about journalism being the first draft of history, and here it is and its history that people need to see. They need to know.”

“This is a cultural moment in New York,” he continued. “It’s the only play opening in New York that needs permanent police protection. The world has changed, let me tell you.”

Following the October 7 attack which saw the slaughter of over a thousand people in Israel by Hamas terrorists from Gaza, and the kidnapping of hundreds of Jewish hostages, New York City has become the epicenter of left-wing protests of Israel’s military operations that followed, with marches continuing through the streets of Manhattan for months, calling for “liberation” of “Palestine” — and “intifada.”

“We wanted to put it on stage in New York because New York needs to hear it. New York needs to know this day happened. The encampments in New York, the campus protests in New York, they look at October 8th and beyond — what’s happening in Gaza, what’s happening in Palestine....

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hamas; hamasatrocities; israel; mcaleer; mcelhinney; nyc; october7; play
Breitbart had earlier article about how this play was going to have police protection. Oy vey!
1 posted on 05/16/2024 6:53:59 PM PDT by NetAddicted
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To: NetAddicted
Phelim McAleer’s Haunting ‘October 7’ Ignored by Press
2 posted on 05/16/2024 7:00:41 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Rummyfan

“...captures horrors of HamasAtrocities.”
I created FR keyword hamasatrocities to add to physical descriptions of what Hamas terrorists did to Israelis on Oct 7. Apparently, that is a much used description.


3 posted on 05/16/2024 7:14:10 PM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: NetAddicted

A battalion of Marines would help.


4 posted on 05/16/2024 7:42:09 PM PDT by JimmyTheFish
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To: JimmyTheFish

While it does sound like a great idea, their hands would be
tied and if they actually did anything tangible, they would
be the ones to wind up in prison these days.

I don’t like it, but this is the age we live in.


5 posted on 05/16/2024 9:39:06 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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