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...issues events through the [Ann Radcliffe Trust],” says Marine. “Our mission is very different from a student center, yet we’re also to trying to be a comfortable space and I don’t think those goals are in conflict.”FOCUS ON FEMALESMarine stresses that the Center is open to feedback. After hearing concerns about its prominent location, the basket of free condoms was moved someplace more discreet.“The second time I came they had moved it to a less prominent place...
This is not to say that there is no place for individual activism in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. International Red Cross volunteers routinely put their lives on the line to bring medical and humanitarian assistance to Palestinians affected by the conflict. By recognizing that the politics of the region are best left in the hands of politicians and diplomats, these volunteers are able to perform vital services for Palestinian society...
...other organizations that wittingly or unwittingly aid extremist groups in Palestinian society are performing a grave disservice to the region as a whole. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be solved diplomatically; there are simply too many moral, political, and historical factors at play. ISM activists, like Rachel Corrie, idealistically believe they are helping the Palestinians, but in reality only add fuel to the fire, deepening the animosity on both sides...
...problem with “My Name is Rachel Corrie,” and many other works of art that deal with political conflict, is that they dramatize and idealize individuals while ignoring the greater political forces at play. “My Name is Rachel Corrie” may provide a moving look at the personal diaries of a blindly idealistic young girl, but it ignores the fact that Corrie’s death was simply a tragic accident that was inherently meaningless in the greater scheme of the conflict. In fact, Corrie, at the time of her death...
...deserves to be remembered as another tragic casualty in a war that has consumed so many lives, not as the idealized heroic freedom fighter that “My Name is Rachel Corrie” presents her to be. It is only when those on both sides of the conflict can shed this kind of misplaced idealization that a true peace settlement will be possible...