Annan Calls For Cease-Fire: Israel Murders Over 100 Children
Zionism, Irrelevant Within A Generation | 20.07.2006 19:00 | Repression | World
LEBANON-ISRAEL FACTS THE MEDIA ISN'T TELLING YOU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKq38COoTG8
if the reporting on this situation does not improve, it's time to blockade the media at their offices. The same goes for this pathetic excuse for a "Government". Why is Bliar the War Criminal still in power?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKq38COoTG8
if the reporting on this situation does not improve, it's time to blockade the media at their offices. The same goes for this pathetic excuse for a "Government". Why is Bliar the War Criminal still in power?
Annan Calls For Cease-Fire
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060720/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel
Third of Lebanon casualties are children, says UN
Nearly one third of all casualties in the Lebanon-Israel conflict have been children, according to the United Nations’ emergency relief co-ordinator, Jan Egeland.
He said it appeared neither Hezbollah nor the Israelis seemed to care about civilian suffering.
Nearly a third of the dead or wounded were children and the wounded could not be helped because roads and bridges had been cut by Israeli air strikes.
“It is nearly impossible in southern Lebanon to move anything anywhere because it is too dangerous. It is too dangerous for our people to move things,” Egeland said.
Without a truce allowing aid agencies to begin the relief effort there would be a “catastrophe“.
www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=189629482&p=189630188&n=18963
UN warns of war crimes in Lebanon
Killing of civilians in Lebanon is likely to subject Israeli soldiers to war crime trials in international courts, UN human rights high commissioner says
Ronen Bodoni
The continuation of Israel's operation in Lebanon and the rising civilian death toll is likely "could engage the personal criminal responsibility of those involved, particularly those in a position of command and control," Louise Arbour, the high commissioner for human rights, told the New York Times.
“International humanitarian law is clear on the supreme obligations to protect civilians during hostilities,’’ she said.
Head to Head
US to France: Too early for ceasefire / Yitzhak Benhorin
Washington, which declared its support of Israel's right to defend itself, provides 'diplomatic umbrella' for strikes in Lebanon, convincing France not to promote ceasefire at this stage. Ambassador Ayalon: We have time
Full story
“Indiscriminate shelling of cities constitutes a foreseeable and unacceptable targeting of civilians,” she said in a statement released by her office in Geneva. “Similarly, the bombardment of sites with alleged innocent civilians is unjustifiable.”
“Hizbullah fighters too are bound by the rules of international humanitarian law, and they must not target civilian areas,” it said, referring to the indiscriminate shelling of Israeli cities.
The statement was issued following calls for a cease-fire by Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora who warned of a humanitarian crisis in his country.
Siniora said over 300 civilians have been killed by Israeli air strikes on his country.
Europe fearing response by Islamists
If the death toll in Lebanon continues to rise, pressure on Israel to stop its operation will increase and so will pressure on Washington to press its ally to stop the offensive.
According to a Washington Post report, European officials are concerned that the Bush administration's siding with Israel will fuel tension between the west and Arab nations, encourage Islamists to carry out terror attacks against western targets, strengthen support for Osama Bin Laden, and escalate the fighting between coalition forces and insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"The one thing that is guaranteed to send the Arab world and the Persian world over the edge is for the US to be seen ultimately to be doing what they always believed - to be fully in cahoots with Israel," a European official told the Washington Post on the condition of anonymity. "The danger of allowing it to continue is that the United States is more and more despised. It's not like the US had a good reputation within the region to start with."
The White House denied it is coordinating with Israel or "sitting around at the war table saying 'Do this, this and this,'" press secretary Tony Snow said.
"We're not colluding, we're not cooperating, we're not conspiring, we're not doing any of that," he told reporters. "The Israelis are doing what they think is necessary to protect their borders."
The State Department also denied that the Bush administration is backing Israel's military operation in Lebanon.
"I don't think anybody disagrees on the desire to end the violence in the region, but let's remember what the root causes of the violence are," spokesman Sean McCormack said.
A senior administration official told the Post that it is too early to speak of a diplomatic solution. "The conditions that the G-8 (Group of Eight industrialized nations) talked about are not in place to get a real and permanent cease-fire that addresses the fundamental problems of the region," he told the newspaper.
He said Israel faces "a terrible problem" because Hizbullah is operating from within civilian areas. "They make mistakes, and there are accidents," he said. "It is impossible for them to avoid all the collateral damage."
