How Vittorio Arrigoni Went to Gaza Hoping to Die
Bit by bit, decorate it, arrange the details, find the ingredients, imagine it, choose it, get advice on it, shape it into a work without spectators, one which exists only for oneself, just for the shortest little moment of life.
—Michel Foucault, describing the pleasure of preparing oneself for suicide.
The Italian cheerleader for Hamas, Vittorio Arrigoni, has died at the hands of the Islamic terrorism that he venerated throughout his life. The fellow traveler journeyed to the Gaza Strip to prostrate himself before his secular deity, Hamas, and to assist its venture of perpetrating genocide against Israelis. Islamic terrorists, who call themselves “Salafists,” showed their gratitude to Arrigoni by kidnapping, mercilessly beating, and executing him.
This episode was, of course, all part of an expected script: even though the media and our higher literary culture never discuss the reasons, the historical record reveals one undeniable fact: like thousands of political pilgrims before him, Vittorio Arrigoni went to Gaza to die. Indeed, consciously or unconsciously, in their unquenchable quest for sacrificing human life on the altar of their utopian ideals, fellow travelers always lust for death, and if not the death of others, then of their own.
It is no coincidence that a short while before “Salafists” killed Arrigoni, Juliano Mer-Khamis, a cheerleader of terrorism in Israel who, like Arrigoni, dedicated his life to praising the Palestinian death cult and working for the annihilation of Israel, was murdered by Islamic terrorists in Jenin. It is no coincidence that Rachel Corrie, the infamous enabler of the International Solidarity Movement, a group that disrupts anti-terrorism activities of the Israel Defense Forces, committed suicide in protecting Hamas terrorists by throwing herself in front of an Israeli bulldozer. And it is no coincidence that female leftist “peace” activists are routinely raped, brutalized, and enslaved by the Arabs of Judea and Samaria that they come to aid and glorify in their Jew-hating odyssey against Israel. And don’t hold your breath, by the way, waiting for leftist feminists to protest this phenomenon; they are faithfully following in the footsteps of American fellow traveler Anna Louise Strong and the Stalinist German writer Bertolt Brecht, two typical leftist believers who were completely undisturbed by the arrests and deaths of their friends in the Stalinist purges — having never even inquired about them after their disappearance.
Beneath the leftist believer’s veneration of the despotic enemy lies one of his most powerful yearnings: to submit his whole being to a totalist entity. This psychological dynamic involves negative identification, whereby a person who has failed to identify positively with his own environment subjugates his individuality to a powerful, authoritarian entity, through which he vicariously experiences a feeling of power and purpose. The historian David Potter has succinctly crystallized this phenomenon:
. . . most of us, if not all of us, fulfill ourselves and realize our own identities as persons through our relations with others; we are, in a sense, what our community, or as some sociologists would say, more precisely, what our reference group, recognizes us as being. If it does not recognize us, or if we do not feel that it does, or if we are confused as to what the recognition is, then we become not only lonely, but even lost, and profoundly unsure of our identity. We are driven by this uncertainty into a somewhat obsessive effort to discover our identity and to make certain of it. If this quest proves too long or too difficult, the need for identity becomes psychically very burdensome and the individual may be driven to escape this need by renouncing his own identity and surrendering himself to some seemingly greater cause outside himself.
This surrender to the totality involves the believer’s craving not only to relinquish his individuality to a greater whole but also, ideally, to sacrifice his life for it. Lusting for his own self-extinction, the believer craves martyrdom for the idea. As Eric Hoffer points out in his classic The True Believer, the opportunity to die for the cause gives meaning to the believer’s desire to shed his inner self: “a substitute embraced in moderation cannot supplant and efface the self we want to forget. We cannot be sure that we have something worth living for unless we are ready to die for it.”
I spent several years, from 2003-2007, investigating the ISM and its various terror tentacles. This investigation was in tandem with the foremost expert on the subject, Lee Kaplan. He posted a series of articles at FrontpageMagazine where we exposed the way in which the ISM uses IRS non-profit tax laws to further their jihad, and the see no evil, hear no evil approach of US officials.
The evidence is overwhelming, and anyone who is a part of the ISM knows exactly who and what they are supporting.To wit, Arrigoni, not unlike Rachel Corrie, were the ISM’s (western) arm of the jihad.
Google-Lee Kaplan+FrontpageMazine+ISM and several jaw dropping, eye opening articles will emerge. I will look for the links again…..
