From: mberenhaus@comcast.net
To: ombudsman@washpost.com
Subject: Objective pursuits Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:21:19 +0000
Dear Editor/Ombudsman/Staff,
According to The Washington Post (Israeli Candidates Vow To Bring Down Hamas, Dec. 22, 2008), "the cease-fire had been eroding since early November, when a deadly Israeli raid prompted Palestinians to step up attacks." The Palestinians didn't need any prompting - they had been doing quite nicely on their own initiative having bombarded Israel before then on an almost daily basis, cease-fire or no cease-fire, with thousands of mortars and rockets - their way of saying thank you for being handed the Gaza Strip by Israel in 2005.
With Washington Post coverage, it is always Israel that "triggers" or "prompts" Palestinian violence. This is so in-line with Palestinian propaganda and the Post has become a purveyor of it. In this case, if the Post wanted to attempt a modicum of neutrality, it could have said "in what the Palestinians said prompted them to step up their attacks." But being neutral, apparently, is not what the Post is out to accomplish.
Michael Berenhaus
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