Israel's security requirements are one of the most important 'core issues' to be discussed by Israeli and Palestinian negotiators. Many journalists, however, downplay Israel's security needs by wrongly omitting them from lists of core issues. 
One of the most disturbing of this season's "Bethlehem Formula" columns is the muddled and distorted Op-Ed by Kenneth Woodward that appeared on the generally well-vetted Op-Ed page of the Wall Street Journal. 
Following Hamas' violent takeover of Gaza, Israel is called upon to bolster Palestinian "moderates"– i.e. the Fatah movement and its leaders–as a bulwark against the Hamas extremists. But how moderate is Fatah? 
A New York Times Magazine profile of Israeli politician Tzipi Livni by Roger Cohen falsely portrayed Israel as violating U.N. resolutions, and falsely portrayed the Palestinians as opposing suicide bombings and favoring a two-state solution. 
An LA Times Op-Ed by Mousa Abu Marzook, identified only as "the deputy of the political bureau of Hamas" is full of outrageous falsehoods and inaccuracies which seek to justify the unjustifiable — the murder of innocent Israeli civilians. 
The photo accompanying a NY Times' film review showed the smiling face of Ahlam Tamimi. That Tamimi was the unrepentant terrorist who assisted in the suicide bombing of a pizza shop, killing 16, was not mentioned. 
The New York Times ran yet another full page, anti-Israel ad by the Council for the National Interest, founded by Paul Findley. 
Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, the prestigious British medical journal, exploits his position to blame Israel for Palestinian healthcare problems in a lengthy article in the New York Review of Books.