Have you been to the crossing points?

I really resent that form of argumentation.

When were you last there at all?

I really resent it.

You should at least do the courtesy of visiting it.

This is not an attractive invitation.

I think it's a good idea to see stuff, particularly if you spend a career talking about something.

I have the right to talk about whatever I want, and no one's going to stop me or try to intimidate me.

And I think that if I said to somebody else the other way around, it would be equally reprehensible.

I have a journalistic rule of trying never to talk about a country even in passing unless I've at least been there.

If I said, shut up, you have no right to criticize anything that Douglas Murray says because... Hang on, you're talking about crossing points.

And not only of you never been to a crossing point in either Egypt or in Israel, but you've

never even been to the region.

Okay.

It's not an exact comparison, but seriously, is that a reasonable form of argument?

No. In that case, nobody can talk about anything.

We might as well pack up, go home and isolate ourselves.

If you're insisting that you're an expert of some kind, or not claiming you're an expert,

but still talking about it, if you've never seen any of this going on.

I mean, there are some people who've written about the, I mean, there are people who've written about the Holocaust who didn't experience the Holocaust and have written about it better than people who did.

But that is a different matter from spending an awfully long amount of time talking about an issue in a region you haven't even had the courtesy to visit whilst developing all of these

views about it. This idea that the lived experience has to triumph over everything else is not always

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