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The Movie That Won't Go Away: 'My Name is Rachel Corrie'

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What, me worry?1/23/2011 3:57:25 pm PST

re: #5 eastwald

Wrong is still wrong, even in the face of injustice. Having seen the incident on video, there is no way she should have been run over. She was obviously a naive girl, but is asking people to call a movie theater showing this movie really the best idea? The movies not hurting anybody. I’d be directing my anger directly at the ISM, who instigated this whole thing.

It was an accident. It wasn’t intended and that a woman lost her life is awful. I said that. What is worse is to exploit her evil cause. If the same theater was running a play that glorified the KKK and justified their killing of Blacks in this country, would you be offended?

There were a number of websites at the time that had many pictures from inside the bulldozer to give you an idea of the kind of vision an operator has. Corrie was sitting on the ground in front of shovel. He never saw her. Here is the IDF bulldozer (Catipillar D-9) that was used.

I think the movie drives home the notion that Israel, and thereby Jews, are evil.