The Media Accountability Project  

"However, in spite of Mr Pinkas'  referring to  Palestinian issues four times, and stressing they may even affect the US-Israel relationship "as allies", Ms Hill does not ask for a clarification for listeners of what 'the Palestinian issue' might be. Is this not equally important for your listeners to know as it is for them to understand the reason for the Israeli protests?"

"Palestinian children and their families have been living under Israeli military occupation since June 1967 with no end in sight. Under international law, intentional lethal force is only justified in circumstances where a direct threat to life or of serious injury is present. Investigations and evidence collected by Defense for Children International: Palestine (DCIP) suggest that the use of lethal force against Palestinian children is becoming the norm. 27 Palestinian children have been killed in 2023 by Israeli military."

Although this is presented as Israel’s perspective, this historical account is nonetheless factually inaccurate. By the time the State of Israel was declared on May 14, 1948, over 200 Palestinian villages had already been “emptied as people fled in fear or were forcibly expelled by Zionist forces, and approximately 175,000 Palestinians had been made refugees.” The intervention by the armies of the neighbouring Arab states Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq was partly a response to the large-scale ethnic cleansing campaigns being carried out by Zionist militias, among other reasons. To put it simply, the Nakba started long before the Arab armies got involved. To claim that the refugee crisis was the result of Arab armies “attacking” the territory is to turn the historical record on its head.

"Specifying that settlements are “illegal,” provides important context about why Palestinians may be hostile to settlers and why they may support armed resistance groups like the Lion’s Den. To ignore such context fails to capture the dynamic between Jewish settlers and indigenous Palestinian residents of the occupied West Bank and the near impunity of settlers who are backed by the Israeli army." 

"The use of the phrase ‘so called’ in the context of Israel’s use of administrative detention laws is misleading. 'So called’ brings into question the validity and reality of ‘administrative detention’ as a widespread practice of the Israeli military. Israel’s use of administrative detention has been documented by both the United Nations and human rights and civil society organizations. There is nothing ‘so called’ about the administrative detentions."