I would like to ask why this article gave Israeli apologist perspectives preferential placement?
February 10, 2026
To the Welland Tribune and the Associated Press,
I am writing on behalf of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) about your article “Israeli minister calls West Bank measures ‘de facto sovereignty,’ says no future Palestinian state” published on February 10, 2026.
I thank you for this article and the information it conveys. I do have some constructive feedback regarding the structure of the piece and some wording choices.
Like so much of our mainstream media you choose to place the Israeli perspective first and give it headline prominence. This gives their often untruthful perspective first exposure to the reader and therefore dominance in the article.
I would like to ask why this article gave Israeli apologist perspectives preferential placement?
Further into the article there is a sentence which could stand correction, “The measures, approved by Netanyahu’s Security Cabinet on Sunday, expand Israel’s enforcement authority over land use and planning in areas run by the Palestinian Authority, making it easier for Jewish settlers to force Palestinians to give up land.”
This sentence makes it seem as if the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank is merely a matter of administrative policy enforcement when in fact Palestinian land is being stolen and people's homes are being demolished at an unprecedented rate. Israelis are certainly using “force” to steal Palestinians land, often at gunpoint but the Palestinians do not simply “give up” their land. This phrase makes it seem like they are passive and without agency when in fact what is happening to them is a grave injustice. Many experts state quite correctly that it is indeed ethnic cleansing that we are witnessing but your article suppresses that barbaric reality.
Will you revise the article to reflect the reality on the ground for Palestinians and commit to a fairer representation of this incredibly asymmetrical situation in the future?
Thank you for reading and I look forward to your response.
Jeff Winch