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In a gesture of good will, Israel last week released five imprisoned terrorists, plus the remains of two hundred others, in exchange for the remains of two Israeli soldiers. How was this received by the Arabs? If the Lebanon government were not in thrall to the Iranian-Syrian terrorists of Hizballah, if there were a pretense of action against terrorism, these men would have gone from one prison to another. But Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and other dignitaries greeted the freed jihadists at the Beirut airport as heroes. Among the terrorists was Samir Kantar of the Palestinian Liberation Front, who bludgeoned...

"SAMIR KUNTAR - THE REAL REASON FOR THE 2006 SUMMER WAR BETWEEN HEZBOLLAH AND ISRAEL." On July 12, 2006 Lebanese Hezbollah terrorists crossed the border with Israel in an operation dubbed "Operation Truthful Promise," which was aimed at nabbing Israeli soldiers in exchange for Lebanese prisoners. Hezbollah succeeded in the operation and successfully took hostage two Israeli soldiers, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser. During the operation, eight Israeli soldiers were killed. This ignited the sequence of events which led to the Israel/Lebanon summer war. The story goes further back than July of 2006. It really began in April 1979! On...