Samir Quntar, one of the most odious men on the planet, was blown to bits by the Israeli air force on Sunday in Damascus, Syria. We ought to cheer this development, and the Israeli airmen who braved advanced Russian antiaircraft missile systems to reach him (though whether the systems were active or not is unknown.) However, the fact that Quntar was alive and living free in Syria is very troubling. Quntar was an incredibly vicious murderer. In 1979 at the age of 16, he led a four-man Palestinian terror team (all the other participants were older) that infiltrated the northern Israeli town of Nahariya by boat. The heavily-armed terrorists killed a policeman and attacked an apartment building intent on capturing several Israeli civilian hostages, and returning with them to Lebanon.  The terrorists moved through the building and attacked the apartment of Charles Shapiro, who shot one of the terrorists dead with a .22 magnum revolver. The group retreated and attempted to...(Read Full Article)