He might be a hardliner (I disagree with his support for Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank), but U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman is right about one thing: too many journalists too easily and unfairly criticize Israeli security forces in their dealings with Palestinian protests.

As the Times of Israel reports, Friedman told an Israeli media conference that “it would seem to me that in a journalistic environment where nine out of ten articles that are written about the Gaza conflict are critical of Israel, you’d think that some journalists would take the time and go and meet with experts and try to understand what could have been done differently or better before they criticize. And I just haven’t seen it.”