Dear Helen: From One American Lebanese Journalist To another…

big journalism ^ | 7/21/10 | Brigitte Gabriel

[Nachum]

Dear Helen Thomas:

With a great deal of disappointment I watched your interview, replayed over and over on television, in which you said that Jews should “go back home to Poland and Germany.” I find it both appalling and unsettling that someone with your level of journalistic accomplishment would lack a basic knowledge of Middle Eastern history.

So please allow me to make the case as to why Israel has a historical, legal and moral right to exist as a Jewish state in the Middle East.

According to the Arab-Palestinian-Muslim narrative, Israel is an alien colony recently planted in the Arab world by American and European imperialism. This narrative recognizes no history prior to the arrival of the first Zionist pioneers in the 1880’s, and emphatically denies any ancient historical connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel. This is the central lie, offered to justify uncompromising opposition to Jewish national rights. It’s almost as if they actually expect people to think the word “Israel” was invented in modern times. What is alarming is that their increasingly successful rewrite of history has taken hold in minds supposedly as informed as yours.

[Nachum]

Dearest Bridget, we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. I watched with satisfaction, her interview, substantiating every suspicion we had about this slime. I find it both uplifting and foundational that we can with absolutely complete assurance that at least one snake's fangs have been ripped out.

[Carley]

Level of journalistic accomplishments????????

Ever the anti semite she fit right in with the rest of the trash in the media.

[uscabjd]

At least 40% of the Jewish population of Israel are Middle eastern Jews, and their descendants, who were evicted from arab countries in 1948. They have no connection to Europe, and cannot go “home” to those Arab lands. There has never been any outcry from the libs, Arabs, or the UN about any right to return or compensation. They would live in refugee comps today but for the fact that Israel, France and the USA took them in, something the Arab countries refuse to do for their own.

[03A3]

After reading your headline I thought this was from Rachel Maddow.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

[Chode]

you are born with the face God gave you, you die with the face you give yourself... she gave herself one that looks like this

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for sending this, Nachum.