Arrigoni’s Murder Trial in Gaza: Answers Not Just a Verdict

[polly7]

By Ramzy Baroud

Friday, August 31, 2012

http://www.zcommunications.org/arrigoni-s-murder-trial-in-gaza-answers-not-just-a-verdict-by-ramzy-baroud

There was once a young man from a very small Italian town called Bulciago who wished to change the world. As soon as he finished his exams, he began his quest. He travelled near and far, and when he arrived in Jerusalem in 2002, he knew he had found his calling.

The killing of Vittorio was intended to not only kill him as a person. It was also meant to destroy the very idea that sailed with him and his friends to Gaza in 2008: that ordinary people are history and that they, and only they, will eventually make the difference in a world ruled by sheer interests and military might.

Yes, justice for Vittorio Utopia Arrigoni is paramount, but we expect the Gaza government to hand down more than a verdict, but answers to those trying to kill Vittorio’s dream – along with our humanity.

[Shaktimaan]

1. Interesting...

So this author knows enough about the motive behind this killing to conclude that:

The killing of Vittorio was intended to not only kill him as a person. It was also meant to destroy the very idea that sailed with him and his friends to Gaza in 2008: that ordinary people are history and that they, and only they, will eventually make the difference in a world ruled by sheer interests and military might.

Yet he freely states a few short paragraphs earlier that:

His murderers were Palestinians from Gaza, commanded by a mysterious Jordanian character whose origins and motives remain unclear.

In other words, we have no idea why this guy was killed. But he was surely killed in order to stymie this abstract and downright abstruse concept which is what I believe this guy's life ultimately stood for.

The king is dead. Long live the king!
And Bin Laden attacked us because he hates freedom!
And Operation Cast Lead was a one-sided affair instigated by Israel because the Gazan embargo did not achieve certain political objectives.

[pelsar]

2. sounds far more of a fictional story.....

the "story' reads like a freshman in his first attempt at fictional short story than anything else.

[azurnoir]

3. Gaza court convicts 4 men in murder of Vittori Arrigoni

An appeals court in the Gaza Strip on Monday convicted four Palestinians of the killing of Italian peace activist Vittori Arrigoni in 2011.

The court sentenced Mahmoud Salfiti, 23, and Tamer Hasasna, 25, to life imprisonment plus 10 years for kidnap and murder, while Khader Ajram, 26, was sentenced to 10 years for abduction.

The three defendants were identified by the Hamas-run court as Hamas security men who had been working for a Salafi group for ideological reasons.

Amer Abu Ghula, a 25-year-old fisherman, fled Gaza after the killing and was sentenced in absentia to 12 months for harboring a fugitive.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=520947