All of those released should be terminated ASAP. In fact, they should have been shot as soon as Israel learned that Goldwasser and Regev were dead. That’s a fair trade.

Less Olmert, more Netanyahu. I’m beginning to wonder if Israel has the stomach to survive.

Basically, Israel exchanged 5 prisoners for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, who had been abducted two years ago. The soldiers, plus one other, who is still held by Hezbollah (if not already killed), had became a cause celeb among Israelis, who had prayed with their families for their safe return. Instead, what Israel received were two coffins containing the bodies of the soldiers-who, it is believed, were captured alive.

How cynical, how sadistic of Hezbollah.

Meanwhile, who did Israel release to the Palestinians? Most notable was Samir Kantar, a Lebanese who had been imprisoned for the 1979 murder of an Israeli family, in which the father was killed before the eyes of his 4-year-old daughter, subsequent to which, Kantar killed the girl by smashing her skull with a rifle butt.

None of which matters to the Palestinian public which has greeted this animal’s release with celebrations and a red carpet welcome home-even by the Lebanese President!

Leaving aside the question of why Israel should engage in these prisoner exchanges, which seem to invite more kidnappings, this should highlight the evil of Hezbollah and the mis-directed sympathies of Palestinians. If this animal, Kantar, is a hero to the Palestinian populace, what does that say about the Palestinians?

For several decades, they have hitched their wagon to hijackers, terrorists, and other assorted murderers to further their cause.

Those who sympathize with the Palestinians or see shades of gray in this conflict, should pay close attention to this latest “exchange”, in which Israelis exchange imprisoned murderers for the bodies of their dead soldiers and citizens.

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The Dry Bones Blog tells us:It would be in the following year (1979) that Samir Kuntar (what the press would call a Palestinian activist or perhaps fighter) kidnapped an Israeli and his 4-year old daughter. He dragged them to the…

“The terrorists then stormed an apartment and took Danny Harran, 28, and his 4-year-old daughter, Annette, hostage after killing a second daughter, Yarl, 2, according to an Israeli Army spookesman.”

The Washington Post
April 23, 1979, Monday, Final Edition
Israel Shells Base In Retaliation for Palestinian Strike Israel Shells Base After Raid
By William Claiborne, Washington Post Foreign Service
JERUSALEM, April 22, 1979

Funny, I thought the mother accidentally smothered the 2 year old. I guess they decided to change that part of the story and replace it with the rock smashing one.

The story about Kuntar smashing the 4 year olds head in with a rock did not appear in the media until 1993. I wonder why it took 14 years for that info to get out.

Don’t follow us on this road, don’t end up with a left wing Congress, and a fool in highest office.

Too late.

In return for two mutilated corpses, Israel has unleashed five beasts to hunt and kill innocents once again.

I am not sure what you are getting here, because it is Israel that got the better deal in this exchange. According to Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, “One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.” One fingernail from an Israeli soldier would have been enough to empty all of Israel’s jails, including the 10,000 or so Palestinians. Instead of a fingernail, Israel received two bodies, and instead of 1 million Arabs, Lebanon got only 5. Israel made a good deal.

I’m living in Superman’s Bizarro World … and it’s not a dream.

they would honor a dead dog for knocking over a garbage can.

You have to admit though, that would be pretty good for a dead dog.

When the US saw their civilian contractors murdered & burned to a crisp, hanging and broken from a bridge people understood, but how quickly they forget.”

Yeah, well our “fellow citizens” over at the Daily Kos cheered the murder of those contractors, as did “fellow citizen” Michael Moore.

The left in this country is every bit as evil and stupid as Hezbollah, it’s just that our left is too lazy and gutless to act, which is why they continually cheer those who do.

Resign, Olmert.

Here, here. We need Bibi.

the only thing more pathetic and impotent than releasing Kuntar would be this pointless attempt to shame scumbag jihadist supporters into growing a conscience

Some jihadist supporters can be won over, but the real target audience with this clip is every day normal Muslims who don’t know any better.

When the US saw their civilian contractors murdered & burned to a crisp, hanging and broken from a bridge people understood, but how quickly they forget.

saus on July 17, 2008 at 1:07 PM

Unfortunately, we did nothing about that event for months (until after the election), which is why the insurgency grew so rapidly and spun out of control. Fallujah should have disappeared that day (at least 10 square blocks of it around the event) and there probably would have been no insurgency to speak of.

(Ehud) Barak needs to get going on the payback plan.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 17, 2008 at 12:28 PM

Absolutely, if he had led in this instance we might have mailed Kuntar back to Lebanon, in installments. They brutalized our soldiers, told their mothers they are still alive minutes before handing back the pieces. How do you explain this sickness to people?

When the US saw their civilian contractors murdered & burned to a crisp, hanging and broken from a bridge people understood, but how quickly they forget. When Fathers, hard working Americans leapt to their death to escape what must have been an even worse horror, people understood, but how quickly they forget. Radical Islam 2.0, clean and reasonable, ready for international negotiations, prisoner swaps, and nuke programs.

Yesterday, Israel released four Hizbullah prisoners in return for the bodies of two soldiers kidnapped by Hizbullah in 2006, the incident that provoked the 2006 Hizbullah-Israel war. The exchanges are bad policy overall, because they only encourage the…

Resign, Olmert.

Agree. Whole-heartedly. Will someone grow a spine in the Israeli leadership? What’s Ben Netanyahu doing lately?

(Ehud) Barak needs to get going on the payback plan.

Please, the fatten this clown up for 30 years and NOW they’re going to send some hit squad to find his little hidey hole? Good luck with that.

They’re 30 years late. His brains should have been splattered on the sidewalk the second they found him. Every second he survived past that moment was an affront to all humanity.

Former IDF Chief Rabbi: Bodies’ Abuse Made ID Difficult

(IsraelNN.com) As Israel buries her fallen sons, harsh questions and details are arising from the exchange which took place yesterday. According to Israeli officials, the bodies were received in a severely-damaged state which may have lengthened the confirmation of their identities. Former IDF Medical Corps and Chief Military Rabbinate rofficials have noted the tragic expertise Israel has gathered in years of conflict, but remained shocked by what they saw yesterday at the Rosh HaNikra border crossing.

Rabbi Yisrael Weiss, former Chief Rabbi of the IDF, who was present during the transfer of the fallen soldiers yesterday, said that “the verification process yesterday was very slow, because, if we thought the enemy was cruel to the living and the dead, we were surprised, when we opened the caskets, to discover just how cruel. And I’ll leave it at that.”

HT: Powerline.

Apparently Hizbollocks multilated the bodies before they returned them.

I feel sick inside…