Letter to The Washington Post

From: Dr. Michael Berenhaus [mailto:mberenhaus@comcast.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 8:52 AMTo: 'letters@washpost.com'
Subject: letter to the editor

Dear Editor,

Farrah Hassen [letters, Aug. 1, 2007] refers to a “dispute over the Golan Heights.” In 1967, after years of shelling Israeli farms and villages, Syria lost the Golan Heights in a war that they started. Where's the "dispute"?

Syria and other Arab countries fight limited liability wars: they start a war, lose, and then cry foul play when they don’t get back what they lost in the war that they precipitated. Sheer nonsense.

Michael Berenhaus