Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas ‘immediately’ retires

By Agence France-Presse
Monday, June 7, 2010 10:56 EST
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“Veteran reporter Helen Thomas, who has covered the White House since the John F. Kennedy administration, is retiring immediately following her controversial statements about Israel, Hearst Newspapers reports,” USA Today reports.

At his Washington Post blog, Greg Sargent posted the entire statement issued by Hearst Newspapers:

Helen Thomas announced Monday that she is retiring, effective immediately.

Her decision came after her controversial comments about Israel and the Palestinians were captured on videotape and widely disseminated on the Internet.

Thomas later issued a statement: “I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.”

Thomas will mark her 90th birthday on Aug. 4.

Original AFP story follows:

White House correspondent apologizes for Israel remarks

WASHINGTON — Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas has apologized for remarks she made about Israel which led to her being dropped as the graduation speaker at a local high school.

Thomas, 89, the longest-serving reporter in the White House press corps, was asked by the website RabbiLive.com during a May 27 “Jewish Heritage Celebration” at the White House whether she had any “comments on Israel.”

“Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine,” said Thomas, who served for decades as the White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI) and now writes a column for Hearst newspapers.

“Remember these people are occupied and it’s their land, not German and not Poland,” Thomas said. “They can go home, Poland, Germany, and America and everywhere else.”

Thomas issued an apology on her website, HelenThomas.org.

“I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians,” she said.

“They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon,” Thomas said.

Thomas had been scheduled to deliver a June 14 commencement address at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland, outside Washington, but the school said Sunday it had cancelled her appearance.

“Graduation celebrations are not the venue for divisiveness,” Whitman principal Alan Goodwin said in an email to parents at the school.

“Graduation is the time for a cohesive and joyous celebration of our students’ achievements; other forums exist for discussions of political issues,” Goodwin said.

Thomas has covered every US president since John F. Kennedy and is a former president of the White House Correspondents Association.

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  • Bahb

    Ari Fleisher, now there’s a paragon of virtue!

    That lying, war-fuck can drop dead.

  • Bahb

    Wouldn’t it be awful if some gang of hop-heads (say, ex-military, all mind-fucked from the immoral wars) were to action death-squads, targeting all Israel-firsters and high-level dual USA-Israeli citizens that were know to be duplicitous in war-crimes?

    Damn, that would be so terrible.

    I sure noting like that ever happens!!!

  • The Guru of Truth

    That will be so so terrible! (sarcasm). I am waiting for it to happen and it SHALL happen, I really really hope it happens. It is only a matter of time.

  • geo1671

    WRONG-”Germany is no longer controled by the Nazis and hasn’t been for 65 years”
    Haven’t you read that Germany had given Israel 7 modern nuke capable carrying subs?
    Please and thank-you.The AshkeNAZI jews are still running Germany. FYI: The term NAZI comes from the most feared tribe that came from Eastern Europe and Russia. The bad is–Israel’s Jews are over 80% desendants from the once called tribe Zealots, then after called Ashkenazies and now Jews. Germany is infested with them-never left :^/

  • Roger Frederick

    Would Helen Thomas have drawn fire if her comments were about Muslims & Palestinians? VOTE

    http://youpolls.com/default.asp

    .

  • Jason

    II’m sad to see her go as well. She was one of the last of the independent minded press that didn’t seem to be influenced or bought like most of the rest of our mainstream media appears to be.

  • Helen_Thomas_for_WH_Press_Sec

    Like an international “Star Chamber”? (old Michael Douglas film, interesting concept). Wouldn’t it be awful if Ari Fleisher was the first example? I would mourn for …. minutes….one or two.

    Helen Thomas – consistently speaking truth to stupid. Hurry back. The people need you.

  • matt

    Blame the ADL for that, they were specifically created to be the Israeli attack dog.

  • My3Cats

    Remember how Helen and Ari went at it when he was Bush’s White House Press Secretary? I think Ari is getting even with her and using his Jewishness as his shield.

  • Pennsylvanianne

    Absolutely right. Helen Thomas was one of the few to question the wars in the Middle East during the Bush administration. Sad she had to go out on this regrettable note. I hope this is not the whole of what she’ll be remembered for. Helen Thomas is irreplaceable.

  • Pennsylvanianne

    I don’t know where you got your information about the word “Nazi,” but it evidently was not in your high school history classes. I learned years ago and Internet dictionaries confirm that “Nazi” is the short form of the NAtionalsoZIalist Party name. It was favored as a nickname in the south of Germany where there was some opposition to Nationalsozialism, because “Nazi” was considered a nickname for a foolish person (it’s also short for “Ignatz”). If the letters are coincidental to Ashkenazi Jews, that’s all they are — coincidental.

  • hurly burly

    You have no grasp of the present. That country committed murder and piracy in international waters. War crimes need to be punished. If Israel wants to act like a nazi state, they can expect to be criticized, boycotted and ostracized.
    The professional whiners like you who spew mindless talking points and lies in their defense are a pitiful bunch.

  • hurly burly

    You have no grasp of the present. That country committed murder and piracy in international waters. War crimes need to be punished. If Israel wants to act like a nazi state, they can expect to be criticized, boycotted and ostracized.
    The professional whiners like you who spew mindless talking points and lies in their defense are a pitiful bunch.

  • hurly burly

    You have no grasp of the present. That country committed murder and piracy in international waters. War crimes need to be punished. If Israel wants to act like a nazi state, they can expect to be criticized, boycotted and ostracized.
    The professional whiners like you who spew mindless talking points and lies in their defense are a pitiful bunch.

  • Anonymous

    It was dumb -you honestly believe Helen Thomas thinks it is realistic to expect all Isrealis to go back to the countries their parents and grandparents came from? Even with as much respect Isreal has lost in my eyes over the years, I know thats not a plausable remedy to the problem -and I don’t think any other realistic people do either. It’s never gonna happen -unless all Isrealis decide they don’t like living there anymore, and move away. It was a dumb statement – NOT an honest one.

  • Anonymous

    It was dumb -you honestly believe Helen Thomas thinks it is realistic to expect all Isrealis to go back to the countries their parents and grandparents came from? Even with as much respect Isreal has lost in my eyes over the years, I know thats not a plausable remedy to the problem -and I don’t think any other realistic people do either. It’s never gonna happen -unless all Isrealis decide they don’t like living there anymore, and move away. It was a dumb statement – NOT an honest one.

  • Anonymous

    It was dumb -you honestly believe Helen Thomas thinks it is realistic to expect all Isrealis to go back to the countries their parents and grandparents came from? Even with as much respect Isreal has lost in my eyes over the years, I know thats not a plausable remedy to the problem -and I don’t think any other realistic people do either. It’s never gonna happen -unless all Isrealis decide they don’t like living there anymore, and move away. It was a dumb statement – NOT an honest one.

