Free Republic

Reputedly moderate Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas is reported to have sent greetings to Samir Kuntar, the Lebanese terrorist freed in last week’s Israel-Hizbullah exchange who in a 1979 attack killed a 28-year-old Israeli man in front of his 4-year-old daughter and then killed the girl by smashing her head. Abbas was on a visit to Malta at the time and was under no known pressure to issue his tidings. Even if he was – Samir Kuntar being popular among Abbas’s Fatah Party, which held a rally in Ramallah to laud his release and that of the remains of Palestinian...

Palestinian TV: Baby-Killer "A Lesson for Us"   By Itamar Marcus and Barbara CrookPalestinian Media Watch | Monday, June 30, 2008 According to the Palestinian Authority leadership, Samir Quntar epitomizes the ideal Palestinian prisoner. Quntar, who crushed the head of four-year-old Eynat Haran with his rifle, is serving four life sentences for murder in an Israeli prison, but is almost certain to be freed in a prisoner swap with Hizbullah this week. On one hand, Quntar embodies what the PA considers the "heroism" of terrorists fighting Israel. On the other hand, he's the ultimate symbol of all terrorist prisoners...

PA Daily: Murderer of Father and 2 Daughters, Samir Quntar: “A beacon of light for the generations to come!” Introduction A week after the horrific murder of an Israeli mother and her four daughters the Palestinian official daily has glorified murderer who was responsible for similar murder of a father and his 2 daughters, labeling him “a beacon of light for generations to come.” According to the daily “Al-Hayat Al-Jadida” Samir Quntar, murderer of Dani Haran and his two daughters in Nahariya in 1979, is a Palestinian hero and “authentic role model”. The following appeared in the PA daily on...