I am a Zionist and a supporter of Israel’s right to exist. I am proud of the country as a Jew for its incredible growth and civilized development and its high moral standard while surrounded by animals dedicated to its destruction. Nowhere is this moral contrast more clear than in the recent prisoner exchange.

In 1979 Samir Kantar and three other Hezbollah terrorists left Lebanon and took a small boat to the Israeli town of Nahariya. They killed a policeman who discoverd them and then burst into the home of Danny Haran, took him and his 4 year old daughter to the beach, shot Danny in the head in front his daughter and then bashed in the 4 year old’s head, killing her.

Haran’s wife fled into a crawl space with their 2 year old daughter, and ended up smothering her to keep her quiet.

Two members of the squad were killed, a third was exchanged for an Israeli prisoner in 1985. Kantar was swapped yesterday for the remains of two Israeli soldiers kidnapped in 2006; Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.

Kantar was given a hero’s welcome by Hezbollah in Lebanon.

It is enormously frustrating to see such a perversion of justice, while much of the world still condemns Israel in its attempts to defend itself.

I hope we remember this exchange when Israel is again inevitably attacked by Hezbollah. Israel should ignore the claims of disproportionate response and rain hell on their enemy.

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