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3278907,00.html
Israel may launch large-scale ground offensive in Lebanon - Peretz
www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2006/07/20/afx2892447.html
This is what the Olmert Government had planned from the start. Are you willing to sacrifice your children, brothers and sisters, for the Madness of the Extremists in control of Israel?
Kidnapped by Israel
The British Media and The Invasion Of Gaza
by Jonathan Cook
July 20, 2006
Media Lens
Few readers of a British newspaper would have noticed the story. In the Observer of 25 June, it merited a mere paragraph hidden in the “World in brief” section, revealing that the previous day a team of Israeli commandos had entered the Gaza Strip to “detain” two Palestinians Israel claims are members of Hamas.
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=COO20060720&art
Americans Reject Involvement in Middle East War
www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/12604
Too bad they don't get to choose. When the planned False Flag is carried out, against foreigners on slow-moving ships, or Marines brought in to ferry them to safety, the war planned by the Bush/PNAC Regime, and its partners in Israel, will be on.
Marines in Beirut to help with evacuation
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060720/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast_fighting_evacuation
No, We're Not 'All Israelis Now'
www.antiwar.com/orig/lynch.php?articleid=9353
WHY IT'S TAKING SO LONG.
www.prospect.org/weblog/2006/07/post_880.html#003571
Foreign Governments are allowing their citizens to languish, so that Israel won't look as bad in the eyes of their respective publics.
Israeli Censor Wielding Great Power
www.startribune.com/722/story/562903.html
IDF: Mossad “has significantly infiltrated Hizbullah”
wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2006/07/idf-mossad-has-significantly_
Was the capture of Israeli soldiers a False Flag?
'Nobody cares about Arab lives'
www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__interna
President Bush Uncut: Why Israel Gets Away with Murder
By Joshua Frank
It was a candid moment. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair were chatting over lunch at the Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg on Monday when a Russian microphone sitting in front of Bush was unknowingly live. After almost three minutes of Bush/Blair uncut (we saw Bush eating with his mouth open and found out he prefers Diet Coke), the focal point of their conversation took a turn toward the Israel/Lebanon conflict.
Bush confided in Blair that getting Syria to intervene would end the conflict immediately. "See, the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hizbullah to stop doing this shit and it's over." And how’s he going to do that? By threatening Syria I’m sure.
Hearing Bush tell it, one would think that the latest bloodshed in the Middle East is the result of Hizbullah’s barbaric habits, not Israel’s. But the entire reason Hizbullah even exists is because of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982. As Lebanon based writer Bilal El-Amine writes in the forthcoming print edition of Left Turn:
“An amalgam of political party, armed resistance and social movement, Hizbullah (“Party of God”) was born of a perfect storm that saw the convergence of several factors in the early 1980s: 1) the long-term changes inside the Shia community, described at length above, 2) the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, and 3) the 1982 Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. Although Iranian support was certainly critical to the emergence of the party, the Israeli invasion appears to have been the decisive factor.”
Hizbullah has remained a popular organization throughout Lebanon and much of the Middle East. Putting resistance before radical Islamic beliefs, Hizbullah has garnered great support from diverse sects in the region, which is quite rare among radical Islamic movements. After fending off Israel’s invasion of Southern Lebanon in the early 1980s, Hizbullah again grew in popularity when Israel’s military aggression in April of 1996 resulted in the massacre in the village of Qana where 108 innocent civilians were mutilated.
Bush's off-the-cuff remark to Tony Blair in St. Petersburg deliberately ignored the deep history of Hizbullah, which is deemed a terrorist organization by the state of Israel and the US State Department. And lest you forgot, it was Israel who first marched forces into Lebanon in the 1990s, not the other way around. Hizbullah came about as a result of Israeli's invasion. Since then, Hizbullah has tightened their relationship with Palestine, which likely has struck fear in the Israeli government. The latest chapter of this saga came about when two Israeli soldiers were captured by Hizbullah inside Israel last week. But of course only Israel has the right to defend themselves. Israel has imprisoned thousands of Hamas and Hizbullah members.
Unfortunately, there aren’t any leading Democrats standing up to Bush’s unapprised diplomacy. Senator Hillary Clinton says she’ll support “whatever steps are necessary” for Israel to prevail. I wonder if she’ll support another slaughter like that in Qana?
