Bland de fångar som Hizballahkräver i utbyte mot de två (sanno-
likt döda) israeliska soldaterna
finns "monstret" Samir Kuntar.
Det finns en stark opinion mot
att släppa Kuntar istället för
att låta honom avtjäna sina fyra (!)
livstidsdomar fullt ut.
Vad är det då han gjort ?
***
Samir Kuntar är en libanesisk
drus, som tillhörde den lilla
terrorgruppen PLF, där huvud-
delen senare anslöt sig till marxistiska
PFLP. Den 22 april 1979 genom-
förde han en terroraktion i Nahariya
i norra Israel. Där mördade han Danny
Haran och hans små döttrar. Vi låter
änkan Smadar berätta:
"It had been a peaceful Sabbath day.
My husband, Danny, and I had picnicked
with our little girls, Einat, 4, and Yael, 2,
on the beach not far from our home in
Nahariya, a city on the northern coast of
Israel, about six miles south of the Lebanese
border. Around midnight, we were asleep in
our apartment when four terrorists, sent by
Abu Abbas from Lebanon, landed in a rubber
boat on the beach two blocks away. Gunfire
and exploding grenades awakened us as the
terrorists burst into our building. They had
already killed a police officer. As they charged
up to the floor above ours, I opened the door
to our apartment. In the moment before the
hall light went off, they turned and saw me.
As they moved on, our neighbor from the
upper floor came running down the stairs.
I grabbed her and pushed her inside our
apartment and slammed the door.
**
Outside, we could hear the men storming
Outside, we could hear the men storming
about. Desperately, we sought to hide.
Danny helped our neighbor climb into a
crawl space above our bedroom; I went
in behind her with Yael in my arms.
Then Danny grabbed Einat and was
dashing out the front door to take refuge
in an underground shelter when the
terrorists came crashing into our flat.
**
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.
**
As police began to arrive, the terrorists took
As police began to arrive, the terrorists took
Danny and Einat down to the beach.
There, according to eyewitnesses, one of
them shot Danny in front of Einat so that
his death would be the last sight she would
ever see.
Then he smashed my little girl's skull in
against a rock with his rifle butt.
That terrorist was Samir Kuntar.
By the time we were rescued from
By the time we were rescued from
the crawl space, hours later, Yael, too,
was dead. In trying to save all our lives,
I had smothered her."
****
(Tundra Tabloids)
***
Se vad en libanesisk demokrat tycker:
"Samir Kuntar should be hanged
upon his return för murder"
(For a better Lebanon)
***
Det låter helt annorlunda från en
libanesisk kommunist från Sverige,
på tillfälligt besök i Beirut:
"Det som just nu handr i Libanon
som ar viktigast for alla ar nasta veckas
fangutvaxling med Israel. Hizbollah sitter
ju pa ett par lik som tillhor israeliska armen
ochd e vill garna ha tillbaka de. Nagra ar
fran 80-talet. Och nastan alla de som slapps
nu ar kamrater fran kommunisterna och
i arabvarlden. Han blev gripen 1979 och
fangslad efter en aktion dar han dodade ett
antal israeler. Han fick en dom pa ett par
hundra ar. Han var den forsta libanesiska
politiska fangen i Israel och blir nu den
sista som slapps. Sen ar alla libanesiska fangar
slappta fran israeliska fangelser. Allt det har
kommer saklart firas med pompa o stat i Beirut
dar man raknar med att en miljon manniskor
kommer ga ut till ett torg och fira vilket jag
ocksa saklart kommer gora. En annan liten detalj
ar att Kuntar ar en bekant till famlijen
och jag kommer fa tillfalle att traff honom pa
ett mer privat plan vilken kanns javligt stort
for mig. Jag vet inte hur det kommer vara,
men jag har iaf fragat, och det verkar som
att det kommer finnas mojlighet for mig
att gora en intervju med honom.
Javligt spannande."