Letter to The Washington Post

Dear Editor, In "Israel closing its doors to illegal African Migrants" (11/3/12), Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights castigate Israel for blocking the entrance of illegal African migrants. These groups maintain that blocking their entrance puts the migrants at risk for "torture and abuse" from their home country and in Egypt through which they have traveled on their way to Israel. Why are Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights so conspicuously silent about the abuse and torture as it occurs and only speak out about it when the migrants arrive in Israel? Michael Berenhaus