Human remains. It concluded with the exhortation was for weeks and weeks, his correspondence from Gaza during the operation lead time in December 2008-January 2009 in which Israel bombed Gaza. Vittorio Arrigoni was the only Italian correspondent was there, under the bombs of the war, and its daily news, published by the Manifesto, have been used by the entire mainstream of information, including televisions.
Now Arrigoni was killed brutally by a group of Salafi terrorists linked to al Qaeda. Futile attempt to Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, to release him with a blitz. His death will create a tremendous amount of explanation, speculative comments. But to us, brings to mind the death of other peace activists Rachel Corrie in the Occupied Territories or Enzo Baldoni in Iraq - treated as mentally ill in the newspapers of the right - usually forgotten after a few days, for which there are no gravestones or monuments or national mourning.
People killed through no fault of their whim of wanting to watch live the war, but because it affected their efforts, their dedication is often increased to levels unthinkable for us. Arrigoni lived in Gaza for a long time, was involved in the International Solidarity Movement who, by nonviolent means, has been fighting against the Israeli military occupation.
He was involved in the protection of the peasants of the northern Gaza Strip who seek to defend their land from expropriation "for security reasons or in accompanying fishing boats which prevents the Israeli navy at sea, kept a daily report with Palestinians, was widely respected and also demonstrates the speed with which both the PNA and Hamas have moved for his release.
Unfortunately, to no avail. His death contradicts the equation that we felt again since the "war of civilizations" began on September 11 after 2001: that pacifists are complicated, subjective or objective of the terrorists that their battle for "souls beautiful "is intended to strengthen those who threaten the West.
Unfortunately, often, the pacifists are killed by terrorists, as happened to Vittorio Arrigoni. And his death was intended to send a clear message: do not come, do not commit, do not think you can improve the lives of Gaza, or all of those territories in the grip of the barbarity of war.
This death is still used against the Palestinians and strengthen the various parties of the war, extremism which face each other in the field and who do not want anything that stands in the way in the middle: neither dialogue nor diplomacy, cooperation or solidarity. This is the message that is sent to the grim world.
Yet, Arrigoni invited us all to human remains. And human remains can only mean not to turn his gaze and not to surrender to the logic of war. 
Now Arrigoni was killed brutally by a group of Salafi terrorists linked to al Qaeda. Futile attempt to Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, to release him with a blitz. His death will create a tremendous amount of explanation, speculative comments. But to us, brings to mind the death of other peace activists Rachel Corrie in the Occupied Territories or Enzo Baldoni in Iraq - treated as mentally ill in the newspapers of the right - usually forgotten after a few days, for which there are no gravestones or monuments or national mourning.
People killed through no fault of their whim of wanting to watch live the war, but because it affected their efforts, their dedication is often increased to levels unthinkable for us. Arrigoni lived in Gaza for a long time, was involved in the International Solidarity Movement who, by nonviolent means, has been fighting against the Israeli military occupation.
He was involved in the protection of the peasants of the northern Gaza Strip who seek to defend their land from expropriation "for security reasons or in accompanying fishing boats which prevents the Israeli navy at sea, kept a daily report with Palestinians, was widely respected and also demonstrates the speed with which both the PNA and Hamas have moved for his release.
Unfortunately, to no avail. His death contradicts the equation that we felt again since the "war of civilizations" began on September 11 after 2001: that pacifists are complicated, subjective or objective of the terrorists that their battle for "souls beautiful "is intended to strengthen those who threaten the West.
Unfortunately, often, the pacifists are killed by terrorists, as happened to Vittorio Arrigoni. And his death was intended to send a clear message: do not come, do not commit, do not think you can improve the lives of Gaza, or all of those territories in the grip of the barbarity of war.
This death is still used against the Palestinians and strengthen the various parties of the war, extremism which face each other in the field and who do not want anything that stands in the way in the middle: neither dialogue nor diplomacy, cooperation or solidarity. This is the message that is sent to the grim world.
Yet, Arrigoni invited us all to human remains. And human remains can only mean not to turn his gaze and not to surrender to the logic of war.
- Vittorio Arrigoni: Humanity, No More (15/04/2011)
- You: Body of kidnapped activist Vittorio Arrigoni found in Gaza City (15/04/2011)
- Activist Arrigoni kidnapped in Gaza (14/04/2011)
- Activist Arrigoni kidnapped in Gaza - CNN International (14/04/2011)
- Vittorio Arrigoni: pacifist supporter of the Palestinian cause (15/04/2011)
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