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Reactions to the deal in the US and British newspapers:
"There is something morally repulsive in the hero's welcome given the most famous – or notorious – of the Lebanese prisoners released by Israel," a Boston Globe article entitled "A strange kind of hero" said on Friday.



"This is the creature Nasrallah hailed as a resistance hero, the figure Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called a 'huge hero who sacrificed 30 years of his life for the Palestinian issue,' the celebrity that Lebanon's president and prime minister saluted as a liberated freedom fighter."

And despite the pain, the brits have a point:
"Hizbullah, through war and abduction, has achieved the return of prisoners, which all the diplomatic leverage of the Lebanese leader Fouad Siniora has failed to do. This has implications for Hamas. If Israel is prepared to surrender Kuntar… in return for two corpses, what is the rate it is prepared to pay for Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier abducted by Hamas, who is still alive?"
And that's a big problem.