SAMIR KUNTAR Part III – A fool or a Tool? Or a highly costly commodity that will turn out to be, or create, a highly costly commotion in Lebanon for the Lebanese

Samir Kuntar was bought by Hassan Nasrallah at the high cost of the deaths of 1,200 innocent Lebanese, the loss of the summer of 2006 – in terms of tourism and trade, jobs and incomes, and a normal summer holidays for all, locals and visitors, and especially children – the almost total destruction of the country, the displacement and dispersion of hundreds of thousands – IDPs; all of whom became prisoners – and the scattering of hundreds of thousands to the four winds. And all for what; just and only to secure the release and return of 5 prisoners from Israeli prisons: 4 terrorists and mercenaries, plus one convicted callous and brutal murderer and mercenary, and 200 carcasses of only-God-and-Satan-know what shitty scumbag schmucks and dregs of what nationalities – 114 of which were carted off to Syria on flat-bed trucks?

I’ve seen, heard, and read some very low and cheap lies, ruses, hoaxes, and shit-propaganda in my life, but that; that was scraped off the bottom of the shit-bin! BY GOD AND SATAN!

Something smells to high Horse-shit and it isn’t rotten eggs or rotten carcasses!

Since I saw Samir Kuntar on TV, and watched his face and demeanor and manner, and since  nothing escapes Daniel in The Lion’s Den, here are some questions for you – dear readers and fellow-Apes – to ponder over well:

Did Hassan NAsrallah – or Hezballah – start the July 2006 Fiasco, Folly, and Madness all on their own, or were they acting upon orders from Iran via Syria?

Is Samir Kuntar a Fumbling Farting Fool who was brought back and displayed to, and paraded before, the Lebanese people – the Shiites and especially the Druze – only in order to enhance Hassan Nasrallah’s image and status and to strengthen Hezballah and Amal and their un-Godly, un-Lebanese, and un-Patriotic Alliances; or a Highly Sharpened and Polished Tool that will one day be used against Lebanon and the Lebanese?

Let us not forget that Samir Kuntar studied and graduated in Social and Political Science while in captivity in an Israeli Prison – I wonder what the hundreds of innocent Lebanese in Syrian prisons have graduated in, other than being able to bear up under the most miserable and squalid conditions, and the most horrific and inhuman tortures, mutilations, and humiliations anyone could possibly imagine!

Or is Samir Kuntar a Fool who is going to make Fools of Hassan Nasrallah and Nabih Berri (and I’m Mad Michael Aouu) who took him for a Fool and thought they were playing him for a Fool?

Is Samir Kuntar going to replace Walid Jumblatt as the next Leader of the Progressive Socialist Party; or is he going to form another and separate PSP under another name or title?

Is Samir Kuntar going to be a threat to Hassan Nasrallah and a large sharp toxic thorn in Hassan Nasrallah’s side; and is he going to end up like Imad Mughniyeh; or is he going to be smarter and sharper than Imad Mughniyeh and do away with or get rid of Hassan Nasrallah – one way or the other – and replace him?

Is Samir Kuntar a Fool and a Tool, or a highly costly commodity – ordered, bought, and paid for by Iran that will turn out to be or create a highly costly commotion in Lebanon for the Lebanese?

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; let us hope that you don’t see and read the 4^th posting of these series: Samir Kuntar Part IV– I told you so!

By the way, have you read my postings: 135 / 137 / 138 / 147 / 328 / 329 / 334 / 335? If you haven't, please read them; and if you have, so what? Read them again! BY GOD AND SATAN AGAIN!

Kindly check out, and read, the following postings, too (highly recommended by I, myself, and me):  11 / 12 / 36 / 37 / 41 / 42 / 43 / 45 / 47 / 48 / 72 / 85 / 100 / 116 / 121 / 192 / 197 / 213 / 219 / 231 / 233 plus comments / 235 / 237 / 250 / 261 / 278 / 292 to 297 / 315 and 316 / 319 ……I am quite positive that you will enjoy them, AND! If you have any objections or points to make, feel free to do so. I welcome; I actually invite objections, criticisms, comments, remarks, counter-points, and even insults; so long as they are straight to the point; in order for me to correct and/or adjust myself accordingly, BUT! I won’t accept or tolerate XENOPHOBIC or FANATIC or RELIGIOUS HORSE-SHIT!

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SAMIR KUNTAR Part II – A hero or a Heel?

THEY FREED A FELON TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY – Heart-broken Mother Grieved and Pled for………

Nina Keren, the mother of Danny Haran (31), and grandmother of his daughters Einat (4) and Yael (2), who were callously and brutally murdered nearly 30 years ago by Lebanese terrorist, Samir Kuntar, had written to President Shimon Peres regarding the prisoner swap-deal that took place between the State of Israel and the State of Hezballah on Wednesday 16^th July 2008. In the letter, she begged the president to consider well the move or action which seemed politically sound at the time but which might lead to dire consequences later.

