I am glad that the Lebanese in Israeli prisons will be returned to Lebanon.
The soldiers captured in the 2006 war were pawns in Hezbollah's scheme, and it is good that they will return to their families. However, Samir Qantar is a different story.
It is true: many Lebanese who committed horrific crimes during the civil war should be imprisoned. The murderers of Sabra, Shatila, Bhamdoun, Souk al Garb, Damour, Tell al Zaater, the wars of the camps, and more go unpunished. However, few of those civil war crimes were specifically identified. Individual A was never accused of being guilty of killing Victim B.
Regarding Samir Qantar, the crime is evident. Qantar killed Israeli government personnel and civilians during a raid in the middle of a war. However, he also killed a four year old girl by smashing a rock into her head. There is no excuse on Earth to justify that action, and there is no way that I can ever say that this man is a hero. Any man willing to smash in the head of a 4 year old child with a rock should remain in prison for the rest of his life.
My disgust has no words... My tears...
War is horrible. Horrible things happen. Many of the most horrible events go undocumented. When horrendous events are documented, one has a moral duty to take those issues into account. If one does not, one is morally worse than his enemy and spiritually bereft. Any moral arguments for war and a righteous cause evaporate when one accepts disgusting, horrendous, reprehensible acts as normal, or even heroic.
Now, we hear in al-Akhbar newspaper that Hezbollah wants Qantar to run for parliament. Obviously, Druze leader and PSP chief Walid Jumblatt might oppose this. However, Qantar might run with Hezbollah's support.
Nothing would say more about Hezbollah's ethics than for them to nominate Qantar. The party claims moral legitimacy, but their actions defy their rhetorical claims.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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I for one humbly refuse the invitation of the government of fuad "slackjaw" siniora to attend the divine release parade for this animal. I find it sickening!
Who is Samir Kantar? A piece of shit criminal who should not be held up as anything remotely descriptive of the lebanese people or what we hold dear. Too bad our politicians only see through the singular eye of their assholes and the morbidity of the arab mentality to truly appreciate how morally and spiritually bankrupt they are making us look in the eyes of the WHOLE DAMN world.
By the way:-"Nothing would say more about Hezbollah's ethics than for them to nominate Qantar. The party claims moral legitimacy, but their actions defy their rhetorical claims." YES TRUE! But what would such an event say about US!?!?!?!?!
tfeh!
Apparently Siniora and Suleiman are going to receive Samir Qantar as a hero. Both Siniora and Suleiman lost my respect. They know what Qantar did and receiving them as heroes either gives support for Qantar's actions (bashing a 4-year old's head with a rock) or they are trying to kiss Nasrallah's dirty ass. Either way, they are a joke. The Sunni Lebanese deserve a better leader, while the Christians in Lebanon better get their act together and stop fighting each other.
Nice to see that at least one Lebanese has a conscience.
Thanks
why do u take the Israeli version of the story as gospel? why do you not cast doubt on it? for example, read al akhbar's report about what happened and read kuntar's confession in which he said that the girl and her father were killed in the fire exchange with the Israeli soldiers. yet u believe the israeli version and condemn him accordingly. the guy was hit five times in that operation and he and his group were involved in a close shoot out with the Israelis yet u believe that he had the time to stroll along the beach to smash the girl's head with a rock? please go get a reality check
I am an Israeli and I just want to say that your words have made this sad day a little brighter.
Charles, your words are a ray of light in an otherwise dark, dark world.
No matter what side one is one, certain moral truths should be self-evident. and certain things must be cast as black or white.
Our world is a better place knowing that there are still people who hnag on to their humanity.
I am happy to read that at least some Lebanese feel like you.
I hope we'll live in peace one day...
yes "ali bm" thats right we take the version of israel. Why?
1. because I do not beleive that a 4 year old girl and her father just happen to be on the same beach just standing around while your hero is fighting the bad jooos. By the way, it is odd that you get caught in the cross fire but you end up dead in the water and your head crushed in. Only in a an arab hizballah brainwashed conspiracy shit filled brain i suppose.
2. Samir Kantar is a criminal found guilty in a court of law of a law abiding country. Look around you do you see any law in lebanon?
3. we do not believe al-akhbar because it is the same rag that tries to tell the lebanese that today is a "good" day!
Well the truth is, today is a SHIT day for me aas a lebanese and for lebanon whether you can see it or not. I am NOT proud to be lebanese...and I am defintely NOT "arab".
again i repeat...tfeh!!!
well your comments are at best pathetic and reminiscent of a very common syndrome that the ever so topical franz fanon calls "white masks for black skin," only in your case it's white tail for a blank void of consciousness.
cheers mr. bourgeois
Skunkleash is correct. What does this say about you? About all of Lebanon? To accept this terrorist child killer as a national hero?