Rep. Nancy Pelosi took Clinton’s remarks a bit further, clarifying the Democrats’ position, “The House Democratic leadership strongly condemns the seizure of Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah terrorists operating from Lebanon ... Israel has an inherent right to defend itself, and the United States supports our ally." Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid also chimed in, “Hezbollah must be dismantled, and all nations have an obligation to cease any and all assistance to this terrorist organization. Israel has a right to live in peace and security, and the United States will stand by our ally in this difficult time."
One would expect such perverse language from the neocons, but sadly the Democrats are just as heinous when it comes to supporting Israel aggression. How are these clowns going to end the war in Iraq if they continue to support hostility that is only escalating the tension between the West and Arab countries?
If the Bush administration and their Democratic enablers were truly serious about ending the violence in the Middle East, the first honest step would be for the US to cut off all funding to Israel. But I think we are more likely to see Syria step in than for that to happen.
www.whatreallyhappened.com/bushuncut.php
FURY AT PM
TONY Blair was blasted yesterday after he refused to urge the Israelis to call a ceasefire.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17415819&method=full&siteid=94762&head
It seems as if compromised world Governments are having a contest to see who can prove they are the most loyal to Israeli Extremists. Perhaps they're being threatened in some way?
LEBANON-ISRAEL FACTS THE MEDIA ISN'T TELLING YOU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKq38COoTG8
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060720/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel
Third of Lebanon casualties are children, says UN
Nearly one third of all casualties in the Lebanon-Israel conflict have been children, according to the United Nations’ emergency relief co-ordinator, Jan Egeland.
He said it appeared neither Hezbollah nor the Israelis seemed to care about civilian suffering.
Nearly a third of the dead or wounded were children and the wounded could not be helped because roads and bridges had been cut by Israeli air strikes.
“It is nearly impossible in southern Lebanon to move anything anywhere because it is too dangerous. It is too dangerous for our people to move things,” Egeland said.
Without a truce allowing aid agencies to begin the relief effort there would be a “catastrophe“.
www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=189629482&p=189630188&n=18963
UN warns of war crimes in Lebanon
Killing of civilians in Lebanon is likely to subject Israeli soldiers to war crime trials in international courts, UN human rights high commissioner says
Ronen Bodoni
The continuation of Israel's operation in Lebanon and the rising civilian death toll is likely "could engage the personal criminal responsibility of those involved, particularly those in a position of command and control," Louise Arbour, the high commissioner for human rights, told the New York Times.
“International humanitarian law is clear on the supreme obligations to protect civilians during hostilities,’’ she said.
Head to Head
US to France: Too early for ceasefire / Yitzhak Benhorin
Washington, which declared its support of Israel's right to defend itself, provides 'diplomatic umbrella' for strikes in Lebanon, convincing France not to promote ceasefire at this stage. Ambassador Ayalon: We have time
Full story
“Indiscriminate shelling of cities constitutes a foreseeable and unacceptable targeting of civilians,” she said in a statement released by her office in Geneva. “Similarly, the bombardment of sites with alleged innocent civilians is unjustifiable.”
“Hizbullah fighters too are bound by the rules of international humanitarian law, and they must not target civilian areas,” it said, referring to the indiscriminate shelling of Israeli cities.
The statement was issued following calls for a cease-fire by Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora who warned of a humanitarian crisis in his country.
Siniora said over 300 civilians have been killed by Israeli air strikes on his country.
Europe fearing response by Islamists
If the death toll in Lebanon continues to rise, pressure on Israel to stop its operation will increase and so will pressure on Washington to press its ally to stop the offensive.
According to a Washington Post report, European officials are concerned that the Bush administration's siding with Israel will fuel tension between the west and Arab nations, encourage Islamists to carry out terror attacks against western targets, strengthen support for Osama Bin Laden, and escalate the fighting between coalition forces and insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"The one thing that is guaranteed to send the Arab world and the Persian world over the edge is for the US to be seen ultimately to be doing what they always believed - to be fully in cahoots with Israel," a European official told the Washington Post on the condition of anonymity. "The danger of allowing it to continue is that the United States is more and more despised. It's not like the US had a good reputation within the region to start with."
The White House denied it is coordinating with Israel or "sitting around at the war table saying 'Do this, this and this,'" press secretary Tony Snow said.
