Michael Vick, Author of Time Magazine's "Why Israel Doesn't Want Peace" Visits Judea and Samaria (the WB)

In a continuation of the saga on the Time headline story, (which I cannot bear to repeat anymore), Michael Vick visited the area which many claim as "The Obstacle to Peace" (meant to be said in loud echoing voice)
Arutzsheva reports:

...Vick was promptly invited, by no less than the new head of the Council of Judea and Samaria (Moetzet Yesha) , Naftali Bennett. for a personally guided VIP tour of the Shomron to see “the facts on the ground” for himself.

David Haivri, head of the Shomron International Liaison Office, who accompanied Vick at the start of  the tour, commented to Israelnationalnews, ”Vick clearly came to learn, he really listened and asked interested questions” .

  Continuing to the nearby  Barkan Industrial Park, Vick met and spoke freely with some of the 5000 Arab workers employed at the park and heard about their lives, what they think of the present situation and the prospects for peace, He saw Jews and Arabs working side by side in production lines.

The tour went on to Ariel, a thriving city of 17000 Israelis, many of them immigrants from Russia. but recently in the news when a group of leftist Israeli actors announced a much publicized boycott of its new Cultural Center. The town is home to many expellees from the Gush Katif "disengagement" expulsion, some still in temporary caravans due to the building freeze.

 At Ariel University Center. University President, former MK Yigal Cohen Orgad, showed the visitor  the new free electron laser unit that is being used in various types of scientific research.  Bennett told Israelnationalnews that Vick admitted never imagining this level of research equipment  in the Shomron. "It is clear", Bennett continued, " that Vick also never imagined that the Shomron is home to so  many secular, kippa less Israelis. The picture painted in the media is that of an area  of 'fanatically religious Jewish extremists'.

At Eli, site of the pre Army yeshiva (Mechina) from which Roi Klein and other IDF heroes stemmed, he met with Danny Dayan, outgoing head of the Judea and Samaria Council, spoke to residents and went on to meet a fresh group of recent immigrants from France whose new baby was just born in Israel,  The Shilo vineyards and the view of the Jordan Valley from a lookout point, followed by the archaeological excavations of the Israelites Biblical Tabernacle at Shiloh completed the day .

"Vick could not help but notice  the vast open and untouched spaces between all the communities in the Shomron, Jewish and Arab, and how the Israeli presence does not encroach on Arab villages or agriculture", said Bennett. "It is obvious that there is enough room for all of us and for Jewish expansion."

"I wasn’t aware of all  this”, Vick commented, explaining that he did not write the headline for his article and that editing had made the article seem more critical than he meant it to be. He is considering a sequel to it. 

 Maybe it will look something like this one?

Neah, won't get my hopes up. More likely, why Israel doesn't want peace and then some. But hey! Miracles can happen!
(Read the whole Arutzsheva article here.)