helen thomas, of arab extraction, is generally considered an anti israeli and and maybe an antisemite. it is widely rumoured she blackballed william safire from washingtons major journalist organization because she considered him too pro israeli. would be interesting for someone to follow this up with safire directly.

helen thomas, of arab extraction, is generally considered an anti israeli and and maybe an antisemite. it is widely rumoured she blackballed william safire from washingtons major journalist organization because she considered him too pro israeli. would be interesting for someone to follow this up with safire directly.

FoxNews had a dinner a year ago where all the reporters and on air personalities attended. And they had a comedy show where some of them dressed up and played parts or did immitations.
I remember they showed a few of the skits on Fox and Friends I think one morning when I was watching. And one of the guys immitated Helen Thomas mockingly and said something like "All the bloodthirsty Jews in the media" or something like that.

Mike

Isn't that curious. I thought the Jordanians had formally given up all claim to the West Bank, recognizing the PLO as the legitimate voice of the Palestinian people.

The real problem in the Israel-Palestine issue is the idea of local Arabs being flooded by Jewish immigrants who set up a non-Moslem, non-Arab state (albeit on a tiny sliver of land).

Whether you support Israel or not (and I do), it's a legitimate issue. The anti-semitism that surrounds it is not legitmate, nor some of the methods of resistance but the issue is legitimate itself.

Zionists like to point out that there never were any Palestinians because they were just part of the general surrounding Arab populace. That's why when Jordan takes over it's not the same thing as Israel doing so.

Taranto on Best of the Web always refers to the frothign anti Semite Helen Thomas as "the nutty old aunt who lives in the attic."

I didn't realize that Helen Thomas was an anti-Semite. And here I was ready to chalk up her statement to senility...

Remember that the land which Israel is appropriating never belonged to Palestinians. It is public land which legally still belongs to England which left in 1948. Israel is not taking land which is owned privately by Palestinians. Some of it may have actually been owned by Jews before they were expelled in 1948.

Thank God I live in a country where there is no "Palestinian land" or "Jewish land" or "white land" or "mexican land." The dirt that my house sits on is simply "my land" cuz I'm the grantee of the deed. True, there are areas that we can call a "black neighborhood" because most of the residents are black, or "italian neighborhood" etc., but that's far different from what that shrill hag Helen Thomas means by "Palestinian land."
Wouldn't it be great if in Israel some day there would be no Jewish or Palestinian land, just land owned by whoever bought it from the previous owner. But that's wishful thinking.

Pakistan was created roughly the same time as Israel - except it was land taken away from India and given to muslims. I don't see anyone screaming over Pakistan being illegally occupied territory. The truth is - radical islamists are nothing more than nazis who want it ALL - not just Israel. What's the excuse for the terrorism in every other place they've attacked in the last twelve years. They try to make it look like different "struggles" but it's not. All their excuses are a smoke screen. The Iranian clerics are the new Hitler.

The thing is someone of Arab origin is a Semite and so can hardly be called anti-Semitic. Anti-Jewish perhaps, but not anti-Semitic. Being Semitic is something *shared* by Jews, Arabs and others in the Middle East. And despite the historic claims the fact that the majority of us are actually in recent history of European extraction means that Arabs have more of a claim to the term anyway.

Leah