{"id":15329,"date":"2011-04-15T07:44:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T13:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15329"},"modified":"2011-04-15T07:44:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T13:44:39","slug":"jeff-halper-remembering-vik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15329","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Halper: REMEMBERING VIK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Jeff Halper<\/p>\n<p>April 15, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Vik1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15337\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=15337\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Vik1-500-x-345.jpg?fit=500%2C345\" data-orig-size=\"500,345\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Vik1 (500 x 345)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Vik1-500-x-345.jpg?fit=300%2C207\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Vik1-500-x-345.jpg?fit=500%2C345\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Vik1-500-x-345.jpg?resize=500%2C345\" alt=\"\" title=\"Vik1 (500 x 345)\" width=\"500\" height=\"345\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Vik1-500-x-345.jpg?w=500 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Vik1-500-x-345.jpg?resize=150%2C103 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Vik1-500-x-345.jpg?resize=300%2C207 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Less than two weeks after losing another friend and comrade, Juliano Mer-Khamis, I now have to mourn and remember my fellow Free Gaza shipmate Vittorio (Vik) Arrigoni, who was brutally murdered last night by religious extremists in Gaza (and who actually resembled Juliano, physically, in his buoyant personality and in his insistence on \u201cbeing there\u201d when the oppressed needed him).<\/p>\n<p>Vik was truly a person greater than life. He was so filled with energy, a mixture of joy, camaraderie and impatience with the confines of boats and prisons like Gaza, that he would suddenly lift you into the air, or wrestle with you \u2013 he was a big, strong, handsome guy, ebullient and smiling even in the most oppressive and dangerous situations \u2013 as if to tell you: Yalla! These Israel naval ships shooting at us and the Palestinian fisherman cannot prevail over our solidarity, outrage and the justice of our cause! (Vik was wounded in one of those confrontations). He would come up behind you and say: The Occupation will fall just like this! (and he would wrestle you to the ground, laughing and playing with you as he did).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icahd.org\/?p=7195\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;REMEMBERING VIK&#8221; by Jeff Halper<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jeff Halper April 15, 2011 Less than two weeks after losing another friend and comrade, Juliano Mer-Khamis, I now have to mourn and remember my fellow Free Gaza shipmate Vittorio (Vik) Arrigoni, who was brutally murdered last night by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15329\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3Zf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15329"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15340,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15329\/revisions\/15340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}