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