Acceptable in Polite Society
An essay on the current TIME cover story that proclaims: Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace. This response by Daniel Gordis is one of hundreds that points out that (a) Israel does care about peace, (b) Israelis are skeptical about the “peace process” for good reason and (c) the article by Karl Vick is a piece of Jew-hating crap journalism. The timing of Vick’s article, on the eve on the Jewish New Year and at the beginning of direct mideast peace talks, seems almost blatantly provocative, but the author appears to be too ignorant to have even noticed. Vick’s writing is some of the very worst ever published on Israel in the mainstream press. I hereby award him the “Guardian” award for bad middle east journalism. Hard as it is to believe, he is now TIME’s bureau chief in Jerusalem. I expect we will be hearing more from him on this subject soon, a prospect that I will not be looking forward to.