View from the booth: If I was Ron Arad's family, I would react the same way. But as long as Kuntar remains in jail in Israel, he is a hero to Hezbollah. Out of jail, he is a hero to Hezbollah. Oh, nevermind. I was thinking about something to do with the greater good for Israel and peace on its Northern Border with Hezbollahstan/Lebanon. Nobody wins this except for the people whose lives might be saved by making the exchange. I'd hate to have to make this decision, and it's a good thing I don't have to. Pass the mustard.
Randy Shiner
MIA's family snubs Olmert
Published: 06/17/2008
The family of a missing Israeli airman canceled a meeting with Ehud Olmert in protest of a likely prisoner swap with Hezbollah.
The Israeli prime minister was scheduled on Tuesday to visit relatives of Ron Arad, who bailed out over Lebanon in 1986 and disappeared into captivity, but the family called off the meeting.
Political sources said Olmert planned to inform the Arads of his government's offer to free Samir Kuntar, a jailed Lebanese terrorist, as part of an upcoming deal with Hezbollah in which it would repatriate two Israeli soldiers abducted in 2006.
Kuntar was sentenced to life in prison for a 1979 cross-border attack in which three Israelis were killed, and has since become a Hezbollah hero.
The Arad family has long argued that Israel should insist the Lebanese militia provide information on the missing airman's whereabouts as a condition for Kuntar's release. Hezbollah says it knows nothing about Arad.
17 June 2008
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