At the White House Jewish Heritage Celebration, May 27, 2010. . . Helen Thomas, a member of the White House Press Corps, Hearst Newspapers, was approached by Rabbi David Nessenoff, an award winning film-maker, who himself was visiting the White House for the Jewish Heritage Month Ceremonies. With camera rolling, he had the chance to ask Helen Thomas about the Middle East, and Helen responds with a perfect example of the liberal practice of anti-Semitism:
David Nessenoff: Any comments on Israel? We're asking everybody today. . .
Helen Thomas: Tell 'em to get the hell out of Palestine.
Nessenoff: Oh.
Helen Thomas: [Laughs]
Nessenoff: Any better comments on Israel?
Helen Thomas: [Laughs more} Remember, these people are occupied, and it’s their land. It’s not German, and it’s not Poland.
Nessenoff: So where should they go and what should they do?
Helen Thomas: They should go home!
Nessenoff: Where’s home?
Thomas: Poland. Germany.
Nessenoff: So you’re saying the Jews should go back to Poland and Germany?
Thomas: And America and everywhere else. (In other words, remain a scattered people).
Helen Thomas later issued an apology:
“I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.”
The statement is well-crafted, and typical liberal rhetoric. It sounds like it was written by Obama's teleprompter.
But Helen Thomas should not be let off the hook so easily. This is not the first time she has said venomous things about Israel. She has a history of anti-Semitism. The only difference between Helen Thomas and the rest of the hard-left liberals that occupy the Democrat Party is that she opens her trap and let's loose with what the rest of the leftists try to keep secret in regards to what they believe.
A couple days ago Helen Thomas betrayed her feelings about Israel as well. In the Flotilla incident, where Israeli troops boarded a vessel they knew were filled with Islamic Terrorists, in order to investigate the vessel so as to ensure that only vessels bringing humanitarian aid was approaching Gaza, not vessels bringing more terrorists and weapons, the Israeli boarders were viciously attacked. The occupants of the vessel mercilessly beat the Israelis with lead pipes and guns. Helen Thomas, being the anti-Semite that she is, called the Flotilla incident a "massacre" against the Muslims, and indicated Israel is a "terrorist state" a couple days ago when asking Robert Gibbs why the U.S. Government didn't "condemn" Israel for their actions.
During the 2008/09 Israeli battle with Hamas in Gaza, Thomas was interviewed by NPR's Democracy Now. Helen Thomas said she believed President George W. Bush was "controlled" by Israel, and implied Israel is a Nazi State when she compared the IDF defensive action to Nazi Germany:
AMY GOODMAN: Tell us what you wrote in this last column, which is called “History Cannot Save Him.”
HELEN THOMAS: Well, I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.
AMY GOODMAN: Do you expect to see a change of policy, Helen Thomas?
HELEN THOMAS: I think it’s an unconscionable legacy.
AMY GOODMAN: Do you expect to see a change of policy, for example, on Israel and the Occupied Territories?
HELEN THOMAS: No, I don’t.
AMY GOODMAN: Why not?
HELEN THOMAS: Because I think that Obama, during the campaign, made many promises, as every president, potential president does to Israel, that they seem somehow bounded by their promises, promises to uphold all Israeli goals. I don’t see how the US can provide F-16s, gunships, Apache gunships, phosphorus, possibly phosphorus, and cluster bombs and so forth to kill helpless people, children who are starving to death. They control the checkpoints. They control the arrivals and departures, supplies and people. And the Americans—President Bush has remained silent to that suffering. He has blocked by a veto at the UN any stoppage of the warfare, and he continues to supply Israel.
AMY GOODMAN: Helen Thomas, what would you have asked President Bush if you got a chance yesterday? Did you expect that he would call on you?
HELEN THOMAS: No, but I wish that he had, because I would have—I mean, I would have asked a news question. I would not have gone into the nostalgia, though I’m not criticizing it, because I do think the reporters had to wrap up to find out what he really thought about himself and his legacy. But I would have asked why—why do you continue to support the killing in Gaza? And that’s what we’re doing.
I mean, you can’t remain neutral. I remember the rabbi who spoke at the Martin Luther King march on Washington. Heschel had a cameo appearance, and he said, “The greatest sin of all in the Nazi era was silence.” When you remain silent to the suffering and the incredible aggression against a people, then you are culpable. (A great example of how liberals like to revise history. Rabbi Heschel actually marched with Rev. King throughout the south, it was no cameo appearance.)
If Helen Thomas really wanted everyone to go back to "where they came from," she would repatriate herself to Lebanon, she would expect all of the Blacks to return to Africa, all of the Whites to return to Europe, Latinos to return to Spain, Brazilians to return to Portugal, and the American Indians to return to Asia along with all of the other Asians returning to that part of the world (in the end, the Western Hemisphere would have no people at all save for a few islands) - Oh, and after it was all over, the Jews would call home an area much larger than the current State of Israel - if she truly wanted everybody to return to the place their ancestors came from. . . and Palestine would not exist.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
David Nessenoff: Any comments on Israel? We're asking everybody today. . .
