1) I could say the same thing about you not living for an extended period of time in more than one Arab country. The difference is that I don't regard everything the media says as automatically correct or incorrect just because it is in the media. That depends on its source(s) and the evidence given that it's true or false.
2) I don't speak Hebrew, and neither do tens of millions of people who hold different opinions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That doesn't necessarily discredit our opinions.
This is all pretty weak logic though. It's like saying we can't comment on Taliban's crimes in Pakistan unless we know Urdu, or that we can't point out the totalitarianism of someone like Fidel Castro if we don't speak Spanish. There is a reason things happening in different places all over the world are no longer isolated to just the place they happened in. Media outlets are useful for knowing about events that take place elsewhere. The fact that there are unreliable sources in the media doesn't mean all of their sources are the same way.
I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. My point was, if you haven't been in Israel long enough to be able to converse with people on the street, then you haven't been in Israel long enough to experience what lead Israelis to make the choice they did. It's easy to condemn people from your armchair. It's much harder when the subject is experienced.
I would
not, for instance, opine about South Korea's electing Kim Jon-un, because I recognize that the government there plays a very dictatorial role in people's lives. Perhaps they were not given an alternative. Perhaps they were not make knowledgeable of an alternative. Or perhaps they knew all that and still just really love the cuddly guy. Until I've experienced for myself what led them to their decision, I can't make a statement either way about their choice.
I am not saying that we can't comment altogether. But whenever discussing an issue that we have no personal knowledge about, it will be better to recognize that
there may be information here that I don't have. Making definitive statements in this case is not the right way to go.