It says that Lebanon has succeeded in scamming the international community for the last 3 years. It says that Lebanon has made it's choice on the future. A choice that is men like Kuntar.
Congratulations
Sure, Ali bm. Kuntar woke up and the little girl's brains were somehow smeared on the butt of his rifle and he has no idea how it came to be that way.
Only someone of your ilk could believe that.
2 ali bm: Quntar was hit in a fight with police that arrived later to the scene. It happened after he killed the girl. He confessed this to israelis who interrogated him but changed his testimony later after he got smarter about it. However, there were visual witnesses that he did it, most importantly other members of the gand who stood watch while he was doing the killing. They testified against him.
BTW, Hezbollah never denied his guilt.
So the invitation to get a reality check flies straight back in your face.
PS: To blogger. Thanks for understanding.
If I were Lebanese, I'd be very sad for my country today.
I am from Brazil, descendent of Lebanese. I feel a big shame of being descendent of Lebanese today. I never though I would feel like that. My heart is with Israel. Deeply. Life is sacred in Israel and is shit in Lebanon. This country, that I used to love, does not deserve more respect. Shame, shame, shame Lebanese.
that is not what happened. This is only a story that was made up by Israel to hide its humiliation of how a group of heroic freedom fighters managed to get into Palestine (Israel) and target one of their nuclear scientists. You being lebanese out of all the people in the world should know what Israel does. for example what did they say when they committed the massacre of Qana in 2006? they said that Hizbullah fighters were firing rockets from inside that building. Since you provide in-depth analysis of what happens maybe you should study the Israeli propaganda strategy a bit more before making such a ridiculous claim.
Tfeh on all of the comments above...Samir Quntar did not kill that little girl ( read "Angry arab blog", the truth is in Yediot Aharonot newspaper today ). Some ignorant Lebanese people are so blinded by their racism, they don't even want to see the truth. Israeli governments tell lies and only stupid people believe in them.
Mr Charles, I find your blog very offensive...at least tell the truth.
A lot of criminals are in the Lebanese government.
There is hope for this world after all.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Lebanese Diaspora Ashamed and in Mourning
On a day when the Lebanese President and Prime Minister, as well as the entire new government, are celebrating the return of the criminal Samir Kuntar as a hero, the Lebanese Diaspora worldwide is in shock and in deep shame at the spectacle unfolding in Lebanon.
Here is a country where the government allows a foreign-paid (Iran) militia like Hezbollah to cause the death of thousands of innocent Lebanese in order to secure the release of one child killer like Samir Kuntar, instead of working to secure the release of thousands and repatriate the remains of thousands more from Syria.
How can the supporters and apologists of Hezbollah claim that it is a "national resistance" when Hezbollah captured hundreds of their own fellow Lebanese who were fighting the Syrian occupation between 1980 and 2005 and handed them over to the Syrian occupiers. Not only do these people remain unaccounted for in Syria's dungeons and prisons, but Hezbollah has never asked the Syrian regime - or negotiated with that regime like it did with the Israeli government - to secure the release of these Lebanese, Palestinians and other Arab nationals who remain under torture or who have been killed over 3 decades inside Syria.
We thought that President Sleiman was going to make a difference in the "Resistance" charade of Hezbollah. Instead he, like Siniora, is kowtowing to Hezbollah and playing the "resistance" game along. The Lebanese government should not be celebrating the release of criminals. Instead, it should be demanding the release of our Lebanese prisoners and the return of the remains of the thousands killed by Syria and its operatives back to Lebanon.
Shame on a country that allows this masquerade to unfold on television. The Lebanese all over the Diaspora today are mourning and are ashamed of calling Lebanon our country of origin, because a country that ignores tens of thousands of its own citizens killed or imprisoned by one country, while celebrating the return of one criminal from another country, is not worthy to be called a nation.
If ever in the history of Lebanon has there been a moment when the Lebanese all over the world do not feel proud of being called Lebanese, it is today. The Diaspora should use its economic muscle to let the Lebanese government know the extent of its disgust at the spectacle today in Beirut. This is not the Lebanon that the Diaspora will work to help in the future. This is not the Lebanon of my ancestors. This is not the Lebanon that claims to be a crucible of cultures.
The Lebanon on spectacle today has become the cesspool where scum and filth like Hezbollah is taking with it President Sleiman, Speaker Berri, Prime Minister Siniora, and all the institutions of this country much beneath any level of human decency that Lebanon ever harbored in the past.
Shame, shame, shame.
