It is shameful for the Lebanese to glorify murderers and make heroes out of killers like Kuntar.
Hezbollah dragged Lebanon into a war in July 2006 in which the country was destroyed and 1,200 Lebanese civilians were killed, just to recover a criminal like Kuntar. This is not a military victory. This is a moral defeat. Lebanon lost 1,200 citizens to rescue one criminal killer of children and make a hero out of him.
The Lebanese government of Sleiman and Siniora is wrong to go out of its way to "welcome the heroes and the martyrs", out of fear of Hezbollah and in total disregard for the message it sends to the world.
On days like today, I am ashamed to be a Lebanese. The behavior of Hezbollah and the Siniora government is not representative of the Lebanese people. In their vast majority, the Lebanese people are thinking exactly what i`m writing, but they are afraid to voice their true opinion. |
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