She has the look of Michaelle Obama the look of hate..Michaelle hates anyone white,and this old hag hates Jews..
Posted on 06/08/2010 5:46:01 AM PDT by shortstop
I know a Jew from Poland.
More correctly, I know his son.
I’ve spoken to the father, been introduced and exchanged pleasantries, but it’s mostly the son I know. A guy about my age with curly hair and a black beard and tendency to smile.
He’s a fishmonger. Like his father before him and, now, his son after him.
I went to the shop first out of curiosity, to see where the shooting had been. The father, a man in his 80s, was working alone on a Thursday just after opening time when two neighborhood punks came in.
They shot him for an empty register.
I went out because I wanted to see where it had happened. I’ve gone back because of what I found there, an interesting and accepting little shop of kind and happy people. The owner, the staff, the customers. I love it there.
But this isn’t about the shop, or even the son. It’s about the father.
And it’s about an aspect of his life that is none of my business. It’s something I’d like to know, but it’s not my place to inquire about. It’s like your grandfather. He may choose to tell you what Vietnam was like, but it’s probably disrespectful for you to ask him. It’s his, and he’ll share it with you if and when he wants to.
Like what happened to my friend’s father.
The Jew from Poland.
An old man who came out of the camps little more than a boy. A boy whose family and childhood had been butchered by the Nazis, who survived the Holocaust when those who were dearest to him did not.
When I see him, I see someone who has seen hell. Who knows what we read in history books. Who knows about the ghettos and the trains and the ovens. Who saw them all face to face.
A Jew from Poland.
The country Helen Thomas says the Israelis should go back to. There or Germany, where the crush of the Nazi boot was felt even more keenly.
The grand dame of American journalism showed publicly that she is a hateful anti-Semite, that she has dismissed events which transpired in her lifetime. A woman in her 20s when the camps were liberated and when the Nuremberg trials were held. A woman who knows the names of Eichmann and Goebbels.
A woman who for more than 60 years has written for the American reader from a mind polluted by the basest of hatreds.
You can take the girl out of Lebanon, but you can’t take Lebanon out of the girl.
Helen Thomas, a darling of the American left, gave voice to a feeling common in the American left – the feeling that the Jews are wrong and the Palestinians are right, that there is no homeland for the Jews and that America is wrong to support Israel.
Helen Thomas offered a one-state solution. A solution in which millions of Israeli Jews are returned to the Diaspora, subject to the centuries old hatreds that followed them through Europe and which now define the Muslim Middle East.
But she didn’t say anything directly that the American news media hasn’t insinuated indirectly. At every turn, on the evening news, Israel is wrong and barbaric. As recently as last week’s skirmish on the Turkish “relief” vessel, one side of the story makes the news and the other side doesn’t.
Count stories detailing supposed privations of the Palestinians, or the construction of new Israeli settlements – stories critical of Israel – and compare them with stories about rocket attacks from Gaza against Israeli citizens. You find that in all the stories, Israel is the bad guy and the Palestinians are innocent victims.
Notice the dramatic souring of relations between the United States and Israel over the last year or so. Helen Thomas gleefully made her remarks on the White House lawn because she felt she was expressing them on friendly turf, she was giving pointed voice to the policies of the current administration.
The state of Israel is in a constant struggle to survive. It faces an array of Muslim nations that would happily wipe it off the map. Now we know that the dean of the White House press corps thinks that would be a good idea.
She’s not the only one.
She is just noteworthy because her particularly demonic thrill at the prospect of dispersing millions of Jews from their homes was caught at close range on video. She is the Isabella of our day, wanting to kick the Jews not out of Spain, but out of the Holy Land.
She wants the Jews out of Israel.
She wants them to go “home” to Poland.
I know a Jew from Poland.
He left in a cattle car.
And 70 years later, it sounds like Helen Thomas would like to send him back the same way.
Which makes her a hero in the Middle East.
And, quietly, in liberal America.
HELEN THOMAS, AMERICAN LIBERAL.
Disagree.
There is nothing liberal about Helen Thomas.
She is an old school lefty, anti Semite and a strong Marxist-Leninist sympathizer.
Nothing Helen Thomas has said over the years has indicated her support for individual liberty from the government.
She lives and breathes collectivism.