Free a felon to fight another day

The Joke and the Irony is: the Israeli Government cares little for the Israeli people, and cares even less for Lebanon or the Lebanese people, and even much less for the Lebanese Government. It only cares about and is interested in…the next elections. It and Hezballah are two of a kind and birds of the same feather, AND, they complement and complete each other. The most important thing is for both to survive and remain in existence and in power – the Israeli Government, and Hezballah – and to hell and beyond with the Israelis and the Lebanese, and the Lebanese Government or State, for good measure!

The Israeli Government and Hezballah are criminals and policemen; without criminals, who needs policemen; and without policemen, who needs criminals?

I grieve for Nina Keren, just as I grieve for all the mothers who lost their children to wars, diseases, or natural phenomena. As for Samir Kuntar, all I can say is: the Israeli Government set him free and set him loose; they released him to relive and repeat his acts……

Not all of us are Etc, and so forth and so on

ALL THAT FUSS OVER PUS – Dead Syrian, Arab, and Palestinian Fighters From Israel/Hezballah Swap-Deal Arrive in Damascus

STATE OF ISRAEL AND STATE OF HEZBALLAH PRISONER SWAP-DEAL – Again; All That Fuss Over Pus

Gleaned from Gulf Times/AFP/Angola Press via Yahoo! Alerts

Thursday 24^th and Friday 25^th July 2008 on Wednesday 23^rd July 2008

BEIRUT: Hezballah turned over the remains of 114 Syrian and Arab fighters to Syria yesterday after receiving them as part of a prisoner swap-deal between the State of Israel and the State of Hezballah last week. The coffins were taken from Beirut to the Masnaa border crossing in the eastern part of the country by Hezballah’s Islamic Health Committee.

Hundreds of people gathered to attend the handover ceremony. Relatives of the deceased had been waiting on the Syrian side of the border since early morning. Members of Syria’s Republican Guard received the coffins before they were transported to the Umayyad Square at the main entrance to Damascus. A senior member of Syria’s ruling Baath party said in a speech marking the occasion: Syria has always stood by the resistance, whether in Palestine, Lebanon, or Iraq; and it has paid dearly for its role, but it will never change it. And the world has once again realised its strategic role in the region.

Hezballah chief Hassan Nasrallah spelt out his terms for further prisoner swaps with Israel. According to a letter from UN chief Ban Ki-moon to the president of the Security Council, Ban said he had received a letter from Nasrallah indicating his readiness for participation in the remaining humanitarian cases of Israeli MIA (missing in action) from the 1980s. In his letter addressed to Vietnam’s UN Ambassador Le Luong Minh, the council chair this month, Ban said Nasrallah had made it clear that his positive attitude would depend on the nature and extent of Israeli humanitarian moves on behalf of Palestinian and Arab victims – so the Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-Moon, now receives letters from, and deals directly with, Hassan Nasrallah, which means he considers Hezballah a separate State within the State of Lebanon, if not the actual State of Lebanon – and stated that a minimum requirement would be the release of hundreds of minors, women and elderly people being held in Israeli detention centres, as well as detainees suffering from health handicaps and injuries, but he did not mention the hundreds of innocent Lebanese being held in Syrian prisons – under the poorest and most squalid conditions anyone could possibly imagine – not to mention those that had been brutally butchered – beaten, tortured, and mutilated to death. I wonder why! I also wonder whether any of you out there know, that prisoners in Israel, the USA, and in Europe and the other advanced countries, are treated well and eat, sleep, and live better than most Arabs and especially Lebanese in the south!

DAMASCUS: The bodies of 114 Arab fighters handed over by Israel as part of last week’s exchange with the Lebanese militant and terrorist group, Hezballah, arrived in Damascus yesterday, Wednesday 23^rd July 2008. The coffins containing their bodies were transported on flatbed trucks over the Jedaideh crossing point between Lebanon and Syria, and were later paraded through the streets in Damascus. Hundreds of relatives greeted the coffins as they passed through the crossing.

Most were Syrian nationals or Palestinian refugees living in Syria. Israel released five Lebanese prisoners and almost 200 bodies in return for two dead soldiers captured in 2006. A spokesman for Hezballah said the fighters, who had been killed in skirmishes along the Lebanon-Israel border, included slain Jordanian and Libyan guerrillas, and one Tunisian. The remains of a Kuwaiti national was flown to his homeland on Monday and buried by relatives. An official of a Palestinian faction in Syria said some of the dead fighters would be transported to their homelands if governments agreed.

Last week, thousands attended the funerals of eight Hezballah militants whose bodies were returned as part of a prisoner swap-deal between the State of Israel and the State of Hezballah. Israel also buried the bodies of two reservists who had been fatally wounded in an ambush in 2006 that triggered the devastating 34-day war which ultimately failed to secure their return but killed 1,200 innocent Lebanese, displaced and dispersed hundreds of thousands, and forced hundreds of thousands more to flee their beloved country. Dear readers and fellow-Apes; what more is there to say?

