Lebanese journalist is accused of "treason" for giving an interview to Israeli media

Maria Maalouf is a Lebanese Christian-Maronite journalist broadcaster, publisher and writer who is based in Washington DC. 

Her outspoken opposition to Hezbollah and Syria have resulted in death threats and she no longer visits Lebanon.

Now she is in hot water again, after granting an interview with Israel's Kan network.

She told the Israeli station, "What Israel did to Lebanon is a drop of water in an ocean" compared to the damage Iran has done to Lebanon since 1982. "We oppose violence . We are a generation of  civil war and Hassan Nasrallah and the Iranian party kidnapped our country and are trying to take us to the Stone Age, after we were once the Switzerland of the Middle East."

She also said she would want to visit Israel. 

Naturally, the Lebanese are going crazy.

Members of Hezbollah are suing her in Lebanese court, claiming “Maalouf committed crimes for having contacted people from an enemy country and for collaborating with it, espionage, treason, incitement and conspiracy, in addition to damaging Lebanese honor, damaging national sentiment and security, and urging an enemy to eliminate the Lebanese."

Maalouf responded on Twitter, saying “The more Hezbollah mercenaries in Lebanon accuse me of things, the more sure I am right and that our future will be better thanks to the expansion of peace. Israel proved not to be an enemy of Lebanon and the Abraham Accords are the most important development in favor of our region. The one that is occupying Lebanon is Iran, our greatest enemy through the terrorist organization Hezbollah."

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