Letter to Washington Post

Dear Editor, In "Netanyahu faulted in 2010 flotilla raid" (June 14, 2012), the Washington Post reporter called the nine Turks who lost their lives in the flotilla incident "activists." Excuse me, but these were not your parents' activists! There were no placards, no banners, and certainly no kumbaya singing. These "activists" were knife-toting crowbar-swinging mercenaries who 'greeted' Israeli soldiers trying to board the ship peacefully by attempts to murder them. Whether the outcome would have been different if different decisions had been made by the Israeli government is moot. Rewriting history is inexcusable. Michael Berenhaus