Helen Thomas: Tell 'em to get the hell out of Palestine.
Nessenoff: Oh.
Helen Thomas: [Laughs]
Nessenoff: Any better comments on Israel?
Helen Thomas: [Laughs more} Remember, these people are occupied, and it’s their land. It’s not German, and it’s not Poland.
Nessenoff: So where should they go and what should they do?
Helen Thomas: They should go home!
Nessenoff: Where’s home?
Thomas: Poland. Germany.
Nessenoff: So you’re saying the Jews should go back to Poland and Germany?
Thomas: And America and everywhere else. (In other words, remain a scattered people).
Helen Thomas later issued an apology:
“I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.”
The statement is well-crafted, and typical liberal rhetoric. It sounds like it was written by Obama's teleprompter.
But Helen Thomas should not be let off the hook so easily. This is not the first time she has said venomous things about Israel. She has a history of anti-Semitism. The only difference between Helen Thomas and the rest of the hard-left liberals that occupy the Democrat Party is that she opens her trap and let's loose with what the rest of the leftists try to keep secret in regards to what they believe.
A couple days ago Helen Thomas betrayed her feelings about Israel as well. In the Flotilla incident, where Israeli troops boarded a vessel they knew were filled with Islamic Terrorists, in order to investigate the vessel so as to ensure that only vessels bringing humanitarian aid was approaching Gaza, not vessels bringing more terrorists and weapons, the Israeli boarders were viciously attacked. The occupants of the vessel mercilessly beat the Israelis with lead pipes and guns. Helen Thomas, being the anti-Semite that she is, called the Flotilla incident a "massacre" against the Muslims, and indicated Israel is a "terrorist state" a couple days ago when asking Robert Gibbs why the U.S. Government didn't "condemn" Israel for their actions.
During the 2008/09 Israeli battle with Hamas in Gaza, Thomas was interviewed by NPR's Democracy Now. Helen Thomas said she believed President George W. Bush was "controlled" by Israel, and implied Israel is a Nazi State when she compared the IDF defensive action to Nazi Germany:
AMY GOODMAN: Tell us what you wrote in this last column, which is called “History Cannot Save Him.”
HELEN THOMAS: Well, I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.
AMY GOODMAN: Do you expect to see a change of policy, Helen Thomas?
HELEN THOMAS: I think it’s an unconscionable legacy.
AMY GOODMAN: Do you expect to see a change of policy, for example, on Israel and the Occupied Territories?
HELEN THOMAS: No, I don’t.
AMY GOODMAN: Why not?
HELEN THOMAS: Because I think that Obama, during the campaign, made many promises, as every president, potential president does to Israel, that they seem somehow bounded by their promises, promises to uphold all Israeli goals. I don’t see how the US can provide F-16s, gunships, Apache gunships, phosphorus, possibly phosphorus, and cluster bombs and so forth to kill helpless people, children who are starving to death. They control the checkpoints. They control the arrivals and departures, supplies and people. And the Americans—President Bush has remained silent to that suffering. He has blocked by a veto at the UN any stoppage of the warfare, and he continues to supply Israel.
AMY GOODMAN: Helen Thomas, what would you have asked President Bush if you got a chance yesterday? Did you expect that he would call on you?
HELEN THOMAS: No, but I wish that he had, because I would have—I mean, I would have asked a news question. I would not have gone into the nostalgia, though I’m not criticizing it, because I do think the reporters had to wrap up to find out what he really thought about himself and his legacy. But I would have asked why—why do you continue to support the killing in Gaza? And that’s what we’re doing.
I mean, you can’t remain neutral. I remember the rabbi who spoke at the Martin Luther King march on Washington. Heschel had a cameo appearance, and he said, “The greatest sin of all in the Nazi era was silence.” When you remain silent to the suffering and the incredible aggression against a people, then you are culpable. (A great example of how liberals like to revise history. Rabbi Heschel actually marched with Rev. King throughout the south, it was no cameo appearance.)
If Helen Thomas really wanted everyone to go back to "where they came from," she would repatriate herself to Lebanon, she would expect all of the Blacks to return to Africa, all of the Whites to return to Europe, Latinos to return to Spain, Brazilians to return to Portugal, and the American Indians to return to Asia along with all of the other Asians returning to that part of the world (in the end, the Western Hemisphere would have no people at all save for a few islands) - Oh, and after it was all over, the Jews would call home an area much larger than the current State of Israel - if she truly wanted everybody to return to the place their ancestors came from. . . and Palestine would not exist.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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