I'd guess that when whoever it was rudely stuck a camera in Helen Thomas' face she had recently been listening to an Israeli government spokesperson, explaining their murderous raid on the Mavi Marmara.
It's enough to exasperate anyone, hearing the likes of Mark Regev smoothly claim that the IDF was 'not expecting trouble' when its elite commandoes boarded a boat carrying what they said were hundreds of Hamas supporters, including at least 50 armed mercenaries, and a number of prospective shaheeds.
Helen Thomas is an octogenarian journalist who has covered Israel since before 1948, and what she said was simply an outburst, incited by listening, time after time, to barefaced lies from the Israeli government. Unfortunately, what she said gave AIPAC and the rest of the propaganda machine the timely chance to make out that critics of Israel want to drive Jews into the sea, wipe them off the map. Just like the Israelis say Hamas and Iran does.
But Helen Thomas was talking about Israeli settlers, the ones on the West Bank and in East Jerusalam who are continuing to build settlements on Palestinian land. The settlers who are supported by the Israeli government - the Foreign Secretary, former strip-club bouncer Avigdor Lieberman is one of their leaders. Many settlers are Americans and Europeans, who are motivated by fanatical religious Zionism, and the delusion that that God has given them the right to take, by force if necessary, what does not belong to them. These people have recently taken to gathering in mobs to surround Arab properties, hoping to intimidate the owners into leaving. In Jaffa last week they turned up by the busload from all over Israel to beseige the last remaining Arab neighbourhood, shrieking and chanting racist abuse at the occupants. One woman, living on her own, had them yelling through her letterbox that she should get out of their property, God says so.
Helen Thomas was suggesting that if any of these people ever recover from the delusion of Zionism, they could consider returning to somewhere like North Dakota, and perhaps build a farm there.
No one in their right mind proposes driving Israelis into the sea, not even Hamas and Hizbullah.
The best comment on the flotilla incident came from Ilan Pappé in the Independent on Monday - 'The Deadly Closing of the Israeli Mind', read it HERE
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1 Reply to "A Word for Helen Thomas"
The Reality Show on 12 June 2010 at 17:07
That old racist (Lebanese) ARAB woman Helen Thomas' 'ethnic cleansing' view reflects the 'conflct of the middle east' Arab racism & Islamic bigotry that is.
You have to thank that old Arab hag for being honest, at least, at her last days...
Take a good look at this "moderate" Arab and tell me it's not about Arab racism.
The basic attitudes of the intolerant Goliath Arab Muslims world is that: 'You Jews are "outsiders" here in the middle east!' The Arab Palestinians who's parents or grandparents came over from Arab land and occupy the Jews' original homeland? they're OK, they're "home."
Because the entire middle east is 'Arab Muslim land' all other non-Arab non-Muslim minorities are "outsiders" especially the Jews, Why? Because they're neither Arab nor Muslim...
Now, let's here some radical liberals defending the Arab Muslim bigotry with "occupation and poor palestinians" slogans.
The same radical liberals that couldn't care less what the Islamic Palestine or Hezbollah have in store for them, exactly what kind of Islamic states are in line with liberals' supposed claim for defending human rights, or even women's rights?
I guess, that Palestinian crimes against humanity like torturing fellow "rivals," honor killing epidemic and oppressing Christians are OK with liberals' values.
Not to mention the total fear in totalitarian like "Palestine" for speaking out, unlike in democratic free Israel, there's virtual no freedom of the press or speech.
That's besides Palestinian & Hezbollah's routinely horrindeous crimes like taking the lives of their civilians for no more as toys in their games of bloodshed, in use of war.
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