Friends,
In this letter, which the Post surprisingly published, their inaccuracies are exposed by using a piece in another section – of their newspaper!
Michael
A Mideast war of words in The Post
How can The Post's opinion pages be so laced with fact and the fact pages (the reporting) so laced with opinion?
In the May 16 front-page story "Clashes erupt at Israel's borders", Joel Greenberg presented the Syrian protest on Israel's border as "an unprecedented escalation of the annual demonstrations on the anniversary of the establishment of Israel in 1948".
Even the headline was mendacious: Clashes don't erupt; they are orchestrated, and that's how the headline should have read: "Clashes orchestrated at Israel's borders."
That was clearly how the Post's editorial board saw it on the May 17 editorial page ["Israel's border bloodshed"]. The first sentence got it exactly right: "The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad on Sunday made a desperate attempt to distract attention from its continuing, bloody assault on its own people."
It noted, "Hundreds of Palestinians were bused from refugee camps" and "no one can reach the heavily militarized Syrian front with Israel without the consent and cooperation of the Assad regime."
Why was it necessary, in The Post to read the editorial page to get the facts?
Michael Berenhaus, Potomac
