There are 2 Sides to Every Story

RE: 2 Officials and 2 Views on Discussing Mideast Peace (April 28, 2010)

By Mark Landler

To the Editor:

When I began reading this piece I was expecting to read something presenting two sides of a particular story, for example the views of an Iraqi and the views of an American on peace in Iraq. However what I found was much different. This whole article was only one side of the Palestinian Israeli story. It made it seem like the Palestinians weren’t even part of the peace negotiations. Only the American view and the Israeli view were presented and so this article was not a fair representation of the situation at all. The article made it seem like the biggest problem for peace in Israel right now is the continued construction in Jerusalem and an Israeli mayor. Not once did the article try to explain why the construction was a problem for peace and to add further insult there was only a brief portion that had anything to do with Palestine at all. This article was horribly biased incredibly uninformative with regard to what the issue really is about and the people who are really affected by the decisions made by these politicians.