Naomi Klein Essay

Naomi Kleins comparison between Rachel Corrie and Jessica Lynch, particularly the attention she pays to the story of Corrie, enlarge the broad, almost invisible borders that defined Corries conception of semipolitical and feminist solidarity. As Theresa Saliba highlights in her essay, Corrie was not merely determined to align herself politically, socially, or based upon her gender alone kinda sought to reach across all lines of Palestinian society to peacefully stand against the oppression of the Israeli government.Despite her status as an American, Corrie had realized an almost unknown status of benignant solidarity that had flyspeck to do with religion, gender, or nation. However, Corrie did not neglect the needs of the Palestinian women she encountered. Instead, she brought the same notion of political solidarity to her work with the women of Gaza. It is that overlapping of nuances, both political and gender-related, that underline the arguments of not only Corries actions a s described by Klein or Salibas demurral of Corrie but the concept of feminist solidarity throughout the Arab world.Kim Berrys examination of the misuse and abuse of the Bush Administrations so-called defense of womens rights, examines how important the perception of women has become in the war-on-terror but more importantly how such grandiosity can actually undermine these same rights. It creates a politically appealing picture for the public, to illustrate the evils of the Taliban but fails to engage the afghan women themselves.Similarly, such posturing does little to economically or socially improve the lives of Afghan woman, as noted in the Feminist Majority Foundations press release on the need for more funding for the establishment of womens rights. In the present climate, both abroad and in the U. S. , as shown in Mervat Hatems examination of Arab-American relations, feminist solidarity becomes part of a larger construct of human rights.