  • Sailor

    You Sir,are a self deluded fool. How’s that working out for you?

  • Sailor

    You Sir,are a self deluded fool. How’s that working out for you?

  • Sailor

    You Sir,are a self deluded fool. How’s that working out for you?

  • musashi1

    jesus wouldnt even make it that far, if he came back preaching the same things he preached 2000 years ago PAT ROBERTSON would be saying HE SHOULD BE TAKEN OUT! thats todays christianity, its truly the living,breathing ANTI-CHRIST!

  • musashi1

    jesus wouldnt even make it that far, if he came back preaching the same things he preached 2000 years ago PAT ROBERTSON would be saying HE SHOULD BE TAKEN OUT! thats todays christianity, its truly the living,breathing ANTI-CHRIST!

  • musashi1

    jesus wouldnt even make it that far, if he came back preaching the same things he preached 2000 years ago PAT ROBERTSON would be saying HE SHOULD BE TAKEN OUT! thats todays christianity, its truly the living,breathing ANTI-CHRIST!

  • Sailor

    You are wasting your time if you think reporting the truth and facts will in any way alter this persons bizzaro world perspective. These folks congregate together to enjoy their mutual ignorance and celebrate their stupidity. Just sayin,….p.s. I wonder what his etymological explanation would be for the word NIGGARDLY? I think you can guess.

  • Sailor

    You are wasting your time if you think reporting the truth and facts will in any way alter this persons bizzaro world perspective. These folks congregate together to enjoy their mutual ignorance and celebrate their stupidity. Just sayin,….p.s. I wonder what his etymological explanation would be for the word NIGGARDLY? I think you can guess.

  • Sailor

    You are wasting your time if you think reporting the truth and facts will in any way alter this persons bizzaro world perspective. These folks congregate together to enjoy their mutual ignorance and celebrate their stupidity. Just sayin,….p.s. I wonder what his etymological explanation would be for the word NIGGARDLY? I think you can guess.

  • Anonymous

    It figures.

  • Anonymous

    Might as well set “safety” cones in their seats.

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  • Anonymous

    Now we have to compete with the imperialist bastards. Now, they can give as much money as there is oil coming out of the “endless” oil volcano to the corporate candidates.

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  • omop

    Did not Ari Fleischer demand that Hearst fire Ms. thomas for remarks?

    so much for freedom of speech in the USA, het?

  • fukum

    So sorry to see you go Helen, my thoughts are with you

  • we're all slaves

    Her remarks were spot on. But you can't touch the religion of zionism in this zionist world. Slavery is alive and well in the good ole US of Israel.

  • KUCINICH-2012!

    Another voice muted. Another great loss to freedom of speech. Maybe they will get Palin to fill her front seat.

  • DanO

    Thank you Ms Thomas for staying true, for continuing to ask the difficult questions at times when the rest of the media refused to hold our leaders feet to the fire.

  • ignatzfattis

    Jeez Helen

  • Satan

    They should get the fuck out of Palestine and Americans should just automatically reject any politician that dares blathering the lies about our 'special relationship' or that we share a common history or share common values. That's just a pile of shit pack of lies and Israel would dissolve in 6 months without U.S. support, because they are a people not capable of taking care of themselves at all. Israel's more like a militant cult than a nation.

    One less honest reporter on the scene, what are we down to now, zero?

  • Prattvictory

    Another win for AIPAC

    My Dad was in Germany during the Berlin Airlift. He said there were a lot of Jews in Munich where he was stationed.

    Helen Thomas a person of Lebanese background essentially said where the Jews live is not my problem. Saying they should go back to Germany or Poland is not saying they should be sent to death camps.

  • jdouglas

    Guess Helen won't be around to report on Jesus of Nazareth returning to Earth and being immediately interned in a Christian Re-Education Camp. That means we won't hear about it.

  • Eric

    People here are actually defending her? If she was a Republican, people here would be excoriating her for her remarks. Although I agree Israel has committed many crimes, what she says is inexcusable, she deserves the flak she is getting.

  • maheanuu

    Helen, you have been a beacon of truth all of your life. I and thousands like me are going to miss your honesty and forthrightness in the media. I wish you fair winds and following seas. The media and the government will be diminished without you. For sure, there is no one out there who will ever be able to fill your shoes. Thank you for your stellar work and I for one will miss you.

  • tzarathustra

    I really think she needs to own her statements. They’re not indefensible by a long shot. She now has a choice of leaving shamed or or defiant. Zionists don’t seem to have any difficulty publicly questioning the two state solution, why should she?

  • Heyitzme

    I never cease to be amazed at the preponderance of anti-semitic assholes that populate this website. If you are part and parcel of what makes up the Democratic party these days, you're doomed.

  • a disappointed obama voter

    its a shame that a jounalist is prevented from exercising her right to free speech by the those who support genecide against the people who rightfully belongon their land . helen thomas has nothing to be ashamed for speaking the truth. ari and his lying cabul will have their place in hell

  • dennycrane

    They can not go “back” anywhere. The zionists have “blown” up all their bridges.

  • enorceht

    yes he did and part of it consisted of …

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/04/ari-fl…

    “She is advocating religious cleansing. How can Hearst stand by her? If a journalist, or a columnist, said the same thing about blacks or Hispanics, they would already have lost their jobs.”

    sorry ari no journalist could say the same about blacks or hispanics because neither is a culture, a religion, and a country all rolled into one …

    nows the time for a tell all book

  • ericroded

    Christians have their eyes on the birthplace of their Jesus.

    If you think Christians are going to let you just have Bethlehem, you're not thinking straight.

  • Anonymous

    The reality of it all is the majority of the militant Zionists are of Eastern European descent. Maybe they are in need of Post Traumatic Stress Treatment and quit subjecting the rest of the world to their biases against indigenous peoples who have live there for thousands of years. facts people, facts, or have you too been dumbed down by our government’s gutting of our education system?

  • dennycrane

    Another one bites the dust because they spoke out against the zionist pigs. Talk show host Lynn Samuels from Sirius Left 146 has said many times “don't bite the ass of israel.” Lynn is another victim of being fired by saying the truth about israel.

  • YigBong

    Oh baloney, She doesnt regret anything and she clearly meant exactly what she said!

    Lou
    http://www.anonymity.it.tc

  • George

    I'm going to miss her. So much for a free press.

  • theghostpony

    Gaza is the new Warsaw. Israel has made her bed and must now sleep in it.

    And for the record… disagreeing with the Israel's radical, inhumane policies does not make a person anti-Semitic. Take that shit and peddle it somewhere else 'cause it's getting mighty damned stale and worn out.

