Posted by
InchDeep on Saturday, July 19, 2008 1:30:53 AM
Samir Kantar, who "...was sentenced to five life terms for a 1979 triple murder in one of the most notorious attacks in Israeli history." was released from Israel prison with a clear conscience. He killed an Israeli man and his four-year-old daughter. "Kantar dragged the man and his 4-year-old daughter from their apartment to the beach below, and according to witness testimony, shot the man to death in front of his child, then crushed her head against a rock with his rifle butt." If a Jew had done what he did, and was caught by the Lebanese, you would be picking up his body parts with tweezers. They would have ground him up and fed him to their dogs. But in Israel he gets a fair trial and is jailed. That put truth to the lie that Jews are savages bent on the destruction of the Muslims. The difference between Israels and the Muslims that hate them is on display big time here.
Aabey, Lebanon - Samir Kantar, freed by Israel on Wednesday, has said
he had no regrets about the triple murder three decades ago that put
him behind bars.
"I haven't for even one day regretted what I did," he said on Thursday
as he arrived at his family home in the Druze village of Aabey,
south-east of Beirut, where he was given a hero's welcome. "On the
contrary, I remain committed to my political convictions."
Kantar, who turns 46 on Tuesday, was just 17 when he was sentenced to
five life terms for a 1979 triple murder in one of the most notorious
attacks in Israeli history.
"I feel enormous joy because I have returned to the ranks of the
resistance and to my family," he said with defiance, dressed in a
Hezbollah military uniform.
Israel on Wednesday also handed over the remains of 199 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters.
On Thursday, supporters threw rose petals and rice and cheered as the
makeshift hearses carrying the bodies passed on their journey to Beirut
from the border town of Naqoura where the exchange took place.
The mothers of some of the Palestinian fighters killed in battles with
Israeli troops during Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war wept as they
accompanied the cortege and sought to touch the coffins, draped in
Lebanese or Palestinian flags.
Kantar's release and return to Lebanon to a jubilant hero's welcome drew condemnation in Israel and other circles.
Iran, which backs Hezbollah, said the prisoner swop was an achievement
both for the guerrilla movement and the Lebanese people. - Sapa-AFP