Posted on 08/04/2006 11:36:12 AM PDT by Sabramerican
When Hezbollah guerrillas sneaked into Israel last month, killing and capturing Israeli soldiers and setting off the current crisis, their goal was to trade them for a Lebanese man held by Israel.
The prisoner, Samir Kuntar, was part of a cell that in 1979 raided an apartment building in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya, terrorizing the Haran family. Mr. Kuntar shot Danny Haran in the head, killing him, while his daughter, Einat, 4, watched, then smashed the girl’s head in with his rifle butt, killing her as well. Mr. Haran’s wife, Smadar, hid in the attic with their 2-year-old daughter, so afraid that the girl would cry out that she accidentally suffocated the girl to death.
After Hezbollah made off with two Israeli soldiers in the raid last month, Israel vowed that it would not negotiate for their release. But the question of prisoners held by Israel — nearly all of them Palestinians — is the subtext of this crisis and is likely to figure in its resolution. It is an issue that animates Hezbollah and the Palestinians as much as anything...
Political discourse, billboards, street graffiti and militant songs and manifestos are all laced with references, sometimes nearly rote, to winning freedom for the prisoners.
The prisoners now number about 9,700, about 100 of them women, according to a spokeswoman for the Israeli Prison Authority. About 300 are younger than 18, including two girls and a boy of 14, being held in juvenile detention facilities for acts against Israel. The Israelis say many of them are terrorists — if not quite on the scale of Mr. Kuntar, not far from it — and some clearly are. But the Palestinians say that others are wrongfully accused and that many have never committed a violent act.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The numbers game. No one should believe anything printed by the NY Slime especially when they quote numbers in support of terrorists.
I didn't read the whole article, but I see nothing in the posted portion that in any way justifies Hezbollah or the Palistinian cause...
Description by the Times: Lebanese man, The prisoner.
What he did: Raided an apartment building in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya, terrorizing the Haran family. Mr. Kuntar shot Danny Haran in the head, killing him, while his daughter, Einat, 4, watched, then smashed the girl’s head in with his rifle butt, killing her as well.
He terrorized and murdered, but nowhere does the Times call him a terrorist. He is a Labanese man and the Prisoner.
I wish I were surprised at how readily our MSM would publish terrorist agitprop.
Yeah...the NYT doesnt seem to want to understand that the Hezzie Prisoners are very bad guys...
but what else would you expect from the bird cage liner that is the NYT, and the evil apologists that are the NYT's editors...
This is beyond nonsense.... it is unconscionable. I shall refer to the NYT as al-NYT.
Then maybe read the article which in tone is sympathetic to all those "prisoners" held by Israel.
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Israel held two Lebanese prisoners a month ago, who should never be released. It's fair to speculate they hold more today.
Israel should just execute the prisoners. Problem solved.
In the future, the key to this ongoing dilemma is to take as few prisoners as possible. No more Abu Grab, Gitmo, Pali prisoner problems.
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"He is a Labanese man and the Prisoner."
He is a lebanese murdering scum bucket. Don't they have the death penalty in Israel?
This is the same dilema the US faces with the Gitmo lesser prisoners. All are sworn to kill US and/or Israeli's so let them go to kill again?
If Israel would just get a wee bit smart and start EXECUTING these slime they wouldn't be available as "hostages". It really annoys me that Israel has no DP.
This is why you EXECUTE these sort of people.
The NYSlimes' standard operating procedure. Thoughout the past century, the NYSlimes never met a communist, lefty, totalitarian dictator, or muzzie terrorist they didn't like.
Sad but true.
The MSM never misses an opportunity to fervently and reverently suck terrorist c##k.
Ain't that the truth!
> But the question of prisoners held by Israel — nearly all of them Palestinians — is the subtext of this crisis and is likely to figure in its resolution.
Let's hope not! The fewer of these psycho killers on the streets, the better.
I now see this conflict in a new light: there is nothing to be neutral about. The Hezbolla aren't garden-variety "prisoners" of a military conflict: these are hardened thugs and criminals who must be stopped.
Israel must not be bullied by the International Community into a position of having to release "prisoners" arising from this police action. One solution might be for the IDF to take fewer "prisoners"...
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