UAE LAUNCHES PRE-MARITAL MEDICAL SCREENING FOR MEN ONLY – And mind my language

Bernama Sunday 13^th July – Monday 14^th July 2008

Gleaned from Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News Below is the full article or report, without the repetitions and circumlocutions since I have no pages to fill:

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Health Ministry has teamed up with Bin-Sina Pharmacy in launching a nationwide campaign designed to urge and encourage prospective grooms to undergo pre-marital medical screening in an effort to enhance health awareness in order to create a healthier society by the prevention of contagious and genetic diseases.

According to a statement by the Health Ministry, it intends to highlight the serious consequences of ignoring these simple medical screening tests which will be conducted at special centres across the country, and which will cover hereditary diseases and viruses like hepatitis, thalassaemia, AIDS, TB, venereal and other diseases.

Studies have shown that hereditary diseases and physical handicaps can be prevented from being passed on to the next generation through pre-marital or early – newly-born, toddlers, and pre-teens – screening.

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; have any of the educated and enlightened Apes among you noticed that only prospective grooms were mentioned? What about prospective brides? The above article or report is highly typical of Arab Naïve Obtuse Ostrich Moron Males and Arab Naïve Obtuse Ostrich Moron Mentality, and the MMMMMMMMMMM-Media’s Obtuse Ostrich Horse-shit habit of always burying their heads in the sands of their stupidity, naivety, and ignorance! When it has to do with especially Arab women and girls, see no evil, hear no evil, and say no evil, because they do no evil, since they are pure and pious. BY GOD AND SATAN!

These Arab and Arab-speaking Jarabs either do not know, or don’t want to know, or know but don’t want to show or tell, that Arab women – and especially Arab girls – are more apt to have or catch venereal and other anal-sex-transmitted diseases like AIDS, Etc, since that is what they have before they are married – long before and ever after.

To those Apes among you who might say: Daniel. You’re too God-damn crude and rude, I say: Well, go ahead and say what I said, nicely and politely. I dare you! Let me tell you a short story:

A witness, who was testifying in a divorce case, pointed to the man involved with the other man’s wife and said to the judge: Your honour; I saw him, and then he pointed at the man’s wife and said: fucking her. The judge was furious, but the others in the courtroom thought it was hilarious. Silence in court! He yelled, and banged his gavel. Why you! You cannot use such crude and rude language in my court! He yelled at the witness. Get out and report back in 15 minutes, and mind your language or else I’ll have you up before me for contempt of court! The witness went out and came back in, 15 minutes later. Well? Are you prepared to testify now in a manner befitting a court? The witness replied: Yes, your honour. And the judge said: Well, what have you to say? And the witness said:

Your honour; I saw his balls dangling in the air

His you-know-what, in you-know-where

And if your honour doesn’t call that ‘fucking’

Then I’m sorry but I wasn’t there

You have my permission to laugh.

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SEVERAL PRISONERS KILLED IN PRISON RIOT IN SYRIA – Human Rights Group Claims Military Police Opened Fire on Inmates Protesting Poor Conditions

CBS-NEWS via Yahoo! News Alerts Saturday 5^th July 2008

DAMASCUS: The London-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights reported on its Web-site that several prisoners were killed and several more wounded in a riot at the Sidnaya Prison approximately 30km north of Damascus, but indicated there was no clear way to get to the bottom of the incident. Islamist prisoners had staged a protest earlier in the day over poor conditions at the prison. The group reported that military police opened fire on the prisoners. The head of Syria's National Organization for Human Rights told the Press by telephone that he could see smoke billowing from the prison and prisoners standing on the roof. He added that ambulances were ferrying the wounded to the hospital. There has been no official word yet from the Syrian government, which usually does not comment on human rights issues.

My comments: Like the Covert Nuclear Reactor at Al Kibar which the Israeli Air Force destroyed on Thursday 6^th September 2007 and which Syria later – and today – deny it ever existed, the above incident will also go down the drain of iniquity, followed by deleting and denial. Imagine the Israeli Air Force flying all the way to Al Kibar in Syria to destroy a building just for fun! Read my posting: 275

REUTERS ALERT-NET via Yahoo! Alerts 22^nd Jul 2008

BEIRUT: A New York-based Human Rights Watch has called on Syria to order an independent inquiry into the above deadly incident and the use of lethal force by the military police, and to disclose the victims' names. The Syrian authorities have said very little or nothing at all about it. They said it had been put down by the next day, but the jail remains surrounded by security forces; visits are banned, and a nearby hospital is also off limits. Human rights organisations in Syria have reported that as many as 25 prisoners were killed, and that they had obtained the names of nine inmates thought to be dead. One member of the military police was also confirmed dead following his burial near Aleppo. Syria has been ruled by the Baath Party since 1963 and holds thousands of Islamists and other political prisoners; including writers and human rights advocates – and not a few Lebanese.

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; we all saw how the so-called enemy, Israel, treats or treated its prisoners, even convicted callous and brutal murderers like Samir Kuntar, who re-appeared on the Lebanese political and terrorist scene after 3 decades of being a prisoner in Israel, looking robust – he had been well-fed and well-looked after and taken care of; married and divorced  – with a degree in social and political science – he had been well-educated, too – and all at the expense of Israel and Israeli tax payers. And we have seen how the so-called sister and friend, Syria, treats its prisoners – packs them into cells like sardines in tins, in the most terrible and squalid conditions, with no facilities or amenities; and either starves them or tortures and mutilates them to death, and if they dare to complain or whine or protest, they are shot to death.

