Samir Kuntar was received as a great hero in Lebanon where he donned the uniform of Hizbullah. There he stood before throngs of admirers.
The mustache. The salute....
Kuntar’s terrorist attack in 1979 will always be remembered in Israel for its horrifying cruelty, especially the terror committed against the Haran family. First Kuntar murdered 31-year-old Dani Haran in front of his four-year-old daughter Einat. She was next; Kuntar smashed Einat’s head repeatedly with his rifle butt. All that time, her mother Smadar hid in a crawl space with two-year old Yael, desperately trying to keep the baby from crying. When the terrorists were gone, Smadar realized with horror that she had suffocated her daughter.
The mustache. The salute….
John Hersey’s The Wall tells the desperate tale of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, hiding in the sewers. Here’s one passage:
“The baby might summon the Germans… Rutka by now had given up all special efforts to still the child and wa
s merely holding him with his face to her breast and was rocking back and forth… [The baby] howled… suddenly the child was silent… Rutka did not know until the infant’s cheek grew cold against her breast that it was dead.”
The mustache. The salute. The lock of hair….
He is today the most admired man in the Arab world. Adolph Kuntar.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
That Mustache, that Salute
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4 comments:
Walking dead man. MF. No life insurance company should take out insurance for him. I suggest the bullets be aimed at mustache for a nice bulls eye.
Eeerie. Good to send it around.
I don’t have a problem with prisoner swaps but they should be under comparable conditions. Kuntar should have gone home the same way the Israelis returned.
I’ve been physically sick since seeing the pictures in the paper today. This thing I would destroy without hesitation.
I’ve been physically sick since seeing the pictures in the paper today. This thing I would destroy without hesitation.
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