A play telling the terrible reports of patients, and heroes, of the October 7 attacks on Israel opened in New York this month — described by playwrights , Phelim McAleer and , Ann McElhinney as” a cultural time” and” a tale of endurance”.
The display, which is being put on in Midtown Manhattan starting this year through June 16, relays the blood- foaming accounts of the worst attack in Israel’s history, in the precise words of those who experienced it, collected in a series of interviews conducted by , McAleer and , McElhinney. The venue is under permanent police protection.
” What we have in this theatre is a piece of magic, a piece of history”, McAleer told Breitbart News Daily on Wednesday. ” We’re journalists, our background is journalism, and we thought about journalism being the first draft of history, and here it is and its history that people need to see. They need to know”.
” This is a cultural moment in New York”, he continued. The only play opening in New York that requires permanent police protection is this. The world has changed, let me tell you”.
Following the October 7 attack which saw the slaughter of over a thousand people in Israel by Hamas terrorists from Gaza, and the kidnapping of hundreds of Jewish hostages, New York City has become the epicenter of left- wing protests of Israel’s military operations that followed, with marches continuing through the streets of Manhattan for months, calling for “liberation” of” Palestine“— and “intifada“.
On April 30, 2024, pro-Palestinian supporters continue to demonstrate on the Columbia University campus in New York City by setting up a protest encampment. ( Spencer Platt/Getty Images )
” We wanted to put it on stage in New York because New York needs to hear it,” said the group. New York needs to know this day happened. If it had n’t been for October 7th, according to McAleer, the campus protests in New York, look at what is happening on October 8 and beyond, including what is happening in Gaza and Palestine.” There would be nothing in Gaza, people would be living in peace in Gaza,” McAleer said on Breitbart News Daily. ” It’s very important to remember, there would be no October 8, if there were n’t October 7″.
Through their testimonials, the play tells a story of survival and resilience from mothers and grandmothers who hid for hours with their young children, a policeman, an off-duty soldier, protecting those around them, young people who were watching their friends being slaughtered, and the everyday people who ran toward the incoming fire to save them.
According to McElhinney, who spoke to Breitbart News Daily and whose story is featured in the production, an Orthodox Jew who allegedly broke the law of Shabbat by paragliding in over the Nova Music Festival to save lives. He loaded partygoers into his truck in multiple trips, saving over 100 lives. An Orthodox Jew is required to observe Shabbat in the religion to save someone in a potentially fatal situation.
In this image taken on October 22, 2023, during a media tour organized by the Israeli military, paper and debris are scattered all over a burned-out house along the Israeli Kibbutz Beeri’s border with the Gaza Strip in the wake of a Palestinian militant attack on October 7. ( THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images )
” He said,’ maybe people will learn something about the Jewish religion, that the most important thing, the central, most important thing for a Jewish person to do, and the highest calling, is to save a soul,'” McElhinney relayed on Breitbart News Daily.
McAleer and , McElhinney, who both are journalists, traveled to Israel immediately after the attack for three weeks, to conduct a series of interviews and collect stories and first- hand accounts for the play, visiting scores of victims in hospitals and their homes. Their words have not been altered or edited whatsoever, in producing the performance.
There is no doubt about that when you watch this play, according to McElhinney, who quoted one of the characters as saying,” Abraham our forefather gave this country to us, this is the land of Israel for the People of Israel, for the Jewish people,” according to McElhinney on Breitbart News Daily.
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