Shame on the Lebanese Government
Dr. Joseph Hitti
July 15, 2008
As reported by Naharnet today, and with the Israeli government's approval of the swap with Hezbollah, preparations are underway by Hezbollah to organize a popular welcome to the prisoners and "martyrs" at Naqoura, close to headquarters of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The freed prisoners would be later flown by a presidential helicopter to Beirut Airport for an official welcome by senior government and Hezbollah officials. Hezbollah also is sponsoring a popular rally in south Beirut to celebrate the swap, during which its leader Hassan Nasrallah would deliver a speech.
This is what the majority of the Lebanese people feel at this news:
1. It is shameful for the Lebanese government to glorify murderers and make heroes out of scum killers like Kuntar.
2. Hezbollah dragged Lebanon into a war in July 2006 in which the country was destroyed and 1,200 Lebanese civilians were killed, just to recover a criminal like Kuntar. This is not a military victory for Lebanon. This is a moral defeat for Lebanon. We lost 1,200 innocent and good citizens of Lebanon to rescue one criminal killer of children and make a hero out of him.
3. How can Hezbollah claim Kuntar as one of its own when he did his "operation" [killing a 4-year old girl by smashing her head repeatedly with a rock] in 1979, long before the creation of Hezbollah itself and long before any Israeli occupation of the south? This goes only to show that Hezbollah is using Kuntar as a mere tool with which to provoke Israel and thus maintain the justification for Hezbollah's illegal stranglehold over Lebanon under the guise of a "resistance".
4. The Lebanese government of Sleiman and Siniora is wrong to go out of its way to "welcome the heroes and the martyrs", out of fear of Hezbollah and in total disregard for the message it sends the world about Lebanon, a country that glorifies killers and hijackers and criminals. Maybe Kuntar will one day be a member of Parliament or the Siniora government. Other killers like him sit today in the Lebanese Parliament and in other government posts and leadership roles.
On days like today, I am ashamed to be a Lebanese. The behavior of Hezbollah and the Siniora government is not representative of the Lebanese people. In their vast majority, the Lebanese people are thinking exactly what this article is voicing, but they are afraid to voice their true opinion. Only the stooges of Hezbollah and those who have become Dhimmis to the Hezbollah regime in Lebanon will go celebrate the return of the criminal Kuntar.
Like it did in the 1980s with the kidnappings of innocent Westerners (teachers and clergymen), unarmed peacekeepers (US and French marines), hijacking planes (TWA847) and many many other acts of pure terrorism, Hezbollah is further staining the reputation of the good country that Lebanon was.
This is what the majority of the Lebanese people feel at this news:
1. It is shameful for the Lebanese government to glorify murderers and make heroes out of scum killers like Kuntar.
2. Hezbollah dragged Lebanon into a war in July 2006 in which the country was destroyed and 1,200 Lebanese civilians were killed, just to recover a criminal like Kuntar. This is not a military victory for Lebanon. This is a moral defeat for Lebanon. We lost 1,200 innocent and good citizens of Lebanon to rescue one criminal killer of children and make a hero out of him.
3. How can Hezbollah claim Kuntar as one of its own when he did his "operation" [killing a 4-year old girl by smashing her head repeatedly with a rock] in 1979, long before the creation of Hezbollah itself and long before any Israeli occupation of the south? This goes only to show that Hezbollah is using Kuntar as a mere tool with which to provoke Israel and thus maintain the justification for Hezbollah's illegal stranglehold over Lebanon under the guise of a "resistance".
4. The Lebanese government of Sleiman and Siniora is wrong to go out of its way to "welcome the heroes and the martyrs", out of fear of Hezbollah and in total disregard for the message it sends the world about Lebanon, a country that glorifies killers and hijackers and criminals. Maybe Kuntar will one day be a member of Parliament or the Siniora government. Other killers like him sit today in the Lebanese Parliament and in other government posts and leadership roles.
On days like today, I am ashamed to be a Lebanese. The behavior of Hezbollah and the Siniora government is not representative of the Lebanese people. In their vast majority, the Lebanese people are thinking exactly what this article is voicing, but they are afraid to voice their true opinion. Only the stooges of Hezbollah and those who have become Dhimmis to the Hezbollah regime in Lebanon will go celebrate the return of the criminal Kuntar.
Like it did in the 1980s with the kidnappings of innocent Westerners (teachers and clergymen), unarmed peacekeepers (US and French marines), hijacking planes (TWA847) and many many other acts of pure terrorism, Hezbollah is further staining the reputation of the good country that Lebanon was.
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