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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
The Jews did not have to leave Germany and Poland following the Holocaust since they were not being persecuted anymore

Bull! Polish Communist scum basically kicked the Jews out of Poland in 1968.

41 posted on 02/19/2011 8:46:37 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Arabs who worked for Hitler didn’t have to leave Europe either, but they fled trial for crimes against humanity. Thanks Kaslin.


42 posted on 02/19/2011 8:53:49 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: WKUHilltopper
Right after the war a lot of the surviving Jews in Europe were in displaced-persons camps. I was told once by an Israeli that there was an incident in Poland at this time where a number of Jews were massacred and the "blood libel" was invoked, which made the other Jews decide that it still wasn't safe to stay in Europe.

My guess it that most of them would have been happy to come to the US rather than go to British-mandate Palestine, but the Democratic President and the Congress (Democrat-controlled until January 1947) wouldn't let them in...the "national origins" rules were still in place.

43 posted on 02/19/2011 8:55:07 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kaslin

Why did CNN interview this Nazi bitch? She clearly hate filled; it’s written all over her face. She probably has a big picture of Der Fuhrer in her bedroom and thinks fondly of what might have been. She should die so that she go to Hell and personally meet him.


44 posted on 02/19/2011 8:58:05 AM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Kaslin

People can live with those who want to kill them. It happens all the time. Why, just recently, we elected a Muslim President. And, after Muslims flew planes into our buildings, we apologized and let more of them in. Surely Jews could have apologized and tried to determine the source of the hatred.


45 posted on 02/19/2011 9:02:48 AM PST by Defiant (There is no line on the march towards marxism that Democrats won't cross. Democrat=CPUSA)
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To: K-Stater
I used to think that Helen Thomas was just stupid. Now I realize that she’s out-and-out delusional.

She's neither of those. She is however an evil Commie bitch dutifully following the party line.

46 posted on 02/19/2011 9:04:16 AM PST by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: Clintonfatigued

It’s Liberalism which is insanity.


47 posted on 02/19/2011 9:04:58 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: org.whodat

Not all of us!!


48 posted on 02/19/2011 9:15:00 AM PST by exbrit
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To: Kaslin

I lived in Amsterdam, the Netherlands for many years. Prior to WW2, Amsterdam had the largest Jewish population in the world. When the Germans invaded all the Jews were sent to concentration camps. As the war progressed and there was no fuel, the city systematically dismantled the Jewish community board by board until there was nothing left. One of Amsterdam’s metro stops is dedicated to this event and the walls are covered with enlarged photos of what it looked like so that it would be never forgotten.


49 posted on 02/19/2011 9:16:32 AM PST by Madam Theophilus
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To: Kaslin

She is such a jerk. You know you’d think by the time you got to her age you’d have a little bit of sense. With all her years this woman has learned nothing.


50 posted on 02/19/2011 9:19:30 AM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Kaslin

Thankfully she is 90 and we won’t have to listen to her BS for very much longer.

Reminds me of that time Arafat went to see a psychic...


51 posted on 02/19/2011 9:29:39 AM PST by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: Astronaut
72 Virgins
52 posted on 02/19/2011 9:49:23 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Anti-Semitism.


53 posted on 02/19/2011 9:50:33 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (RomneyCare is Mitt`s Chappaquiddick)
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To: 240B
"Liberal Jews in America either don't know or don't care that Leftists everywhere in the world hate Jews."

Like many of their counterparts in other faiths, these Jews are such only in the cultural sense: they have abandoned Jewish principles for the leftist dogmas. So they have no problem in standing with the Left even if against Israel. The same things happened in communist Russia: just like the former Christian --- that is, those born into Christian families --- former Jews burned synagogues and churches with equal fervor. Communists know no allegiance but to one world with no ethnic groups and nationalities, ruled by "workers."

You shouldn't be therefore surprised. Orthodox Jews in America are conservative and vote consistently for Republican candidates. Jewish immigrants from Russia do overwhelmingly the same. But those are a minority, however; most Jews attend Reform temples. It is they who are largely liberal and vote Democratic.

54 posted on 02/19/2011 10:00:02 AM PST by TopQuark
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To: Repeal 16-17
"Why did CNN interview this Nazi bitch?"

That is the single most important question. This Helen of Lebanon is by now well known and hardly consequential. But giving voice to her ideas is consequential. The CNN scum knows that it is doing.

55 posted on 02/19/2011 10:05:43 AM PST by TopQuark
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To: Repeal 16-17
"Why did CNN interview this Nazi bitch?"

That is the single most important question. This Helen of Lebanon is by now well known and hardly consequential. But giving voice to her ideas is consequential. The CNN scum knows what it is doing.

56 posted on 02/19/2011 10:06:27 AM PST by TopQuark
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To: Kaslin

Ugly is as ugly does.


57 posted on 02/19/2011 10:09:03 AM PST by T Minus Four ("If Mormonism were a cult, I would know it and I would not be in it")
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To: Kaslin

The constant dialogue that swims around inside this hag’s head is fertile ground for a shrink for a lifetime of work.

She needs to be put into a rubber room.


58 posted on 02/19/2011 10:11:38 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: WKUHilltopper
“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.

Somebody needs to revoke her status as 'human'...

59 posted on 02/19/2011 10:11:41 AM PST by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
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To: Kaslin

She’s absolutely right, the Jews didn’t have to leave; they could have settled among those who wanted them incorporated into soap and lamp shades, provided only that they were content to live in packing crates and watch their children being beaten and starved.

Silly people for wanting the sort of normal life other ethnicities take for granted.


60 posted on 02/19/2011 11:00:28 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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