Posted on 08/11/2006 6:55:10 AM PDT by PRePublic
Peace activist murdered by Palestinian
Angelo Frammartino, a 24 year-old student from Italy who arrived in Israel as a human rights organization activist, was stabbed to death Thursday by an Arab knifeman.
"He believed in what he did and was always ready to help others," a friend described him.
The website of Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera reported that Frammartino was working for the setting up of a children's supper camp for Palestinians in Jerusalem's Old City, and was supposed to return to Italy on Friday.
The youth was stabbed in the back while walking with four friends in the Sultan Suleiman street in the capital, near the Prahim Gate.
The attacker left the knife at the scene of the crime and fled. Police set up checkpoints in the area and arrested three suspects for suspected involvement.
It is believed that the attack was a nationalistically motivated terror attack, and not an attempted robbery.
Resuscitation attempts by Magen David Adom paramedics who arrived on the scene could not save him, and Frammartino was declared dead due to loss of blood.
Frammartino, a resident of Monta Rotondo, arrived in Israel at the start of the month with an Italian organization, ARCI, working to advance human rights in the world.
He planned for the experience for a year and was chosen with another youth from his city to take part in the project.
Frammartino was a law student. "He was very interested in politics and in the issues of society, like his father," said Monta Rotondo's Mayor, Anonino Lopi. "Something so beautiful ended in such a tragic way," he added.
The mayor expressed his condolescenes on behalf of the whole city.
'Not an extremist, just a pacifist'
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.
Angelo's neighbor said his parents were worried by their son's request to go on a 'different holiday,' but were proud of it and did not oppose. They set out on holiday, leaving their eldest daughter, Francesca, at home. She was alone when the news from Jerusalem came.
"My parents are on holiday. When they return, the house will never be the same as before," said a neighbor who burst out in tears. "He was a golden guy. He dealt with politics but he wasn't an extremist. He was just a pacifist, the poor guy."
Unless, of course, it is Israel.
"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,"
The resistance to what? Perhaps the resistance to Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon? Or maybe the resistance to Israel's withdrawal from Gaza? Highly confused young ex-wannabe lawyer.
Un'friggin'believable!
This youth was misguided... but certainly not "scum".
No, they'll kill them last, right after the appeasers collaborate.
Left wing mediots like Chrisie live in another dimension.
Liberalism certainly is stupid.It doesn't matter how much evidence piles up showing the only way to deal with terrorism is to kill them before they kill you,the touchy feely crowd will never get it,SO they will die !!!
"When/if they come into power - the mulsims will kill the appeaser liberals first..."
This should be front page the headline on every newspaper in the country.... Oh, I forgot. They're appeasers, too!
But of course you know it was still the fault of those evil Zionists.
Some of the many problems in the world vs. islam battle include, but are not limited to:
When you turn the other cheek to an Islamist, he believes Allah has turned the cheek for him. If you sacrifice yourself to the Islamist, he believes Allah has granted the boon, praise to Him and His Prophet. If you give the Islamist your wealth, spouse and children, he sees it as a gift from Allah.
Nowhere in this logic is there room to contemplate that the victim's sacrifice has anything to do with the victim's restraint, culture or forgiving religion - it has everything to do with the mercy of Allah and his generosity to his chosen, Islamic followers. Praise to Allah and his true Prophet, Muhammad. The realm of Dar Islam is the fate of the world; unless the world wakes up from its liberal, progressive, multicultural coma.
knifeman?
We need to buy tickets for DU and Kos members to Palestine
Yes liberals, all the beautiful ones will die if they stand helpless before the wolves.
backstabbers all of them
I got to know the owner of a tiny shop who sold necklaces of antique beads found in the deserts of the Middle East and traded by Bedouins. Then I discovered an amazing unpublished fifth century ivory reliquary in a shop in Tel Aviv. I got pics from the proprietor, but he didn't know the provenance, so I consulted the beads merchant. He said he could find out and we made an appointment on a Friday.
As I went to meet him, I noticed that no one said anything to me. I just walked through that tumultuous bazar as if I was protected by an invisible power. Somehow, he was able to put the word out in a seeming chaos to leave me alone. (so, there is more to this story.)
He led me on a trip through a confusing maze of alleyways to meet a very tall, black robed Bedouin man who looked at my pictures and told me that the artifact had been unearthed in Sidon.
If you had been with me that day, you would not believe much of what you hear about how things work in the Middle East, especially the public opinion polls.
He died by the same kind of "self defense operation" that he went there "not to prevent".
I think Noam Chomsky will change his politics about a half hour after the first suicide bomber blows up inside his office building on the MIT campus. Until then, it's all theoretical to them, kind of like which football team you support.
" you turn the other cheek to an Islamist". Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. don't you think Jesus knew that?
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