Rachel Corrie’s words reflect her passion and the utter destruction of Gaza by the Israelis. After being denied access, denied food, denied a way to make a living, watching an eight year old be killed by Israelis…violence was inevitable. What’s sad, when I read Rachel’s posts is that she understood white privilege, but misunderstood that she was not invincible by her whiteness. In the end, Israel did to her what they had done to the people of Gaza…white skin or no.
Rachel Corrie was an American peace activist and a member of the International Solidarity Movement. She was killed in 2003 (at the age of 23), by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) armored bulldozer in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, during the height of the second Palestinian intifada.
After her death, Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner edited and directed the play My Name Is Rachel Corrie, based on Corrie’s diaries and e-mails home. The play was censored (put off stage) several times by some theaters. “Rachel Corrie lived in nobody’s pocket but her own. Whether one is sympathetic with her or not, her voice is like a clarion in the fog and should be heard,” Rickman said then.
In his article for The Independent Robert Fisk wrote:
“An American heroine, Rachel earned no brownie points from the Bush administration which bangs on about courage…
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