Full disclosure-I mainly worked on the forensic accounting aspect and was blown away by the ‘collusion’ of many.As a matter of fact, I personally handed over my full file of backup, supporting documents to the Criminal Division of the IRS for Non-Profits.
Alas, the ISM assorted hydras are still enjoying US tax benefits.IN any other similar situation the IRS would have not only yanked the status, but would have initiated criminal charges.They haven’t.Why?
Just look at the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR, how they use their 501(c)(3) status as a tax exempt and still lobby for the left–it’s illegal and it’s wrong. CAIR has given Obama’s campaign as well as Ellison’s of Minn. money, and now the Obama administration along with Holder, has refused to go forward with the investigation of CAIR as part of the Holy Land Foundation trial findings in which CAIR was deemed an unindicted co-conspirator with plenty of evidence for continuance of hearings. It’s frightening how we have done nothing to address this–although Peter King has written Holder a letter to question this decision.
I have no problem with Leftists who kill themselves, I only object because they want to take all the rest of us with them.
Terry, selfish on your part! Send me some of those Moroccan recipes, my diet is boring up here….
Google-’Does the Pro-Terror Left Violate US Tax Laws?’
This is a good starting pointing.Otherwise, use the google info at my previous post to learn the truth about the ISM and the various US governments which shield them.
The truth shall set us free……
“The Italian cheerleader for Hamas, Vittorio Arrigoni, has died at the hands of the Islamic terrorism…”
Great news. Any day that an ISM member dies is a good day. Hopefully, he’s now burning in hell alongside Ste. Pancake.
By the way, it is NO accident that the US has been slipping towards socialist/Marxist ideology for decades.Therefore, what are the chances (due to this leftward lurch) that the likes of the ISM would not be embraced?Slim to none….
The above pathology is of piece with a DOJ which shields Black Panther thugs and assorted leftist, terror supporting groups.Leftists,(whereever they are)united in their hate, march in lockstep with Islamists-the red/green alliance, not unlike the red/black alliance.
This is what the west is up against – a struggle between death loving totalitarain cults (whatever their colors) versus freedom seeking people who love life and all its attendant freedoms.
If you look at his blog he is a man who believed that anyone in a turban was spiritual and exploited by evil white men.
Any one in a fedora was Adolph Hitler.
Without an ability to make any kind of nuanced distinctions in life that would represent fair play, I’m surprised he didn’t simply forget how to breathe a long time ago.
Unfortunately for him there are naughty bad mens in Gaza like politically radical nuts who hate religious radical nuts who will help you forget how to breathe. If you look at the outpourings of sympathy from around the Che Guevarra world, it’s really quite astonishing how many people there are who haven’t simply walked into a bus or pulled off their own heads they’re so stupidly in love with stereotypes like evil bulldozers that’ll kill you if you stand in front of them while they’re moving.
Is there actually a word for ‘fair’ in Arabic or did they pronounce a fatwa on it or what’s the story?
Leftism in whatever form, be it communism, fascism, or progressivism, is a death cult, that expects both its willing and unwilling participants to sacrifice their lives on the altar of the state, no matter whether it be via multiculturalism, support for Islamic terror groups, or whatever.
The left wants to scare grandma into thinking that only government can take care of her, but government is not a person, it is a mindless bureaucracy that doles out limited largess to one set of faceless statistics stolen from another set of faceless statistics, and whenever it decides there’s not enough to go around, it relies on a handy death panel to ensure ‘fairness’ in relieving grandma of her suffering.
There is nothing we should do about the useful idiots who are killed by Islam. But back here in the US, if I were grandma, I would be terrified of Obama and his smarmy contrived concern for humanity. Furthermore, if I were a conservative candidate for office, I would do my best to scare the bejeesus out of grandma by telling her exactly what unlimited coercive government has in store for her. That is the only way to shake people out of their fantasies and turn them back toward reality and life.
Grandma should be able to figure out what Obama has in store for her, by his comment “Maybe grandma should just take that pain pill instead of having that procedure”.
That’s why you see so many grandma’s at the tea party rallies.
Granny didn’t reach old age by being a stupid pali supporter.
Granny would like to take a switch to zero,holder,timmy,big sis, hell
just line the whole damn government up.
“Christian Peacemaker Teams, Mennonite minister Ron Sider urged his listeners: ‘We must be prepared to die by the thousands.’”
People with a proper understanding of their own worth should be encouraged in their goals. They want it for themselves. I want it for them. It’s win-win. Can we book a few flights to send them all at once?
SOLD!
