James Stout

There are those who don't.

And I mean, this is not to single out foreign journalists.

There are local journalists who are amazing and there are local journalists who are horrible, obviously, right?

But I think that there is...

kind of a thought process that, yeah, carrying a foreign passport, working for a major organization still comes with some sort of protection.

But I mean, at the same time, this also means that the Israelis killing the journalists that they have killed, it's not a mistake, right?

I can think off the top of my head of at least two journalists who were killed in their homes

And so, you know, again, this is attacking civilian infrastructure, attacking buildings, and that comes with a different sort of criticisms.

But if we're talking just about the operation of journalists while they're doing their jobs, you know, while they're driving in cars, while they're covering sometimes conflicts, sometimes, you know, maybe just moving from one place to the other.

it becomes very clear that if you feel protected by the fact that you have a foreign passport, that also means that the Israelis are aware of who they're attacking and when they're attacking.

We've seen things, for example, like recently, compared to the killing of people, this might be a minor example, but we saw this thing that got a lot of international attention of an Israeli soldier destroying a statue of Jesus in a Catholic town in the south of Lebanon.

And then more recently, there was the destruction of solar panels in another Christian town in South Lebanon.

And the Israeli military will come out and say things like, you know, this does not represent the values of the Israeli military.

So, okay, then there's the targeting and killing of journalists.

Does that represent the, you know?

And then additionally, I think it's important to say that

With the level of data, with the level of precision that the Israelis have, that they've killed at times.

You know, I visited a scene in a Christian town just east of Beirut in a place called Ain Asadeh, where our mutual friend, Elia Ayyub, grew up.

And we saw the attack, the site of the attack.

And I went to a building behind the building that attacked that had, you know, we had the view from up top.