"We're not colluding, we're not cooperating, we're not conspiring, we're not doing any of that," he told reporters. "The Israelis are doing what they think is necessary to protect their borders."
The State Department also denied that the Bush administration is backing Israel's military operation in Lebanon.
"I don't think anybody disagrees on the desire to end the violence in the region, but let's remember what the root causes of the violence are," spokesman Sean McCormack said.
A senior administration official told the Post that it is too early to speak of a diplomatic solution. "The conditions that the G-8 (Group of Eight industrialized nations) talked about are not in place to get a real and permanent cease-fire that addresses the fundamental problems of the region," he told the newspaper.
He said Israel faces "a terrible problem" because Hizbullah is operating from within civilian areas. "They make mistakes, and there are accidents," he said. "It is impossible for them to avoid all the collateral damage."
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3278907,00.html
Israel may launch large-scale ground offensive in Lebanon - Peretz
www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2006/07/20/afx2892447.html
This is what the Olmert Government had planned from the start. Are you willing to sacrifice your children, brothers and sisters, for the Madness of the Extremists in control of Israel?
Kidnapped by Israel
The British Media and The Invasion Of Gaza
by Jonathan Cook
July 20, 2006
Media Lens
Few readers of a British newspaper would have noticed the story. In the Observer of 25 June, it merited a mere paragraph hidden in the “World in brief” section, revealing that the previous day a team of Israeli commandos had entered the Gaza Strip to “detain” two Palestinians Israel claims are members of Hamas.
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=COO20060720&art
Americans Reject Involvement in Middle East War
www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/12604
Too bad they don't get to choose. When the planned False Flag is carried out, against foreigners on slow-moving ships, or Marines brought in to ferry them to safety, the war planned by the Bush/PNAC Regime, and its partners in Israel, will be on.
Marines in Beirut to help with evacuation
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060720/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast_fighting_evacuation
No, We're Not 'All Israelis Now'
www.antiwar.com/orig/lynch.php?articleid=9353
WHY IT'S TAKING SO LONG.
www.prospect.org/weblog/2006/07/post_880.html#003571
Foreign Governments are allowing their citizens to languish, so that Israel won't look as bad in the eyes of their respective publics.
Israeli Censor Wielding Great Power
www.startribune.com/722/story/562903.html
IDF: Mossad “has significantly infiltrated Hizbullah”
wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2006/07/idf-mossad-has-significantly_
Was the capture of Israeli soldiers a False Flag?
'Nobody cares about Arab lives'
www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__interna
President Bush Uncut: Why Israel Gets Away with Murder
By Joshua Frank
It was a candid moment. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair were chatting over lunch at the Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg on Monday when a Russian microphone sitting in front of Bush was unknowingly live. After almost three minutes of Bush/Blair uncut (we saw Bush eating with his mouth open and found out he prefers Diet Coke), the focal point of their conversation took a turn toward the Israel/Lebanon conflict.
Bush confided in Blair that getting Syria to intervene would end the conflict immediately. "See, the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hizbullah to stop doing this shit and it's over." And how’s he going to do that? By threatening Syria I’m sure.
Hearing Bush tell it, one would think that the latest bloodshed in the Middle East is the result of Hizbullah’s barbaric habits, not Israel’s. But the entire reason Hizbullah even exists is because of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982. As Lebanon based writer Bilal El-Amine writes in the forthcoming print edition of Left Turn:
“An amalgam of political party, armed resistance and social movement, Hizbullah (“Party of God”) was born of a perfect storm that saw the convergence of several factors in the early 1980s: 1) the long-term changes inside the Shia community, described at length above, 2) the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, and 3) the 1982 Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. Although Iranian support was certainly critical to the emergence of the party, the Israeli invasion appears to have been the decisive factor.”
Hizbullah has remained a popular organization throughout Lebanon and much of the Middle East. Putting resistance before radical Islamic beliefs, Hizbullah has garnered great support from diverse sects in the region, which is quite rare among radical Islamic movements. After fending off Israel’s invasion of Southern Lebanon in the early 1980s, Hizbullah again grew in popularity when Israel’s military aggression in April of 1996 resulted in the massacre in the village of Qana where 108 innocent civilians were mutilated.