Let’s start a foundation, and call it “Noam’s Kids.” Can we get Make-A-Wish involved somehow?
Recently on PBS’s marxist brand of evening indoctrination called The Lehrer Report, I saw a short piece on the Middle East that had Rachel Corrie’s parents in Israel sitting outside some administrative building in what the agitprop called “a quest for justice.” Some of the stuff that gets by the censors at PBS [if they even edit their material, I'd be surprised] remind me of the “Two Minute Hate” in which Winston reluctantly participated in Orwell’s masterpiece.
I have a very strong intuitive sense that a lot of paranoia and instability in the minds of leftists stems from a certain paraphilia that normal people are unable to understand or appreciate. Some souls seem born to suffer, if not from other people, then from their own inner nature. They seek destructive means to get this internal paraphilia externalized, which is what one sad chronicle of Stalin’s Purges, by a woman named Ginzburg, was called “Journey into the Whirlwind.”
I don’t think it is fair to paint Juliano Mer-Khamis with the same brush as the “useful idiots” Vittorio Arrigoni and Rachel Corrie. First of all he served in the IDF as a paratrooper, second he never renounced his Judaism in fact he was murdered because of it, and finally he might have actually been doing good by exposing the Arabs of Jenin to other moods of thought than that of the violent society they live in. My he rest in peace and his memory be for a blessing.
Diana,
He was silly to think that he could take on a 1400 year culture unarmed and survive.
finally he might have actually been doing good by exposing the Arabs of Jenin to other moods of thought
and that was what brought about his death, conflicting thoughts, while showing those Arabs at the same time that they have no way out from under the boot of the thugs.
Well and good. He also agitated for a “Palestine from the river to the sea. The Jews can join us,” he is quoted as saying.
I am not blessing his memory, sorry.
Actually, I consider this a “twofer.” The world gets to see, once again, what animals radical Islamists are, and a European liberal marxist/Islamist sympathizer is eliminated. What’s not to love? Am I missing something here? Although I doubt it, perhaps those bleeding-heart liberals in Europe will learn something from this. It’s a pity more of them don’t end up like Vittorio Arrigoni. It’s also a pity this case has not received more publicity in the Main Stream Media. But, of course, they would never, ever, pay much attention to a story that would put marxist/Islamists in a bad light (not that you could ever put them in a “good” light, really).
You are absolutely right: every UK msm has referred to Arrigoni as a “peace activist”. Already they have adopted the jihadi jargon!!
well put
Shakespeare often used death to allude to sex; no doubt Freud would also have something to say.
Current scientific experiments on rats in enclosed spaces, have shown similar suicidal tendancies, also cannibalism, child-molesting and other deviant tendencies.
It would be so much more efficient if we could figure out how to “Batch” them rather than having this dragged out one by one.
At the end Arrigoni was probably screaming NO! Not because he was being killed, but at the disappointment that it wasn’t the Israelis doing it.
but the Arrigoni fans, the ISM and other wanna-be do-gooders, do think ISRAEL did it- and the ones who don’t think Israel did it, think Israel paid the Salafists to do it or still blame “occupation” and blame Israel and USA for supporting their state. (Especial hate/blame is expressed to WHITE and Chrsitians as framing the events as racial oppression is critical in their twisted thinking)
the illness they suffer is not curable by any fact or confrontation with the reality that the people they are “helping” will not hesitate to kill them whentheir “usefulness” is done. No lesson from history will be heeded.
A quick scan of the blogs can give you a glimpse into the backwards upside down thinking, the absolute denial of reality that they espouse and embrace and parrot endlessly-
two truly sickening examples are here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pVb9b0uO90&feature=youtu.be&a
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/04/from-arrigoni-to-bernadotte-to-kennedy-to-911-how-much-global-suffering-has-this-conflict-produced.html
AS someone mentioned – the parents of Rachel Corrie- are perfect example of insanity- a group convinced their child that she was going to save homes or people’s lives- instead they made sure she ended up dead possibly pushed physically but certaionly mentally,into a suicidal mission- the Arabs knew a dead American girl gets more mileage in their war of lies- and yet these parents find ISM blameless and cling to their blame settlers- Perhaps grief can be an excuse for them but the rest?? gay men like Vittorio who know GAZA kills gays? and ISrael saves them from their own families, and the police? NO EXCUSE. JUST MENTAL ILLNESS.
Ah, self-loathing. Looks like he got what he wanted.
“I have lived to thank God that not all my prayers have been answered.
