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| On the Hezbollah Prisioner Exchange Wish-List |
| 2006-07-27 |
| When Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers two weeks ago, provoking the current conflagration, the Shiite terrorist outfit apparently intended to use them as bargaining chips to demand the release of prisoners. Press reports often discuss this as if there were an equivalence between the Israeli soldiers, who committed no crimes but were simply defending their own country within its borders, and Arab terrorists. So it's worth pointing out just who the "prisoners" in Israeli hands are. According to the BBC "the prisoner Hezbollah wants most" is Samir Qantar. On April 22, 1979, Qantar murdered 28-year-old Danny Haran and his 4-year-old daughter and caused the death of another Haran daughter, age 2. Haran's widow, Smadar Haran Kaiser, describes the crime (she transliterates the murderer's name as "Kuntar"): It had been a peaceful Sabbath day. My husband, Danny, and I had picnicked with our little girls, Einat, 4, and Yael, 2, on the beach not far from our home in Nahariya, a city on the northern coast of Israel, about six miles south of the Lebanese border. Around midnight, we were asleep in our apartment when four terrorists, sent by Abu Abbas from Lebanon, landed in a rubber boat on the beach two blocks away. Gunfire and exploding grenades awakened us as the terrorists burst into our building. They had already killed a police officer. As they charged up to the floor above ours, I opened the door to our apartment. In the moment before the hall light went off, they turned and saw me. As they moved on, our neighbor from the upper floor came running down the stairs. I grabbed her and pushed her inside our apartment and slammed the door. Outside, we could hear the men storming about. Desperately, we sought to hide. Danny helped our neighbor climb into a crawl space above our bedroom; I went in behind her with Yael in my arms. Then Danny grabbed Einat and was dashing out the front door to take refuge in an underground shelter when the terrorists came crashing into our flat. They held Danny and Einat while they searched for me and Yael, knowing there were more people in the apartment. I will never forget the joy and the hatred in their voices as they swaggered about hunting for us, firing their guns and throwing grenades. I knew that if Yael cried out, the terrorists would toss a grenade into the crawl space and we would be killed. So I kept my hand over her mouth, hoping she could breathe. As I lay there, I remembered my mother telling me how she had hidden from the Nazis during the Holocaust. "This is just like what happened to my mother," I thought. As police began to arrive, the terrorists took Danny and Einat down to the beach. There, according to eyewitnesses, one of them shot Danny in front of Einat so that his death would be the last sight she would ever see. Then he smashed my little girl's skull in against a rock with his rifle butt. That terrorist was Samir Kuntar. By the time we were rescued from the crawl space, hours later, Yael, too, was dead. In trying to save all our lives, I had smothered her. The BBC gives a rather more sanitized account of the crime: "Qantar . . . attacked a block of flats in Nahariha in 1979, killing a father and his daughter." |
| Posted by:Captain America |
| #5 They should release him in front of a brigade of troops, give him a pistol that might well be loaded, and let them all open fire in self defense. |
| Posted by: Oldcat 2006-07-27 22:38 |
| #4 Israel is too infected with Trans-National-Socialism to be sensible and have a death penalty. Look at the Dean look-a-like they have has defense minister. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-07-27 19:33 |
| #3 What I don't get is why Israel doesn't have the death penalty (the exception for Nazi war criminals is pretty much moot at this point). If they feel justified in helizapping murderous thugs and their "spiritual leaders" - which I fully support - why can't they execute these same murderous thugs when they're captured alive? That would keep these monsters from becoming bargaining chips. |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2006-07-27 18:31 |
| #2 Oh my god. What monsters. And they MSM protrays these 'prisoners' as 'innocent civilains being held by the Israeli's'. That makes the MSM just as monsterous in my eyes. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-07-27 18:11 |
| #1 I've got a "wish list" too. It involves LOTS of dead In lots of different |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-07-27 18:00 |