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Israel to release arch-fiend for two, possibly dead, IDF boys?


By Stan Goodenough
May 29, 2008

The Olmert government has reportedly offered to release an Arab whose hands are dripping with the blood of Jews he murdered in 1979.

If the Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hizb'allah accepts the offer Samir Kuntar, who killed four Israelis, among them two children, will be allowed to go home to Beirut where he will be welcomed as a national hero.

Four other Lebanese terrorists and the remains of ten Hizb'allah killers are part of the package.

In exchange Jerusalem hopes to get back IDF soldiers Udi Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, who were abducted by Hizb'allah in 2006, triggering the Second Lebanon War.

The trouble is, Goldwasser and Regev could already be dead - a fear raised by the fact that such a relatively "small" price is being offered for their return.

Israel has often in the past released hundreds of Arab prisoners for just one, two or three Israeli POWs.

You can read about Kuntar's bloody deeds here.

Poll results released Wednesday indicate as many as 63 percent of Israelis support releasing Kuntar in order to get the Israeli soldiers back.

However, whether there would be the same support if Regev and Goldwasser are no longer alive is unclear.

Apart from rubbing salt in the 30-year-old wounds of the family members of Kuntar's victims, his release will accord Hizb'allah - which was Thursday described as an organization that made Al-Qaeda look like "a minor league team (see seperate story) - another major victory over its Jewish enemy.

And the already high return for kidnapped Israelis will be pushed even higher - endangering the safety of even more of this nation's soldiers and civilians.

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