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Vanessa Redgrave: Israel
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British actress Vanessa Redgrave, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), visited the Palestinian territories last week and appealed to Israel to ease the security restrictions in the Gaza Strip to enable quicker UN food distribution. A veteran human rights activist, Redgrave ... charged that Israeli soldiers practice the wanton killing of Palestinian children.
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In the growing alliance of the Left and militant Islam, Vanessa Redgrave would put Israel into its own place of eternal repose. Shovels in hand, The International Court of Justice is there to assist her.
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In March 1978 Israel launched one of its periodic invasions of Lebanon, and less than a month later Redgrave again flew to Beirut and drove south. In her book she describes the ruins of Sidon and Tyre, where Israeli bombs had reduced entire apartment blocks to rubble. Rescuers were still pulling bodies from the wreckage and the pools of water from shattered water mains were red with blood in this preview of Israel's even bloodier 1982 invasion. Redgrave noted that although more than 100,000 Lebanese people were injured or made homeless, and their farms and workplaces destroyed, no medicine or other aid was sent from the U.S. or Europe. At the U.N., the U.S. and Britain vetoed resolutions condemning the invasion.
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In 1980, Redgrave proclaimed, "The State of Israel must be overthrown, there is no room for such a state." In December 1981, she told the publication Arab Perspective, "The Zionist state is the cause of conflict and violence in the Middle East." The establishment of Israel in 1948 was presumably preceded by millennia of peace and brotherly love in a region renowned for harmony.
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Jewish groups strongly criticized the casting of Redgrave as Fenelon because of her outspoken pro-Palestinian sympathies. In 1977 she had produced and narrated a tough anti-Israeli film, The Palestinians, and she had made clear her support for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). A woman of definite political beliefs, Redgrave was ... active in "ban-the-bomb" groups. A member of England's left Radical Workers Revolutionary Party, she stood as their candidate for Parliament from Moss Side in 1979. She described her "leisure interest" as "changing the status quo." Her politics led to a suit Redgrave filed in 1984 after the Boston Symphony Orchestra canceled her contract to narrate a performance of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex.
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It comes as no surprise that Redgrave is now active on behalf of Bosnian Muslims. Within weeks of the Serb attack on Bosnia in April 1992, she organized a public protest meeting in London. The following July she produced a concert to raise funds for the victims of what she called "the second European genocide." On the stage were rabbis, Muslims, Israelis, and survivors of Auschwitz. A cantor sang and two Palestinian musicians played the oud and the violin. Afterwards, Redgrave visited the British Foreign Office to urge that Britain and the U.S. do for Sarajevo what they had done to save the people of Berlin from starving during the Soviet blockade of 1948.
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