Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Letter to Washington Post
Dear Editor,
Elaine Rose's complaint about anti-Israel bias in the article "Palestinian 'Freedom Riders' arrested on bus to Jerusalem" (11/21/11) is right on. When she asks, "Who can forget murderous suicide bombings of buses in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv?", the obvious answer is the editors of The Washington Post who printed the article.
The Post is consistent in its attacks on Israel while exuding sympathy for Palestinian terrorists. A recent front-page article ("In Gaza, former prisoners pampered in luxury hotel", 10/24/11) told about released Palestinians "prisoners", now living in a luxury Gaza hotel, who are having difficulty adjusting to their high-end beds. Couldn't The Post at least delve into the specifics of why Yahya Dabassa Ibrahim, the main prisoner featured in the article, was incarcerated in the first place? If the Post had, it would have seen that he was not just any prisoner - the guy was a mass murderer who helped orchestrate the Cafe Moment bombing in 2002! Eleven people were killed and 54 injured, many of them seriously.
Does The Washington Post really believe that the Palestinian cause justifies suicide bombings and that Israel is not entitled to defend itself? Why else would the Post print an article whitewashing the release of the murderers of Israeli civilians and another that mocks Israel's security precautions?
Michael Berenhaus
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Letter to Washington Post
Dear Editor,
In "UNESCO votes to admit Palestine; U.S. pulls funding" (11/1/11), Colum Lynch writes about "a surge of cross-border violence" between Palestinian Gazans and Israel - as if there was some sort of equivalence in the attacks. The fact is that Gazans fired rockets at Israeli civilians while Israel responded by attacking the shooters of the rockets. There was no equivalence.
But Lynch doesn't stop at this. He implies, again incorrectly, that Israel initiated the cross-border violence, saying that the Gaza Militants fired rockets into Israel "after" an Israeli drone attack left two Palestinians dead. He fails to mention that the two Palestinians were engaged in the act of launching rockets at Israel when Israel attacked them.
In short, the author draws equivalence when there is none and omits pertinent information that would allow readers to have a proper understanding of the events. This is deliberate slanting of the news. After reading this kind of "reporting" in The Washington Post day in and day out, there seems to be no other conclusion than that the Post has it in for Israel. Why is that?
In "UNESCO votes to admit Palestine; U.S. pulls funding" (11/1/11), Colum Lynch writes about "a surge of cross-border violence" between Palestinian Gazans and Israel - as if there was some sort of equivalence in the attacks. The fact is that Gazans fired rockets at Israeli civilians while Israel responded by attacking the shooters of the rockets. There was no equivalence.
But Lynch doesn't stop at this. He implies, again incorrectly, that Israel initiated the cross-border violence, saying that the Gaza Militants fired rockets into Israel "after" an Israeli drone attack left two Palestinians dead. He fails to mention that the two Palestinians were engaged in the act of launching rockets at Israel when Israel attacked them.
In short, the author draws equivalence when there is none and omits pertinent information that would allow readers to have a proper understanding of the events. This is deliberate slanting of the news. After reading this kind of "reporting" in The Washington Post day in and day out, there seems to be no other conclusion than that the Post has it in for Israel. Why is that?
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