Samir Kuntar...in a Box

"We have discovered how to hit the Jews where they are the most vulnerable. The Jews love life, so that is what we shall take away from them. We are going to win because they love life and we love death."

Hassan Nasrallah

Return Samir Kuntar...in a Box

Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese Druse, was sentenced to four life sentences in 1979 for the brutal deaths of Danny Haran, 28, his two daughters and a policeman in Nahariya.

A member of the Palestine Liberation Front, Kuntar and four others sailed 10 kilometers under the cover of night from south Lebanon to Nahariya. The mission, led by Kuntar and titled the Nasser Operation, brought the terrorists to the Nahariya coast around midnight on April 22, 1979. Their goal was simple - to murder. To cause pain. Their mission was a great success and to this day, almost thirty years later, there are those in Israel who still suffer.

The group murdered police officer Eliahu Shahar after he stumbled upon the gang. The men then entered an apartment building at Rehov Jabotinski 61 and broke into the Haran family's apartment, taking them hostage.

Kuntar's gang took Danny and four-year-old Einat Haran hostage as police reinforcements arrived on the scene.

Haran's wife, Smadar, hid with her two-year-old daughter Yael in a crawl space above the couple's bedroom. Smadar tried to muffle the girl's cries, and accidentally smothered her.

As officers arrived at the building, the terrorists pulled Danny and Einat out of the apartment building and down to the beach, where a shootout with police and soldiers ensued.

Kuntar shot Danny Haran at close-range and threw his body into the sea to make sure he died. He then bashed Einat's head on rocks and with butt of his rifle, killing her instantly.

"I will never forget the joy and the hatred in [the terrorists'] voices as they swaggered about hunting for us, firing their guns and throwing grenades," Haran wrote. "As I lay there, I remembered my mother telling me how she had hidden from the Nazis during the Holocaust. 'This is just like what happened to my mother,' I thought."

Kuntar has openly expressed pride about the killings over the years.

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This is the child-killer that Israel wishes to release...in exchange for our two kidnapped soldiers - their conditions unknown but most evidence points to their having been killed on the day of the attack, or most certainly having died of their severe wounds shortly after.

It is one thing to redeem hostages...it is another to redeem bodies, if in releasing murderers, you endanger others.

Samir Kuntar should be left to rot in prison, according to the four life sentences handed down by Israeli courts...or he should be returned to Lebanon in a box similar to the ones in which we are likely to receive our soldiers.