Letter to Washington Post

Dear Editors, At 4:00pm on May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister, recited the Declaration of Independence which marked the creation of the State of Israel. At that time, there was no Palestinian refugee issue. Yet according to The Washington Post, in "No respite for Palestinian refugees" (6/22/13), Palestinians refugees were "displaced by the creation of Israel." The occurrence of the refugee issue, which The Washington Post continually omits, was due to the war that five Arab armies and the local Arabs initiated with the aim of defeating the nascent Jewish state.* The Arabs lost. That is the origin of the refugee problem. Remarkably had the Arabs won, the Jews would have experienced back-to-back Holocausts since they had no place to run, unlike the Palestinians. Please consider correcting this in your future publications. Thank you, Michael Berenhaus