On YouTube, Israel is trying to sway hearts and minds about the moral depravity of newly released Lebanese prisoner Samir Kuntar, who was convicted of killing four Israelis, including a 4-year-old girl and her father, in 1979.
Israel tells the Kuntar story here:
Here’s an Arabic-language video of an Israeli official talking about Kuntar (we’re working on getting an English transcript):
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