In Defense of Helen Thomas - On Apologizing to Apologists

[IndianaGreen]

Published on Monday, June 7, 2010 by Canada.com

In Defense of Helen Thomas - On Apologizing to Apologists

by Paul Jay

(Israel)was created in the process of expelling thousands of Palestinians from their lands, people who had nothing to do with the European genocide against the Jews. You cannot say the same about the Anglo-American countries that for much of the '30s were quite happy to equip Hitler with cars and machinery. Quite content to shut their mouths as Hitler began an ethnic cleansing that would end in barbaric genocide.

As far as the American Jews that went to live in Israel after 1948, it's difficult to believe they went to escape persecution, as many of the Jews from other places that went to Israel, in fact did. So, one can understand a certain specific resentment against American Jews who decided that it was ok, at someone else's expense, to work out their identity crisis and pick up some free airline tickets to boot.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/07-6

[xchrom]

1. indeed.

much of the criticism of helen thomas is anti-palestinian -- or rage against inconvenient arab memory.

[Chulanowa]

2. And rage that it was an Arab who said it

Especially a liberal one!

Maybe if she had made a few movies about a christ-figure being violently tortured that justify vigilantism, or something, or if she had a penis, or a few more Nordic genes...

[xchrom]

4. aint that right. nt

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. He starts off with an incorrect fact: Helen said this at the end of May, not after the flotilla

[YOY]

5. I know one European country that would definitely want them back.

The one that saved them from the fascists.

I know an old Jewish graveyard that lacks proper care because there are no Jews left to take care of it.

That country could use some money influxed into it as well.


I happen to love that little country as a second home.