  • Stolen Land Argument…

    Any of you morons who thinks the Jews should leave Israel because it is “occupied land”, have you forgotten that the United States was built on previously occupied land? Should we all leave and give the whole nation back to the Am. Indians?

  • http://www.jimboland.com James

    Helen Thomas has always been a true voice of truth asking questions of power. She remained so, despite the long and dark years of sanctioned censorship by the Reaganoids and their offspring. It is disheartening that she is retiring after this comment, especially because there appears to be no one to advocate and assert for the people's right to know like Ms. Thomas. Thank you so much!

  • jdouglas

    That's utterly ridiculous. First of all, if she was a Republican, she wouldn't have said it to begin with because rather than being concerned about justice, she'd have been concerned about her reputation and her career. And secondly, I'm not a democrat. I voted for Cynthia McKinney who has accompanied more than one attempt to break the Gaza blockade, and paid the high price of being thrown out of Congress herself by the Zionist lobby for demanding an independent investigation of 9/11. It seems that “justice” is being turned into a twisted and sick concept meant to suit only Zionists, while everyone else who deserves justice can just suck on it.

  • Journo

    Oh, right, she regrets them. They were the truth of her twisted dark heart. She's a bigot and she spewed her venom and the only thing she regrets is having been caught.

  • Prattvictory

    “Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning,” Mr. Libby wrote. “They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them.”

    Scooter Libby

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/LPDG6AYIPE5GZLQCZTUVZ3XTM4 alpha

    Thousands have demanded that Palestinians leave Palestine. And if they didn't leave voluntarily “they should be pushed into the sea.” They still have their jobs.

  • SnobsandBitches

    “speaking truth to power” Helen thomas retires, the Washington press corp loses it biggest pair of testicles

  • SnobsandBitches

    2 wrongs don't make it right. Israelis squatter don't have any right whatsoever on Palestine, they should be send back to Europe.

  • Petty Officer

    Helen statement is simply translated: The Jewish faith who were subject to genocide in the countries of Germany and Poland were given a “homeland” in Palestine. The Palestine people did not have anything to do with the holocaust, the land was given by the British through the United Nations for a genocide they did not commit.

  • maheanuu

    Bullshit Eric, the Zionist Jews, and that was who she was talking about never set foot on Israel soil until the United States and Britian came up with the lame brained idea of giving European Jewry a home or came from the middle east. Those are all European Jews for the most part and Helen was not talking about sending them to the gas chambers or concentration camps. I am of the mind that I agree totally with her, The only good Zionist is either behind bars or dead…. Fuck Israel, they have done nothing but cause trouble from their inception…

  • Savantster

    Stating that the artificially imposed “country” of Israel in the middle of a Muslim/Arab region some 60 years go is “dumb” isn't bigoted.

    She was right, but being right has it's down side… in this case, being right against a power that controls virtually every aspect of our media and corporate world gets you squished like a bug.

    The best part is the response from the school.. ” “Graduation celebrations are not the venue for divisiveness,” Whitman principal Alan Goodwin said in an email to parents at the school. “

    So, even though she likely would NOT have said ANYTHING political, or about Israel, the school is playing POLITICS and not letting her speak? .. this country is totally fucked, the people in charge are completely insane and ignorant. Get out while you still can! (I am)

  • Anonymous

    aka….KHAZARS!!!!

  • Davewayoutwest

    Hence the old saying, “The TRUTH shall set you jobless.”

  • Savantster

    What, exactly, did she say? She said “they should get out of the Arab world and go back to nations that support them”.. she said “they don't need their own country based on religion”.. what's wrong with that?

    I'm guessing you read MUCH more into it? You take the FOX noise position (I'm guessing they are the ones spewing the “bigot” slant, since you have to reallllllllllly stretch to get there).

  • unclejoe40

    you have no grasp of history

    there has been a jewish presence in the land for 3000 years

    long before the british mandate, there was the first aliya

    and about half of israel's current population is made up of jews who were expelled from arab countries

  • http://biscuits007.wordpress.com/ protobone

    Goodbye Ms. Helen. You shall be sorely missed. Maybe you could join Nelson Mandela's group of “Elders” as your voice is still needed. What you said about Israel was dead on correct. You shouldn't apologize for telling truth. Israel SHOULD get the hell out of Palestine. Israel needs to crawl their murderous terrorist asses back inside those pre-1967 borders and then and then, shut the f*@k up. As for Ari Fleisher, he's a lickspittle just as sure as the day is long. Gosh, isn't Ari the fly a wanted war criminal? Cause if he isn't, he sure as hell should be.

  • Savantster

    I never cease to be amazed by the morons who comment on RAW when they don't know simple diction. Being against a religious state, or being against supporting a terrorist state isn't “anti-semitic”, not by a long shot. I have no problem with Jews (beyond the disgust for all people of all religions), I have a problem with the GOVERNMENT and NATION of Israel…. the right-wing fucktards that run the country.. not the Jews themselves.

  • unclejoe40

    that raw story chooses never to moderate the anti jewish statement found on this blog still bothers me

    no one is stopping ms thomas' speech

    she has the right to say whatever she wants

    but with speech comes responsibility….and no one is guaranteed a job

    her comments were wrong and based on ignorance

  • Savantster

    There are two groups here.. atheists and religious folks. Who's not thinking right?

  • sickofIsrealshate

    we love you Helen. Thank you for your service to the American People. You asked a question that people don't want to acknowledge, and for that, a lifetime of hard work has now come into scrutiny. I stand with you, Israel should free the Palestinians. There is nothing anti -Semitic about that!!!!

  • red mutt

    Yes, please. Thank you for asking.
    Now get off my lawn.

  • Bahb

    I think it's too bad she goes-out on a bullshit sour note.

    She has more integrity in that big nose than all of her fellow “journalists” combined.

    She'll be missed.

  • Dan

    America would probably be better off. I know that Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida would be better off; Alaska too.

  • Prattvictory

    What do the Germans have to do the remove the stain of Nazism?

    Helen Thomas didn't say send them to concentration camps she said send them to Germany.

    Is Germany one of the axis of evil again? Who got bumped to put them back on?

  • Savantster

    Pretty much, yeah.. or at least bring them off the reservations and let them have fertile land to farm, and enough space to live like they used to before we destroyed them.

    any other stupid questions?

    and we're talking 60 years ago versus 300 years ago. HUGE difference in time scale.. The whites that came to America engaged in their own genocidal activities, but that's in the past. The Jews didn't “invade and conquer” to where they are, the global body moved them there against the wishes of the current inhabitants. In more applicable terms, we did again 60 years ago what we did 300 years ago.. you'd have thought we'd grow up a bit over those 240 years.. but nope, still abusive pricks.

