Rachel Corrie

Rachel Corrie was a young American peace activist killed in Gaza five years ago while trying to stop Israel bulldozing Palestinian homes to create a buffer zone.

Her story has been turned into a play and Dateline's Amos Roberts invites two people with opposing views on Israel to view the production.

An interesting Dateline story here on a play based on the life and death of Rachel Corrie. It's unfortunate, however, that they didn't speak to any Palestinians or visit Gaza itself. Certainly Dateline has a small budget but surely a foreign affairs program ought to bother to speak to the people whom Rachel was trying to defend? In this respect the program reminded me of a recent debate on the Israel Lobby which had six speakers in total. Three were Jewish (although only one was from Israel!) and only one Palestinian. That is basically how Western discourse unfolds. Even when The Other's cause is championed it is for us (in the West) to do the championing.