[ Washington Post] Editorial - In 1979, four terrorists based in Lebanon landed in northern Israel in a raid that quickly went awry. Hiding among rocks on the beach, one of the infiltrators, Samir Kuntar, shot and killed one of his hostages, then took the man's 4-year-old daughter and smashed her head between his rifle butt and a boulder until she was dead, too. Israel captured Kuntar and sentenced him to four life terms. Great changes must take place across the Middle East before a lasting peace can be achieved. A good place to start would be to declare that people such as Samir Kuntar deserve to rot in prison, no matter what the religion or nationality of the children they kill.
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