German Mediator Assumes Israeli Soldiers Held By Hizbullah Are Dead
Beirut, 31 May 08, The German mediator negotiating a prisoner swap between Israel and Hizbullah assumes the two Israeli soldiers seized by the Shiite group in 2006 are no longer alive, the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot reported.
Gerhard Konrad has told the Israeli government that he believed Hizbullah was not holding any live soldiers, only dead bodies, the newspaper said Friday.
Hizbullah kidnapped Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev on July 12, 2006 in a deadly cross-border raid, igniting a 34-day Israeli offensive on Lebanon.
Israel’s army radio said on Monday that the Jewish state is prepared to free five Lebanese prisoners and return the bodies of 10 Hizbullah fighters in exchange for the release of its two captured soldiers.
Samir Kantar, the dean of Lebanese prisoners, is among those who could be exchanged, according to the army radio.
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah also raised the issue on Monday on the occasion of Liberation Day.
“Very soon, Samir Kantar and his brothers will be among us,” he said.
Kantar, 45, was sentenced to 542 years in prison in 1980 for killing an Israeli man and his four-year-old daughter in an attack in the Israeli resort of Nahariya.
A Lebanese official close to the negotiations on an exchange said earlier that another prisoner, Nessim Nisr, was expected to be released soon.
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what an awful thought-I hope they are wrong
May 31st, 2008 at 5:28 pmI hope they are ok too, but chances are when you end up in the viper’s pit, the end is near.
May 31st, 2008 at 5:55 pmA-rabs are not benevolent people like the Israelis are. A-Rabs, instead of taking care of their captors, like the Isralis do, they kill and torture their captives.
That is what terrorism is all about and that is what Islam is all about.
Islam sucks.
Mohammed was a pedaphile.
Exchange dead bodies for dead bodies - execute Samir Kantar
May 31st, 2008 at 6:13 pmand the other 4 Lebonese before the exchange.
The Syrians and the Hizzies kept Shula Cohen for 7 years. She was an Israeli. She’s the only Israeli that I can recall being captured and returned alive. All the others were tortured and killed. No doubt the same fate has befallen these two sons of David.
The hell with freeing the jihadi scum. How about doing to them what they do to Israeli soldiers for a change. How about doing to the jihadis what they do to us. There’s no Golden Rule in Islam other than to kill and be killed in jihad. So f*ck the jihadis. Let them feel some AQ-style pain for a change.
May 31st, 2008 at 6:33 pmI hope they are okay.
May 31st, 2008 at 9:34 pmIsreal should not have ended that conflict in 2006 until they got the soldiers back.
June 1st, 2008 at 2:35 am