Arab media mocks Hizbullah 'victory'

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While Hizbullah on Wednesday went to great lengths in its attempts to paint the prisoner swap with Israel as a victory, emphasizing the fact that the group's leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah had kept to his word and managed to release murderer Samir Kuntar, a leading Arab paper ridiculed the perceived "victory."

"The Radwan deal," the headline of Ashark Alawsat on Thursday cynically ran, "cost Hizbullah over $7 billion, more than 1,200 dead and 4,500 wounded Lebanese citizens."

The paper referred to the exchange by the name given to it by the guerilla group. Radwan was the nom de guerre of Imad Mughniyeh, Hizbullah's terror mastermind who was killed several months ago. While Hizbullah blamed Israel for the assassination, Israel maintains it was not involved.

The Saudi paper Al Wattan pointed out that Hizbullah has yet to disarm and that UN Resolution 1701, which ended the war, has not been implemented.

In Lebanon, Al Anwar carried an editorial piece which said it was "shameful to see members of the government in Beirut join the celebrations of Hizbullah."

During a meticulously planned ceremony celebrating Kuntar's release, the man stepped onto a stage in Beirut donning a Hizbullah uniform, and broke out of mock jail-cell bars before appearing in front of a cheering crowd waving yellow Hizbullah flags.

Nasrallah surprised the crowd by joining Kuntar on stage, an unusual live appearance from a man who, since the end of the Second Lebanon War, has interacted with the outside world almost exclusively through video.

Nasrallah appeared to be visibly afraid, looking over his shoulder at least twice during a brief appearance of less than two minutes, despite being surrounded by five bodyguards. He exited the stage quickly after congratulating Kuntar on his release.

Kuntar's endorsement of Hizbullah on Wednesday is not a natural alliance: His murder of Danny Haran and his daughter in 1979 occurred three years before Hizbullah was created, and he is a Druse, not a Muslim Shi'ite like the bulk of Hizbullah terrorists.
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