Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Sunday, June 01, 2008 4:30:00 PM
Hizballah’s Al Manar television reported the handover of the remains of soldiers who fell in the 2006 war across the border to Israel on Sunday June 1, after the Israeli citizen Nasim Nisr convicted of spying for the Lebanese Shiite terrorists was deported to Lebanon at the end of his 6-year sentence. The Israeli prime minister’s office said the government was not prepared to receive those remains. The IDF said the handover was an unsolicited, unilateral act by Hizballah and there is no agreement on a prisoner swap. The military chaplain said all Israeli armed forces’ war dead are accounted for and have been laid to rest. The remains will be examined to establish their identity.
Nisr was born in Lebanon to a Jewish mother and Shiite Muslim father. He left Lebanon in 1982 and became an Israeli citizen, which has been revoked.
DEBKAfile’s political sources report that the box of remains Hizballah sent to Israel on June 1 was a gesture made to impress the German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier who was visiting Beirut before leaving for Jerusalem.
Listed by the US and European Union as a terrorist organization, Hizballah is anxious for European recognition of its new standing as the pre-eminent force in the new Lebanese government.
Berlin is the key - especially since German troops participate on land and sea in the peacekeeping force which has been mandated to impede arms smuggling to the Shiite terrorists.
The unsolicited handover of the remains during Steinmeier’s Beirut visit is intended to impress him enough with Hizballah’s “humanity” to open a new page in German-Hizballah relations. Eventually, the Shiite leaders hope Berlin would extend those ties to their Palestinian ally, Hamas.
Before an Israeli forensic examination, the remains cannot be proved to belong to fallen Israeli soldiers in the 2006 Lebanon war. If they are, it would be the first time any Arab power has made this kind of gesture to Israel out of the blue and without extorting an exorbitant return.
Hizballah may even be signaling that Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, whose abduction in July 2006 sparked the Lebanon War, might also turn up on the Israeli border in another unilateral gesture. Israel has already agreed to turn over for the two soldiers the Lebanese prisoners it is holding, including Samir Kuntar, the convicted murderer of Haran family members in 1979.
DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources stress that Hizballah has not changed its spots, only its tactics: For the moment, it is after bigger game than haggling with Israel over prisoners, namely, consolidating its supremacy over the Beirut government on the international arena, before going full tilt against US Middle East holdings and America’s ally, Israel, in conjunction with Damascus and Tehran.
How nice of the Palestinian animals to throw some Jewish body parts in the face of Israel. Remember, these are peace-loving murderers simply trying to make their way through Islamic fascism in order to destroy the Jews. Personally, I think Israel should return the favor is spades. The Palestinians are monsters with no respect for human life. The Palestinians are terrorists who sacrifice their own children to a non-existent Moon God hoping to secure their place in Heaven by whiping Israel off the face of the Earth. There is no excuse even approaching sufficient to explain the actions of the so-called Palestinians. How we are able to sit by and watch these sick and depraved terrorists do what they do is beyond me. The moment the Jews of Israel eradicate every single Palestinian from their lands, including Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, is the same moment Israel will know safety and security.