Rachel
Corrie, A Martyr's Voice
As Powerful As That Of Ann Frank
By David Truskoff
23 March, 2007
Countercurrents.org
The
new Jew: personified by the Israeli, muscular tanned Sabra, is a new
breed far removed from the Image of the depression-emaciated holocaust
Jew of the thirties and forties. He has a new body and a new mind. The
transformation however has left the new Jew without the compassion and
sensitivity that I loved about my families' Jewishness.
The ruthlessness of the IDF:
the horrific criminal cluster bombing of Lebanon and the shameful acts
of starving children on the West Bank, are crimes against humanity that
all Jews will someday have to answer for. The continuing acts of forcing
the Palestinians into such dehumanizing poverty puts those responsible
not only in the category of the oppressed becoming the oppressors as
President Truman described them, but as the worst criminals in history,
the Nazis.
The perfect illustration
of the blind faith mentality of the new Jew is the pressure brought
against a theater to stop the showing of the Rachel Corrie play in New
York. They would stop the story of Rachel Corrie, but ask all of us
Jews to remember the story of Ann Frank.
I am thankful however to
see a rebellion brewing by those who seek to restore the Jewish compassion
and tradition of resisting the very tyrannical acts Zionism has wrought
on the people of Palestine. Young People including Jews were at the
forefront of restoring the Rachel Corrie play and bringing it to the
people.
On March 16 2003 a bulldozer
driven by an Israeli army soldier killed Rachel Corrie. Many believe
as I do that the killing was deliberate and to teach other peace activists
a lesson.
Rachel was only 23 years
old and her life was full of promise. In a statement Released by her
parents last year her mother said, "We are greatly concerned for
the non-violent internationals volunteering in the Occupied Territories.
We ask that members of Congress call upon the Israeli government to
cease harassment of these individuals and, specifically, to cease firing
upon them when they are engaged in protecting the Palestinian water
supply, protecting Palestinian homes from illegal demolitions, and retrieving
bodies of murdered Palestinians for return to their families - all events
Rachel witnessed."
As we honor the memory of
Rachel Corrie on this the fourth anniversary of her killing which, blind
faith, new Jews continue to rationalize, we older Jews must pledge to
keep on striving for a new teaching that will replace blind faith Zionism.
The place to begin that was
here at home March 17th in Washington D C. There a message was brought
to the gang in the White House. That message was, "It's over."
The people have had enough. We will also continue to honor the memory
of Rachel Corrie, and that is how we will try and save the new Jew.
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