Posted on 07/21/2010 1:56:58 PM PDT by 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 1880s, 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. Its 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.
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Level of journalistic accomplishments????????
Ever the anti semite she fit right in with the rest of the trash in the media.
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.
After reading your headline I thought this was from Rachel Maddow.
Thanks for sending this, Nachum.
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