From what I saw of the way the Lebanese Army mishandled the poor protesters – parents and family members and friends of Lebanese prisoners in Syria who only wanted to intercept that fat, over-fed, bloated Syrian Hog, Walid Moallem, to hand him a letter begging for the release of their loved-ones – I wonder whether the Lebanese Army hadn’t been trained by or taken lessons from the Syrian Army! I also wonder why they hadn’t shot the protesters outright! BY GOD! Read my posting: 330 and my next posting: 332

BEIRUT: Parents, relatives, and friends of Lebanese citizens who disappeared between 1975 and 2005 gathered around 10:30am on Monday morning next to the presidential palace in Baabda, where Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem was expected to arrive; protesting against the detention in Syria of their family members and relatives. Several protestors held pictures of their detained or lost relatives as well as banners with slogans in Arabic: no diplomatic relations before the return of Lebanese held in Syrian prisons and there are Lebanese prisoners not only in Israel, but in Syria as well.

The demonstration took an unfortunate turn of events as the Lebanese Armed Forces – the Lebanese Army – violently forced the protesters to move away as they were trying to intercept Walid Moallem's convoy or block the road; they were forcefully pushed back and beaten up by LAF forces. Some demonstrators suffered wounds as a result.

The protest had been organized with the help of the civil society representatives, human-rights associations and members of local and international non-governmental organisations who had held similar demonstrations in the past, but that time, the protest was called to coincide with Moallem's visit to Lebanon. The founder of Support for Lebanese in Detention and Exile (SOLIDE), an NGO which has longed worked to uncover the fate of Lebanese detainees in Syrian prisons confirmed the existence of Lebanese detainees in Syrian prisons.

In a news conference after his parliamentary bloc's meeting on Monday, Free Patriotic Movement leader, MP Michael Aoun, said that clashes between demonstrators and the LAF were truly unfortunate and that the new government would double its efforts to uncover the fate of detainees in Syrian prisons as the fate of these missing people could not be ignored.

By the way, and for your information; dear readers and fellow-Apes; let us hope that the 600 soldiers he deserted – he abandoned his wife and three daughters, too – and left them to face the invading Syrian hordes on the night he fled in his orange pyjamas to the French Embassy and later to France are part of those detained in Syrian prisons and let us hope THEY, AND ALL THE OTHERS, ARE STILL ALIVE.

According to a researcher with Human Rights Watch who took part in the protest, the demonstrators – mostly mothers and sisters of detainees – were violently pushed by the LAF who used their rifle butts to disperse the crowd. He said that the protesters were un-armed, so there was no need for the army to resort to such violence.

The head of Union for Lebanon – or Onion for Lebanon – told reporters that the detainees issue was more important than Lebanese-Syrian diplomatic relations or the border demarcation between the two neighboring countries.

Five prisoners and 200 bodies were handed over to Hezballah by Israel last Wednesday as part of a prisoner swap deal.

Despite the brawl with the LAF, the protestors were able to send a seven-point letter to President Michael Suleiman who, in his inaugural speech, expressed his will to deal with the issue. The letter called for including the prisoners' issue in the upcoming ministerial statement. It also called for the formation of a national commission to look into the issue of detainees in Syria, as well as creating a DNA database through the missing people's relatives, and an international investigative commission, as a last resort, to find out the whereabouts and the fates of the missing Lebanese in Syrian prisons, and to try any that committed any crimes against humanity – including their collaborators.

Walid Moallem remarked during a news conference on Monday on the existence of Syrian detainees in Lebanese prisons. The Daily Star was told that there were actually names of Syrians who disappeared in Lebanon during the 1975-90 Civil War, but it was surprising that Syria never dealt with this issue when it was in control of the country. However, information about Syrian detainees in Lebanese prisons could be easily made available as Lebanese prisons were accessible to the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations.

THEY MOURNED FOR THOSE; WHO WILL MOURN FOR THE OTHERS?

HEZBALLAH HOLDS FUNERAL & MOURNS GUERILLAS KILLED IN 2006

Gleaned from Earth-Times Friday 18^th July 2008 and assorted newspapers and websites

BEIRUT: The Lebanese militant group, Hezballah, held a funeral for eight guerrillas killed during its 2006 war with Israel. Their bodies were returned in a prisoners swap last week. Thousands of Hezballah supporters attended Friday's funeral in Beirut's southern suburbs. The eight coffins were lined up in a huge hall in Beirut's southern suburbs, where grieving women, parents, relatives, and friends had gathered to bid their last farewell. Hezbollah's Executive Council Chief, Hashem Safieddine, in a speech inaugurating the ceremony, said the eight men defeated Israel twice; once during the war in 2006 and again by returning home. He spoke in front of their coffins, which were covered with Hezballah's yellow flags. Their bodies were later taken to their home-towns. Israel released five Lebanese prisoners and the remains of almost 200 guerrillas – including 191 Arab fighters, mostly Palestinians – in return for the bodies of two soldiers whose capture triggered the 34-day war.  A prayer was recited for the souls of the dead as wailing women kissed the coffins before they were paraded through the streets by Hezbollah fighters in uniform – these women are professionals, and they would wail for anyone and kiss anything for the right price. There are women like them in all the religions on the planet that are either being sold to, or forced down the throats of, the ASSES – that’s “MASSES” without the “M” and they do not fool me a single iota.