Well written.
She is a “liberal” as the word has come to mean today - racist, fascist, collectivist, authoritarian. We have to accept the “knowledge” that has been accrued to words in our society today.
“Liberals” used to be “progressives” until the word came to be understood as meaning the above.
Now that “progressive” doesn’t have that meaning anymore (everyone has died that understood that), they’re going to start calling themselves “progressives” again.
Now, as to Helen’s representation of the American Left - she is the epitome of their beliefs. She just committed the “crime” of letting it slip.
To defeat the left, DEFINE the left. Make them define themselves, make them expose their beliefs.
That was a very moving piece, thank you. It is a good thing that this bag of bones old liberal will be dust. May God give her enough of a heart to realize how horrible of a person she has been.
She is just noteworthy because her particularly demonic thrill at the prospect of dispersing millions of Jews from their homes was caught at close range on video.
I thought myself when viewing the video, that when looking so closely into her eyes, we're looking into the soul of deranged liberalism. The hate is palpable.
“HELEN THOMAS, AMERICAN LIBERAL”
Scratch a liberal, find a Stalinist.
Joyce Behar, Wanda Sykes, Goldi whatshername, Jane Fonda, etc., etc., etc.
There is nothing "liberal" about today's liberals. They have co-opted the word, and it no longer means what their followers think it means. It is inconceivable that any true liberal from previous generations would even tolerate today's liberals. Helen Thomas, Barack Obama, and Nancy Pelosi have far more in common with the socialists of 1933-1945 Germany and 1922-1953 than with any group that actually approves of freedom and individual liberty. FDR devoted his life to stopping people like today's "liberals", as did JFK.
My experiences (with a handful of Nazi camp survivors) have been quite different. They welcome the questions. They want you to know.
Perhaps they realize that books can be censored, schools can serve a political ideology, and history can be redacted -- and repeated.
Yes, America’s liberal left loves Helen and shares her views on Israel and the jewish people.
MadCow
This is an important article, but I believe Bob Lonsberry makes one mistake: instead of “American Liberal” he should have written “American Progressive”, since that is what they like to call themselves nowadays.
And that label is fitting, since the great-grandfather of American Progressivism, Woodrow Wilson, was a racist, anti-semitic bigot, and the original Progressives, like George Bernard Shaw, admired Mussolini (Fascist), Hitler (Nazi), Marx-Engels (Communist), Margaret Sanger (Mother of Eugenics): all philosophies that were and still are comfortable with the extermination of “undesirables”.
As proof of Lonsberry’s thesis, consider that modern Liberals (Progressives) today build on their rich philosophical tradition with their unquenchable admiration of such modern butchers as Chairman Mao, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro.
If you haven’t read it, get Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism.” This book is required reading for each one of you and for your children, especially those who are impressionable students.
She has the look of Michaelle Obama the look of hate..Michaelle hates anyone white,and this old hag hates Jews..
Over the last 15 years or so, there’s been a calculated, intentional campaign, in this country and in the World, to delegitimize the Israeli nation. It is an organized campaign of leftists and Islamic terrorists. The goal is, and has always been, the dismantling of the Israeli nation, and putting the Jewish population in exile or servitude. Such is the nature of the people who take the side of Hamas and Fatah.
Our President is noticeably absent from the conversation about Helen Thomas’ views. Wouldn’t it be leadership if he said that prejudice and stereotypes are wrong?
Don’t know if you heard, but before this flap, the WH was planing a birthday party for her 90th...now it’s been scrapped. That would have been the apex for her..now...she won’t have it....
Just as Satan hates the special creation of God in general - humans, he hates the Jews with a special hatred as God’s chosen people.
The left works for Satan, Islamists work for Satan - ever wonder why the libertine left has no problem with the “intolerance” of Islam? They have a bigger common goal.
They only demonstrate indignation when their Liberal views are not respected.
I AM dreaming.
Hate is what they say they despise.
Yet, it seems, that they hate more intensely and more broadly across the social spectrum than those they criticize.
They are contradictions to their own definitions.
They are happiest when they have others to point at and criticize.
To (criticize) is really not a good term because for the lefty their hate is worse than any adjective I can think of.
I could go on about the left but I would only have to resort to redundancy at some point - so I won’t go there.
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