A child killer's homecoming

Jewish World Review ^ | July 18, 2008 | Mona Charen

[rhema]

What can you say about a people who welcome a child murderer as a hero?

Most Americans are familiar with the brutal murder of wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer on the cruise ship Achille Laura in 1985. Terrorists led by Abu Abbas (who was later given safe haven in Baghdad by Saddam Hussein) took the ship captive and threw Klinghoffer overboard. But few recall that the ship was seized to bargain for the release of, among others, Samir Kuntar from an Israeli prison.

Kuntar had taken part in an earlier terror attack. In 1979, as a 16-year-old, he and four others had traveled to northern Israel by boat from Lebanon and come ashore in the seaside town of Nahariya. At midnight, Smadar Haran recalled, they burst into her apartment building. Peering out to see what the noise was, Smadar, mother of two, slammed shut her apartment door when she saw the terrorists — but too late. Kuntar had glimpsed her. Her husband, Danny, helped Smadar and their younger daughter, 2-year-old Yael, to squeeze into a crawl space above the bedroom.

Smadar wrote later, "I will never forget the joy and the hatred in their voices as they swaggered about hunting for us, firing their guns and throwing grenades." As police began to arrive, Kuntar and the others dragged Danny and 4-year-old Einat down to the beach. With Einat watching, Kuntar shot Danny in the head and then threw his body into the surf. Kuntar then repeatedly smashed Einat's head against a rock with his rifle butt, killing her, too. Yael did not survive the attack either. In an effort to keep the baby from crying and betraying their hiding place, Smadar had accidentally suffocated her.

This week, Kuntar, dressed in fatigues and sporting a Hitlerian mustache and haircut, walked down

[WayneS]

So “disappear” him.

You can’t tell me Israel doesn’t know how to take care of this sort of thing.

[Vigilanteman]

If Kuntar had been given the Adolph Eichmann treatment, as he richly deserved, the Israeli soldiers may never have been kidnapped in the first place.

The civilized world needs to get over their squeamishness if we are ever going to discourage Islamofacism.

[Westbrook]

As a Christian, I am commanded to love my enemies, bless them that curse me, etc.

That is a command for me, as an individual.

However, the Bible, in Romans 13, clearly states that the government is given the “power of the sword” to “punish the evildoers”.

Why the government of Israel allowed this twisted baby killer to survive even one sunrise beyond his conviction for the brutal and senseless murders leaves me utterly speechless.

[End Times Sentinel]

Kuntar then repeatedly smashed Einat's head against a rock with his rifle butt, killing her, too.

and Ehud Olmert released him (with a hundred or so compatriots) for the desecrated corpse of an Israeli soldier.

There is no word for the shame he should feel.

[Lurker]

As a Christian, I am commanded to love my enemies, bless them that curse me, etc.

So love 'em while you blow their brains out.

L

[Westbrook]

> So love ‘em while you blow their brains out.

Unless it’s in self defense, then that’s the job of the civil authorities.

[Gilbo_3]

As a Christian, I am commanded to love my enemies, bless them that curse me, etc.

So love 'em while you blow their brains out.

I like the way you think as well...

The command was to love em and pray for em...allowing them the freedom to murder and pillage is the same as submitting to their idol worship, which is what they really want...

[Gilbo_3]

'self defense' can and should be proactive, their ideology is convert or die...therefore, Islaminaziism is a direct threat to your life on its face...

my .02...

[Lurker]

"He who would come to kill you, arise and kill him first." Leviticus.

L

[PsyOp]

Unless it’s in self defense, then that’s the job of the civil authorities.

And if the civil authorities give that task to you? Say, as a member of the military, what then? Your statement suggests that Christians cannot be soldiers if you extend that logic out.

[Westbrook]

> And if the civil authorities give that task to you? Say,
> as a member of the military, what then?

Then you are acting as an agent of the State and are authorized to punish and kill in the name of the State, and I do not believe that this is a sin in God's eyes, unless you abuse your authority.

Here is a little exchange between Jesus and some soldiers in Luke 3:14

And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, "And what shall we do?"

And he said unto them, "Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages."

If Jesus told them to be content with their wages, then He obviously did not intend for them to leave the military. So how does this reckon with His saying, "Do violence to no man."

By my reckoning, the word "violence" in the above verse indicates to "terrify" or "intimidate". Note also that Jesus bade them not to falsely accuse anyone. I think that is in the same spirit as the use of the word "violence" in the verse.

Certainly as soldiers, they had to kill in the heat of battle, but they were not to abuse their power or authority.

[netmilsmom]

>>Yael did not survive the attack either. In an effort to keep the baby from crying and betraying their hiding place, Smadar had accidentally suffocated her. <<

I feel sick....