“We are all born and
someday we’ll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. What if
our aloneness isn’t a tragedy? What if our aloneness is what allows
us to speak the truth without being afraid? What if our aloneness is
what allows us to adventure – to experience the world as a dynamic
presence – as a changeable, interactive thing?
If I lived in Bosnia or
Rwanda or who knows where else, needless death wouldn’t be a
distant symbol to me, it wouldn’t be a metaphor, it would be a
reality.
And I have no right to
this metaphor. But I use it to console myself. To give a fraction of
meaning to something enormous and needless.
This realization. This
realization that I will live my life in this world where I have
privileges.
I can’t cool boiling
waters in Russia. I can’t be Picasso. I can’t be Jesus. I can’t
save the planet single-handedly.
I can wash dishes”
Rachel Corrie, January 2003, two months before she died
Just over ten years ago
Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli Defence Forces
armoured bulldozer, whilst attempting to prevent it from demolishing
the house of a Palestinian family in the Gaza Strip. She was twenty
three years old at the time.
Comparisons have
naturally been made to 'Tank Man', the man who obstructed the
movement of Chinese tanks at the time of the Tiananmen
Square Massacre. But where as this photograph has become iconic
Chances
are this is the first time you've seen this one. This Israeli bulldozer will crush Rachel to death in a few moments time
Here's an
interview with Rachel Corrie recorded in Gaza just days before she was
killed.
Link to the Rachel Corrie Foundation, the foundation established by Rachel Corrie's parents after her death:
http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/
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