  • sickofIsrealshate

    It wasn't dumb, it was honest. Why is it that when anyone criticizes what Israel is doing…. they are immediately labeled anti Semitic? Is time for Israel to stop hiding behind the anti semite card, and own up to their actions.

  • SnobsandBitches

    Hahaha, You are an original. aren't you. Do you wear that leotard and those Star Trek ear extensions outside?

  • Savantster

    Only a complete moron divines she's a bigot based on what she said. All she said is we should UNDO the ARTIFICIAL placement we created 60 years ago. There's nothing bigoted in that.

  • Dan

    There is a difference between anti-semitic and anti-zionist.

    Most people on this website deplore the IDF and their leadership, not the common Israeli people.

    If the American government keeps giving Israel billions of dollars this whole country is going to be screwed.

  • CarlPagan

    Another true intellectual shouted down by the establishment. She's right, you know. Why is it that conservatives are the only ones who can be “taken out of context?”

  • dennycrane

    I was thinking alaska.

  • jevest

    She may have spoke roughly and from the hip on the issue but, unlike most cowards and sheep in the media, she has the guts to ask the challenging questions to power. There are so many idiotic, partisan, racist, lying, bigoted paid propagandist comments made everyday by creeps in the media, i.e. Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, those in the corporate pocket Congress and Senate, that they should be fired and put on trial for treason against the U.S. “everyday”. It is clearly telling who is pulling the power strings here when a renowned person of the press, speaker of truth-to-power gets fired for a bit of the recklessness talk that these racist corporate/banking/political cowards that are wrecking our country, say everyday. Unbelievable…

  • dennycrane

    Yes. As quickly as possible. And, california, utah, arizona, new mexico and texas, back to Mexico.

    So, I guess you can float around on a raft like in the movie, “Water World.”

  • Mysterious

    I have lately been shocked at the number of uneducated anti-semitic people posting on Raw Story. It seems many of you are not well read on the whole issue of why Palestine was designated as the home for the relocation of the Jewish people. Read up on it and see if your hatred is strong then. And stop with the conspiracy theories…if Jews ran the world would million have been murdered by the Germans…come on people.

  • Dan

    How many Israelis actually are descended from the area that makes up Israel and Palestine?

    The vast majority of Jews in Israel are European jews whose families converted to Judaism sometime after the jews left the area (that currently makes up Israel and Palestine).

    Maybe Helen was talking about these Jews?

    Maybe Helen was talking about how the state of Israel is encroaching into Palestinian territory (the lines that were originally drawn in 1960s).

    If Helen is wrong explain why. Why should Israel get to invade and occupy Palestine?

  • JB

    I agree with you H. The Islamist government in Turkey successfully baited Israel into giving them the pretext they needed to sever ties. Now Iran's mission is aimed at triggering the war — betting that sentiments such as those above plus a war-weary country that doesn't trust the government will make U.S. support too little too late.

  • Savantster

    I've only seen one or two anti “jewish” comments.. the rest are anti Israel having it's own country, or being allowed to murder Palestinians for land.

    and if you can be persecuted to the extent of losing your job for speaking your mind in a context unrelated to your job, then you don't have freedom of speech in a literal sense. Your logic is flawed and enables abusers to abuse. You sound like a right-winger who cries when they say something totally ignorant and people laugh at them, they say “don't take away my free speech!”.. they expect to speak in a vacuum, and you compare that with “fuck up your life for having an opinion”, and say “same thing”.

    and it all goes to ignore the core issue.. religion is a mental disorder. religion is the cause for most of the strife around the planet, that and resource acquisition. Belief in sky fairies and the idea that individuals get to own the planet cause 99% of all our ills.

  • SnobsandBitches

    Lol, actually that's a pretty close shot, considering the most recent wave of illegal immigrants to join the rank of the sacro saint community of Israeli hillbillies, are from Ukraine ….and the beauty of it. You the American tax payer are financing this state sponsored Parasitism….

  • ecodude

    It is sad to see Helen Thomas illustrious carreer end this way. She has been a voice of reason and truth for many Americans. I wish her the best and hope to hear from her in whatever endeavor you decides to persue. Not all U.S. citizens condone the acts of rogue nations and if we do not start wising up we will be next.

  • bayside1

    I agree with Helen. Condoning israel ,who killed 9 people plus a american , killed 1400 palistines last year, and you condone this terrorist country. blaming a little old lady who speaks the truth………. Shame on you

  • bruman

    Helen Thomas is Lebanese and she is a Christian Arab. That is her heritage. Lebanon did not exist until the British and French partitioned it out of the Ottoman Empire after WWI. The League of Nations, France and The British Empire carved up the Palestine Territories into little countries based on the whims of Arabs who threatened the Mideast oil supply of the Brits, after WWI. The British needed the oil for its continued world-wide Empire, to rule the seas. The Brits appeased the Arabs and formed these nations out of the barren Palestine, along with the French, who ruled the land that is now Syria and Lebanon.A Jewish Homeland was supposed to be a part of the original partition, but the larger, oil-rich Arab nations threatened to cut off the oil if they let more Jews emigrate to Palestine So, Helen, tell your cousins to get out of Lebanon which was stolen from the Palestinian Arabs of the region. Right? Tell 'em to go back to the Arabian Peninsula from where they came.

  • MrPunch

    Whoomp! There is is!

  • John

    Helen Thomas, more ballsy than all the male reporters at the White House Press Conferences COMBINED! Helen you will be missed…………

  • Donna Bubb

    A great lady speaking up for the longtime suffering of Palestinians under ruthless Zionist occupation. We should be ashamed to let self-serving hypocrites Davis, Fleisher, et al, assassinate her. The White House press corps is nothing without her.

  • waketheherd

    The last reporter in the White House press corps with the balls to ask the tough questions is gone. We the People are now left with a bunch of bootlicking eunuchs peddling B.S. for the Executive Branch.

  • matt

    TRUTH IS TREASON IN THE ZIONIST EMPIRE OF LIES!!

    This story should read “Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas 'immediately' gets forced out of her job by Zionist Media elites for telling the truth”

    Now all we have are cow-towing, brown-nosing, pussy whipped, secret society jellyfish in the Press Pool.

    Piss in the Pool!

  • SnobsandBitches

    “she has the right to say whatever she wants”, as opposed to the right to execute unarmed individuals without any consequence at all?…I don't think you understand the concept of “responsibility” unless it is twisted enough to look like a pretzel.

  • waketheherd

    The last reporter in the White House press corps with the balls to ask the tough questions is gone. We the People are now left with a bunch of bootlicking eunuchs peddling B.S. for the Executive Branch.

  • nobody

    Well said.

