Tadamon! / Gaza: Discord in narratives on war

Jooneed Khan, journalist and author, offers reflections on these major divergences in narrative presented on the Gaza conflict. Khan spoke with Tadamon! for a live broadcast on CKUT community radio in Montreal.
The whole interview can be read at: Tadamon! / Gaza: Discord in narratives on war

I find the whole interview very good and analysing the situation in a reasonable way. However, I found the last section very persuasive:

The Conservative government position was in-line with a narrative coming out of Washington and followed-up by most of the western governments, which was the erroneous claim that Israel’s military actions were entirely defensive. A similar line that Shimon Perez told [the Turkish Prime Minister] Erdogan at the World Economic Forum, that Israel’s actions were defensive.

The reality of Israel’s ongoing military occupation, established in 1967, is seldom mentioned in western political discourse. Multiple resolutions from the U.N. outline Israel as an occupying power in the West Bank and Gaza.

It is amazing that the word occupation is barely mentioned in our coverage, this dimension which is so central to understanding the situation in Palestine-Israel, is seldom mentioned. Israel as an occupying power is victimizing the civilian population of Gaza, the Palestinians, through collective punishment, in contravention to the Geneva Convention, a fact totally admitted from much western media coverage. A key point of context also admitted by Harper, the Conservative government and also from the opposition in Canada, the Liberals.