Lebanese child killer Samir Kuntar was awarded the highest medal today by President Assad. Syrian President Bashar Assad has awarded former Lebanese prisoner Samir Kuntar the country's highest medal for spending nearly three decades in an Israeli jail.

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These are the types of people Israel must deal with. We tried to turn him into a civilized human being but he insists on remaining the child murderer he always was. Oh well. We'll get him one day.

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"It was a ghastly trade, flesh and blood for two boxes of bones. Many criticized it. Some could not bear to watch it.

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"Last Wednesday's pageantry in Beirut celebrating the return of Samir Kuntar marked a black day for Lebanon. It is hardly the first time an Arab terror outfit has held a street party for murderers - sweets were handed out in plenty of Arab capitals on 9/11.

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"This depraved show alone should prevent Al Jazeera from ever being picked up by US cable channels, as the Arab "news network" throws a birthday party for released terrorist Samir Kuntar—who shot a child's father in front of her, then bashed the little girl's brains out …

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it is a moral duty to judge all those celebrators who chanted like parrots the mantra of Samir Kuntar's heroism, and accepted in obedience and subservience to celebrate Kuntar's crime as heroism, in contradiction to standards of the Lebanese culture, civilization, and values, …

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Israel has lived the past 60 years more intensively than any other country.

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We learn today from the AFP that next week, during his trip to the Middle East, Barack Obama plans on visiting Ramallah to meet with Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority. Here is a question that would be appropriate for Obama to ask Abbas:

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A day after being released from prison and returned to Lebanon, terrorist tells Hizbullah's al Manar network, 'To tell you the truth, I envy our enemies. The way they care for a body and will go all the way to return it.'

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Lest there be any doubt that Samir Kuntar, released from Israeli prison to a hero's welcome in Lebanon, murdered a four year old israeli girl, this seed includes a photo captioned:Evidence from the pathologist's report showing Einat Haran's brain tissue on the butt of Kuntar's r …

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"Beirut Spring" is one of the better known Lebanese weblogs.

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Amazing similarities...

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"What's the thinking behind this deal with Hezbollah? Why was it worth while for Israel to go ahead with the swap? "

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cost Hizbullah over $7 billion, more than 1,200 dead and 4,500 wounded Lebanese citizens

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"Eldad Regev and Udi Goldwasser, kidnapped by Hezbollah from the Israeli side of the border 2 years ago are coming home today. Here is a spokesperson from Israel's Foreign Ministry discussing the deal" (Gives some insight into the situation)

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The large celebration in honor of the despicable murderer Kuntar is a shame to the Lebanese people, whose leaders choose to celebrate the release of a man who prides himself on smashing the skull of four-year-old

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"As men we have made some heroes who may have been responsible for the deaths of others. As societies we grant these men pardon for that, because of the endeavors they were engaged in.

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