"Al-Umari was arrested twice during the war on suspicion of censorship violations. "I revealed the terrible secret," he laughs, "that Kfar Yassif is located east of Akko. It of course ended in nothing. Israel did not achieve its aims and Hezbollah continued to fire rockets, so they started to go after the journalists." At a symposium that the Channel 2 franchisee Reshet held in Umm al-Fahm a month ago, al-Umari criticized the functioning of the Israeli media during the war. "Some of the media," he argued, "sounded just like the chief of staff.""