–Jean Ingelow”
Okay Rachel Corrie was a useful idiot but this is the first time I have ever
read that she threw herself in front of the bulldozer. Can I see some documentation for this? If it’s true great but if not let’s not become like the lying leftest. We do not need to stoop so low to make our point.
And for all the people who are now going to start slamming me, I am pro Israel to the max I just do not want to get in a discussion defending Israel and get blindsided. So save your vituperative comments for someone else or STFU on other words!
How do you describe a situation where she was able to get out of the way but didn’t?
Try this:
On March 16, 2003, in the town of Rafah in southern Gaza, Rachel Corrie, 23, an “international peace protester,” dropped to her knees in front of an Israeli bulldozer. The bulldozer was clearing away foliage used to hide bombs. She expected it to stop, but it kept moving, trapping her under its tracks. An ambulance took her to Ajar hospital, where she died.
The protesters called it murder, even though they repeatedly defied warnings to leave the area, and even though a preliminary investigation determined that the driver of the bulldozer could not see Rachel Corrie. According to the inquiry, “the windows of the bulletproof bulldozer are very small and the visibility is very limited, and the bulldozer operator did not see the woman.”
http://www.peacewithrealism.org/corrie.htm
Gee, I wonder why they need bulletproof glass if all the wonderful prtestors are peaceful?
Because they’re looking for bombs!
I don’t think it’s possible to be ‘murdered’ by a bulldozer unless one thinks it followed her around like ‘Killdozer’.
Bulldozers have been noticeably absent as a weapon of choice by murderers. I cite Jack the Ripper for starters.
What’s been ‘murdered’ in that case is the word ‘murder’ and so clueless human beings march on. Nothing is ever the fault of these people and I mean nothing. They sue coffee cups, bulldozers, water fountains they fall into, Caterpillar tractor company and the target is on everything in the world but them and the outcome of their very conscious actions and decisions.
The entire world has come to be defined in this arena in an ‘us vs. them’ mentality that really even didn’t exist before 40 or 50 years ago.
That was when anyone with the slightest beef discovered the power of a lawyer and the presence of morons who’d back them up and back down. It’s really unbelievable the traction this utterly clueless young woman has found with plays directed by Alan Rickman, bands writing songs. It’s an entire culture of idiots completely out of touch with the real world or any concept of fair play.
“Bulldozers have been noticeably absent as a weapon of choice by murderers”
Not by Islamists….
There was a case a few years back of a West Bank Entry Arab working in the Construction Industry in Israel who took one of the vehicles (Dozer, backhoe, something big) on a rampage, crushed a few people to death before being shot to death by an armed citizen.
In the Middle east, a mere accident is “murder”, and premeditated murder is downgraded to “resistance”…depending of course who’s doing the killing.
One is hyper-examined from all possible angles, the other completely ignored.
Its also known as “the soft bigotry of low expectations” usually practiced by the Beautiful People of The Left Coast and other Muslim apologists who fail to hold them to simple standards of Reasonable Human Behavior.
I thought that Rachel Corrie was killed because she was trying to prevent a bulldozer from closing a tunnel terrorists used to get into Israel, and the bulldozer didn’t see her and so killed her.
I think a very humanitarian gesture would be to support guided tours for the faithful to Gaza. Just think, your dreams fulfilled and paid for by infidels. Infidels for infidels so to speak.
Adina,
Thank you so much for the tip about the Frontpage report.
Here’s a link to one of them: http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=2601
Still very relevent today.
Rachel Corrie did not “commit suicide by throwing herself in front of an Israeli bulldozer.” Her own death was clearly unintentended on her part. I am not a fan of Ms Corrie, nor do I support her form of protest. I believe she counted on her status as an American to protect her from evil, a very naive point of view indeed. But there is no doubt she was not suicidal.
This bit of twisting brings the entire essay into question.
Moral blindness is not merely naive or misguided. She identified with a death cult bent on genocide and served them well.
Did she expect to die? Who knows, martyrdom is worshipped by the folks she was there to support. She was in a situation of mortal danger where anyone wanting to live would have withdrawn to safety. Instead she chose to prove herself willing to die for the cause. She gets extra sympathy because she was a cute coed from California. The perfect willing weapon.
I find it ironic that a reason juliano was killed was his production of Animal Farm with Muslims playing the part of pigs. Sure these people need a state. What kind of state are we talking about here?
To the Hamasnicks the Jews are weak because they treasure life above all else. I always thought Patton had it right when he said that nobody ever won a war by dying for his country. You win a war by making the other SOB die for his.