Hanibaal
if i were olmeert i would never in hell give back a live prisioner for a coffin. i'm sick that terror organizations take advantage of jewish tradition about human life and body burial. it should have been bodies for bodies period. we should become less emotional when it comes to those exchanges.
my hope is that Qantar is so old and fucked up from jail already that he will barely be able to run for the toilet, much less the parliment. oh, i forgot, we don't torture prisioners. what a pity in this case.
What is as important here as the question of whether or not Kantar murdered that 4 year old is the question of whether those dancing in the streets and waving yellow flags genuinely believed his protestations of innocence--or believed his actions were justified.
Given the official motto of the day "Israel cries tears of pain, Lebanon cries tears of joy", the allusion is clearly to the latter.
I appreciate your bravery in publishing your comments.
Thank you, Malik and Shunkleash. It's good to know that there at at least two human beings in Lebanon... the two righteous men in Sodom and Gomorrah.
And as for the rest... Lebanon proved itself to be a nation of barbarians with its reaction to the release of Kuntar. Open support for an unrepentant child murderer. Knowing the truth, being proud of the truth and making up excuses for pretending to believe a lie, like the child murderer-loving scum that commented above.
But then again this puts the Lebanese civil war into perspective. I always wondered how a country of civilized people could destroy itself with such abandon, for nothing. Now I know.
I am happy to see that humanitarians exist on both sides. its so hard to hear the less extreme voice on both sides. we are all trapped in the hands of extremists who are blinded with idealism and hatered.
I hope that one day there will be peace between you and us, and I hope that the sane public voice will rise above the shouts of the extreemists.
Its hard for me to see Hezbulla as anything but a terror organization, so I am not surprized that a cold blood murderer is being so well respected there, but I take your word for it, that there might be another side to that. for me its just blood thirsty people but its the way we see it from our side.
Inshalla that we will all see things the same one day.
an Israeli
It's funny,
You really believe the Isreali Media,, you believe that in 1948 was somehow not their in history, and it's really their land,,
good for you,, and they are supporting you, of course they are!!
No one knows the truth, it should only be documented by a video to know that,, I'm 99% sure he didn't kill a small girl the way it's mentioned,
and guess what? this is a victory to receive these people, to make all the blind people like you know the following fact, which you don't want to believe " What is taken by force, can't be returned only by force " and you see war prisonars are coming back.. you just envy that,, admit it,,
No one is with killing a small girl,, and it's not an excuse if isreals are killing our small daughters,, but at least if this girl was in a middle of gun fire, and was killed, take the excuse they always take,, she was in a place where gun exchange happned,, when isreal helicoptors destroys complete homes, with complete families are brutally killed !!
For god's seek open your eyes,,
Fine commentary. Thank you.
Celebration of Savagery
Today in Lebanon, Hezbollah is celebrating the return of terrorists held in Israeli jails for committing despicable crimes against humanity. Among them is Samir Kuntar, a terrorist-serial killer responsible for killing an innocent unarmed Israeli civilian and his daughter. Mr. Kuntar took 31 year-old Danny Haran hostage along with his four year-old daughter, Einat. Kuntar shot Danny at close range in the back, in front of his daughter, and drowned him in the sea to ensure he was dead. Next, he smashed the head of 4 year-old Einat on beach rocks and crushed her skull with the butt of his rifle.
Such savagery is being branded as heroism by Hezbollah and we are not surprised. But it is a shame for the Lebanese government officials to greet these killers as heroes and sanction their actions as legitimate resistance. The action of the Lebanese officials is an insult to all Lebanese and especially the ones who died at the hand of Hezbollah when it sacked Beirut in May 2008. In this dark day, the Lebanese president Michel Sleiman, and Prime Minister Saniora, have lost all credibility and wiped out all goodwill they had gained from the world. I, as a Lebanese citizen am ashamed by these so-called leaders of my country.
And to top the barbarism off, the two Israeli soldiers were returned back to Israel as corpses. For two years, Hezbollah kept their death a secret, and their families were anxious until the last minute not knowing whether to celebrate or mourn, until they saw their coffins. Once more, Iran’s Hezbollah is showing the world its ugly, inhumane, and trashy sadism.
Our sincere condolences to Israel, to its brave and decent people, and to the families of all Israeli victims of terror. Please be assured, that there are decent Lebanese out here, and we are the majority. We feel with you. We pray for the day we can establish peace and friendly relations between our countries. It will be the day when we defeat our common enemy; Hezbollah!
July 16, is a day of shame for Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran. As to those who are celebrating in Lebanon today, they all belong to the trash bin of history.
