This rumor goes around once every few weeks. But with Olmert desperate to leave office with any accomplishment - no matter how costly - well, fuck:

Military sources in Lebanon expect Hezbollah next week to return to Israel abducted Israel Defense Forces soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev as part of an exchange deal, the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir... the deal will take place between June 20-25... no proof has been offered that [Goldwasser and Regev] are alive... the family of jailed Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar have begun to prepare for his imminent return to Lebanon. Kuntar's return to Lebanon is considered to constitute one of Israel's commitments in the deal. Kuntar is serving multiple life sentences for killing four Israelis in a 1979 infiltration of an apartment building in northern Israel. Among the victims were a 28-year-old man and his four-year-old daughter, whose head Kuntar repeatedly smashed against a rock before crushing her skull with a rifle butt.

That's an interesting way to phrase what that cretin did:

The terrorists took Danny and Einat down to the beach. There, according to eyewitnesses, one of them shot Danny in front of Einat, so that his death would be the last thing she would ever see. Then, he smashed my little girl’s skull in against a rock with his rifle butt. That terrorist was Samir Kuntar. Just like last time, the deal being proposed also doesn't include Ron Arad, which means that Israel would be effectively giving up hope of ever getting him back.

At least Kuntar hasn't just sworn to immediately go back to killing Israeli toddlers. And at least the AP will have another chance to actively mislead readers about Kuntar's savageness. So everyone's going with what they're good at.

References:
* Report: Hezbollah to return abducted IDF soldiers next week [Ha'aretz]
* Israel Considers Releasing Murderous Animal Filth In Exchange For Kidnapped Israeli Soldiers [MR]
* Terrorist Samir Kuntar Vows to Continue Terrorism if Freed....... [Tundra Tabloids]
* AP misinforms the world [Yourish]

Previously:
* Israeli Government Works To Unite Entire J-Blogosphere In Total Opposition to Israeli Government
* Hey, Let's Just Let All the Terrorists Out
* Prisoner Exchange: I Don't Know, and You Don't Know Either