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Baby-Killer Receives ‘Hero’s Welcome’ by Hezbollah
Guest Column | By W. Thomas Smith Jr. | July 18, 2008
Our friends with Lebanon's pro-democracy Cedars Revolution today issued a statement - the spirit of which is felt by all freedom, democracy,and
justiceloving people worldwide - regarding the shameful release of and
"hero's welcome" for terrorist Samir Kantar.
According to the World Council of the Cedars Revolution:
"Pretty sad day for Lebanon and the Lebanese world wide.A national holiday for terrorists? What a shameful day, what a shameful government that took part in a national holiday celebrating a baby killer.Lebanon is lacking Justice, that is the bottom line."
Lacking
justice indeed. But this injustice extends beyond Lebanon (and Israel
from where he was released). The entire worldsuffers with the unjust
freeing of Kantar and his cronies.
Kantarmurdered three Israeli civiliansin 1979, including a four-year-oldgirl whose head he bashed with a rifle butt.
Following
his release from anIsraeli prisonon Wednesday - along with four other
Hezbollah terrorists (in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli
soldiers captured-and-killed by Hezbollah two years ago) -Kantar,
dressed in a Hezbollah military uniform and expressing his feeling of
"enormous joy" because he has returned to the ranks of Hezbollah, told
AFP:
"I haven't for even one day regretted what I did."
Again, let's not forget, Kantar bashed in a baby's brains.
As
part of his welcome home ceremony, Kantar paid his respects at the tomb
of Hezbollah'smad-bomber Imad Mughniyeh (more about Mughniyeh here). At Mughniyeh's tomb,Kantar proclaimed:
"We swear by God ... to continue on your [Mughniyeh's] same path and not to retreat until we achieve the same stature that God bestowed on you."
Kantar
fancies himself a soldier. Trust me, a soldier -in the sense of the
word as I understand it to be (and I was a Marine infantryman) -is
avirtuous man. He defends his country or his causes by putting those
things above his own life. A soldier also shows mercy to his enemies,
and he NEVER fails to defend the weak and the innocent. Men like Kantar
are not soldiers by anyone's definition if the definition and the
interpretation ofthat definitionare honest. Any man or woman who would
deliberately and summarily execute a child (no matter the reason) is a
murderer and an animal. Nothing more.
Referring to Kantar as an animal may not seem objective. But like his personal hero, Mughniyeh, Kantaris what he is.
Amazingly,
the mainstream media - which I myself have been a part of for years -
is referring toKantar in headlines as simply a "freed Lebanese
prisoner."
Make no mistake, this man does not represent Lebanon
any more than Charlie Manson or Tim McVeigh represents America. And we
cannot win this "war of ideas" -as terrorism expert Dr. Walid Phares
aptly and often describes as the heart of the war on terror - until we
end the soft-soaping of animals like Kantar, and come to grips with who
and what these people are.
W. Thomas Smith Jr. is director of the Counterterrorism Research Center of the Family Security Foundation and a Contributing Editor to FamilySecurityMatters.org. A former U.S. Marine infantry leader and shipboard counterterrorism instructor, Smith writes about military/defense issues and has covered conflict in the Balkans and on the West Bank.
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July 21 at 9:52 am | #1 | Link
The truth about this murderer should be required reading by every American student old enough to know the difference between right and wrong.
The Hezbollah terrorists live for another day to kill. The two Israeli soldiers were killed by terrorists to be mourned by family and friends.
We in America must understand there are those who live to kill us.