Your recent editorial, ”Talking peace on two fronts,” remarked that the Arabs needed to ”offer substantive proposals of their own” or ”risk being labeled obstructionists” in the Middle East talks. I hope this indicates a change in your previous reporting to a more fair and balanced perspective.
In many of your front-page articles over the past few years, your stories had labeled the ”hard-line” Israelis as obstructionists, even though the Arabs had never proposed any concrete steps for peace. Numerous articles appeared criticizing Israel for Palestinian rights abuses, yet hardly a word was written concerning the more massive violations consistently taken by Arab governments and monitored by such internationally acclaimed groups as Amnesty International and Freedom House.
As the Arab-Israeli peace talks proceed, it is hoped that your coverage will scrutinize the Syrians, Jordanians, Palestinians and Lebanese actions as directly as you have reviewed the Israelis in the past.
