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[Caledonian Craig]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=249JaIaubVw

a clip from rupert murdoch's finest reporter

[Junior]

[ddeubel]

[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

Hizzbollah is at war with and is out to destroy Israel does Israel have an obligation to release POW of an organization that is dedicated to destroying it?

[Junior]

[quote="ddeubel"]

[Junior]

Who are these supposed Lebanese prisoners??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5211930.stm

Justifying its seizure of the two Israelis, Hezbollah said it mounted the raid in an effort to secure the release of Lebanese prisoners held in Israeli jails.

Although Israel holds thousands of what it calls security prisoners, most of those are Palestinian (see below). Following a major prisoner swap in early 2004, in which more than 400 prisoners were released to Hezbollah in exchange for a reservist colonel and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers, Israel now admits to holding just three Lebanese.

Chief among those is Samir Qantar, serving several life sentences for murder after attacking a civilian apartment block in Nahariya in 1979. A policeman, another man and his four-year-old daughter were killed. A baby girl was accidentally smothered by her mother as she hid in a cupboard.

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has frequently called for Qantar's release, threatening to derail the 2004 deal when he was excluded from the list of prisoners. His name has once again been raised during the current crisis. Israel has refused to discuss releasing Qantar, often linking his status to its search for information about Ron Arad, an Israeli airman missing since being shot down over Lebanon in 1986.

Israel also holds an Israel man of Lebanese descent, Nissim Nasser, arrested in 2002 and convicted of spying for Hezbollah. The third Lebanese prisoner is a fighter called Yehia Skaff, Hezbollah MP Nawar al-Sahili told the BBC. Mr al-Sahili said that Israel also holds a fourth man, a fisherman called Ali Faratan.

Israel is also thought to be holding 25 Lebanese citizens of Palestinian origin, many for conventional criminal offences. Their release is not understood to be at the heart of the dispute with Hezbollah.

[ddeubel]

Junior,

What you list/describe is exactly ONLY what Israel wants the world to know. Much like Guantanamo but far ahead of its time. Nobody knows what they do and under their security laws, they have no need to contact anyone of the taken, nor accuse or lend any rights. They can simply hold them as enemies of the state, INDEFINITELY and without anyone knowing better........

This has been a BIG issue with those who follow Israel's relations with Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. Given Israel's own laws and her own detention without trial of thousands of Palestinians and her own kidnapping of legitimate members of the Palestinian govt. HOW CAN YOU BELIEVE THE PARTY LINE THEY FEED. I simply don't, having read countless reports of mothers who have never seen their sons or nephews come back ................simply doesn't jive that these mothers are part of some Hizbollah negotiating tactic.

Please read Catherine Cook's book , where she also touches on the issue of Lebanese prisoners of war.......(and how Israel doesn't even lend the slightest credence to considering them POWs despite how the prisoners demand such in Israel.....).


DD

[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

that is a bbc report. Or it is another pro Bush source like Newsweek

[Junior]

[ddeubel]

[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

[Junior]

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