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Helen Thomas is sticking to her earlier statements on Israel and in a speech she gave yesterday in Michigan added to her attacks on the country.
From the Detroit Free-Press
Helen Thomas said Thursday that she stands by her comments about Israel she made earlier this year that led to her resignation as a national columnist.
And she went further, saying that Zionists control U.S. foreign policy and other institutions. The local Jewish community condemned her remarks.
In an interview, Thomas, 90, said that criticizing Israel led to her resignation and ostracism in Washington.
“I can call a president of the United States anything in the book, but I can’t touch Israel, which has Jewish-only roads in the West Bank,” Thomas said. “No American would tolerate that — white-only roads.”
Thomas, a longtime White House correspondent who grew up in Detroit as the daughter of Lebanese immigrants, was in Dearborn for a workshop on anti-Arab bias.
In a speech to about 300 people inside a center in Dearborn, she talked about “the whole question of money involved in politics.”
“Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the Zionists. No question, in my opinion,” she said. “They put their money where their mouth is. … We’re being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.”
Jewish groups have called Thomas’ earlier remarks unfair and bigoted. They slammed Thursday’s remarks as well.
“Ms. Thomas repeated the anti-Semitic stereotypes that have been used for more than a century to incite hatred of Jews. Her comments should be condemned by all people who oppose bigotry,” said Robert Cohen, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Detroit.
Don Cohen, a pro-Israel activist from West Bloomfield, said that Thomas’ claim about Jewish-only roads in the West Bank was inaccurate.
“There are Israeli-only roads on which anyone with an Israeli license plate… can use… Jews and Arabs,” Cohen said.
Asked by the Free Press how she would respond to those who say she’s anti-Semitic, Thomas said: “I’d say I’m a Semite. What are you talking about?”
In the interview, she said the Iraq war was “built on lies. … No weapons of mass destruction. No ties to al-Qaida. What is this? Why are we killing those people? And why are we there?”
Thomas resigned from Hearst Newspapers in June after telling a rabbi on camera that Israelis should “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go home” to “Poland, Germany and America and everywhere else.”
In the interview Thursday, Thomas talked about the problems that Palestinians face. “Arabs are not terrorists,” she said.
Rather, she pointed to former Israeli leader Menachem Begin’s activities during Israel’s campaign for statehood. “They bragged, in his first book, about creating the modus operandi for terrorists,” she said.
Thomas also said she’s proud of her Arab roots, but stressed that she’s fully American.
“I never felt I was an Arab American. I felt I was an American,” she said.
Thomas has every right to say what she thinks now that she is now longer employed by a news organization but these feelings are so strong it would be hard to imagine that they didn’t affect her writing during her long career in Washington and yet her employers never questioned her bias against Israel which seems to only have emboldened her in her old age.
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9 Comments for Helen Thomas Attacks Israel Again
She has every right to express her opinion.
Her problem is that her “sell-by” date expired decades ago.
Hey, Curmudgeon, that’s a “10-4″ on the sell-by date. Look up “stale” in the dictionary and there’s her picture. Really, I don’t think she has been following “the Anointed One” very well. Our POTUS has assumed the role of “West Bank Planning Commissioner” and I would think Helen would be applauding his decisions about Israeli building permits. Then, there is all that bowing and scraping with the Arab leaders. Maybe Helen needs fresh contact lenses?
“Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the Zionists. No question, in my opinion,” she said. “They put their money where their mouth is. … We’re being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.”………..
Perhaps the Zionists “do not own” the President or the Congress but if any politician from the President on down to the newest Congressman (or Woman ) would so much as say a diparaging thing about the Jews that have occupied Palestine for the past 62 years, they would be committing political suicide. By using the reference to “occupation” I’ve branded myself as anti-semetic. Perhaps…… but when is the last time you have heard an American politician so much as disagree ( in public ) with the Jews ?
William of York, Where do you live?
Your president assaults Israel every chance he gets, given his preference for the Palestinians from the beginning of his presidency it is no wonder that his misfortunes plague him. And that is not by an act of the Jews but by the hand of God Almighty.
Any human who disclaims the validity of Jerusalem as Jewish territory has his nuts in his hands.
So bad luck for your Anointed Fool and his kin. No amount of posturing by the Arabs and their associates can rewrite the covenant that Yahweh has with his people.
The Muslims must stop practicing their replacement theology if they really serve Allah. No conjuring will erase the rich historical evidence that Israel existed and will exist, so help us GOD
God Bless Helen Thomas, American’s need to wake up and see who it truely is that is destroying them from with in and has attached itself to them like a tic sucking the life out of us; it’s the jewish/zionist influence (SPLC,ADL,AIPAC,Israel Lobby…)that stays hidden in the shadows pulling all the strings and they hate you and your Christian religon (watch the video “The War on Christmas) and read “Protocol 10″.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason
from within.
An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.”
To A.B
I was just voicing an observation. Trying not to be rude or sarcastic. You ask ,where do I live ?
Answer, a lifetime within the continental limits of the United States. I’m “One of the Boys of 44″. Hint, D Day and the Battle of the Bulge Perhaps you might listen to the song by that name by Jerry Reed.
I will stand on my opinion. The Jew is a Jew first, last and always. Quite frankly that isn’t such an awful trait. Conversely I’m an American, FIRST LAST AND ALWAYS.
Edward, on the other hand, strikes a rather hard hitting cord. But he does have a point. Kissenger once said to the lady that was the PM of Israel, “I’m an American, a Patriot and a Jew.” She replied with a chuckle, “Everybody knows Hebrew is read from right to left.”
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If I wrote the books of that made up the bible, for the religions I setup, I would definitely pencil in myself as the chosen. Sorta like a get out of jail free card.
Look at this:
A 13-year-old boy was critically injured Thursday afternoon when Arab terrorists opened fire at a bus traveling in southern Israel near the Nahal Oz crossing.
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O Israel. Pawns of the ages. Father Abraham’s children. Moses’ burden. David’s passion. Christ’s heartbreak. God’s chosen. Mankind’s jealousy. Satan’s most hated. Nobody, but nobody, can prevent these most irrevocably divinely-destined people on earth.