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December 07, 2006
Rachel Corrie: Usable Goods
"Rachel Corrie's death is neither piteous nor pointless: it is pure bonanza. A predatory organization that callously endangers its human shields by placing them before the hideouts of war, it purports to preach non-violence -- except on its website, where it openly defends "armed struggle." Arafat, the warlord and terror chieftain who launched the intifada that was the ultimate ground of Rachel Corrie's death, lauded her as a "martyr"; for Arafat too, in the enduring propaganda blitz against the life of the Jewish state, she was usable goods. Media-savvy herself, she understood, as we have seen, the notion of a usable death: "the difficulties the Israeli army would face if they shot an unarmed US citizen."
You must read Cynthia Ozick's review of My Name is Rachel Corrie.
And of course you must read Yehudit's face to face with Rachel Corrie's American Gothic parents at the always invaluable blog, Kesher.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at December 7, 2006 12:10 PM
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(Forgive me if I've said this here before, but ...) her life story be called "Brokeback Dirtpile."
Posted by: Jeremiah at December 7, 2006 01:32 PM
Jeremiah:
No, never appeared on this blog before. My title: "Death of a Useful Fool."
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.seraphicpress.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at December 7, 2006 01:45 PM
It is a truly frightening article, Robert. Then again, what frightens me is that anyone can look just once at her picture, when Corrie is screaming, wrapped in that black Arab headress, with a rictus of rage, looking like Munch's "The Scream"....crazed out of her gourd...and think she is rational or intelligent. She's nuts and looks the part.
What's frightening is how many people will see this play and be deluded themselves. Or how many idiots parrot the same atrocious lies she spoke...it's all sad and scary and sickening...beyond Orwellian, or worse, in that he wrote fiction...this is the real world acting out his vision.
Posted by: Maurice at December 7, 2006 04:56 PM
Maurice:
The left will hang on to her as a martyr--forever. And she is a fine representative: shrill, ignorant, anti-American, and natch, anti- Jewish.
The play has closed. Free market capitalism has triumphed. It was junk propaganda, recognized as such, and even die-hard jihadists could not keep the box-office from dropping like ten-ton balloon.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at December 7, 2006 05:32 PM
And she's blond. And dead.
Posted by: Jeremiah at December 7, 2006 07:11 PM
Robert, you need to link to this.
Posted by: Yehudit at December 8, 2006 01:05 PM
Yehudit:
Yes, of course, forgive the oversight, it is linked in the blog piece.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at December 8, 2006 01:10 PM