Fallen Soldiers Swap

Its unbelievable that this was considered a fair trade by the Israelis.Especially infuriating is to see the released men celebrating their"victory".It appears to be just another step in the process which will lead to another murderous war in the region,with the hezbullah cowards once again hiding among the innocents,whose lives will be taken or ruined by the coming conflict.And you can safely bet that it IS coming.

whichever side you choose in this conflict is irrelevant to the fact that the piece is unbalanced. Weak sourcing--It's important in a story like this to hear more voices from the lebanese people who arent hizbullah supporters..a MAJOr proportion of the population doesnt support hizbullah or idolize kuntar..although if you watch this video one thinks that palestinians and israelis idolize the guy..in addition-should one swallow that kuntar was rightly convicted by the israeli government?Also, the war that was "sparked" by the kidnapping is superficial reporting..one may recall that weeks before the kidnapping, war plans were being made-the kidnapping was somewhat of a last straw..definitely some nice shooting in the video though..also the swap may seem lopsided and maybe it is, but one should also remember the israeli governments policy of retrieving every soldier dead or alive, which puts them between a rock and a hard place..having thousands of palestinians and other arabs languishing in their jails means that they have a disproportionate number of bargaining chips so they can cash out when they need to..would have liked to hear from some other israelis-not just a family member...thanks for the video though

Whenever someone posts a story about Arabs dying, (most of) the people on this website like to demonize Israel for it. They ignore the deep conflict in the area and simply conclude that Israel is a monster. But when Israelis die, the story is "one sided" and its "fair payback for bulldozers".

If anything is one-sided, it is your mentalities.

as has been noted by other, the mans crimes are merely alleged, he's made into a monster because it's convenient to israel to do so, not because it's truth.

STOP your Lies Lies and more Lies, here is your proof.'Israel has fabricated the story about how he killed the child during the attack he carried out in 1979, the Israeli paper Maarev a report, which was published April 23, 1979, a day after he carried out his attack said that the child was killed in cross-fire.
Look it up..... and those two iof kidnapped were in lebanese territory.. YO AL GORE COOL WEBSITE BUT STOP LYING TO PEOPLE!!!!!!

could this get any more one-sided?

The dead bodies of two for five live animals ,who's wrong here?The Jewish people should of contaminated
the five scum bags with some slow acting poison that would have killed them plus all the terrorists they came in contact with.Just leave and let them kill each other.

I do not see justice in releasing a man who beat a little girl to death with the butt of his rifle especially when he shows no remorse. How can such a man ever be viewed as a hero? I think the anti-Israeli movement looses so much credibility for glorifying this man.

Wow, this pod is so ridiculously one sided it is unbelievable.

The back story to the capture of Israeli soldiers is that Lebanon felt that they had been promised the release of some of their POW's and these promises had not been kept.

Israel has a long history of trying to illegally expand its borders and this conflict is just another chapter in it.

Here are some of the statistics regarding the conflict after Israel used the capture of those two soldiers as a reason to invade south Lebanon.

Lebanese civilians
1,191 dead
4,409 injured

Israeli civilians:
44 dead
1,489 wounded

The war displaced over 1 million Lebanese and left much of south Lebanon unihabitatible as the Israeli's used cluster bombs (which have been deemed illegal in 111 countries) to blanket the area.

Israel also strategically targeted civilian structures such as bridges, airports and many other structures.

Here is a description from Human Rights Watch
HRW stated that "the IDF struck a large number of private homes of civilian Hezbollah members during the war, as well as various civilian Hezbollah-run institutions such as schools, welfare agencies, banks, shops and political offices."[139][140] However, Israel maintained that the civilian infrastructure was "hijacked" by Hezbollah and used for military purposes,[141] but Amnesty International identified the destruction of entire civilian neighbourhoods and villages by Israeli forces, attacks on bridges with no apparent strategic value, and attacks on infrastructure indispensable to the survival of the civilian population,[122] and questioned whether the "military advantage anticipated from destroying" civilian infrastructure had been "measured against the likely effect on civilians."[142] They also stated that the Israeli actions suggested a "policy of punishing both the Lebanese government and the civilian population."[142]

Obviously Lebanon is not innocent in this conflict either, but both sides of the story need to be told.

Very disappointing to see such a blatant one sided pod on current, hope this balances the issue a little.

2 dead soldiers for 5 individuals who will probably kill more soldiers......1 of them was even witnessed smashing in the skull of a child......sounds like Isreal got screwed.