  • fluminense

    Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

    Elen Thomas is the only voice of reazon amongst those reporters. She is absolutely great!!!!!
    I whish her the best of the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Elen Thomas ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Joe Bute

    The last honest reporter in the White House press corps. They finally found a way to get her out of there. She should get the lifetime achievement award from the Pulitzer committee.

  • matt

    actually shes absolutely correct and you should read more.

  • truthseeker

    Ari and many others have been waiting for ANY opportunity to attack this woman for quite some time. I see this as nothing more than a white collar lynching. This woman understood her responsibility to her readers and to the her chosen profession. She didn't hesitate in speaking truth to power, which is the main reason she's being attacked now.

    If this is true, I really hope she reconsiders and would encourage any of you who feel the same to let her know that you do. She's often spoke up for “us”; now is the time to do the same.

  • Well Well Wel

    Why is she retiring?? Someone threaten her?? Her comments were spot on.

  • Well Well Wel

    Now the white house press corps is officially useless in its entirety.

  • My3Cats

    Helen Thomas hasn't said anything that's anymore egregious than what Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann hint at and what Rush Limbaugh, et al. state boldly about those who are “unlike” themselves. I don't see Ari Fleischer blubbering about the fate of brown skinned people in Arizona, for example, when SHOW US YOUR PAPERS is getting to be a bit like having to wear a yellow patch in Germany if you were a jew in the 1930's. We've had various forms of apartheid in this country since it's founding. Oh, so suddenly it's offensive to talk about Israel's violence??

  • ericroded

    Churchstates are UnAmerican, and we should spend our American dollars on Americans instead.

  • truth hunter

    Like someone else said here, if Thomas had made comments like that about Palestinians, you wouldn't hear any outrcry…she'd probably get hired by AIPAC.

    So now we lose the last sentinel of journalism. I'm sure Gibbs and the rest of the government podium peckers, past and present, are relieved to see her go.

  • sergesret

    My best wishes and thanks to the last lion of the White House press corps. We are only left with the bleating of sheep. You will be missed Helen.

  • Jonathan

    Zero is a bit harsh. The tide is just full of dittoheads, and you only notice Helen because of her storied history. There are others. You could be one yourself if you cared.

  • Dennis

    Helen Thomas need make no apologies for her remarks. Rather her remarks reflect that Americans have long been embarassed and ashamed of the policies of the U.S. government regarding its support of the takeover of Palestinians lands by the artificially created country that calls itself “Israel.”

    As it stands, the American Congress/government will not even stand up to Israel for its abuse of American citizens – one intentionally killed by being run over with a bulldozer. Nor have Americans forgotton the deliberate and unwarranted attack by Israel on active duty American navy personnel serving on activy duty aboard the American navy ship the U.S. Liberty.

    Helen Thomas will be a huge loss nor can we doubt that she is being forced out – in the back rooms – by the U.S. government.

  • morty62

    It's a shame. She said what a lot of people believe. At least she went out speaking truth to power. You fought the good fight for a long time, Helen. Enjoy your well-deserved retirement.

  • RSandford

    Why “The Jews should get the hell out of Palestine” is a more radical or unacceptable statement than that “The Jews should stay and the Palestinians get out” is beyond me. We've known for years the White House is not a “free speech zone,” but the hypocrisy and double standard here is more than obvious. The only puzzling thing is why Ms.Thomas apologized. It's not a hate statement. I know Jews who love and are active in their religion, but who think exactly the same way as she does.

  • Anonymous

    Absolutely

  • Fab Murphy

    The Truth Teller is wise to keep one foot in the stirrup.
    – Mongolian Proverb

  • Dan

    And that was Ms. Thomas' mistake, confusing Jewish and Israeli. Nothing wrong with the Jewish faith. Everything wrong about the way the Israeli government conducts itself.

    Dan

  • bilejones

    Telling the truth will do that for ya.

  • Anonymous

    You are soooo right. IT is becoming more and more apparent the Israel is in control of America. I am totally sincere. They are showing control of this country on all fronts.

    Wake up people.

  • Anonymous

    Obama Helps Obstruct Israel Investigation (Article)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4xY0dW3OxY

  • markusgarvey

    Rick Sanchez says shes “siding with Hamas”…what an ignorant asshole…

  • Mad Tom

    I hope Helen Thomas is remembered for all the good she did, and not for her awful rant.

    She needed to retire after those remarks. No one should still be working at her age anyway.

  • Valerie Vaillancourt

    I was stunned by the bigatory statements made by Thomas. Like all that have been on the scene too long, they figure they are above the laws of courtesy. She is lebenese, and of course she would espose on their behalf. Now I know why I disliked her for all these years. I just couldn't figure it out until now.

  • Valerie Vaillancourt

    I was stunned at the bigatory statements made by Thomas. She is Lebonese and of course she would espose their views. I never cared much for her retoric in the News gallery, and could never figure out why she said the things she did. Like all that hold a position too long, they think they are above the law of decency.Now all she will be remembered for is her cruel statements.

  • WilliamJ

    Freedom of speech is a myth when it comes to criticizing the Zionists. They are so absolutely powerful that even those in the highest echelons of power, academia, and the media are subject to their censorship. They will slander you as a Nazi, an antisemite, a bigot, a terrorist sympathizer, or any other number of career-ending labels, And they just forced the retirement of one of the only press core members that would ask hard-hitting questions, regardless of the President's party. Their message is loud and clear: if you want to keep your career, don't criticize Israel

  • janet

    Why does anyone EVER listen to Ari Fleischer? Believe he didn't hold his job very long, did he? Just retribution, I guess, of some sort. Bottom line – Helen tells it like it is and shouldn't have bailed out to appease anyone. I love this lady–she's the best. And to have someone tell her what to say and do is abominable–the Israelis are performing genocide on the Palestinians. Well now, the Iranians are stepping up to protect future flotillas. We'll see how “wrong” Helen was.

  • musashi1

    for stating the truth about the jewish occupiers of palestine shes forced to resign, its ok if she criticizes the usa. but criticize israel and you are toast!!! this is disgusting!! israel is disgusting. this incident shows the world that we are truly ISRAELS BITCH!
    FUCK ISRAEL! FUCK CHRISTIAN ZIONIST WHO KEEP US SLAVES OF ISRAEL!

  • overdoneputaforkinit

    Helen went off like a loose cannon about Israel getting out of Palestine, the core point of her communication was the truth.

  • musashi1

    ah come on dont we have jeff gannon? oh yea, he only sucks off george bush in his
    multiple sleepovers at the whitehouse, i hear jeff doesnt do black guys!

  • carol h.

    How sad. She was truly one of the great, and independent reporters or our time. She was a fighter. There is no one in the White House press Corp to replace her. She was the only one asking question Bush did not want to answer. And they stopped calling on her because of it.

