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August 12, 2006

Italian Peaceworker Murdered

Cross-posted from The Dread Pundit Bluto

He came to Israel to help with a camp for Palestinian children and got a knife in the back instead. From United Press International:

JERUSALEM, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- An Italian law student, visiting Israel to help with a camp for Palestinian children, was stabbed to death in Jerusalem in what police call a terror attack.
Angelo Frammartino, 24, was out with friends Thursday night when he was attacked near the Damascus Gate, Corriere della Sera reported.
Police investigators said they do not believe the attack was a robbery gone wrong but a deliberate attack by a Palestinian. A yeshiva student was wounded in a similar attack near by three weeks ago.

Israelly Cool discovered some more details about Frammartino's pacifist philosophy on ynet News [emphasis added]:

In a letter sent a few months ago to a local newspaper, Angelo expressed his world view: "We must recognize that in a situation with no violence is a luxury in many parts of the world, but we are not seeking to prevent legitimate self defense operations. I never dreamt of condemning the resistance, the blood of the Vietnamese, the blood of nations under colonial occupation, or the blood of Palestinian youths from the first intifada," he said.

Aussie Dave at Israelly Cool asks the question: "I wonder if Frammartino would consider his knifing a terror attack or legitimate self-defense operation, had he survived."

A little cold perhaps, but not nearly so cold as a knife in the back.

Posted by: Bluto at 10:07 AM | Comments (20) | Add Comment
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1 What else do you expect? Look how they treat their own children, using them as human shields.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o4vjqE1c1c

Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at August 12, 2006 11:02 AM (Bp6wV)

2 Obviously that boy didn't get the memo - do all your peacenikin' from a cafe/coffee shop in the west - its safer.

Posted by: hondo at August 12, 2006 11:29 AM (XrexX)

3 It's a shame.

A shame, that is, that every other lefturd peacenik doesn't go enjoy the Paelostinians' hospitality.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at August 12, 2006 11:53 AM (v3I+x)

4 Oh where have all those human shields gone? It's not like there isn't plenty of conflict for them - now is it?

Posted by: hondo at August 12, 2006 12:02 PM (XrexX)

5 Wow, a knife in the back by a Palistinian. That's never happened before. I'll bet the Italian guy was actually putting the moves on this Pali guys old lady.

Posted by: Cmunk at August 12, 2006 12:51 PM (n4VvM)

6 Oh, the irony.

Posted by: ktel60 at August 12, 2006 03:03 PM (p0XuB)

7 I can't say i am sad..

the rattlesnake bit the moron..

the real crime? his idiot parents....

I am sure they will blame the jews

Posted by: david bryan at August 12, 2006 03:12 PM (pS6sh)

Hmm....does the name Rachel Corrie ring a bell?

Posted by: jesusland joe at August 12, 2006 03:32 PM (rUyw4)

9 I wouldn't call it ironic. Irony implies an unpredictable outcome...this is more akin to a formula. Palestinian + any element of the civilized world = murder. It like slapping a jackal with a steak ( or in this case a pepperoni ), eventually you're going to get bitten. Ciao.

Posted by: USMC_shooter at August 12, 2006 03:50 PM (R57PZ)

10 I once had a theory that we could all line up Gandhi style and submit our throats to the enemy and ultimately win when the enemy becomes morally exhausted. But then I thought, no. That is not right. For it is written that the foes of Israel will be delivered unto Israel's hands. And we are to resist evil. ;>

Posted by: Last gasp Larry at August 12, 2006 04:00 PM (gLMre)

11 Being Italian, he really should read his histories of the Crusades. I know the West doesn't consider it, but the terrorists have the mentality of those times.

Hint: The ones who traded with and kissed up to the Assassins ended up knifed by them. The terror cells of today seem to owe a bit to the twisted doctrines of the Assassins more than the other Muslim sects and philosophies over the years.

Posted by: Jersey Dave at August 12, 2006 05:48 PM (rdLTC)

12 The only reason Ghandi's strategy of passive resistance worked is because he knew the British sense of decency wouldn't allow them to slaughter them like sheep. The most peaceful and prosperous period in all of the Indian subcontinent's history was when the British ruled from Afghanistan to Burma.

Kipling was a prohpet.

Take up the White Manâ€™s burdenâ€”

Send forth the best ye breedâ€”

Go send your sons to exile

To serve your captives' need

To wait in heavy harness

On fluttered folk and wildâ€”

Your new-caught, sullen peoples,

Half devil and half child

Take up the White Manâ€™s burden

In patience to abide

To veil the threat of terror

And check the show of pride;

By open speech and simple

An hundred times made plain

To seek anotherâ€™s profit

And work anotherâ€™s gain

Take up the White Manâ€™s burdenâ€”

And reap his old reward:

The blame of those ye better

The hate of those ye guardâ€”

The cry of hosts ye humour

(Ah slowly) to the light:

"Why brought ye us from bondage,

â€œOur loved Egyptian night?â€

Take up the White Manâ€™s burden-

Have done with childish days-

The lightly proffered laurel,

The easy, ungrudged praise.

Comes now, to search your manhood

Through all the thankless years,

Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,

The judgment of your peers!

We continue to cast our pearls before swine, and they are turning to rend us.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at August 12, 2006 06:27 PM (v3I+x)

13 Hmmm... don't know what happened to the italics end code, because I remember putting it there. I think. So please just imagine it.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at August 12, 2006 06:30 PM (v3I+x)

14 Hey Jersey Dave

The proper term is being of Italian descent. I know what ya mean - but don't want to confuse some here.

NY hondo

Posted by: hondo at August 12, 2006 08:33 PM (XrexX)

15 maxie

You gonna start gettin' all intellectual on us now? We'll have to get ya an Honorary Doctorate in Letters - all 26 of them.

Posted by: hondo at August 12, 2006 08:35 PM (XrexX)

16 I already have a PhD in Reality, and am a minister of the Church of the Painful Truth, so I don't need anything else.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at August 13, 2006 10:14 AM (v3I+x)

17 Corrie was, and ISM is allied with Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Their position on the Palistinian resistance is one of support and claim it is the Pali's right to kill Israelis while they are oppressed.

Corrie was a flag burner too. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Posted by: SeeMonk at August 13, 2006 11:59 AM (n4VvM)

18 Good point IM about how the British have a sense of decency, that a similar Ghandi strategy with the muslims would be futile because they are ravenous murderers! I like the Kipling quotes. I'm glad you didn't get banned, 'cause now we see there is a brain behind all the previous " kill 'em all " rants. I actually never tire of reading them. Maxie you are a diamond in the rough. Now I've got to go, I'm starting to get choked up!

Posted by: Last gasp Larry at August 13, 2006 12:57 PM (gLMre)

19 Larry, you should read all my stuff. I generally write for two kinds of people; those who are left-brain dominant get multiple paragraphs that stimulate the intellect; those who are right-brain dominant get one or two lines that go straight to the gut. Sometimes I split the difference and say to hell with everybody.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at August 13, 2006 10:19 PM (v3I+x)

20 There is something there that I can just about grasp! I must admit that I keep an eye out for your comments, IM. The thread just seems to miss something unless you cap it off! Happy trails ... ;-)

Posted by: Last gasp Larry at August 14, 2006 12:09 AM (gLMre)

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