Bush's off-the-cuff remark to Tony Blair in St. Petersburg deliberately ignored the deep history of Hizbullah, which is deemed a terrorist organization by the state of Israel and the US State Department. And lest you forgot, it was Israel who first marched forces into Lebanon in the 1990s, not the other way around. Hizbullah came about as a result of Israeli's invasion. Since then, Hizbullah has tightened their relationship with Palestine, which likely has struck fear in the Israeli government. The latest chapter of this saga came about when two Israeli soldiers were captured by Hizbullah inside Israel last week. But of course only Israel has the right to defend themselves. Israel has imprisoned thousands of Hamas and Hizbullah members.
Unfortunately, there aren’t any leading Democrats standing up to Bush’s unapprised diplomacy. Senator Hillary Clinton says she’ll support “whatever steps are necessary” for Israel to prevail. I wonder if she’ll support another slaughter like that in Qana?
Rep. Nancy Pelosi took Clinton’s remarks a bit further, clarifying the Democrats’ position, “The House Democratic leadership strongly condemns the seizure of Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah terrorists operating from Lebanon ... Israel has an inherent right to defend itself, and the United States supports our ally." Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid also chimed in, “Hezbollah must be dismantled, and all nations have an obligation to cease any and all assistance to this terrorist organization. Israel has a right to live in peace and security, and the United States will stand by our ally in this difficult time."
One would expect such perverse language from the neocons, but sadly the Democrats are just as heinous when it comes to supporting Israel aggression. How are these clowns going to end the war in Iraq if they continue to support hostility that is only escalating the tension between the West and Arab countries?
If the Bush administration and their Democratic enablers were truly serious about ending the violence in the Middle East, the first honest step would be for the US to cut off all funding to Israel. But I think we are more likely to see Syria step in than for that to happen.
www.whatreallyhappened.com/bushuncut.php
FURY AT PM
TONY Blair was blasted yesterday after he refused to urge the Israelis to call a ceasefire.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17415819&method=full&siteid=94762&head
It seems as if compromised world Governments are having a contest to see who can prove they are the most loyal to Israeli Extremists. Perhaps they're being threatened in some way?
LEBANON-ISRAEL FACTS THE MEDIA ISN'T TELLING YOU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKq38COoTG8
Zionism, Irrelevant Within A Generation
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CONFIRMATION: Captured IDF Were Inside Lebanon
21.07.2006 03:58
Posted Jul 20, 2006 05:47 PM PST
Category: LEBANON
This story, in French, confirms what the Asia Times reported. Israel sent their soldiers across the border into Aïta Al Chaab. It was there, on the Lebanese side of the border, where Hezbollah took them prisoner.
Grim proof ordinary folk are dying in the killing zone
Ed O'Loughlin
July 20, 2006
PARKED outside the small general hospital in Tyre is a badly refrigerated lorry container in which are stacked the bodies of 91 Lebanese civilians, 55 of them children.
Zionism, Irrelevant Within A Generation
Why ISRAEL Refuses to Release Samir Kantar
16.08.2007 15:03
Image of Samir Kantar
"THE REAL REASON SAMIR KANTAR IS ISRAEL'S LONGEST HELD LEBANESE PRISONER!!!!
(Samir Kantar; also spelled: Sameer Kuntar, Qantar, Kintar, Quntar, Qintar, Cantar)
Courtesy of:
Samir Kantar
سمير القنطار
On July 12, 2006 Lebanese Hezbollah militants 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 Sabbath day, April 22, 1979, Danny and Smadar Haran met up with a monster named Samir Kantar.
Danny and Smadar were a loving Israeli couple. They had everything they could ever hope for... love, marriage and two precious daughters, Einat, 4 and Yael, 2. That day Smadar was home anticipating Danny's return from work and preparing for the Sabbath. She had just picked up their two toddlers from day care. Danny, on the other hand, was looking forward to nothing more than getting home and spending time with his wife and his two young daughters.
Traditionally, the Sabbath is the most special day of the week, the day the family gets to spend time together and celebrate their bond to Judaism. It was especially important for Danny who, as a young father, had to work extra hard in order to provide for his wife and young children. Little did Smadar know that this would be the last Sabbath she would celebrate with her family because of a man named Samir Kantar. Around midnight the nightmare began!
Who is Samir Kantar?
