julho 16, 2008
O respeito pelos mortos
A troca dos corpos dos dois soldados israelitas pelos 5 prisioneiros libaneses, mais os corpos de 185 combatentes libaneses e palestinianos, não é um sinal de derrota, conforme o Hezbullah quer fazer querer. É antes o sublinhar do valor sagrado que a cultura ocidental sempre deu ao corpo dos que tombaram em combate. Que ninguém fica para trás, vivos ou mortos, porque o que está em causa não é a vida, mas a pessoa. O que ela foi para os seus e, acima de tudo, o que podia ter sido. O que nunca se vai concretizar. Nunca vai acontecer. As oportunidades perdidas e desperdiçadas. O respeito pelo corpo é uma homenagem, um agradecimento e uma admiração.
Agora é esperar que estando "libertos" durem pouco !Aquele bigodinho e riso aparvalhado está mesmo na mira de um missil .Vou contar os dias.
Um mundo que aceita assasinos está doente .
The Lebanese prisoners welcomed like a hero by Nasrallah
NOUVELOBS.COM ¦ 17.07.2008 ¦ 10:27
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Five activists of the Hezbollah, released(relaxed) by Israel within the framework of an exchange, found Beirut like a hero. The leader of the Shiite movement, which had not appeared since January, welcomed them in front of tens of thousand persons.
Nasrallah addresses the crowd, during the ceremony for the return of the activists of the Hezbollah ( AP)
Five Lebanese activists freed(released) on Wednesday, July 16th by Israel were welcomed like a hero in the South of Beirut by the leader of the Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah and the tens of thousand persons. It was about the first public appearance since last January of the leader of the Shiite movement.
Nasrallah declared to the tens of thousand persons come celebrate the liberation of the activists that " the era of the defeats is past, and the era of the victories arrived " for Hezbollah.
" These people, this nation gave a big and clear image today to his(her) friends and his(her) enemies, that she cannot be beaten ", he declared.
Ceremony at the airport
Nasrallah rose on the stage, surrounded with his bodyguards, to shake hands and give the embrace to five men(people), arrived in the Lebanese capital having been freed(released) in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers restored by Hezbollah to the Hebrew State. They had a little bit before summer welcomed as national heroes also by the president, the government and all the political strengths of the country come greet them during a ceremony on the airport of the capital.
Hezbollah has according to his(her) reached(affected) leader both objectives fixed following the war between Israel and the Shiite militia to summer, 2006, which had exactly been started by the removal(kidnapping) of both Israeli soldiers: the liberation of all the Lebanese prisoners in Israel and the formation(training) of a coalition government in the Lebanon.
Speech pronounced since a secret place
Appearing in public for the third time only since the war of 2006, Nasrallah addressed the crowd later in a speech pronounced since a secret place and broadcast by video.
One of the freed(released) prisoners, Samir Kantar, who had been condemned for murders committed in dirty circumstances in 1979 in Israel, promised to the partisans of the Hezbollah that he would continue to fight(dispute) the Hebrew State.
" I returned of Palestine today, but believe in me, I shall not return before having returned to Palestine ", he threw(launched) to the crowd in jubilation. " I promises to my people and to my close relations in Palestine that I shall return with my companions of the brave Islamic resistance ".
Samir Kantar was 16 years old and belonged to the Liberation front of Palestine ( FLP) when he participated in an attack in Israel which caused the death of four persons, among which a father and his four-year-old daughter. He(it) still denied having killed the girl, but has never shown remorse for the murders.
" Your return is a new victory "
The important gathering on Wednesday in the South of Beirut, bastion of Hezbollah, underlined once again the influence of the Shiite armed group in the Lebanon. With its support for Samir Kantar, stemming from the Druze community, Hezbollah seems to want to gain(win) the confidence(trust) of more Lebanese still, but also the other Arabic populations.
In the afternoon, the president Michel Sleimane, the Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and the members of the main political formations of the country, even those opposite to Hezbollah, were collected to welcome prisoners at the airport with a supposed ceremony to symbolize the national unity(unit) in front of Israel.
Put back(Handed) by Israel to Red Cross, five Lebanese activists were then transported aboard two military helicopters of the border city of Naqoura in the capital.
" Your return is a new victory and the future with you will be only a brilliant walking(march) in which we shall obtain the sovereignty of our earth(ground) and the freedom of the people ", declared Michel Sleimane. " I congratulate the resistance (Hezbollah, EDITOR'S NOTE) for this exploit ". ( AP)
Quelques heures plus tôt, les légistes israéliens ont identifié les corps remis par le Hezbollah, confirmant qu'il s'agissait des soldats Ehoud Goldwasser et Eldad Regev. Ils seront inhumés jeudi, a déclaré le général Avi Benayahou, porte-parole de l'armée.
Auparavant au poste frontière israélo-libanais de Rosh Hanikra, le Parti de Dieu avait remis aux représentants de la Croix-Rouge deux cercueils noirs, dans le cadre d'un échange de prisonniers et de cadavres avec l'Etat hébreu. Les cercueils contenaient les dépouilles des deux soldats israéliens capturés il y a deux ans par le Hezbollah lors d'un raid transfrontalier des miliciens chiites, déclencheur du conflit de l'été 2006 au Liban.
"L'armée s'incline (devant les dépouilles), met ses drapeaux en berne et étreint chaleureusement les familles. Elle se souvient de ses combattants tombés et qui ont été détenus par l'ennemi pendant deux ans", a déclaré le général Benayahou à Rosh Hanikra.
"Une triste journée", pour Shimon Pérès
La confirmation officielle de leur identité a ouvert la voie à la poursuite de l'accord d'échange entre Israël et le Hezbollah.
Prélude à l'échange, le président israélien Shimon Pérès a signé mardi soir le décret graciant Samir Kantar. "C'est une triste journée pour moi et pour le pays", a déclaré Shimon Pérès. La décision n'a pas été prise de gaieté de coeur, avait-il déjà souligné avant le vote du cabinet. Devant les scènes de liesse qui accueillaient les libanais dans leur pays, Shimon Pérès a déclaré : "Je constate qu'au Liban, on célèbre officiellement la victoire pour accueillir Kantar, ce meurtrier qui a fracassé à coup de crosse le crâne de Einat, 4 ans, et n'a jamais exprimé de regrets". De son côté, le Premier ministre israélien, Ehud Olmert a affirmé dans un communiqué : "Honte à la nation qui célèbre la libération d'une bête humaine".
Les proches d'Ehoud Goldwasser et d'Eldad Regev se sont effondrés en larmes en découvrant mercredi à la télévision les images des deux cercueils noirs, sortis d'une fourgonnette. Un choc d'autant plus fort pour les Israéliens que le Hezbollah n'avait fourni aucune information sur le sort des deux militaires depuis leur capture. Le gouvernement israélien avait annoncé fin juin qu'ils étaient désormais considérés comme décédés, ce que n'avait pas confirmé le mouvement islamiste.