If Rachel Corrie did not realize that there was a high probability of her actions resulting in death (sitting in front of a bulldozer in a position impossible to make eye contact with the driver) then she was fatally stupid. Her removal from the gene pool can only be considered a positive development worthy of a Darwin Award.
agreed …she has my vote for the darwin award along with the sad italian.
I personally don’t think she meant to die. But what happened is what will happen with people who are deluded and divorced from reality. She clearly felt as if she could tempt fate and somehow not pay a price for the risks she was taking. With these who have the Che Guevarra/evil empire world view, they are obviously unable to make clear distinctions between right and wrong and have no ability to allow the world to seep in with context and proportion.
Ms Corrie would’ve probably blanched at the idea of illegal immigrants in America being deported or in anyway taken to task for their actions – to me this is very clear as it is part and parcel of the whole myth.
So what does she do? She goes to a part of the world where Jewish immigrants, mostly from Europe, came and could not live in peace with the muslims and a war developed. Based on the fact of Ms. Corrie’s presence, she probably didn’t think much of immigrants in this case in a double standard typical of people who are delusional and may even have felt THOSE immigrant had no right to be there – only the RIGHT immigrants of proper skin color need apply to this club.
She adopts the same attitude as many of her ilk do that this is not a two sided problem but one where Jews assaulted the beaches in landing craft and kicked Palestinian Arabs out of their houses.
Expecting a nuanced view of the world from these people is hopeless. For probably completely different reasons, people like Ms. Corrie agree with Hizbollah and Hamas that the Jews are never right and the Arabs never wrong.
This is everywhere in the world. Some Brazilians just made a documentary about how America enabled the coup the resulted in a dictatorship in Brazil for 21 years starting in 1964. If Brazilians innovate the least positive thing it’s all theirs buddy and jealously guarded. If it’s negative it’s America’s baleful influence.
What do you think the chances are of those same reporters investigating a positive influence by America when democracy came to Brazil in 1985? Don’t hold your breath waiting for that one.
This is about people being smug and blameless and blaming others. It is a mindset, a liberal and Leftist one. Every one is innocent who has dark skin and doesn’t wear a tie. A subtle view of the world. The usual suspects are trotted out like in ‘Casablanca’ and it’s always the same tiresome panoply of ‘criminals’: oil (Leftist’s don’t drive or heat their homes), Israel, Bush, la dee da.
These people thrive on adversaries that fit in with their childish views. Mountains of crime far surpassing anything happening in the West Bank or Gaza happen in their backyard in America but since they are minorities, they are ignored in favor of the ‘real’ criminals, which are hot coffee and bulldozers.
“Corrie Envy”
Look how cool SHE was!
I have no problem with Rachel Corrie and her throwing herself in front of a moving bull dozer. I just wish some of the people in the Obama administration would follow her example.
I have one question. Is it possible to put bull dozers on Freedom Flotilla boats?
Those who have been in Gaza and saw these beastly armored earth removers, know that the the operator is limited in what he can hear or see. Her family, Lefties like the Obama Mama, also a product of Red Washington assume that where ever they meddle, the rules observed in the USA apply. Those who know the situation from the ground can tell you that there was no intention on the part of the operator to harm any individual, this is not part of the operating software for earth removal.
What a heartbreaking article. I do think you are right, unfortunately. I loathe that so many of my friends idolize Rachel Corrie. They knew her, personally, and were in mourning. I think you are right, she committed suicide by bulldozer. Suicide is an act of such stunning filthiness- it obliterating an image of God, lit within oneself. It violates any number of the commandments.
I did not know that Foucault fetishized suicide. Why is this death-dealer still taught in schools? Morally inverted and depraved….that is not a measure of the right, the true and the good…….
I want to take a bath after reading this. You’ve done your work well, exposing such intellectual, spiritual and moral filth.
I’m all for helping various Islamists, leftists, and other totalitarian-worshippers rid themselves of their unwanted selves. The sooner, the better for us.
I am starting to beleive that peace will come to Israel.
All we have to do is wait for all our enemies to kill each other.
Reminds me of the 2008 death of Italian peace activist Pippa Bacca, who headed for Israel in a wedding dress…yes…and was raped and murdered in Turkey. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3530754,00.html
What many writers miss from their “exhaustive analysis” is the possibility that the Italian “dreamer” may have had a romantic affair with one of his “associates” which attracted him to remain in Gaza. Even Dan Ephron, Daily Beast “contributor”, another cut and paste type who is no authority in Islamic matters missed this possibility in his own words: (The Westerner Killed in Gaza) “Mohammed Elzaeem, who worked as his translator and became a close friend, said Arrigoni wanted to be at the bedside of his father, now sick with cancer.”…..
