Letter to Washington Post

Dear Editor, While Syria shoots to kill its protesters and random bystanders to the tune of over 8,000 dead, Israel uses non-lethal techniques solely against those that protest, even those that are violent. (3/31/12, front page picture). The protest leaders say that their purpose is to dispute Israel's so-called discriminatory land practices, but most who follow events in the region (save the Washington Post) know that this is just an excuse in the campaign to topple Israel by delegitimizing it. The Palestinian Arabs and their neighbors have tried for 64 years to beat Israel; this is just another technique which the Post falls for once again hook, line, and sinker. What is particularly saddening about the damning picture is that in Israel, unlike in any other country in the Middle East, photographers have the freedom to take such photos. Meanwhile less damning photos or even the existence of journalists in many Arab countries has been met with murder as we have recently seen in Syria. So, therefore, newspapers like the Post spotlight Israel on the front page in a disproportionate way, garnering more anti-Israel sentiment aiding and abetting the Arabs/Palestinian Arabs in their fight against Israel, fought largely now in the media. Michael Berenhaus