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; I don’t know about all of you, or almost all of you, or most of you, or half of you, or some of you, or a few of you out there, but the fact that these people held a funeral and mourned for 200 guerillas – only eight of them were Lebanese – who died in a war that neither Lebanon, nor the Lebanese government, nor the Lebanese people, wanted or needed at the time – a war that killed 1,200 innocent Lebanese men, women, and children; deprived thousands of children of summer camps and schools or a normal summer holiday; dispersed hundreds of thousands all over the country who became Lebanese refugees IDPs in Lebanon; imprisoned in schools and other educational institutions and camps; scattered hundreds of thousands to the four winds, who fled with only their shirts on their backs; destroyed several bridges and devastated the whole country – especially the south; and deprived several thousands of people of their incomes or jobs – most of the businesses, establishments, restaurants, shops, even hospitals, Etc, were either closed down or semi-closed down because both management and staff and/or employees could not come or go to work; and all as the result of the July 2006 Fallacy Fiasco, Folly and Madness – makes me sick!

Also, I don’t know about all of you, Etc, and so forth and so on out there, but what I’d like to know is: WHO WILL MOURN FOR THE 1,200; WHO WILL BRING BACK THE SUMMER OF 2006 TO THE CHILDREN OR CURE THEIR TRAUMA; WHO WILL BRING BACK THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS THAT FLED THEIR BELOVED COUNTRY, AND WHO HAVE SETTLED DOWN ELSEWHERE AND WILLNEVER RETURN EXCEPT TO VISIT; WHO WILL COMPENSATE THE SEVERAL THOUSANDS WHO LOST THEIR JOBS AND/OR INCOMES?

Trauma: an extremely distressing experience that causes severe emotional shock and may have long-lasting psychological effects; a serious injury or wound to the mind or to the body

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 12^th July 2006 Fallacy, 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 AND SATAN!

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 and Iran and Hezballah treat – or treated – their 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 AND SATAN AGAIN!

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AN ADVENTURE IN ALGERIA: A true story about me and my mates when we were at university; and it took place……

I could have broken this up into volumes or parts, but decided to let you have it as it is – in one huge mass. In other words, LONG AND SWEET, AND BY GOD!

Quite some decades ago – come to think of it, it seems to me like the memory of a dream – three of my university-mates and I went on a long journey by Land Rover across the Sahara desert from Algiers to Tamanrasset and Djanet. We wanted to – we actually had to – visit The Tassili Rock-Paintings. We had read about them in our Geology classes, which were part of our Archaeology/Paleontology studies. It took us four whole days to prepare for it because we wanted to make the most of the trip, since we needed the information to prepare our final thesis – a lengthy academic paper: a dissertation based on original research, especially as work toward an academic degree; a lengthy formal written treatment of a subject, submitted as a requirement for a degree.

Travelling in the desert is actually very simple, but there is no room for mistakes. All we would need were a good track-map, a good driver-and-guide, light clothes for the day time, and long-johns and sweaters for the night time; and notebooks, pens, cameras, and as many large plastic drums of water as the vehicle would hold. Tents were out of the question, since they would take too much space and too much time to set up and dismantle, so each of us had a foldable sleeping-bag, and a blanket.

We started very early in the morning on a Saturday and proceeded from Algiers to Biskra – perhaps you ought to look up the map. When we arrived there, we stopped at the oasis to rest. The Roman Bath and the beautiful date-palms were so interesting and tempting that we stayed there for two days. We ate dates and local dishes of meat, cooked with rice and nuts and peppers, and we visited the Roman Bath several times. We enjoyed it very much, but in the end we had to move on to complete our journey.

Just before dawn, on the third day, we filled the drums - the empty ones - with water from the oasis, bought a bunch of dates, and went on to Touggourt. It was very hot, so we had to stay there till the sun went down. At dusk, we proceeded slowly to Hassi Messaoud, and arrived there just before dawn the next day.

From Hassi Messaoud to Tamanrasset is a very long stretch, so we had to stay in Hassi Messaoud for the whole day. We breakfasted on dates and goat’s milk and spent the morning exploring the immediate area, and making notes – our driver-cum-guide had warned us not to venture too far. Soon, he came after us and called to us: “HAI; YA AJAANEB!” This means “HEY; YOU FOREIGNERS!” And pointed upwards to the sky, waved us over, and punctuated his brief performance with: “YALLA!” It was lunch time: rice; cooked with meat, nuts, and peppers; and washed down with goat's milk. After lunch we slept till we were woken up by the sound of camels braying nearby. It was a camel caravan which departed late in the evening on the day we began our journey. They had arrived around mid-day, and had been resting, too. It was almost dusk and getting dark and they were getting ready to tackle the long stretch to Tamanrasset.