(this is a polite code for David & Yonathan, or as they say in London, Friends of Dorothy….) The media never connected the attraction of Lawrence of Arabia to the Arab cause, largely a case of infatuation with assorted Arab boys. What exactly Alan Johnston of the BBC doing in Gaza, until he was kidnapped for a trade, kept a hostage during 107 days of horror? What were the two pretty British Muslims, who came to get provisioned in Gaza with suicide belts by “associates” of Corrie in order to become martyrs in the trendy Mike’s Cafe, Tel Aviv, near the U.S embassy several years ago? The problem of our time is that the originators of “unique content” have no historical perspectives and file with an urge to be noticed and make a name, how about a little research, connecting the dots, understanding the culture, learning about the subject?
“Noam Chomsky….to personally embrace the leaders of Hezbollah, whose stated top priority is to rid the world of Jews?”
That would be the Jane Fonda Syndrome. That’s old hat.
This article is disgusting. You are disgusting. This site is disgusting. You are worthless human beings. A human being just died today. The world is waking up to your disgusting acts whether you like it or not.
You Disgust Me,
I know who you are now. It just took a while.
You’re that overbearing fat lady with the desheveled old man who bought Kramer’s portait on that one Seinfeld Episode.
Where is it displayed, may I ask!
today the world is a beter place with out arrigoni
“A human being just died today.”
Terrorist auxilliary ISM mmbers aren’t human beings.
They’re cockroaches, just like the terrorist swine that ISM works for.
In the Christian tradition we do not speak ill of the dead particularly if they are young, perhaps misguided, idealists who have never been violent.
The comments on this thread are truly shocking and very distressing to all Christians who support Israel
Something very ugly is going on, the Italian was a Christian as was the girl, Rachel–the Israeli actor had a Christian father and a Jewish mother.
The comments on this blog are seen around the world
We do not speak ill of the dead in the Jewish tradition either. I’m not sure what you are implying here Victor; surely you would not judge the whole on the basis of the comments of the few!
victor is one of the resident trolls. it doesn’t matter what the topic. he will be on the progressive side of it.
Yes–this is now evident to me from his reply (32). I’m sorry I took the bait.
Vik was a terrific human being who believed in passive resistance not violence. It is a reflection of the ideology of the Jewish state that your site celebrates hus tragic, painful death. Look at yourselves and the hate in your souls you ar showing. And know that we see your evil as we see the Palestinian people’s dignity and honour. Your time is nearly up in power, may God forgive the evil you have done and continue to do. My friend stayed human. You have not.
Then why did he support Hamas?
People like this young man feel deeply for the plight of Palestinians. Then he discovers there is another side to those “poor” people. Namely insane murderous religious fanaticism. He discovers this by getting his own head chopped of.
If you play with head choppers, what do you get?
“It is a reflection of the ideology of the Jewish state that your site celebrates hus tragic, painful death.”
Interestingly revealing comment.
As an Israeli, I am particularly amused by the inference that the Jewish State has ‘an ideology’. Obviously hasn’t heard the joke about two Jews having three opinions…
The “Palestinian people’s dignity and honour” is one of their big problems. There is a lot of violence in Palestinian society, often resulting in death, often as a result of minor insults of honour. This tragic behaviour is prevalent among Israeli Arabs as well. Such murders often result in blood feuds lasting for decades, destroying whole families. You can say a lot of good things about the Palestinians, but these are not gentle people. It is very sad.
This is cognitive dissonance in action. “The hate in our souls we are showing?” Can’t speak for the rest, but I’ve never brutally murdered any Italian peace activists who believed in non-violent resistance and who were devoting their lives to helping my people.
You need to take a look at this whole situation and try to see in whose souls the hate truly resides. Unkind blog comments vs. slaughtering an innocent (if misguided) stranger. It shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.
The honorable dignified Palestinian people tortured and killed your friend.
they used him and discarded him like a piece of trash. Worse.
What kind of honor and dignity are you defending?
Nothing that anyone here says will change that.
Your anger is misplaced. You are in complete denial my friend. Until you face the truth of what happened it will be difficult for you to process this.
One of the more succinct and thoughtful pieces I’ve read about the need of some individuals to destroy themselves. Probably 3-5 times a year I come across something that is so well presented that I need to make a hard copy.
