I consider myself a Teflon Lebanese: nothing in my country really surprises me. I am cynical enough to always expect the worse, and I am never disappointed. Still, I am perplexed by the festivities organized for the return of Mr. Qantar.
The man is a child killer. Unfortunately, he is not the only one in our country. He committed his crime while still a teenager and he paid for it by spending 30 years in prison. This is more that can be said for those who did the same and then became respected members of our society. Furthermore, it is not more unethical to kill innocent civilians with a riffle than from a shiny F-16. At least Mr. Qantar was punished for his heinous deed.
We cannot blame Hezbollah either for wanting the return of Lebanese prisoners. But Mr. Qantar should be allowed to go home to become a footnote in our lousy history instead of being celebrated as a genuine hero.
The circus atmosphere and the self-congratulatory fest that is organized for the return of a common law criminal are unacceptable. To see our politicians falling all over themselves to bask in the glory of a child killer is appalling.
This pathetic display of popular joy reminds us what a sorry excuse for a country Lebanon really is. What next from our ruling class: an official holiday to immortalize the killers of Sabra and Chatila?
MM.
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Suleiman, Saniora, Berri, even LF were present to welcome the "Amid al sujana'". Tfeh! the 120000 Lebanese martyrs are now rolling int heir graves.
Kuntar should have served the rest of his sentence (LIFE) in a Lebanese prison.
Once gain TFEH!
The Lebanese people are sons of bitches who are used to doing this kind of shit.
Thousands of Lebanese idiots welcomed Geageageagea when he came out of prison. Thousands welcomed Aoun back. Thousands cheered when the fucking MPs returned from Doha.
The Lebanese people love to celebrate their shame in public, and in large groups.
i thought that the version in which he "killed a child" is an Israeli version, and his version (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/997967.html) which reflects history at the time, is actually more reasonable than one is killing a 4 year old child.
i am not here defending him, he's neither a hero nor a killer to me BECAUSE we dont know what happened, but it's quite interesting to find Lebanese bloggers believing israeli stories and jews being skeptical (reasonable) about what's the them:
http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/2008/07/word-on-samir-kuntar.html
Allow me Mr. Razan to let you know that after having read many articles, they all pointed towards the killing of the 4 year old child and her father. There was also an alleged eye witness account. Newspapers all over the world reported this story and most (if not all, except for Arabs ofcourse)mentioned the child's killing at the hands of kuntar.
Kuntar was tried and sentenced, so screw him, and all those who applauded his return. I know that if I was in the shoes of thst little girl's mother, I would shoot Olmert and then Kuntar.
Razan,
Quantar's action were directly responsible for the death of a 2 year and a 4 year old. Whether he pulled the trigger or not is irrelevant.
This post is not about what a messed-up individual Quantar is. He is also above and beyond irrelevant.
This post is about what a messed-up country Lebanon is.
MM.
Thank you for this post, I was too worried that I am the only Lebanese who was ashamed of this.
The major difference between Kuntar and other Lebanese "heroes" is that this man's only claim to fame is this incident, the one which resulted in the death of a 4-year-old child. The fact that he actually went into a house and took that child away as a hostage is quite ugly, regardless of whether he did some head-smashing along the way. The only thing he's uncontroversially infamous/popular for is the fact that he went into a household and kidnapped a father and his 4-year-old. Even if that is all he did, is that a reason to celebrate him?
It makes one so angry and sad to realize that our society is so morally corrupt that it refuses to see the pains of others.
And then we ask others to sympathize with all our pains.
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