Samir Kantar is one of three Lebanese prisoners still serving time in Israeli jails. Kantar, a Lebanese Druze born on July 20, 1962 in the Lebanese mountain village of Aabey currently holds the dubious distinction of being the longest held Lebanese prisoner in Israeli jails! He was a member of Abu Abbas' notorious PLF (Palestine Liberation Front) which committed despicable acts of terror against Israeli, Jewish, and American targets worldwide throughout the 1970's and 1980's. Kantar was convicted and sentenced to a 534 years prison sentence by the state of Israel. Israel even almost tried to pass a bill to have him executed! What did he do? What was his crime?
The Nasser Operation
The crime he committed was the most horrific crime ever committed on Israeli soil! On April 22, 1979 Samir Kantar along with a gang of three other PLF terrorists (Abed Majeed Asslan, Ahmed Al-Abras, and Mhanna Salim Al- Muyaed) departed from the southern Lebanese seashore city of Tyre on a 55-horsepowered rubber motor boat. Their destination was the Israeli coastal city of Naharyia, about 10 km south of the Lebanese border, the target of their operation was a residential apartment building. This operation was dubbed "Nasser Operation" and its aim was the killing and terrorizing of Israel's Jewish civilians.
The terrorists made landfall in the Israeli coastal city of Naharyia at around midnight, undetected under the cover of darkness. As they made their way along the shore, they were intercepted by an Israeli police officer whom they shot dead. In Naharya the terrorists broke into a building as other Israeli police officers arrived on the scene. The terrorists then broke into Danny and Smadar Haran's apartment, fired their weapons and threw grenades. Smadar managed to find a crawl space into which she, her younger daughter, 2 year old Yael, and a neighbor all hid. To prevent Yael from crying and giving away their hiding place, Smadar covered the child's mouth with her hand.
According to Smadar "They held Danny and Einat while they searched for me and Yael, knowing there were more people in the apartment. 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. I knew that if Yael cried out, the terrorists would toss a grenade into the crawl space and we would be killed. So I kept my hand over her mouth, hoping she could breathe. As I lay there, I remembered my mother telling me how she had hidden from the Nazis during the Holocaust. 'This is just like what happened to my mother,' I thought."
Sadly, Smadar's attempt to muffle her daughter's whimpering proved fatal. Yael was accidentally suffocated and died within the hiding space.
According to Smadar Haran, her last memories of Danny and Einat, that day, were when they were being led away at gun point by Kantar. She could hear from her closet space Danny telling Einat, "Don't be scared, my baby, it will be alright" and Einat replied to him in her little voice, "Dad, where is Mommy? I want Mommy." Smadar's last memory of her 2-year-old daughter, Yael, was when her little daughter was taken to the apartment hiding space. Right before Yael had her mouth covered by her mother, she asked her mother "Where is my little pacifier." There was no time to search for the pacifier. Minutes later Smadar covered Yael's mouth to keep her from revealing the hiding space. Smadar soon felt her daughter's tiny tongue licks and lip sucking on the palm of her hand. She didn't know what to make of it at first but hours later was told by doctors and paramedics that the reason Yael was licking her palm while she covered her mouth was because she was gasping for air.
After taking Danny and four-year old Einat hostage, Kantar and his group took them down to the beach. Samir Kantar quickly shot Danny in the back and then drowned him in the Mediterranean Sea to ensure his death. While Kantar drowned Danny, he forced terrified Einat to watch and cry. According to eyewitnesses, "Danny was murdered in front of Einat so that his death would be the last sight she would ever see." Little Einat would not have that horrible memory in her head for long. Kantar, the brave Lebanese freedom fighter, crushed Einat's skull over and over upon the rocks with the butt of his rifle until she was dead.
During the ensuing shootout between Kantar's terror group and Israeli police, two policeman were killed along with two of the Arab terrorists. Kantar and the fourth participant, Ahmed Al-Abrass, were captured. Ahmed Al-Abrass was later free by the Israeli authorities in the infamous May 1985 Ahmed Jibril prisoner exchange deal in which 1,150 Arab prisoners (some of whom had blood on their hands) were exchanged for three Israeli soldiers. Kantar was not included in the deal.
