Letter to The Washington Post Israeli correspondent
From: mberenhaus@comcast.net
To: witteg@washpost.com
Subject: excellent, informative piece that you wrote
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:30:20 AM
Dear Mr. Witte,
Excellent, informative piece that you wrote - (In Gaza and Israel, a Wary Quiet - June 20, 2008). I hope that the cease fire will be sustained and beneficial to both sides.
Something slipped through in the article that you may want to consider making a clarification. In the second paragraph of the piece, it refers to the modus operandi of Hamas as "two decades of battling of the Israeli occupation." Later in the article, it describes that Hamas "was founded in the mid-1980's as an armed Islamist movement dedicated to the destruction of Israel." Clearly, it can't be both. The first sentence would seem better by saying 'two decades of battling Israel.' Just thought that you would want to make the piece the best that it could be...and it was very good.
Michael Berenhaus
Potomac, MD
Friday, June 20, 2008
Letter to The Washington Post
From: mberenhaus@comcast.net
To: letters@washpost.com
CC: ombudsman@washpost.com
Subject: Glossing over pertinent details of a story
Date: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:56:56 AM
Dear Editor/Ombudsman,
The Washington Post states that "Israel responded with a siege" after Hamas took power a year ago. ("As Israel Siege Strangles Gaza Strip, Hamas, Smugglers Profit off Tunnels", June 18, 2008). It wasn't the fact that Hamas took power that caused the siege but what came with it: thousands of mortars and rockets collectively punishing and terrorizing Israeli citizens.
Bear in mind, Israel went as far as ethnically cleansing its own people from the Gaza Strip in 2005 in the hope of peace. The only thing that it has gotten in return is a dramatic increase in Arab terrorist attacks, including rockets and infiltrations, into Israel. Ironically the world condemns Israel, not Hamas, when it responds, glossing over what Hamas has done. This Washington Post article contributed to that glossing over.
Michael Berenhaus
From: mberenhaus@comcast.net
To: letters@washpost.com
CC: ombudsman@washpost.com
Subject: Glossing over pertinent details of a story
Date: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:56:56 AM
Dear Editor/Ombudsman,
The Washington Post states that "Israel responded with a siege" after Hamas took power a year ago. ("As Israel Siege Strangles Gaza Strip, Hamas, Smugglers Profit off Tunnels", June 18, 2008). It wasn't the fact that Hamas took power that caused the siege but what came with it: thousands of mortars and rockets collectively punishing and terrorizing Israeli citizens.
Bear in mind, Israel went as far as ethnically cleansing its own people from the Gaza Strip in 2005 in the hope of peace. The only thing that it has gotten in return is a dramatic increase in Arab terrorist attacks, including rockets and infiltrations, into Israel. Ironically the world condemns Israel, not Hamas, when it responds, glossing over what Hamas has done. This Washington Post article contributed to that glossing over.
Michael Berenhaus
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