I recently saw OSU's superb production of Alan Rickman and Katherine Viner's play, "My Name is Rachel Corrie," the story of an Olympia, Wash., student killed in Gaza by an Israeli Caterpillar bulldozer as she tried to stop the demolition of a Palestinian home.

Taken directly from Rachel's personal diary, the play is a powerfully eloquent chronicle of the life and work of this bright, courageous young woman who followed her heart and mind to Gaza in support of the Palestinian people. Although Rachel studied and prepared herself before going, she was stunned by what she saw and experienced there. In her own words: "You can't imagine it unless you see it."

Rachel was killed in 2003, five years before Israel's attack on Gaza, which in just a few weeks resulted in the deaths of 1,500 Gazans - mostly civilians, including at least 400 children - and 10 Israelis.

The attacks, widely regarded as a massacre, are documented by the United Nations Human Rights Commission under direction of Richard Goldstone. The report concludes that war crimes were committed by Israel and Hamas but on a far greater scale and ferocity by Israel.

Israel has the fourth-largest military in the world, backed by the world's only super power, the USA. By law, Palestinians have the right to resist occupation. Israel has no right to steal Palestinian land and resources.

President Obama must re-think his

denunciation of the Goldstone Report and join the world in saying, "Enough already!"

Gretchen Beringer-Newlin

Corvallis