The Israeli government determined at first to make a decision to execute Kantar, for his horrific crime, especially for the fact that he tortured and beat to death the 4-year old toddler. Israeli Prime Minister at that time, Menachem Beagin , proposed a draft resolution to the Security and Foreign Affairs Committee in the Israeli Keenest on April 24, 1979. He demanded to eliminate a previous resolution stipulated by the Israeli cabinet, which said no execution should be implemented against terrorists as the international law prohibits it. The Israeli Foreign Minister Izer Weizman and Transportation Minister Hayeem Landau supported Beagin’s draft resolution. Abraham Sharer, who was the head of the Likude parliamentary bloc also, called for Kantar’s execution. Isaac Shamir issued a statement on April 25, 1979 also calling for his execution.
The Israelis tried to implement the execution sentence on Samir Kantar and the whole parliament agreed on them. The only dilemma they were having was the Israeli law that doesn’t allow execution except for the Nazis of the World War II and to those found guilty of betrayal to their country. Furthermore, they did not want the international community on their backs; also, they wanted to improve their relationship with Egypt after the peace process. As a consequence, the Israeli central court in Haifa sentenced Kantar to 5 life sentences plus 47 years to come up with the total of 542 years. During the trial, Kantar was waving victory signs, and called himself a hero.
Samir Kantar has confessed proudly to his murder of the little girl and never once showed one ounce of remorse for his crime. Even while serving his prison term, he has bragged repeatedly during interviews about how proud he was for murdering the 4-year-old Israeli child. While in prison Kantar got married and even receives conjugal visits. Below he stands proudly alongside other convicted Arab murderer, Marwan Barghouti.
Several months later, the PLF seized the Achille Lauro, an Italian cruise ship, and demanded that Israel release Kantar along with a list of 50 other Palestinian prisoners. Ironically out of the 50 Arab Palestinian prisoners that were demanded, Kantar was the ONLY one that was "actually" named on that list. The hijackers killed a wheelchair-bound American Jewish passenger, Leon Klinghoffer, and threw him overboard into the Mediterranean Sea. Kantar was not released, but his supporters would not give up. In 2004 Israel release ALL Lebanese prisoners except for Kantar and two other Lebanese (Nissim Nasser and Yehya Sakaf). In fact Kantar, as well, was almost released by Israel during that infamous Israel Hezbollah Prisoner Exchange of 2004, BUT in the last second Hezbollah violated the agreement and Kantar remained behind bars! Read
War: July 12, 2006
On July 12, 2006 per orders of Hezbollah leader, Sheik Hasssan Nasrallah, Hezbollah terrorists crossed the northern Israeli border. They attacked two Israeli military vehicles with anti tank missiles, killed four soldiers, kidnapped two others and demanded the immediate unconditional release of Samir Kantar in exchange for the two abducted soldiers. Hezbollah originally named this operation "Operation Freedom for Samir Al-Kantar," but on the days leading up to the July 12 attack it was shortened to "Operation Truthful Promise." The latter referred to the "true promise" Nasrallah had made to the Kantar family that the cross-border kidnapping of IDF soldiers to force the release of Samir Kantar.
In subsequent interviews on Al-Manar TV station Dr Mohamad Jawad Khalifeh, the Lebanese Minster of Health, congratulated Hezbollah for "its great actions" and said that "Lebanon has the right to regain its prisoners and liberate them." Ali Ammar, an Hezbollah member of the Lebanese Parliament, stated his opinion that "particularly at this basic stage in the history of the homeland and the nation, this government should have expressed solidarity with its people and let Samir Quntar feel that he is a Lebanese par excellence." After the kidnapping, Samir Kantar’s brother, Bassam Kantar, said "I kiss the hands and foreheads of the warriors who executed the kidnap. I imagine Samir at the moment, with happiness raising his spirits and those of his friends," he said.
As expected, the Israeli government was not interested in negotiating with terrorists. They sent a small number of troops into southern Lebanon in an attempt to quickly find and free their two soldiers. Soon Hezbollah began shelling Israel's northern communities with Katuysha rockets in an attempt to kill as many innocent men, women and children as possible and to pressure the Israeli government to take the prisoner exchange demand. Israel had no choice but to escalate their response. Both Hezbollah, their supporters and Lebanon's civil infrastructure all suffered the consequences. Even though Israel defeated Hezbollah during this war, it still didn't manage to get its soldiers back.
During the fighting Israel captured a Hezbollah terrorist by the name of Ali Hassan Saliman. According to Saliman, in the interviews/interrogations following his capture, he said that “the main objective of Hezbollah's corss-border kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers was to secure the release of Samir Kantar.” Also, that “Nasrallah had made a promise to the Kantar family that Samir would be released. The Hezbollah operation was first and foremost aimed at releasing Kantar. Everything else was secondary.”
