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...play that has the whole New York arts scene talking is not a new Broadway spectacle, but rather a small one-woman drama playing at the less-than-noteworthy Minetta Lane Theatre. But what the play, “My Name is Rachel Corrie,” lacks in excitement, it more than makes up for in naïve, political agitprop...
...Name is Rachel Corrie” is based on the letters and journal entries of American student Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003. Ruled to be an accident by an Israeli Army inquiry, Corrie’s death nonetheless became a cause célèbre among the far left. The play, which opened in London and received mixed reviews in New York, has been heralded as a moving portrait of idealism, activism, and the horrors of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...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...
Many idealistic students brought to Israel by ISM, including Rachel Corrie, could be described as naïve pawns of Palestinian extremists looking to garner sympathy from the Western media. This sentiment was probably best expressed by a Hamas activist, who said of Corrie: “Her death serves me more than it served her. Going in front of the tanks was heroic. Her death will bring more attention than the other 2,000 martyrs...