    The rest of that corp sat there for eight years and bobbed their heads assenting everything. No hard ball questions. Nothing. Sort of like the entire so called objective press. Cowards the lot of them. It was that cringing, servile press that allowed Bush to run rough shod over this country with rarely a question. She was the question.

    What really sticks in my mind about the press in general about that time was this image. Cindy Sheehan wanting an answer as to why her son dies. All the president had to do was spend five minutes and give her an answer. He would not. Fix news and the media in general spent months calling her crazy, guilty of sedition, and obsessive and that was the reason her husband divorced her etc. None of it germane of course. All of this could have been stopped by Bush. He could not only have comforted her, but could have told the right wing media to leave her alone. He did neither.

    She sat outside Crawford waiting. She was the face of the war. And the press passed her by, in the heat of the summer and the dust of that road. They could not be bothered because they were going to a BBQ being thrown for them by Bush. They had lost their reason for being reporters. Objective and questioning authority. They stopped being the free press. Instead they spent eight years being the propaganda arm of the Bush administration.

    To this day they are no better.

  • guest

    Good to see that racist, pro-Hamas bitch got what she deserved, about 70 years too late. The sooner we clean our media of pro-terrorist fronters the better.

  • SnobsandBitches

    I love to watch someone fuzzy rhetoric rolling around like backwash in the bottom of a piss tank…
    (Qu'est ce que les Francais viennent foutre dans les affaires de washington DC…..?)

  • tjfxh

    That's what you get for speaking truth to power. Crushed.

  • Gary

    God forbid that any American should wander off the straight and narrow
    of politically correct.

  • musashi1

    i dont blame you for being afraid to attatch your name to this you zionist bitch!
    ZIONIST=TRAITOR TO THE USA, ENABLER TO THE CENTER OF EVIL (ISRAHELL)

  • Evets

    I don't think she meant it literally. I think she's tired of the Israel lobby and its stranglehold over the US government and the banks.

  • SnobsandBitches

    “I was stunned at the bigatory statements” “She is Lebonese and of course she would espose their views..”

    Of course you are explicitly “performing” what you intend on denouncing…..The bigotry, because “of course she is Lebanese..” Darling, your logic is as bad as your spelling skill

  • SnobsandBitches

    Got Mail Markus…..☛ ✉

  • guest

    Jews and Zionism, as all RS readers know, own and run the world so it doesn't matter what any of you goyim think, WE OWN YOU so get use to losing.

  • azhermit

    The nazi jews got their pound of flesh. Shut the lights off… the last real reporter in the USA has left the room.

  • Will

    Sorry to see you go Helen. Can't speak your mind now a days, someone may become upset.

  • http://twitter.com/ivanafter5 Ivan After 5

    So much for anyone asking tough questions in the WH briefing room now.

  • OsamaYoMamma

    That's one bad case of the uglies off the front row, finally.

  • Fred

    Does this mean Rove's BBF, Gannon the male prostitute / reporter will get her seat?

  • hanoc202

    Why the heck was the W.H. asked to respond to her comments? She's not a member of the administration. Were reporters just looking for some juicy scandal and hoping the W.H. would back her statement up?(impossible).

  • Sailor

    Free speech has consequences. Free speech is not a free pass.You could go to Texas and rightly exclaim that Texas was taken from Mexico in an illegal war that violated International law. This is a fact, not just my opinion. If you are lucky enough to get out of Texas alive ,will your right to free speech have been violated?

  • SnobsandBitches

    “Free speech has consequences. Free speech is not a free pass”.
    Ein Reich, Ein Volk Ein Sailor…..

  • SnobsandBitches

    A republican “family values” administration is best served by male prostitutes & closet homosexuals

  • danny

    The only TRUE REPORTER in the white house that would ask the tough questions
    GOD BLESS YOU HELEN.

  • SnobsandBitches

    Good, Now we can start to set up cattle trains and send you back to Ukraine…♫ ♫

  • dennycrane

    Suddenly: it has always been like that since the politicians have a “racist” idea they will not get any of the “jewish” money if they diss them. I guess the zionists like the attention and the politicians haven't figures out that the zionists arms are too short to reach into their pockets.

  • enthous

    I am your plumber
    No I never went away
    I still bug your bedrooms
    And pick up everything you say
    It can be a boring job
    To monitor all day your excess talk

    I hear when you're drinking
    And cheating on your lonely wife
    I play tape recordings
    Of you to my friends at night

    We've got our girl in bed with you
    You're on candid camera
    We just un-elected you

    I am the owl
    I seek out the foul
    Wipe 'em away
    Keep America free
    For clean livin' folks like me

    If you demonstrate
    Against somebody we like
    I'll slip on my wig
    And see if I can start a riot
    Transform you to an angry mob
    All your leaders go to jail for my job

    But we ain't the Russians
    Political trials are taboo
    We've got our secret
    Ways of getting rid of you
    Fill you full of LSD
    Turn you loose on a freeway

    Send you spinning
    Send you spinning
    Send you spinning all over the freeway
    Spinning on the crowded freeway
    Spinning on the freeway
    Spinning on the freeway
    Spin
    Spin
    Spin-Lookout

    The press, they never even cared
    Why a youth leader walked into a speeding car
    In ten years we'll leak the truth
    By then it's only so much paper

    Watergate hurt
    But nothing really ever changed
    A teeny bit quieter
    But we still play our little games

    We still play our little games
    We still play our little games
    We still play our little games
    We still play a lot of games

  • dennycrane

    Yeah, right on.

  • opeluboy

    Do they fire reporters for ant-Muslim/Arab comments? For revisionism? For saying Palestinians should go “back” to Jordan? For saying their is no crisis in Gaza? Fuck no.

  • Wiseandawake

    SHE ASKED HARD QUESTIONS..THEY DIDN'T LIKE IT.
    SO THEY DUG UP THE OLD FOOTAGE FOR A SMEAR CAMPAIGN.
    WHAT A JOKE!

  • captainfrank

    Why the fuck are you apologizing?

  • d f bizzle

    She's old as f*ck but a personal hero…brains and balls

  • dennycrane
  • moldy

    We did something similar to the American Indian but we were lucky. They didn't have a super power protecting them.

    Ms Thomas will be missed.

  • bruman

    Oh, those big, bad Jews! There they go again, controlling America. Yeah, oh, oh, oh! Control America, Oh my, I’m so scared! Oh, oh, what to do, what to do? textynn, what did your KKK organizer tell you to do?

  • bruman

    Oh, those big, bad Jews! There they go again, controlling America. Yeah, oh, oh, oh! Control America, Oh my, I’m so scared! Oh, oh, what to do, what to do? textynn, what did your KKK organizer tell you to do?

  • bruman

    Satan, you name says it all/.

  • bruman

    Satan, you name says it all/.