Israel's track record of going against it's previous policy of not releasing Arab prisoners with blood on their hands in exchange for IDF soldiers has come home to roost. Arab terrorist groups have been encouraged to kidnap Israelis in the hope (and often the expectation) that these soldiers will become bargaining chips for the release of Arab prisoners. This softening of Israel's formerly strict policy of never negotiating with terrorists has merely added fuel to the fire. Israeli soldiers are supposed to protect the children of Israel, not to facilitate the release of child murderers, such as the monster, Samir Kantar.
Neither Israelis individually nor their military intentionally targets children or any non-combatant, for that matter. When children die, it is nearly always because they are caught in the crossfire or when they are "set up" by their fellow Arab-terrorists to score propaganda points. But NEVER would manner of the killing be so pre-planned nor would the act itself be so glorified, such as that as Samir Kantar.
Smadar Haran has since remarried and is raising a new family. She hopes that Samir Kantar will stay behind bars until his dying day. "I don't believe that the terrorist will be released now, and I don't believe that the Israeli government will accept this request, after it promised not to release terrorists with blood on their hands."
We at SamirKuntar.net concur with Smadar Haran. We will do whatever we can to see that Samir Kantar rots in Israeli prisons. We would also urge the Israeli government and courts to reverse the long-standing policy of not allowing for the administration of the death sentence. After all, Samir Kantar and other Samir Kantars like him never thought twice about administrating the death sentence to little Einat Haran and other Einat Harans just like her!
CONCLUSION
Kantar was not the reason Israel chose to go to war with Lebanon but he was the reason Hezbollah kidnapped the two soldiers which set the war process in motion.
POSTSCRIPT
Neither Israel nor Hezbollah doubt that Kantar murdered Danny and Einat Haran. The only difference is that Israel sees him as the cold-blooded murderer he is. Hezbollah and their supporters glorify him as a freedom fighter and hero!
There is another point worth mentioning. Hezbollah has never claimed that Kantar was innocent or that he may have been framed. They only demand his release as if he were being held unlawfully and that Israel had no right to imprison him. Once again it's all about Israel never doing any right and Arabs incapable of doing any wrong!
A SAD GRUESOME REALITY
After drowning Danny in the sea in front of little Einat, Kantar, the brave Lebanese freedom fighter, then turned his attention towards the frightened little 4-year old. He took his rifle and then swung it across the little toddler's head, knocking her to the ground. As little Einat was knocked to the ground, she was screaming and crying hysterically "mommy daddy help me," while thrashing her little legs around in the sand. But unfortunately Einat was alone, and no one was there to save her. Kantar then dragged the little toddler a couple of feet to the closest rock he could find, this was while she was begging him not to hurt her. Kantar, then laid her head down on a rock, with the intention of crushing it with the butt of his rifle. Einat, instinctively covered her head with her little arms, Kantar struggled with the little toddler until he finally managed to clear her arms out of the way so that he could aim for the head, and then he proceeded on beating her over and over with the butt of his rifle until blood rushed out of her ears and her little cries faded away as she was knocked into unconsciousness. Then, to ensure she was dead, Kantar continued on beating her over the head, as hard as he could, several more times until her skull was crushed and she was dead.
SHORT NOTE: The way Samir Kantar killed little Einat is reminiscent to the way the Nazis used to kill Jewish babies during the Holocaust, by crushing their little heads with their boots or with the butts of their rifles!
ARTICLES AND REFERENCES
Israel moots Kuntar prisoner swap
(AL-JAZEERA 9/17/2006)
Free the monster Samir Kuntar
(Haaretz article 09/04/2006)
Plot to free terrorist (Kuntar) may have led to fight
(Washington Times 8/8/2006)
Nasrallah says no deal without Samir
(9/12/2006 BBC article "Nasrallah Demands Militant Free")
"Hizballah Wants Israel to Free Child-Killer"
(Cybercast News Service, 7/18/2006)
More than 25 years later, militant still atop Hezbollah's list for swap
(Seattle Times 8/16/2006)
Why Hezbollah Attacked Israel
(Mens News Daily 8/09/2006)
Samir Kuntar to be released very soon
The Jerusalem Post 1/6/2007
Greg
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