Should Child-Murdering Samir Kuntar Go Free?
It’s horrible to think that some of the liberals bleating for Israel to negotiate with the barbarians laying siege to it may be aware than any negotiations would almost certainly entail setting free a terrorist who used his rifle butt to smash in the skull of a four-year-old girl. The raid during which terrorists kidnapped Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev was inspired by a desire to exchange for Samir Kuntar. It was a sensible plan, considering that in a January 2004 deal brokered by Germany, Israel foolishly let loose 400 detainees in exchange for one kidnapped businessman and the bodies of three dead soldiers. In May 1985, Israel freed 1,150 Arab terrorists for three Israeli POWs. Here’s how Kuntar ended up in an Israeli jail: Kuntar was one of a four-man group that crossed into Israel by sea, sent on the mission by the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), an affiliate of Yasser Arafat’s PLO. In the coastal town of Nahariya, the terrorists shot dead a policeman and force