Charles
March 14 Falls and Lebanon is again under Occupation
Incompetence meets Evil
Yesterday July 16, 2008, was a very shameful day for Lebanon’s March 14 political alliance. Making a heroe out of a child killer goes against all human values and decency. We expected better from the Pro-independence forces and we are greatly disappointed with their joining Hezbollah in celebrating the return of Samir Kuntar, the killer of a 31 years old Israeli civilian and his 4 years old daughter.
The reception of Samir Kuntar is a great loss to March 14 and Lebanon, at home in moral values, and abroad in reputation. The idiots running March 14 since 2005 have managed to commit one blunder after another and finally surrender completely to the Syria-Iran-Hezbollah axis of evil. We are fed up with PM Saniora’s rejection of Peace with Israel and his insistence that Lebanon be the last Arab nation to sign a peace treaty with our democratic southern neighbor. What Lebanese national interest is he defending and why is he jeoperdizing the security of the Lebanese people by delaying peace?
Wide ranging dissent in March 14 ranks and file is abundant. Just last weeks, the grouping lost two of its most respected members; Carlos Edde and Musbah Ahdab. A massive shift is also occuring in the Lebanese Diaspora who is greatly disappointed now with the March 14 leadership. This is not to say that we are abandonning our support for the Cedars Revolution, but the March 14 crowd in Lebanon has lost our trust and support. We have a worthless army that refuses to defend us, a government under the control of Hezbollah, and a destroyed international reputation. In short, it seems Lebanon has again fallen under the combined Iranian-Syrian occupation through their proxy Hezbolah.
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This whole thing makes me sick. To start, the whole deal is not fair "for Israel". And just the idea of Lebanon celebrating the return of a child murderer to their land, no common sense and no morality at all!
Ok, say that Israel killed thousands of Lebanese militants, sending the Hamas to do the same thing in Israel doesnt make you a better person at all. when i wach this video, it gets me confused and it makes me think, don't they know the family of the child killed by that Lebanese soldier suffer as much as the Lebanese families who lost their children the same way, and with whom they share the sadness!
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Take care darlings.
Se agradece este post. Yo también estoy conmocionado (para mal) por la amnistía y posterior misse en scene que montó Hezbollah con un extraviado Kuntar.
Tu blog es siempre pertinente, claro y con observaciones agudas.
Saludos desde Chile, Jorge
I cant believe that some Lebanese people are saying this. First of all i have nothing against Jewish people themselves. After all we are all humans, what i am against is the israeli government, Israel is known for propaganda. I believe Samir Kuntar did not kill that girl, first of all he was 16imagine your self at 16 doing that shooting someone at that age i understand but bashing a 4 year old head at 16 years old i don't think you can bring your self to do that. He was trialed in a Israeli court of course its not going to be a fair trial. Now lets say he did do it, its not like israel hasn't killed innocent children in Lebanon and Palestine. What about the massacre in Qana two massacres that killed hundreds of innocent people. What about that attack on a family in Palestine that was picnicking on a beach and a military shipped fired at them What about the cluster bombs and phosphorus bombs that are being used that have killed children even after the war. Phosphorus bombs doesn't just kill a person it burns them and torture them. Israel uses these bombs which are illegal but no one says anything because tehy are backed by the US.
People are being brainwashed by media they don't see images of palestinian and Lebanese children with holes in their stomachs or Jewish children signing the bombs that are killing innocent people.
People criticize Hezbollah for iranian support what about the 4 billion dollars worth of weapons that the US ships every year to israel.
The Lebanese people here probably forgot what Israel has done to palestinians and Lebanese people over the 60 years. And its still going on.
To the Israeli people your government is not perfect it illegally occupies palestine and the destroys villages and houses. What about the American and british reports that israel has killed. What about the reporter that was driven over by an israeli bulldozer you don't see that on CNN.
Both sides are to blame but what Hezbollah has done is nothing compared to what Israel has done.
just watch these videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1-_JmXQt0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynWjYHP91gA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzZj889BA4A&feature=related
I absolutely agree with you that Samir Qantar is a criminal and that there are evidents that prove it. I can't understand those who consider him a hero.
I recommend you watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NbDKluyG68
Aibrahim soltani
aibrahim1soltani@gmail.com
It has been said by many people in Lebanon including a Hezbollah friend of mine in the milita,that the man released in July last year 2008 may not be the REAL Samir Kunta or Quantar.And that the real Samir died in custody in Israel and that the Israelis released another man that they have tried/or passed off as the real Samir Kunta to cover up the fact that the conditions in Israeli prison killed him.So the man released may Not be Samir Kunta.Hanan, Miss, Beirut,Lebanon.
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