  • airjackie

    Many don't want to deal with the truth because of the crimes the US did with Israel. Helen knows the History and spoke the truth. History doesn't change it's just covered up. Jewish people left Israel to Foreign Lands to become wealthy and most did. After the Holocaust countries had to turn away Jews because of overcrowding. Now remember Palestine and Jewish people lived in peace for a long time before the Holocaust. In 1948 the United Nations allow a small piece of land for the Jewish homeless. Slowly greed and crime took over Israel Govenment and the stealing and murder started. Now with in planeted US Law Makers as puppets Israel has Nukes/Cluster Bombs and recieves billions of US taxpayers money. With the crimes the US/Israel have done one can't attack the other or the secrets will come out. Israel trained the US how to do the Hitler experiments as the US did on the Iraq prisoners. Israel's plan is to have the US bomb Iran/Russia as Israel invades Egypt once they wipe Palestine people off the face of the earth.

  • bruman

    Keep her career? She’s 90 yrs-old, for god sake. It is a shame it had to end on such a pathetic and sour note. I liked her until I found out she was actually holding these insane views. It’s like the neighbor who shoots up the school playground. Everyone says he seemed like such a nice fellow. Yeah, until he went nuts. So Helen finally went nuts. I blame Bush.

  • bruman

    Keep her career? She’s 90 yrs-old, for god sake. It is a shame it had to end on such a pathetic and sour note. I liked her until I found out she was actually holding these insane views. It’s like the neighbor who shoots up the school playground. Everyone says he seemed like such a nice fellow. Yeah, until he went nuts. So Helen finally went nuts. I blame Bush.

  • airjackie

    Many don't want to deal with the truth because of the crimes the US did with Israel. Helen knows the History and spoke the truth. History doesn't change it's just covered up. Jewish people left Israel to Foreign Lands to become wealthy and most did. After the Holocaust countries had to turn away Jews because of overcrowding. Now remember Palestine and Jewish people lived in peace for a long time before the Holocaust. In 1948 the United Nations allow a small piece of land for the Jewish homeless. Slowly greed and crime took over Israel Govenment and the stealing and murder started. Now with in planeted US Law Makers as puppets Israel has Nukes/Cluster Bombs and recieves billions of US taxpayers money. With the crimes the US/Israel have done one can't attack the other or the secrets will come out. Israel trained the US how to do the Hitler experiments as the US did on the Iraq prisoners. Israel's plan is to have the US bomb Iran/Russia as Israel invades Egypt once they wipe Palestine people off the face of the earth.

  • bruman

    Like all haters, Helen finally went bonkers. The stress of holding in all that hate finally spewed out like diarrhea from the anus of a camel.

  • bruman

    Someone forgot to release the stranglehold on you and now you suffer from a brain deficit. Are you goyim that stupid or is this an act?

  • DougI

    Will someone take her place or will the White House Press Corp be completely full of kiss asses who ask lame questions?

  • Carl

    I hope she writes a book!

  • s-man

    Helen Thomas was the only real journalist in the White House press corps. She dared to ask the REAL questions, and to challenge the BS anawers and explanations. She was absolutely right about Israel, but she should have bit her lip to save her job. Now she'll be replaced by another Israeli shill. God Bless Helen Thomas

  • rsb1

    Thank you for your honesty, Ms. Thomas. It has been a true pleasure to read your reporting over the past 30+ years. You will be missed.

  • jevest

    She may have spoke roughly and from the hip on the issue but, unlike most cowards and sheep in the media, she has the guts to ask the challenging questions to power. There are so many idiotic, partisan, racist, lying, bigoted paid propagandist comments made everyday by creeps in the media, i.e. Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, those in the corporate pocket Congress and Senate, that they should be fired and put on trial for treason against the U.S. “everyday”. It is clearly telling who is pulling the power strings here when a renowned person of the press, speaker of truth-to-power gets fired for a bit of the recklessness talk that these racist corporate/banking/political cowards that are wrecking our country, say everyday. Unbelievable…
    she has the

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/H4N2R5RHXFJ2MNZU5H5KWX65QA Mark

    Israel can go to HELL!

  • bayside1

    Offensive and reprehensilbe..He was talking about about Israel just killing 9 people one a american right. No he was talking about a little old lady that thinks israels actions are offensive and reprehensible, as do I..He is more and more conservative in his thinking every day ..night is day is their world

  • bayside1

    Offensive and reprehensilbe..He was talking about about Israel just killing 9 people one a american right. No he was talking about a little old lady that thinks israels actions are offensive and reprehensible as do I..He is more and more conservative in his thinking every day ..night is day is their world..Thank you Helen for your courage when it seems sometimes you were the only one who had any,,Love you

  • cadabra

    I think Helen Thomas' comment relects the resentment that many people feel, even if they are too fearful to articulate it. There is a price to be paid for bullying one's way into statehood, and then demanding that one's, basically mythical view of history, be accepted as the actual history.

    Ms. Thomas has a Lebanese background. I suspect her heart must have been broken many times over the events that have occurred in Lebanon over the past 60 years. It is unfortunate, especially given her background as a news reporter, that she made a public comment without thinking about the consequences of her words. But, she spoke from her heart, and I think expressed what many people feel. The supprters of Israel, while they might feel gratified that they ended her professional career, might think about what she said and that her comments might reflect a broader viewpoint.

  • BuckJohnson

    It's a shame, a true shame that this woman had to retire/fired from her job. She was so good at asking those questions that other reporters where afraid of asking, and she would literally get into a war of words with the press secretary. The reason this was so career ending even for her was that she said something that was true and they in the media and out had to do everything in their power to not allow that line of reasoning to linger to long in the light of day. This is something that is said at night among politicians and people in power, but they know that the US (media and govt.) is infiltrated with people that are pro israel and any bashing whatsoever or even commenting about israel is a career killer.

    They know that much of the US problems with the middleeast could be fixed overnight if they would at bare minimum show even handedness in working with each side. But in our world one side is right (Israel) and the other side is wrong (Muslim countries and anybody else who disagrees). Leaders around the world who are in control of large countries will tell you that you don't let a small country that is allied to you dictate your policy. We as a country is being controlled from another small country and that country knows it.

  • Langdon

    Bugs me when race and religion are confused. The Jewish people are members of the same religion, like Catholics, they are not a racial type, there are no specific DNA markers for religion.

  • angi101

    She's much too good to work with our corrupt gonernment!! Enjoy your retirement Helen..You have SOOO earned it!!!

  • textynn

    Write your book and get it out fast Helen.. There's nothing holding you back. This is a disgrace. Apparently Israel is such a taboo subject that no one is allowed any opinion of their politics what so ever. Write the book Helen. Write the book.

