So wrong on so many fronts. 1) "Journalists" who are Israeli and Jewish and visit Lebanon are not detained. Apparently , only if you are not Jewish is the law applied. 2) Lebanon is not a "hostile state...at war with Israel." Yes, Hezbollah (which was created as resistance to Israel's '82 invasion and occupation) is hostile, but they are not the state. 3) Journalists regularly flout local laws. A paper like the NYT, were it in any other country, would certainly do so. Or, the NYT could have (and has in the past) written the story with a US or no byline, circumventing the law.
So wrong on so many fronts. 1) "Journalists" who are Israeli and Jewish and visit Lebanon are not detained. Apparently , only if you are not Jewish is the law applied. 2) Lebanon is not a "hostile state...at war with Israel." Yes, Hezbollah (which was created as resistance to Israel's '82 invasion and occupation) is hostile, but they are not the state. 3) Journalists regularly flout local laws. A paper like the NYT, were it in any other country, would certainly do so. Or, the NYT could have (and has in the past) written the story with a US or no byline, circumventing the law.