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Therefore, we're justified in sort of attacking this place and giving these people freedom, which is kind of like the line that the United States have used nearly in perpetuity now at this stage, like giving Afghanistan freedom, giving Iraq freedom.

And I ended up

with wholesale destruction of the land and the people and the infrastructure to the benefit of these huge companies that end up extracting the minerals and the natural resources from the country.

I think there's space for putting forward your opinions and having a position and kind of arguing your case or putting forward the points of that position.

And I think there's a difference to be made between doing that and always trying to be neutral and doing this kind of two-sided kind of journalism, which I think has, it's still prevalent, where, let's say, an organisation, like say the BBC or something, will be inclined to or like they're obliged to give

two parties to a conflict equal amount of time and equal amount of space to put their points forward but the issue with that is that when you're talking about a situation where one side is already there's a huge power imbalance there and it's the two positions shouldn't be put forward equally because then that's actually fallen more to on the side of the oppressor or the person who's doing the attacking so yeah

And we are in, I think, kind of a new age when it comes to journalism, what role journalism plays.

And look at how many journalists have been killed over the course of the last two or three years in Palestine.

It's in the hundreds.

And it's because that when people are willing to expose things that doesn't suit journalism,

the side that has got the most of the power, then they're being punished for it.

I mean, I think back to 2022 when Shireen Abu Akleh was killed.

She was a Palestinian journalist who was killed by an Israeli sniper while she was reporting on a military invasion in Jenin, a city in the north of the West Bank.

I was in Palestine when this happened.

And she worked for Al Jazeera.

She was an icon in Palestine in terms of her reporting and her bravery and stuff and getting into situations and showing the world what was happening in Palestine over the years.

I mean, she was killed.

She was shot in the neck by a sniper intentionally.

And her colleague, one of her colleagues was shot as well.

They were dressed in full press kit.