Dear Editor,
Janine Zacharia puts a kibosh on the so-called humanitarian crisis claimed in Gaza in her June,3, 2010 Washington Post article. According to Zacharia, "if you walk down Gaza City's main thoroughfare - Salah al-Din Street - grocery stores are stocked wall-to-wall with everything from fresh Israeli yogurts and hummus to Cocoa puffs." Further she states, "Pharmacies look as well-supplied as a typical Rite Aid in the United States." Why have other journalists had such a hard time reporting this. The "crisis" canard has been passed from journalist to journalist like the game 'telephone' blasted throughout the world with the conditions of the Palestinians seeming worse and worse by the day. Apparently, nobody, save Zacharia, has bothered to take a look. But Zacharia, like the Starship Enterprise of Star Trek fame, 'has boldly gone where no one has gone before' - to see for herself the farce that has been perpetrated at the expense of Israel. Kudos to her.
Michael Berenhaus
