Posted on 03/22/2006 10:10:31 AM PST by Mike Bates
The slim book that was suddenly the most controversial work in the West in early March was not easy to find in the United States. Amazon said it wasn't available till April. The Strand bookstore didn't have it either. You could order it on Amazon-UK, but it would be a week getting here.
SNIP
In the elevator, I flipped it open to a random passage:
"I can't cool boiling waters in Russia. I can't be Picasso. I can't be Jesus. I can't save the planet single-handedly. I can wash dishes."
The book is the play My Name Is Rachel Corrie. Composed from the journal entries and e-mails of the 23-year-old from Washington State who was crushed to death in Gaza three years ago under a bulldozer operated by the Israeli army, the play had two successful runs in London last year and then became a cause celebre after a progressive New York theater company decided to postpone its American premiere indefinitely out of concern for the sensitivities of (unnamed) Jewish groups unsettled by Hamas's victory in the Palestinian elections. When the English producers denounced the decision by the New York Theatre Workshop as "censorship" and withdrew the show, even the mainstream media could not ignore the implications. Why is it that the eloquent words of an American radical could not be heard in this country--not, that is, without what the Workshop had called "contextualizing," framing the play with political discussions, maybe even mounting a companion piece that would somehow "mollify" the Jewish community?
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
"The driver and his commanders were interrogated extensively over a long period of time with the use of polygraph tests and video evidence. They had no knowledge that she was standing in the path of the tractor. An autopsy of Corrie's body revealed that the cause of death was from falling debris and not from the tractor physically rolling over her. It was a tragic accident that never should have happened.
People who are in a war zone, who run in front of bulldozers actively operating, can get hurt. In this case the bulldozers were fitted with solid metal cages with SLITS to protect the drivers from snipers. The Isreali army was supposed to help direct the bulldozers, but they were also pinned in their tanks by sniper fire.
In other words, if the operator had gotten out to TALK to her, he might have been shot. She wasn't shot, which shows she was on the side of the snipers, and was an enemy.
The mistake was Israeli army NOT arresting every one of these people when they started interfering.
Did you ever see the first Austin Powers? Kind of like that.
In life's game of rock-paper-scissors, if you see the rock coming, get your scissors out of the way.
What a crushing response.
"I can't cool boiling water...I can wash dishes."
I'm guessing this is Rachel's dialogue from the play. The humble Gandhi from Evergreen College. A Mother Teresa without all that Jesus nonsense. A servant of the downtrodden.
Never read the book, and I probably won't see the play. I have read where she called Bush and Sharon maniacs. And I've seen the pics of her tearing/burning a drawing of an American flag.
I'll bet you she knew what the Pali's were up to. I bet she saw it, up close. She chose a side in that conflict, and lost.
but I did use my head to stop a bulldozer."
What was Rachel's favorite vegetable?
Squash.
We now have a simple test for media IQ:
Anyone who thinks this XXXX-smear Rachel Corrie is worthy of serious attention and respect is an imbecile, period.
That makes it a bit easier to sort through the media babble, just ignore the clowns who think Rachel Corrie is some heroine.
a better alternative ending to the play would be a giant Pappy Boyington statue falling on her.
"Why is it that the eloquent words of an American radical could not be heard in this country"
Can't anyone put on this play? Or are the writers claiming money need be paid to them?
"If this pinhead is trying to claim that there's some kind of rigorous censorship of Rachel Corrie's story, it's BS."
It's SOP Left-wing faux-censorship victimization. The assumption becomes a mantra.
Good point. I'm sure there are hundreds of leftist theater groups who would love to stage this. I suspect the play is anti-semitic and this "The Man Is Keeping Us Down!" act is designed to disguise this fact.
From the article:
"Another anonymous NYTW source said that staffers became worried after reading a fall 2003 Mother Jones profile of Corrie, a much disputed piece that relied heavily on right-wing sources to paint her as a reckless naif."
The Mother Jones piece is vilified by the Nation, therefore it's probably 100% true. Anyone have a link to it?
Aargh!!
However I did find it on a roll in the paper goods aisle of my local grocery store, right under the Quilted Northern.
Only it was titled "The Autobiography of Dozer Lube."
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