Amid hasbara letters, and a Holocaust reminder from Seymour Reich, the Times finds room today for a progressive-Christian realist, Andy Whitmore of Kansas City, who largely agrees with the Times editorial of yesterday that said Netanyahu's statements re Palestinian state ring "hollow":
Unfortunately, the American media in the past haven’t leaned hard enough on Israel. That has helped lead to entanglements we have now, and has allowed Israel to box itself into its current strangled (and strangling) situation.
No one has ever asked anything of Israel other than following international law — which now involves torturous removal of illegal settlers from all over the West Bank and possibly civil war. Yet if peace is ever to come to “regular” Israelis, and certainly to the beleaguered Palestinians whose lands have been carved up and served to settlers who care nothing about peace for either Israelis or Palestinians, then the Saudi peace plan from 2002, recently renewed, needs to be vigorously pursued, as you suggest.
