The great Amira Hass was arrested on leaving Gaza, Haaretz reports, having spent several months residing in what Israel considers "an enemy state," per Haaretz. (Do the Palestinians have a state?) She thus violated an Israeli army ban imposed after the abduction of Gilad Shalit in 2006. The last paragraph of the story is particularly disturbing:
Israel Press Council chairwoman Dalia Dorner, a former Supreme Court
justice, commented then that even journalists are subject to the law
and the council cannot defend a reporter who breaks the law. Instead,
she said, local journalists ought to petition the High Court of Justice
against the army's order.
Dalia–Haaretz is standing up for Hass, why can't you? And yes, my headline is provocative. The cases are not strictly analogous. But this is not a sign of openness, or democracy.
