Descent From Entebbe

The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 15, 2008 | BRET STEPHENS

[bluejay]

Liberated after six years of jungle captivity, Franco-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt exclaimed: "I think only the Israelis can possibly pull off something like this." If only.

[bluejay]

I find these developments, like the Supreme Court decision on torture and various other self-inflicted politically-correct wounds, terrifying.

[rmlew]

No political will.

[mojito]

"...Kuntar, 45, is about to be freed. In 1979, he took an Israeli family hostage in the northern coastal town of Nahariya, shot and killed father Danny Haran and dashed the skull of his 4-year-old daughter Einat against a rock with his rifle butt. Danny's wife, Smadar, managed to hide from Kuntar in a crawl space of their apartment with two-year-old daughter Yael, whom she accidentally suffocated while trying to keep the toddler quiet. A policeman was also killed in the attack.

“Kuntar was sentenced to 548 years in prison. In 1985, Palestinian terrorists seized the Achille Lauro cruise ship to win Kuntar’s release. Wheelchair-bound U.S. passenger Leon Klinghoffer was murdered along the way. Kuntar has never repented and recently vowed to continue fighting once released.

“My oath and pledge,” he wrote Sheik Nasrallah in a letter reprinted in a Palestinian newspaper, “is that my place will be at the battlefront, which is soaked in the sweat of your giving, and the blood of the most beloved among men, and that I shall continue down the path, until complete victory.” Tomorrow's plans call for Kuntar to be flown to Beirut in a Lebanese Army helicopter, to be festively received by the heads of the Lebanese government. Such are their heroes.”

Utterly despicable. This is a fine and sobering article. Thanks for posting it.

[SJackson]

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[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

hopefully, the Israelis put poison in his food, a poison that will kill him 5 days after release...

But that is in the movies, and Israel is no James bond...they are what they used to be, Olmert needs to be eliminated

[xJones]

Olmert didn’t vote himself into office.