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328: SAMIR KUNTAR – A Hero, or a Heel? That depends on whether you’re…
20 July, 2008

SAMIR KUNTAR – A Hero, or a Heel? That depends on whether you’re………

That depends on whether you’re a member of Hezballah or Amal, or any of their alliances; or whether you’re a parent or sibling, relative, or friend of any one of the 1,200 innocent men, women and children who died; or a parent whose child or children lost the chance of summer camps and schools or enjoying a normal summer holiday; or any of the hundreds of thousands of Lebanese who fled with only their shirts on their backs – so to speak – or one of the several thousands of people who lost their incomes or their jobs as a result of the 12th July 2006 Fiasco, Folly and Madness – a Devil’s Cauldron of vanity, stupidity, naivety, futility, betrayal and treachery.

Samir Kuntar Arabic: القنطار‎ سمير also transcribed Sameer, Kantar, Quntar, Qantar (1962) in Abey, Lebanon, is a Druze Lebanese militant who belonged to the Palestine Liberation Front. On April 22, 1979, at the age of 17, Samir Kuntar led a group of four PLF members who entered Israel from Lebanon by boat. The group members included Abdel Majeed Asslan (1955), Mhanna Salim Al-Muayed (1960) and Ahmed Al-Abras (1949). They all belonged to the PLF under the leadership of Abu Abbas. The group departed from Tyre in South Lebanon on a 55 horse-powered motorized rubber boat or dinghy. The goal of the operation was to attack Nahariya, 10 kilometers away from the Lebanese border. They called their operation the Nasser Operation.

They arrived in the coastal town of Nahariya around midnight. They killed a policeman, Eliyahu Shahar, who came across them. The group then entered a building in Jabotinsky Street where they formed two groups. One group broke into the apartment of the Haran family before the police arrived. They took Danny Haran (31) and his 4-year-old daughter, Einat, hostages. The mother, Smadar Haran, was able to hide in a small attic above the bedroom with her two year-old daughter Yael, and a neighbour.

Witnesses testified that Kuntar's group took Danny and Einat down to the beach, where a shootout with Israeli policemen and soldiers took place. According to the witnesses, Kuntar shot Danny in the back at close range, in front of his daughter, and drowned him in the sea to make sure he was dead. Next, eyewitnesses said he smashed 4-year-old Einat’s head on beach-rocks and crushed her skull with the butt of his rifle.

According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after he had been captured, Kuntar initially admitted to bludgeoning Einat to death, but at his trial, he denied killing the 4-year-old. However, after the evidence and testimonies from Kuntar's 1980 trial had been published, the pathologist's report presented at the trial stated that Einat's brain-matter was found on the butt of Kuntar's rifle. In his testimony, Kuntar asserted that Israeli gunfire had killed Danny Haran as soldiers burst in (where; on the beach?) to free him, and that he did not see what happened to Einat; having passed out due to blood-loss from five bullet wounds. He explained that the group's goal had been to take hostages back to Lebanon, and that he had taken the 4-year-old to prevent Israeli police from shooting at them, but he could not explain how Etnat’s brain-matter got on the butt of his rifle.

He was convicted of murdering three Israelis directly – an Israeli policeman, a 31 year-old man, Danny Haran, and his 4-year-old daughter – and one child, Yael, indirectly, during the raid. Kuntar received four life-sentences in an Israeli court, and spent nearly three decades in prison before his release on July 16, 2008 as part of an Israel-Hezballah prisoner-swap. After his release, Kuntar claimed the Israeli government had fabricated the child’s murder-allegations – Hassan Nesrallah told him to say that; not all of us are Etc, and so forth and so on.

Smadar Haran accidentally suffocated Yael to death while attempting to keep her quiet. A policeman and two of Kuntar's comrades were killed in the shootout on the beach. Kuntar and the fourth member of the group, Ahmed Al-Abras, were captured. Ahmed Al-Abras was freed by Israel under the Jibril Agreement of May 1985, which makes us – and I, especially – wonder why Hezballah waited until the summer of 2006 to attack Israel and drag Lebanon and the Lebanese through that murderous maelstrom!

According to Kuntar's former cellmate, Yasser Hanjar, Kuntar never expressed remorse. During his imprisonment, Kuntar married an Israeli-Arab woman who was an activist on behalf of militant prisoners, but later divorced her. While they were married, she received a monthly stipend from the Israeli government, an entitlement due to her status as the wife of a prisoner. Also during his imprisonment, Kuntar graduated from the Open University of Israel in social and political science. BY GOD!

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; first, from the above report, we have seen how the so-called enemy, Israel, treats its prisoners – even those caught red-handed after callously and brutally murdering its citizens; including two very young and innocent children. Second, we know that Samir Kuntar was seriously wounded when he was captured – five bullet-holes – which means he was well cared for and looked after, and treated well and well-treated by very good doctors and surgeons and nurses in very good hospitals. Third, we saw how hale and hearty – well and healthy – Samir Kuntar looked on the day he was released. Fourth, he is now a university graduate – something he achieved while in prison in Israel – which means he was given or allowed facilities and amenities he never had before he was captured and will never have again. And fifth, he himself admitted that he envied the Israelis for the way they treated their prisoners and hostages. Now, all we need to do is find out how Syria treats – or treated – its prisoners.

To the rest of the world, and to the average, decent, sensible, educated and enlightened Human-Ape, Samir Kuntar is A HEEL, and one of the most callous and brutal murderers and terrorists, but to Hezballah and Amal and their alliances, and to most of the blind, deaf, naïve, illiterate and ignorant Lebanese, he’s a ….

Illiterate and ignorant in the sense that education and enlightenment are not as they are acquired or assimilated but as they are applied and/or used! BY GOD AGAIN!

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