Helen Thomas, the longest serving White House reporter (since the 60s), is being widely condemned for her comments regarding Israel. She was asked to give her thoughts on what Israel should do after their clusterf*** last week in stopping the flotilla headed to Gaza. Not saying stopping the flotilla was a bad idea, but how they went about it was clearly dumb. Anyway Thomas' response was "get the hell out of Palestine" and that the Jewish people should go home to "Poland, Germany ... and America and everywhere else."
Now I understand where people are coming from to a certain extent. Hitler tried to eradicate all of the Jewish people in Europe so after WWII the world powers decided to create Israel. In the world of US politics saying anything not 80% in favor of Israel is like being a Black politician, people thinking you are dating a White woman and trying to become a Senator in Tennessee (Harold Ford Jr). But it's not like Israel was purchased, it was jacked. So the fact that Helen Thomas said they need to get the hell out isn't the despicable comment everyone is making it out to be.
The issue that I have is that Israel has a blank check from the United States. We go along with whatever they do and we give them more foreign aid than any other country. Think about that, Israel is a fully developed country yet we give them more aid than anyone else. People getting pushed out for speaking their mind... It would be different if she actually said something that was crazy and offensive.
Monday, June 7, 2010
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totally agree with your last paragraph.... US policy on alot of things as of late has been basically "unconditionally" supporting entities that clearly abuse that trust....
ReplyDeletethere should be no such thing as unconditional aid whether it be bailing out companies or helping "developed" (or undeveloped) countries. who helps people with no conditions... even smart family members ask their love ones why do you need $50 ALL OF A SUDDEN....
Israel has this level of protection from big brother America only because American jews guide the US foreign policy on Israel. Not only that they also have the ADL (anti defamation league) organization which forms an air tight bond between America and Israel/jewish community.
ReplyDeleteI guess the problem people had is that the Jews fled Poland and Germany to escape the Nazis. I could understand if this were 1949, but it's not. The Nazis are not in power anywhere in Europe. There are Neo Nazis but I'm pretty sure they are less of a threat that Palestinian suicide bombers.
ReplyDeleteAgain this was blown way out of proportion.