They left an hour before we did because we had to wash and check our equipment before doing so, but because our Land Rover was much faster than the camels, we overtook them just after midnight. We were surprised to see how far they had travelled before we were able to overtake them. Camels travel very fast in the desert. They are not called Desert-Schooners for nothing.

At the foot of the Tassili Mountains, we turned left and drove up the mountains and through a pass at the top. Then we drove down the other side to Tamanrasset. We arrived in Tamanrasset just after dawn the next day, and we were very happy to notice that although the sun had begun to rise, it was still cool enough to keep our sweaters on.

Tamanrasset is about 1,400 metres above sea level. It is the capital of the Touareg country. The Touaregs are a nomad tribe well-known for their code of honour, courage, and ferocity. They are very hospitable, generous, and kind, but they can be very ruthless and relentless. Hospitality is their Mode, and Vengeance is their Code. Tamanrasset was once the point of departure for the convoys on the roads to Agades in Niger, and Gao in Mali. We had no watches, so we could not tell the time. In any case, watches are useless in the desert, where the heat of the day fries the brain, and the cold of the night freezes the bones.

Just before noon, we left Tamanrasset and proceeded to Djanet which has a lower altitude. The climate is dry, and the temperature is mild. There is a beautiful oasis in the heart of a valley at the foot of the Tassili Mountains. It is the starting point for the camel-caravans visiting The Tassili Rock-Paintings. The tracks leading to the rocks and caves are so steep and dangerous that only camels can make the trip. We spent the night at the oasis, and very early  the next day, we packed  our gear  into knapsacks with water bottles and our cameras; one for taking ordinary pictures, with a zoom lens, and one for taking slide pictures (both were equipped with automatic flash), and joined a camel caravan leaving for the caves.

We arrived at the caves at around mid-morning, and began to explore the area, taking photographs as we went from cave to cave and rock to rock. Soon, it began to get dark and we realised that we would have to make several more trips if we were to see enough of the paintings in the caves and on the rocks in the mountains.  We began the slow and perilous trip back to the oasis. We got back to Djanet just before sundown, and set up camp at the oasis.

We joined the natives who were having a feast around camp fires. It seemed they were celebrating a festival, although we never found out what festival it was. We could not communicate because of language difficulties – or the language barrier, so to speak. We could not speak their language, and they could not understand anything we said, and our guide’s  total English vocabulary consisted of only about ten words, including short phrases that were straight to the point: we go now; we stop now; yes; no; here good; here not good. And he always punctuated each word or phrase with YALLA! Which, by the way, means: COME ON! There were several other foreigners in the camp. They had come from all over the world to see the paintings. A few of them were students, like us; some were locals, and the rest were tourists. One of them, a local, said the natives were celebrating “The Festival of Fools.” They were celebrating the good business they were making, because each of us had to pay $20 in cash for every trip to the paintings. This made us all laugh even though, deep down, we all knew that it wasn’t funny. Another local said it was insurance for the camels, because, to the Bedouin, every camel is worth twenty tourists. And we all laughed again. We dined on the usual dish of meat; cooked with rice and nuts and peppers, but that time we were served a local wine in calabashes which was very sweet, but very powerful. We slept like logs every night.

In the end, it took us more than two weeks to complete the journey. We saw the paintings – well, most of them, we thought – and we filled several pages with notes and sketches and took several pictures for our theses, but we could not derive much knowledge or information on or about the life, history, social customs or ideas, of those ancient and primitive, but very brave, resourceful, and interesting people, who, despite their lack of basic tools and implements, were able to leave their mark, bearing a message for future generations and visitors like us, even though it is still hidden.

The rock-paintings show large human and animal figures with geometric and abstract symbols throughout the scenes; also, cattle running and herdsmen with bows and arrows, and a few stone-forms symbolizing the genitals. However, scholars and archaeologists have not been able to definitely date the rock-paintings. They have not been able to decipher the hieroglyphic language engraved on the rocks and in the caves, either, and because of this, the significance of the art forms, and the explanation for the prolific artistic works concentrated in this particular area, still remain a mystery.

The journey back to Algiers took less time, because we were dazed by the paintings, and each of us was very quiet, lost in his thoughts of the paintings, and of the long-dead people who, though primitive, and with only crude and backward tools, implements, and materials, were able to show that they had art and culture, and that they lived in a society, however ancient.

We checked our equipment and left Djanet at noon on the day of our departure, and reached Tamanrasset late in the evening. We rested for an hour and, at twilight, proceeded to Hassi Messaoud; arriving there at dawn the next day. We were forced, by the heat, to wait until the evening of that day. We then proceeded straight to Biskra, driving through Touggourt without stopping. We arrived in Biskra a few hours before dawn, and spent the day eating, drinking, resting, visiting the Roman Bath, and thinking, talking about, and discussing the paintings. In the meantime, we checked our equipment and prepared for the final trip back to Algiers.