Glazov is pointing the way to something so pernicious–this morning I had some thoughts about the doublebinding self-esteem messages that modern society posits from early childhood; That on the one hand all persons deserve to feel good about themselves and, on the other, Americans (inherently flawed by a past and present riddled by imperialism, racism, misogyny, etc.)can never approach the set standard. If that’s windy, a more vulgar expression of the dynamic is called “having your nuts in a vice.” Is it any wonder that the more fragile, having had this served up over decades, decide to make an end of it? Their own existence, and all of existence as they perceive it, is unbearable to them.
That makes a lot of sense. Maybe it’s like being a kid with an insane parent who buys him ice cream in the morning and beats him up at night. He’s too weak to defend himself. He tries altering his behavior in order to minimize the beatings and maximize the treats, but of course that doesn’t work. Eventually, he concludes that he just naturally deserves to be beaten. One especially bad night, maybe he gets beaten to death. Dilemma resolved.
So did Corrie and this Italian bloke have infinite compassion for the Palestinian people even unto death? Or were they convinced that they deserved to die because nothing they did could stop the chaos?
In actuality of the thing, I really think that, I’ll save David Potter’s fine lined rationale for another application. Like so many left-wingers whom I met during my 30yr. sojourn on our nation’s left coast, I think rather, that, Arrigoni in simply cultivating that mentality, did wish to be enfolded into it and finally, just got wrapped all the way around the wringer, and to such extent that, no doubt, even at the point of last consciousness, he was unable to apprehend his basic error as rejection of the Life and Truth which was to have been found in the example of our Lord Christ.
And I think that, to any one of whole mind, his mother—in now vowing to continue in the same vein as that in which the son was nurtured—gives evidence that, they both were and are merely wrapped up in the cult of death; and which, though, however mere a thing to us—or if in the very least, to me; for, my life is instantly continuing in Christ with G0D in that realm, unbound by time—at any moment, can prove tragically, eternally deadly to any of its legion of left-wing devotees, . . . a cult of death, . . . and as in one place, the Scripture shows G0D saying: “Why will ye die?”, . . .
And the left-winger women who went there to protest against the USA and Israel, but first nurtured with a sociological poison, and now are Islamic wives—captured and unwilling, forgotten and wishing to die, . . .
Except, who cares? For us, life is real, life is earnest, and the grave is not our goal. “Dust thou art, to dust returneth.”, was not spoken of the USA soul, . . . so let us then be up and doing, . . .
@ Zach
The comments are the comments and they are now around the world
Mocking and demeaning these dead young naive Christian idealists on this blog is beneath contempt and will essentially destroy the whole hasbara campaign
–something has gone terribly wrong here–
OK, this is getting silly. Try to weigh this in the balance, Victor:
We write snarky blog comments about naive young Christian activists.
Palestinians MURDER naive young Christian activists.
It’s a strange world we live in if a few stupid remarks are going to poison the cause while actual kidnapping, torture, rape and murder are…what? Business as usual?
Get your thumb off the scale, Victor.
Victor played pretty well the only good card he has.
PJ media has a large following among devout Christians. So he emphasizes that while portraying the ‘activists’ as misguided idealists. Presumably they were Motivated by Christian values just misdirected.
True enough that on this thread as on every other on anything from any website there are some that are thoughtless or even offensive comments. But that is low hanging fruit.
I am not happy about these deaths for many reasons. They are no cause for joy. Joy and celebration for me will happen when Israel can live with its neighbors in peace and prosperity.
Thanks Spindok and everyone else. I’m new to these comments and found Victor’s, well, astonishing. I suppose I shouldn’t have replied in the first place. I appreciate the articulate responses…
Are you under a blanket?
Could be a Dutch Oven effect.
A year and a half after thousands of Americans were murdered in cold blood by Muslim fanatics, one of your “Christian idealists” by the name of Rachel Corrie, was spreading the gospel of Christ by burning a representation of an American flag in the company of another group of Muslim fanatics (she was just doing her part to teach hatred of America to the Pal kiddies, thus helping to create the next generation of murderous thug suicide bombers who will grow up, and then become members of Fatah, Hamas, or Al Qaida, after they’ve been properly indoctrinated by little sluts like Corrie).
When this vile little skank got herself killed, she was deliberately interferring with Israeli anti-terrorist operations. Her purpose? To expedite the murder of Jews in Israel by Corrie’s Pal terrorist friends, which is what ISM is all about.
