From: Dr. Michael Berenhaus
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 9:02 AM
To: letters@washpost.com
Subject: letter to the editor
Dear Editor,
Let's see: The Palestinian leadership believes that Israel doesn’t have the right to exist and vows to destroy her. Yet Jim Hoagland (Olmert’s Risky Security Quest, June 18, 2006) criticizes Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Ohlmert for showing “little interest” in dealing with the Palestinians”. Go figure.
Michael Berenhaus
Monday, June 19, 2006
Monday, June 5, 2006
Letter to NY Book Review
Dear Editor,
It’s okay for Arabs to live among Jews in Israel (20% of Israel is Arab), but it’s not okay for Jews to live among Arabs according to Gershom Gorenberg’s book The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967–1977 (review June 22, 2006). Gorenberg calls these few hundred thousand Jews living among Arabs the source of an Israeli empire. Even though Arabs now make up 99 percent of the Middle East, it is ironically the ones that control the remaining 1% which are accused of empire building. Israel won the disputed territories only after repeated genocidal attacks by its Arab neighbors. And this is empire building? The reviewer calls this book “brilliant.”
Michael Berenhaus
Potomac, MD
(http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19105)
It’s okay for Arabs to live among Jews in Israel (20% of Israel is Arab), but it’s not okay for Jews to live among Arabs according to Gershom Gorenberg’s book The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967–1977 (review June 22, 2006). Gorenberg calls these few hundred thousand Jews living among Arabs the source of an Israeli empire. Even though Arabs now make up 99 percent of the Middle East, it is ironically the ones that control the remaining 1% which are accused of empire building. Israel won the disputed territories only after repeated genocidal attacks by its Arab neighbors. And this is empire building? The reviewer calls this book “brilliant.”
Michael Berenhaus
Potomac, MD
(http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19105)
Thursday, June 1, 2006
Letter to The Washington Post
The Post called saying that they are considering this one for publication, too. It is not a guarantee that it will be published, but be on the look out – most likely on Saturday.
Dear Editor,
In the editorial, Israel’s Realignment [May 26, 2006], the Washington Post states that Israeli Prime Minister Olmert intends to keep Jerusalem intact “even though a previous Israeli government recognized that a peace settlement will require divided sovereignty in the city.” The previous Israeli government that the Post refers to, Ehud Barak’s government, did indeed offer to divide Jerusalem during negotiations with the Palestinian Arabs –but that doesn’t make it “required.” As history tells us, the Palestinian Arabs declined the deal making it null and void – so apparently, that wasn’t the ‘requirement’ that the Palestinian Arabs were looking for.
Dear Editor,
In the editorial, Israel’s Realignment [May 26, 2006], the Washington Post states that Israeli Prime Minister Olmert intends to keep Jerusalem intact “even though a previous Israeli government recognized that a peace settlement will require divided sovereignty in the city.” The previous Israeli government that the Post refers to, Ehud Barak’s government, did indeed offer to divide Jerusalem during negotiations with the Palestinian Arabs –but that doesn’t make it “required.” As history tells us, the Palestinian Arabs declined the deal making it null and void – so apparently, that wasn’t the ‘requirement’ that the Palestinian Arabs were looking for.
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