We could not sleep because of the heat, and, also, because we had a lot to talk about and discuss, and there wasn’t much time. We had to catch the 6.00am flight from Algiers to Beirut, which was leaving the next day.

We left Biskra at sunset and arrived in Algiers at 5.00am the next day. We packed our cases, returned the Land Rover, paid our bills, paid our driver-cum-guide and gave him a hefty tip, for which he was truly grateful and kept saying: SHUKRAN! SALAM ALEKUM! ALLAH MAAKUM which means: THANK YOU! PEACE BE UPON YOU! GOD BE WITH YOU, and were driven to the airport in a taxi. We arrived at the airport just in time for our flight to Beirut. We paid the taxi driver after he had taken our bags and cases out of the boot, called a porter, who placed our luggage and equipment on his cart and went into the flight (departure) lounge. We tipped the porter, and checked in at the airline kiosk (desk), and were ushered to the gate, and on to the aircraft.

It was a hectic, tedious, tiresome, cumbersome, and troublesome, but very interesting, exciting, enlightening, and memorable journey. I, for one, shall not forget.

JORDAN: CHILDREN EXPOSED TO AGGRESSION, INSULTS, PHYSICAL & SEXUAL ABUSES & MOLESTATIONS – I added SEXUAL because I know it.

IRIN-News Monday 14^th July 2008

AMMAN: According to a recent study by UNICEF, over half of Jordanian children between the ages of 6 and 18 are physically abused, insulted, or exposed to some form of aggressive behaviour by their parents and brothers, or school teachers; whether at home or at school, beating, slapping and demeaning insults are commonplace. The study showed that 70% of children said they were insulted by their parents; 53% said they were beaten, and 34% said they were severely abused physically. Conditions in schools are no better: with 71% of children being humiliated by teachers in public. Physical abuses in schools are also prevalent, with 57% of children being subjected to severe physical abuses by teachers.

Mid-way comment:

Now, dear readers and fellow-Apes; don’t the above two paragraphs tell half the story and half the truth; I ask you? And doesn’t this ‘severe physical abuses’ leave you hanging half-way between the beginning and the end; and force you to use, or misuse, your imagination to guess the rest; I ask you again? HORSE-SHIT! And don’t let the horse know!

A government school teacher said parents often encouraged teachers to discipline their children to improve their educational achievements. Some parents actually come to the school and specifically ask us to beat their children – what is this; parental and sibling guilt complexes begging for support; needing to feel good because others are beating and severely abusing their children and brothers and mostly sisters, too?  – noting that at least 80% of teachers beat their students. The teachers, who routinely beat certain types of students, claim it is mainly because they are disobedient during classes or during breaks. If the teachers did not beat the students, the classes would become chaotic and good students would be deprived of the chance to learn. Average classes in government schools have 40 students while in schools run by the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees have 55. Kindly note my inserted comment in this paragraph.

Mid-way comment: HORSE-SHIT AGAIN! And don’t let the horse know!

40 and 55! JEEZ! With that many students in one class, not even God and His partner, Satan, could possibly handle, let alone control, them! BY GOD!

A teacher is currently facing disciplinary proceedings for bursting a child's ear-drum after slapping him for a misdemeanor. A Ministry of Education source said that the young teacher, who was appointed last summer, faces dismissal. Good riddance to the Ass-hole! One down and the rest to go! BY GOD AGAIN!

Low self-esteem

UNICEF experts say the problem is difficult to treat or handle because parents do not mind their children being beaten, and a Gender and Child Protection Officer said the problem was on the rise. Although abused children suffer from low self-esteem and are unhappy with such conditions, it doesn't bother their parents. The long-term curse is that, if these aggressions, insults, and ‘severe physical abuses’ are allowed to go on for long, they will become socially acceptable norms.

Another survey conducted by the government-run National Council for Family Affairs in 2005 showed that one in three people knew, or had seen or heard, about violence among relatives. A National Council for Family Affairs study showed that most abuses were by fathers, followed by brothers, and mothers.

My comments: MOTHERS, TOO! BY GOD, ONE MORE TIME! These mothers are either venting their spleen on their children – especially daughters – or re-living their childhoods and adolescences through them. In any case, it is the typical Arab Male Mentality: to the Arab males, children – especially girls – are personal properties, to do with what they will; and grand-mothers, mothers, aunts, wives, sisters, nieces, cousins, grand-daughters, or distant female relatives, are slaves or servants, and prisoners at worst; pieces of property and objects of pleasure and amusement at moderate; and retarded persons who need constant watching and supervision at best.

If women have no rights in Arab and Arab-speaking or Islamic countries: Iran, Syria, the KSA, Jordan, Egypt, Kuwait, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Sudan, Somalia – you name it – then at least half of the populations of all of these countries have no rights; and if at least half of the other half of the populations are being intimidated, threatened, and subdued by the first half – actually, all these countries do not need any reasons or excuses since they create and/or invent their own – then what have we here?

Take a day or two off to work it out.

