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Helen Thomas: Jews didn't have to leave Europe following Holocaust
Haaretz.com ^ | February 18, 2011 | Haaretz Service

Posted on 02/19/2011 7:40:56 AM PST by Kaslin

In CNN interview, veteran reporter refuses to call comments urging Jews to leave Israel and return to Europe insensitive, says Israel's treatment of the Palestinians is the real insensitivity.

The Jews did not have to leave Germany and Poland following the Holocaust since they were not being persecuted anymore, former White House correspondent Helen Thomas said in an interview on Thursday, adding that the Jews had no right to take other people's land.

Thomas, 90, stepped down from her job as a columnist for Hearst News Service in June of last year after a rabbi and independent filmmaker videotaped her outside the White House calling on Israelis to get "out of Palestine."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Israel
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; thomas; thomasantisemitism; thomashatesisrael
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To: Kaslin

“Helen Thomas: Jews didn’t have to leave Europe following Holocaust”

Sure, Helen...they should have just stuck around...they were so loved there.

Somebody revoke her status as a Kentuckian.


21 posted on 02/19/2011 8:07:17 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: Kaslin

Dearest Helen, the fungi that spawned you didn’t have to leave Lebanon either. Why don’t you go haunt another forest somewhere else?


22 posted on 02/19/2011 8:08:57 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Obama. Chauncey Gardiner without the homburg.)
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To: OldDeckHand

That has always been my assumption about her.


23 posted on 02/19/2011 8:11:09 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: Kaslin

Somebody needs to put this woman under Hospice care.


24 posted on 02/19/2011 8:15:35 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Astronaut

“Actually what would be great is that instead of 72 virgins, the 9/11 hijackers get Helen Thomas”

Oh, I don’t know. With her looks I’d say there’s a good
chance that she might be a virgin.


25 posted on 02/19/2011 8:19:21 AM PST by paint_your_wagon
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To: Kaslin

and the “Palestinian refugees” didn’t have to leave Israel. “Other people’s land” is an interesting phrase.


26 posted on 02/19/2011 8:21:00 AM PST by cdcdawg
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To: Dr. Sivana

She should have to go sit in the corner with all those old concentration camp guards.


27 posted on 02/19/2011 8:21:34 AM PST by reg45
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To: Kaslin

28 posted on 02/19/2011 8:21:34 AM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts...)
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To: Kaslin

Did the ugly on the outside seep down to the inside, or did the ugly on the inside bubble up to the outside? I should apply for a grant to study that.


29 posted on 02/19/2011 8:24:16 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: WKUHilltopper
Somebody revoke her status as a Kentuckian.

She's just something the thoroughbreds left behind.

30 posted on 02/19/2011 8:25:31 AM PST by reg45
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

“Somebody needs to put this woman under Hospice care.”

Suggestion: Put her on display in the museum; Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau. Any of the old camps will do nicely. She can be her own exhibit of the last Nazi journalist.


31 posted on 02/19/2011 8:28:53 AM PST by MasterGunner01 (To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
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To: Kaslin
The Jews did not have to leave Germany and Poland following the Holocaust since they were not...alive anymore.
32 posted on 02/19/2011 8:31:08 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Kaslin

Jews did not want to be dependent on other nations’ goodwill for survival ever again.
Hence, the nation of Israel.


33 posted on 02/19/2011 8:32:02 AM PST by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: Kaslin

Who keeps interviewing this HAG?


34 posted on 02/19/2011 8:34:32 AM PST by Lessthantolerant (The State is diametrically opposed to our search for a better living.)
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To: Kaslin

When I think of Helen, I think of someone roasting in hell. She’s mean-spirited. She’s vicious. She’s heartless. She’s spiteful. It’s good for Helen that God dispenses final justice and not me.


35 posted on 02/19/2011 8:35:26 AM PST by Clara Lou
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To: TopQuark

What exactly are the Jews of Israel doing to the Palestinians? Is there a specific list of grievances? Is it ongoing or just historic, i.e. “You took our land”? How much money has been given to the Palestinians by the US, Western Europe, and others?


36 posted on 02/19/2011 8:38:03 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: gwilhelm56

Few points, Helen:

1. Jews that did return to their homes generally found them occupied by non-Jewish Germans, French, or whomever, and were killed.

2. The land they went to live on had been purchased over the last 100 years by Jews or Zionist groupes, from willing sellers, largely absentee landowners.


37 posted on 02/19/2011 8:38:41 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Nothing to see here. Move along.)
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To: Kaslin
Lets be honest. Helen's dream job would be operating the ovens at Auschwitz.
38 posted on 02/19/2011 8:40:22 AM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: ExTexasRedhead; justiceseeker93; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; JulieRNR21; GOPsterinMA

Is it anti-Semitism or senility?


39 posted on 02/19/2011 8:43:49 AM PST by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
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To: Kaslin

Gee Helen, you suppose maybe they didn’t feel welcome there anymore?


40 posted on 02/19/2011 8:44:53 AM PST by Tex-Con-Man
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