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I see your true colours

By Bren Carlill - posted Thursday, 24 July 2008


In a desperate attempt to prevent her baby’s crying from revealing their presence, Mrs Haran held her hand over her daughter’s mouth. Tragically, in doing so, Mrs Haran accidentally suffocated her baby, and has had to live with this knowledge ever since.

Later Kuntar took Haran and his four-year-old daughter to a nearby beach. There, he shot Haran in front of his daughter and, when he realised he couldn’t escape, smashed the girl’s head between a rock and the butt of his rifle. Some hero.

Kuntar’s handlers announced his attack was in protest of Israel signing a peace treaty with Egypt.

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Palestinians are joining in on the celebrations. The exchange saw the handing over of the remains of Dalal al-Mughrabi. A contemporary of Kuntar, she took part in a terrorist attack that killed 36 Israelis and an American in 1978 and was killed in the fighting. Describing her as “a symbol for the Palestinian nation,” the Palestinian Authority has named a handful of schools, a kindergarten and a summer camp in her honour.

During his imprisonment, Kuntar was allowed conjugal rights. He earned a degree in social science. The last time Hezbollah had a live Israeli captive, they pulled his teeth out, then kept him for three years in a cage so small he couldn’t stand up straight in it.

Ehud Goldwasser's father said, “If Hezbollah's great achievement is the release of Kuntar, who is nothing but a repulsive murderer, then I pity them”.

My sentiments exactly.

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Bren Carlill worked at the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council between 2006 and 2011.

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