Defaming Israel

by Joseph Puder, FrontPage:

Karl Vick’s report in Time magazine entitled Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace was driven by his own ideological bent toward Israel and the issue of Middle East peace; one that he clearly shares with the editorial board of Time magazine. The article’s validity was additionally compromised by the imbalance of those individuals the author chose to interview and the accompanying pictures.

In his article, Vick cited a recent poll that asked respondents to name “the most urgent problem facing Israel.” He did this in order to demonstrate that Israelis are not concerned with peace and are instead, more preoccupied with education, crime, national security and poverty. Yet he missed several points. The most obvious is that Israelis have always listed peace with the Arabs as their top concern. When, however, Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza and abandoned settlements in Samaria only to be repeatedly rocketed by Hamas, it became clear that peace is simply a pipe-dream. You simply cannot have a one-sided peace.

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