From: mberenhaus@comcast.net
To: letters@washpost.com
Sent: Monday, October 4, 2010 8:10:56 AM
Subject: letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
On Sunday, Oct.3, 2010, the Washington Post printed two pro-Palestinian letters, both patently false. In one, the writer claimed that the Jewish neighborhoods in the West Bank (which have taken on the pejorative term 'settlements') prevent the formation of a contiguous Palestinian state. That is not the case; rather, it is the unwillingness of the Palestinian leadership to sit down, negotiate, and make hard decisions that prevents Palestinian statehood. The Palestinians could have had a state many times over had they genuinely wanted it. Peculiarly, while insisting on a Palestinian "right of return" to Israel, they insist that their country be Jew-free. Doesn't that raise some red flags about their true intentions?
Michael Berenhaus
