Posted on 11/15/2023 2:21:51 PM PST by nickcarraway
WIKI
Thomas retired from Hearst Newspapers on June 7, 2010, following controversial remarks she made about Israel, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and potentially Israeli Jews in an impromptu, unstructured amateur short interview when solicited for “any comments on Israel,” she replied that “tell them to get the hell out of Palestine”
In a later interview on CNN, on The Joy Behar Show, Thomas defended her comments. In response to Behar’s question of whether she was an antisemite, Thomas replied: “Hell no! I’m a Semite, of Arab background.” She then said of Israelis: “They’re not Semites.”
On June 4, Thomas posted the following response on her website: “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.”
In an October 2010 radio interview with Scott Spears of WMRN, Thomas said she realized soon after making the comments that she would be fired, stating, “I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.” She added that she issued an apology because people were upset, but that ultimately, she still “had the same feelings about Israel’s aggression and brutality.”
Born in Winchester, Kentucky, Thomas was the seventh of the nine children of George and Mary (Rowady) Thomas, immigrants from Tripoli, Lebanon (then part of the Ottoman Empire). Thomas said her father’s surname, “Antonious”, was anglicized to “Thomas” when he entered the U.S. at Ellis Island,and that her parents could neither read nor write. Thomas was raised mainly in Detroit, Michigan, where her family moved when she was four years old, and where her father ran a grocery store. Of her experience growing up, Thomas said:
We were never hyphenated as Arab-Americans. We were American, and I have always rejected the hyphen and I believe all assimilated immigrants should not be designated ethnically. Or separated, of course, by race, or creed either. These are trends that ever try to divide us as a people.
“In a 2008 article, The Christian Science Monitor wrote: “Thomas, a fixture in American politics, is outspoken, blunt, demanding, forceful and unrelenting. Not only does she command respect by the highest powers in the US, her reputation is known worldwide.” When Cuban leader Fidel Castro was asked in the early 2000s what was the difference between democracy in Cuba and democracy in the United States, Castro reportedly replied, “I don’t have to answer questions from Helen Thomas.” Thomas considered Castro’s reply to be “the height of flattery.”
During President George W. Bush’s first term, Thomas reacted to Press Secretary Ari Fleischer’s statements about arms shipments to the terrorists by asking: “Where do the Israelis get their arms?”
He responded: “There’s a difference, Helen, and that is—”
“What is the difference?” she asked.
He responded: “The targeting of innocents through the use of terror, which is a common enemy for Yasser Arafat and for the people of Israel, as well as—”
She interrupted him, saying: “Palestinian people are fighting for their land.”
He responded: “I think that the killing of innocents is a category entirely different. Justifying killing of innocents for land is an argument in support of terrorism.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Thomas
my first reaction, too. Hello pot, meet kettle.
Two Indian Pagan Cow worshipers Invaders have the Nerve to tell
jewish person to go home .
Deport these Invaders-savages today
It’s true banks aren’t social service agencies.
It’s also true groups like the Red Cross and Salvation Army don’t charge interest or loan money.
About 80% of people living in India are Hindus.
About 14% are muslims.
About 3% are Christians.
.......the wife was a real piece of work as well.........
Filthy mouthed chick was just as anti-semitic as her man.
They deserve each other.
Are they here legally? If not.....get rid of them.
Bet she’s in the 14%. Never heard of a rabid Hindu.
Rabidity is a good indicator.
Send them back to the Land of Streetshitters.
“Send them back to the Land of Streetshitters”
No way they are from San Francisco /s
America is such a great country that someone from India can tell a Jewish person to go back to Israel (a place they probably have even been to). Hating each other really brings us together
SEND THEM BACK TO INDIA
Jews and Muslims/people of color are both protected classes. Both sides have a certain amount of official backing in government, media, academia, etc.
When only whites were being assailed, no one took our side. Not even many whites dared speak up.
How do you know they aren’t Muslim Indians?
There's an old Yakov Smirnoff joke.
Last week I became a citizen. I went to City Hall, took the pledge of allegiance, and became an American. I felt so proud, like a real American. I looked around the room and thought, look at all these damn foreigners.
we sure do have some evil (and crazy) people in our borders nowadays
there used to be far far far far far far less of them and then they were either institutionalized one way or the other, which at least protected society from them for awhile
People always said Yakov was corny but I always thought he was funny back in the day. Not sure if his act holds up today but I recall enjoying his specials.
It’s been going on.
The big lie is the one promulgated to the press by Biden and by Garland’s DOJ and Wray’s FBI that the culprits are insurrectionists on 1/6 and white supremacists all the rest of the time.
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