Dear Editor:
In a single paragraph of the editorial "What Biden got right on his trip to the Middle East":
The New York Times wrongly blamed the moribund "peace process" on the political situation in Israel, without even mentioning the serial rejections by the Palestinian Arabs of incredibly generous proposals and their announcement, more than five years ago, that they would never again negotiate directly with Israel, not to mention their terrorism, their sacrosanct "pay-to-slay" program and the blood feud between their two most prominent terror groups, Hamas and Fatah.
The New York Times promoted the fiction that the Palestinian Arabs "do not buy" the State Department's obviously correct determination that even if the bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh came from an Israeli weapon, it wasn't deliberate. Meanwhile, the editorial completely ignored the evidence that the bullet briefly turned over to the United States was deliberately damaged by the PA during the two months it had hidden it, something strongly suggesting the PA didn't want the source of the bullet to be determined. The most obvious explanation is the PA knew the bullet came from one of those Palestinian terrorists firing wildly.
The New York Times falsely asserted closing that consulate in Jerusalem in 2018 was vindictive. Actually, maintaining a de facto embassy to a non-state (the Palestinian Authority) in the capital of a close friend and ally (Israel) while locating the embassy to our friend an hour - if there's light traffic - from its capital had been perverse, all the more so given that the PA is no friend of America.
And that doesn't even encompass everything The New York Times got wrong in just that one paragraph!
Sincerely,
Alan Stein