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Mother of Kuntar victim: This monster will be a Lebanon hero
By Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Samir Kuntar, Danny Haran 

The mother of a man killed nearly 30 years ago by Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar has written to President Shimon Peres regarding the imminent prisoner swap expected to take place this month with the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah.

82-year-old Nina Keren's son Danny Haran and granddaughter Einat were killed by Samir Kuntar when he broke into their Nahariya home in 1982 and shot them.

Keren's other granddaughter, Yael, also died during the incident. Only Smadar Haran, Keren's daughter-in-law, survived the attack.
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In her letter to Peres, Keren appealed to Peres to cancel plans for Kuntar's release.

"When I close my eyes at night, I see Einati's black eyes, wide open in fear, not understand why her hero of a father was not saving her the rifle hitting her on the head," she wrote.

"For more than 29 years, I have sentenced myself to silence. The difficult incident, in which I lost my son, Danny, and my two granddaughters, Einat and Yael, in such indescribably cruel circumstances.

"But today, just before you cut the sentence of this despicable murderer, I can no longer smother my screams.

"Five life sentences were given to this same beastly person. In a few days, he will be freed, before even one life sentence has run out?How will I bear the moment when he crosses the borders and turns from a despicable monster to the new hero of Lebanon," she wrote.

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      1.   Kuntar is already seen as a hero 20:30  |  Paul Wood 03/07/08
      2.   There is no mercy to Kuntar. He should be targeted togather with 20:34  |  Vittorio 03/07/08
      3.   An indictment of our current corrupt "leaders..." 20:46  |  bat yam 03/07/08
      4.   I`ll be happy when... 21:03  |  JP 03/07/08
      5.   mother of victim kuntar 21:11  |  Dale 03/07/08
      6.   A hero to the forces of darkness 21:17  |  utagawa 03/07/08
      7.   Smadar Haran is a living hero 21:22  |  Jeremy 03/07/08
      8.   Celebrating the return of a psychopath tells what they are like 21:32  |  AliciaYasmeen 03/07/08
      9.   Israel Should Change His Sentence To Death 21:36  |  Living In Rishon 03/07/08
      10.   Vote All Of Kadima & Labor Out Of Office For This 21:45  |  Sderot Israeli 03/07/08
      11.   If we have any sense left we should 21:48  |  Dror 03/07/08
      12.   mercy to the cruel is cruelty to the merciful 21:51  |  nat 03/07/08
      13.   #1 Wooden heart 21:51  |  larry from maine 03/07/08
      14.   Paul Wood 21:58  |  yariv 03/07/08
      15.   five life terms should mean five life terms 22:21  |  daniel yefet 03/07/08
      16.   Paul Wood 1 22:25  |  ChanahS 03/07/08
      17.   Paul Wood 22:30  |  Brad 03/07/08
      18.   Paul Wood moving on to what? 22:45  |  Joe Sittizen 03/07/08
      19.   Paul Wood 23:11  |  Jacob 03/07/08
      20.   ridiculous to trade living terrorist murderers for corpses;INSANE 23:13  |  Elliot 03/07/08
      21.   Kuntar is no hero. 23:19  |  Deborah 03/07/08
      22.   Paul Wood... 23:25  |  Phoenix 03/07/08
      23.   reply to those who replied to me 23:55  |  Paul Wood 03/07/08
      24.   Failed leadership 23:56  |  CM 03/07/08
      25.   poor samirele 23:58  |  peter 03/07/08
      26.   wrong 00:04  |  moody 04/07/08
      27.   monster Baruk Goldstein.. 00:08  |  Edithann 04/07/08
      28.   Paul Wood: Fabricated Cover Up 00:59  |  Brad 04/07/08
      29.   Deborah: Moral Equivalency Based On Delusions 01:02  |  Brad 04/07/08
      30.   Paul Wood 01:32  |  rich 04/07/08
      31.   Paul Wood 19 01:42  |  ChanahS 04/07/08
      32.   Kuntar 02:05  |  Yariv 04/07/08
      33.   Perez is a Murderer himself 02:52  |  Joe 04/07/08
      34.   #12 ChanahS. For once... 02:56  |  Maureen Ann 04/07/08
      35.   Quntar and war criminals 03:09  |  Seymour 04/07/08
      36.   #23 Right, the needs of the rest of Israel comes before 2 bodies 03:28  |  you just dont get it 04/07/08
      37.   To Response 1 04:34  |  Liorah 04/07/08
      38.   Edithann re Goldstein! The Arabs lynched him 06:12  |  PETER SM 04/07/08
      39.   to moody #26 07:04  |  maya 04/07/08
      40.   Israel Don`t Do It 07:30  |  Yosemite 04/07/08
      41.   Killing and Killing in return 07:57  |  Elias 04/07/08
      42.   he`s a "hero" as long as he`s in prison; then he`s just man 08:13  |  eric 04/07/08
      43.   Exchnge Kuntar`s body for bodies of soldiers 08:58  |  AlexK 04/07/08
      44.   Kuntar 09:55  |  Ralph 04/07/08
      45.   moody you are wrong - totally so 09:57  |  ChanahS 04/07/08
      46.   Edithann 27 10:04  |  ChanahS 04/07/08
      47.   Monsters have monster heroes 10:08  |  Ilan 04/07/08
      48.   #36 you just don`t get it 10:17  |  Rachel Stevens 04/07/08
      49.   Releasing Kuntar is spreading the plague of jihad across the whol 10:35  |  Evelyn Haze 04/07/08
      50.   Telling it to the wall 11:05  |  Walnut N. 04/07/08
      51.   Strange argument 11:12  |  truth 04/07/08
      52.   Peter Sm blinded by bigotry 11:16  |  Truth 04/07/08
      53.   #23, Wood: "the Lebanese people" 12:18  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 04/07/08
      54.   Nina Keren and Smadar Haran are our heros. NOT Madame Goldwasser 12:32  |  S 04/07/08
      55.   just return his bones like hizbullah will with regev and goldwass 12:35  |  Daniel 04/07/08
      56.   Kuntar and a potential work accident 12:44  |  Michael Durson 04/07/08
      57.   kuntar/ idf. soldier... whats the difference? 12:47  |  ravi 04/07/08
      58.   All killers should be punished, not become heros.. 12:52  |  Peter 04/07/08
      59.   He didn`t shoot the child 12:57  |  jackie 04/07/08
      60.   to # 52 truth 13:02  |  moody 04/07/08
      61.   Edith Anne 13:03  |  Jackie 04/07/08
      62.   # 47 Ilan 13:04  |  Christina 04/07/08
      63.   To Paul Wood 13:07  |  Jackie 04/07/08
      64.   to maya, 39 13:10  |  moody 04/07/08
      65.   Truth be told 13:11  |  FreeOne 04/07/08
      66.   Releasing a criminal is very bad 13:15  |  Andreas 04/07/08
      67.   It is sad that this is even being considered while this women is 13:29  |  alive. I thought 04/07/08
      68.   Have mercy - make peace 13:48  |  Anonymous 04/07/08
      69.   Christiana, 62, 13:51  |  Jozef 04/07/08
      70.   Elias # 41 That`s A Nice Thought 14:38  |  Jeff Northridge 04/07/08
      71.   The Lebanese announce that they will embrace the murderer 14:41  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 04/07/08
      72.   #69 Jozef 14:55  |  rational