...is my title for the New Yorker magazine.

The Angry Arab is rightly enraged by the American Fasicst's "review" of the play about Rachel Corrie. The Angry Arab may be a bit, well, angry here, but all his points stand, especially the last. Imagine how a young American female victim of al-Qaeda or Hamas would be treated in the American press. The American Fascist instead gives us this repulsive sexist condescension--"why would a smart hot bitch go to the Gaza Strip when she could be sucking off cocks?"

[And, yes, the young man who killed her with a bulldozer is a murderer, if such a term is useful anymore (which, I concede, it may not be). In any case, he and his bosses are as much murderers as are Hamas and Hezbollah.]

The prison-camp guard referred to is the "reporter" Jeffrey Goldberg, who volunteered for IDF service; who wrote an absolutely crucial piece of pro-Iraq War propaganda (the article that suggested that the famed Ansar al-Islam Sunni terror group in Iraq was not only sympathetic to Osama, but also--impossibly--an ally of Saddam); and who, in a series of "reports," has insisted that Hezbollah--which is the legitimate representative of the Shi'ite population of South Lebanon, and which has not performed an act of international terror since 1995, and did not target civilians post-1995 until it responded to the summary destruction by the IDF of all Lebanon--is planning to launch al-Qaeda style terror attacks in the United States.

David Remnick is a neo-fascist propagandist, a Republican flack, an apparatchik.

Here's the Angry Arab's take:

"The New Yorker, a magazine that has a literary reputation that it does not deserve, a magazine that under David Remnik has become a replica of Newsweek and People magazine but with longer articles, a magazine that has neither insights nor wit, a magazine that has made great efforts to increase the fear and hatred toward things Muslim in the US and which has made great contributions to Bush's war efforts, a magazine that published articles on the Middle East by a former prison guard in Israeli torture camps (who brags about his service in his new book) who claims that Islamic terrorists are under every bed and every table in the west, has decided in order to serve Zionist propaganda in the US to assign a certain John Lahr to review the Rachel Corrie play. In American Zionist publications, there are no limits and no boundaries to how far one goes in order to serve the interests of Zionist occupation. This John Lahr, who has the writing skills of contributors to People magazine, has decided that mocking and ridiculing a dead young woman is quite appropriate. Notice that he does not even review the play as a play; he forgot about his original task in order to bash the dead young woman and mock her. Like a typical sexist writer, he invokes the word "hysteric" to describe her. That sums her entire life for this guy. Imagine if she was a victim of an Arab army tractor: imagine how this Lahr and his editor at that lousy magazine would have lionized her. No Lahr and no Remnick and no Zionist in the US can tarnish the image of Rachel Corrie. No matter how hard they try, and no matter how vulgar they are.