  • Anonymous

    I see you use the racist term “goyin” which is a put-down meaning someone not jewish and therefore inferior. I always wondered why the ancient Romans suddenly obliterated Jerusalem in 70 AD. What was that all about? Thanks for giving me a clue.

  • textynn

    Did Israel commit an act of War against Turkey? Poll
    http://youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=7583
    82% Yes

    Israel Friend or Foe Poll
    http://youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=7578
    83% Foe

  • textynn

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    Nothing holding you back now Helen. The sooner it's out the safer you'll be.

  • jdouglas

    Maybe she was about to retire anyway, and wanted to go out with a bang.

  • CarlyleMoulton

    It is really sad when someone apologizes for telling the truth. But in the US of A the truth about Israel and its ethnic cleansing of Palestine is not welcome.

  • WilliamJ

    Join her Facebook page. It's growing in numbers and has some great debates running. Most are in favor of Thomas.

  • Dave

    Anyone who opens their mouth and speaks honestly about Israel gets shut down fast.
    Israel is a powerhouse bully on the same level as the USA.

  • reyrey

    Thanks for the memories Helen. You did it your way.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    It doesn't matter. The US will shortly spend itself to death making multinationals rich. Bye Uncle Sam. Been nice knowing you.

  • Aghh

    I think all Europeans should leave america and give it all back to the native americans. Give Texas and california back to Mexico…its their land…and florida back to spain and New york back to England…… I feel Bad for Helen, but she made her bed and cant escape her remarks.

  • http://blog-trend.com/politics/white-house-reporter-thomas-retires/ Blog-Trend.com

    White House reporter Thomas retires…

    Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas retired on Monday after coming under fire for controversial remarks about Israel.The retirement of the 89-year-old Thomas, the longest-serving reporter in the White House press corps, was announced by Hear…

  • IsraelisthenewAuswitz

    Israel always plays the victim when there are any unflattering comments or news about it.

    They even play victim to little old ladies if it suits their self centered agenda.

  • pjamala

    Every Palestinian refugee (or their parents or grandparents) used to live in Israel on land now occupied by Israeli Jews. And the Israeli settlements in the West Bank are built on land that does not belong to Israel and are illegal under international law. The only solution to this mess is one state, with equal voting and civil rights for Palestinians and Jews, and the return of Palestinians to the land their parents or grandparents owned. Unless Israel gives up its 43 year occupation of the West Bank, it must give the occupants of that land full citizenship rights. And the U.S. needs to withhold aid until Israel does so.

  • zonie

    If this episode doesn't demonstrate WHO is in control….

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    Full Metal Jacket…

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  • LL

    If Gaza belongs to Israel; why aren't the inhabitants of Gaza given full Israeli citizenship?
    If Gaza doesn't belong to Israel; what gives Israel the right to deny the inhabitants of Gaza fresh meat and crayons?

  • humbaba

    Helen Thomas was fired for answering the rabbi's question truthfully.
    A word to the wise in this Fascist Dictatorship……

  • SnobsandBitches

    That's a stretch in the Zionist mind set…

  • SnobsandBitches

    Great words,enthous.
    Sex,lies, blackmails.corruptions…..the core & nature of politics.

  • enthous

    Sometimes I wonder if people would just read the transcript of the Sibel Edmonds deposition, most of this news would quickly become irrelevant.

    http://www.whistleblowers.org/index.php?option=…

  • SnobsandBitches

    I Hear you & I feel likewise.Lost soul…..Lol

    and this 911 fiasco, is one of the biggest can of worms ever…..I wont jump to conclusions because I could only speculate,but I have the feeling that “truth has not really been told”.

  • smallbear

    You can put the racist card away asshole. It’s not about the Jews. It’s about Israel and their expansionist policies and their oppression of the indigenous inhabitants of the land they occupy.

  • smallbear

    Pay attention to Bill Press.

  • Juan Valdez

    Sanchez can’t help it, he’s a miami cuban, taught to hate from birth.

    When he left the scene of an accident with injuries, drunk, to go home and get the

    drivers license he wasn’t carrying, the cuban, I mean miami police did not properly charge

    him. Reminds me of Laura Busche…. Now I raise my umbrella…..

  • enorceht

    http://crooksandliars.com/
    Where Helen Thomas' 57-year career is tossed under the bus alongside her apology

    “…
    So ask yourself. Is this about an insult to Israel or an opportunity for wingnuts to USE an insult to Israel as a way to squelch Thomas' first amendment rights?

    When you consider that question, also remember this was said in the context of an informal interview. She didn't say it in the press room; she answered a question as a citizen with an opinion. Her opinion may not be acceptable, but does she not have the right to one?
    …”

  • Neville

    Amid all the brouhaha about what Helen said, many have ignored a basic truth in the first part of her statement – that the Palestinian people are an occupied people. That settlements are built all around them in contravention of all agreements, that they can be placed under curfew at any moment, that their ability to plant food has been taken away, and on and on. When people, Huckabee for one, has called for the Palestinians to go elsewhere, not has been said. We need more real Journalists who are not afraid to ask for tryth and accountability.

  • dan

    This is bizarre. Thomas spoke only truth to the heart of the matter. The source of the problems in Palestine are a historical fact: the 20th century migration of European Jews into that land. (One can argue that the real source is intolerance, but that intolerance cuts both ways.)

    Israel is a nation-state. It is not a person, a religion, or ethnicity. It is a political actor which makes political choices. To criticize Israel is no more a criticism of the religion therein than a criticism of China is a criticism of Buddhism. This is a deceitful argument designed to prevent any honest discussion of Israel's political policies.

    Don't go, Helen. The world still needs you.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/3J34VOUONTK3EKEGVNIAYIEFTE shq13

    Freedom of Speech ?

    Mark Rabin, a former freelance cameraman for CNN, said that in a 2002 conversation at the White House, Thomas said “thank God for Hezbollah” for driving Israel out of Lebanon, adding that “Israel is the cause for 99 percent of all this terrorism.”

  • Anonymous

    he is just doing what all MSM panelists do on tv…mouth gets moving before the brain is done thinking…just like me…I’m not even a journalist and i just did the same thing!…i.e., “what an ignorant asshole”…

  • Anonymous

    he is just doing what all MSM panelists do on tv…mouth gets moving before the brain is done thinking…just like me…I’m not even a journalist and i just did the same thing!…i.e., “what an ignorant asshole”…

  • Will

    Really starting to dislike israel, they are becoming the abusers. Helen is right, give back the land they stole and disperse.

  • Brian Eathers

    She should be booted! This is America, and in America, we never, NEVER diss Israel or her citizens in any way, lest we labelled a Nazi. That's just the way it is.

  • SnobsandBitches

    Does the media & political circus understand the concept of double standards.
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