Don’t look now, but here is the answer: Less than a quarter of the populations of all the Arab and Arab-speaking and Islamic countries live well in opulence and gluttony, while the rest (most of them) exist and/or subsist within, and on the fringes of, poverty and starvation. It also means that half the potentials of all these countries are being submerged and suppressed – suffocated; since, in my not-so-humble opinion, women are the other half – if not the much better half – of any and every societies or communities in any and every country on the planet.

Read my postings: 124 / 127 / 133 / 139 / 201 / 229 / 240 / 303/ 304

THE LITTLE BEGGARS OF JORDAN – For Many Children, Summer Holidays Mean Begging for a Living

IRIN-News Wednesday 2^nd July 2006 Adjusted to fit

AMMAN: as school summer holidays began, hundreds of students from impoverished families flocked to upper-class neighbourhoods of the capital, Amman, to eke out a living by begging near upscale coffee shops and busy traffic intersections. Despite scorching summer heat, with temperatures reaching as high as 40C, boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 14 roamed the streets looking for handouts from passers-by. Many had designated areas where others dare not trespass and some divided up the most lucrative areas – usually malls and coffee shops – among themselves.

Working the streets

A bright boy (with a promising future?) from the poor district of Ras al-Ein, located in the heart of Amman, sold chewing gum at a nearby bus station during the school year in order to help his widowed mother and three sisters get by. He made the equivalent of US $3 – on a good day – by selling fruit near a traffic light downtown. During summer holidays, however, he worked the up-market Abdoun district, where he begged for money at the windows of the many expensive cars that pass through the area. Those people had plenty of money to give away, and he needed it. He wasn’t ashamed, because he wasn’t stealing from anybody. He often earned the equivalent of US$20 a day – and sometimes twice that if he worked from 7am to midnight. He often took naps under a tree or in the shade of an abandoned building.

Cars bearing UAE, Saudi Arabian or Kuwaiti license plates were major targets for the persistent young beggars who knew their markets well. European tourists, diplomats and young couples were not overlooked. He’d been doing that for two years – since 2004 – and he knew those that gave generously and those that didn’t. Young couples – young men with their girl-friends or fiancées or lovers – always gave money to impress the girls they’re (sitting) with. However, boys did not have a monopoly on the trade. A sixth-grade young girl, from Wadi Abdoun, another of the capital’s low-income areas, was one of the street-urchins who begged to live. Her father had died five years before, and her elder brother is in prison, so the rest of her four young siblings joined her on her beat. Her over-riding concern was over boys who harassed her or her sisters and attempted to sexually molest them. And yet, despite her harsh circumstances, she expressed optimism for the future. She was not going to do that for the rest of her life. She was going to be a doctor. Poor girl; she hasn’t a snow-flake-in-hell’s chance! I, Daniel, wish her luck and wish her well. BY GOD!

Bruised economy

The explosion in begging came in the wake of bruising years for the national economy, officials say. While the kingdom desperately depended on tourism as a major source of revenue, ongoing instability in her two neighbours – Iraq and Palestine – have brought the sector down to its knees – I would like to know how King Abdullah and his families, relatives, and friends, and their entourages are making out. Another typical example of Arab double-standards: bloated opulence and shriveled poverty existing side by side – National trade had also suffered due to stiff competitions from China, Japan, and other Asian countries, while a surge in international fuel prices had led the government to partially lift fuel subsidies; causing marked increases in living costs. According to figures from the Ministry of Social Development, 15% of Jordanians lived below the poverty line – the actual figure could be twice or thrice that – which  meant that they subsisted on the equivalent of US$140 or less a month. Government officials, meanwhile, noted that the begging problem had increased by 20% and was expected to double in the coming months – and years.

Social Development Ministry Officials said they were looking into ways of tackling the problem but admitted that they faced an uphill battle. They took children off the streets, but as soon as they were released, they went back again. They needed to do something to raise the awareness of parents and families to the dangers of allowing children to beg in the streets.

Dear readers and fellow-Apes: MY COMMENTS: The article or report said it all. But! As always, highly typical of the Media – especially when it comes to Moslem-Arabs and Moslem-Arab-Speaking countries – to print only half the story, tell only half the truth, and leave the readers hanging half-way between the beginning and the end, and forcing them to use, or misuse, their imagination to guess the rest.

The bare facts and the stark naked truth are: if I know anything at all about Arab men and European and all foreign paedophiles especially, those children were too tempting to resist. They were sexually exploited, molested, and abused; and only God and Satan know what they would grow up to be, and what diseases they would have!

Furthermore, that was 2 years ago – 2006 – so only God and His partner, Satan, know how serious it has become today and how worse it’s going to be tomorrow. Also, I, Daniel in The Lion’s Den, do not believe for one moment that these conditions, and these heinous and hideous crimes, are restricted to Amman alone. These conditions, and these physical and child-sexual exploitations, abuses, and molestations exist in all the major cities and towns (and even in villages) in Jordan and all over the world......and in all Moslem-Arab and Moslem-Arab-speaking countries – especially.

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