She was scum, and so is anyone else associated with ISM, which is nothing more than a terrorist auxilliary group.
And, the idea that these animals are Christians is the joke of the century.
Traitors, renegades, champions of Islamic fanaticism, aiders and abettors of terrorism, yes, they certainly are that. Christians…not so much.
But, even though she didn’t have a Christian bone in her repulsive body, I’ll call her Ste. Pancake, anyway…just because I personally find it amusing to make fun of flattened Pal terrorist martyrs.
How about, they are just plain sadists. No more and no less. But cowards none the less, without the courage to go and do the torturing, mutilating and killing themselves, getting their vicarious pleasure from watching others do it, just like the people who buy videos of women in stiletto heels stomping on puppies and kittens, making sure that the stilettos stomp into the eyes of the little creatures.
I don’t see why exposing the truth about those lunatics provoke your contempt..It looks as if you find those psychopates rather sympathetic (young naive Christian idealists!)Something must be terribly wrong with you.. And by the way it is impossible to destroy what doesn’t exist, we have no “hasbara”. We have the truth for us. Nazis,Communists (leftist ideologues,Islamo-Fascists need deceptive propaganda to hide their crimes and rotten intentions.
Just one correction. Hamas is hardluy their “secular” deity but rather their demonic pagan deity
This is an absolutely brilliant piece right out of Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon. The piece contains profound and penetrating subtleties similar to those Koestler explored in his classic novel that was inspired by real events. I think this is the best piece Glazov has written to date.
Personally Im glad people like that get killed.i hope he dies screaming in pain as he was murdered by thoes he loved so much. These are useless people determined to punish the world for their failures. I used to think all like was valuable. NO LONGER. life is cheap. it has no meaning but what we assign to it and the only think that makes it valuable is what you do with it. We have these idiots who are willing to kill and die for their beliefs…actualy change that to WANTING to die. I say we give that to them. give them the deaths they so richly deserve and desire. How many of lives we hold dear mush we waste defending these scumbags and pretending we can just be nice and talk our way out of this. We MUST KILL THESE PEOPLE. not disarm, not win their hearts and mind. we must wipeout any and all traces of this filth! kill them, the wome, their children, paremts friends, brothers , sisters, sons, and daughters. otherwise we loose more lives that WE care about to them. anyone thinks im wrong step up to the plate. but the first question im gonna ask you back is are you ready for someone you care about to die horrifically at the hands of these people when you are proven wrong? you dont tolerate thoes who wish to obliterate your existance, you end theirs first. anyone who says differently is a fool! GOD, Nature, the universe has NEVER favored the weak
There’s an additional dimmension to this. Vittorio was–according to many–openly gay, and living with a Palestinian man. His captors (who allegedly including many Hamas policemen) tortured and killed him well before the deadline. They werent interested in swapping Vittorio. This was an execution. Its time for those who knew Vittorio to speak up.
this article is disgraceful.
“. . . . to submit his whole being to a totalist entity.”
And, doesn’t a part of the kind of transformation of self as herein remarked upon, have to do with the totalist pattern, as seen in the European nations and the appurtenant literature, and more lately being duplicated in the USA—the pattern of administrative subjugation through simple nearness to the individual? Increasingly, young people are less able to easily meet and marry, hence, what has been termed, “the birth dearth”, . . . the spirit emanating from state institutions, increasingly—and, evermore expensively—given to be swallowed whole by the young—school children put to singing about Obama, is one example.
Vittorio had no sense of empire to be achieved with a woman, say; as appeared, such small sense of purpose consumed his life, nothing of the higher characteristic infused from nor inculcated by parents and extended family, no driving interest or curiosity in inquiry or development concerning things possible in science or nature, but only a non-sense sort of mental meanderings about statism and statist goals supposedly, as yet unfulfilled.
I was so surprised to hear Louis Freeh on late-nite talk radio—having left the federal bench—was spending his time advocating for then pres. Clinton’s clipper chip phone, with a straight face, as though USA people were of such opinion to head out the next morning to find where they could trade up their old phones for the new clipper chip model, . . .
And in this way—and apace with the administrative evil of an all-seeing Big Brother—modern societies appear to evermore productive of the Vittorio type of sociopath or societal cripple, nothing much to live for, but to become one, or, to become with the one, . . . from “THE TOMMY KNOCKERS”, . . . stripped out minds, discouraged with life—such a paradox!
This article is gross and completely lacking in humanity.
This is the stupidest, most disgraceful, pseudo-intellectual piece of garbage I have ever read.