From: Dr. Michael Berenhaus [mailto:mberenhaus@comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 3:59 PM
To: 'letters@baltsun.com'
Subject: letter to the editor
Dear Editor,
The Baltimore Sun's editorial Of Land And Peace [Dec. 4, 2006] misses on all counts. The Suns claims, which are very damning to Israel, are based on a report by the anti-settlement group which calls itself Peace Now. Peace Now has been on a steep decline since May of 2000 when Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian Arabs a state in all of Gaza, 97% of the West Bank (with an extra 3% in adjacent land for a total of 100%), and East Jerusalem as their capital. The Palestinians rejected the offer outright - didn't even counter it. With this, Peace Now and its hardline 'make concessions' policies were exposed as worthless. Now desperate, Peace Now issues its report. Its claim - some of the Israeli settlements are built on Palestinian land. The veracity of this report is questionable even to the Sun which qualifies the claims by saying "if true." Yes but 'if false,' the entire claim is just more slander against Israel and irresponsible journalism by The Sun.
Perhaps, instead of parroting a partisan advocacy group, the Sun could have done some investigative journalism to find out the truth on this matter. And isn't that what newspapers are supposed to do?
Michael Berenhaus
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