Lebanese prisoners Exchange

This Photo is from Hadarim Prison, Lebanese prisoners, including Samir Kuntar (3rd L), are processed for release on 16 July 2008 at the Hadarim Prison in central part of the Jewish sector. Kuntar, who was jailed in Israel in 1979 at the age of 16 for murder and attempted murder, was swapped in the UN mediated handover with soldiers Eldad Regev, 27, and Ehud Goldwasser, 32.

Hezbollah members hand over the bodies of two Jewish soldiers, who were captured two years ago, to the Red Cross to be exchanged for Lebanese prisoners held within the Jewish sector, at the Naqoura border point and Palestine border.

The bodies where those of Jewish soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, who were regretfully to be returned to be given to their families, for burial.

It was further reported, that this swap included 190 former Hezbollah and Palestinian prisoners where taken too Lebanon as part of a prisoner swap.

A convoy of ICRC trucks, with exchanged prisoners.

Military police stand guard as a convoy of the ICRC arrive at the Amiad army base on 15 July 2008.in Amiad.
Army generals salute the coffins of Jewish soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev before they are transported on 16 July 2008 from an army base at Rosh Hanikra.

Commentary

Then U.S. President Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat

Something my mother explained to me many years ago, while any death is a fact of life, especially during a time of war and while the first sting of the lost loved one hits us, we learn to get up on our feet and continue on.

Even at times, when one may not know the person that has died, the compassion of the heart for those who are still living; the heart still goes out for there loss.

While some people may wonder, I do know what it is like to loose a husband, my first husband was assassinated by poison and lingered most horribly for about three years, before his death. It was actually explained to me one day, the actual poison used to kill him.

I was married to this first husband, because of circumstances during the war, when it was thought I would never see the man that I was promised in the first place; because of the extended amount of years.

In the case of my first husband he became a martyr, because he loved me and tried to protect me; especially after an assassination attempt on my life in 2000; which I suffered extensive injury to my right leg.

This first marriage only lasted eight and half years, because of his death.

Furthermore, it was suggested to me to clear the air of the multiple reasons for the second Intifada, which there were actually only one reason, the upset over my attempted assassination in 2000; that not only injured my right leg, but did very closely come to ending my life.

To further simplify, not just because I was the Queen of Palestine at that time, but the fact even as a child, I was loved.

While I personally, had nothing to do with the starting of the second Intifada and what makes me sad about this, was everyone in Palestine was still being subjected to the lies from the outside source and this outside source, where the ones actually trying to murder me; with there collaborators outside and within Palestine, namely Yasser Arafat and his conspirators.

Nevertheless, these where also the real people that caused the assassination of my mother and the assassination of then Jewish Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in 1995.-HRM Deborah