Veteran US reporter Thomas lashes Israel, again
AFP
04-Apr-2011 (4 comments)

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Veteran US reporter Helen Thomas lashed out at
Israel in an interview published Friday, standing by fiery comments
which forced her to quit as doyenne of the White House press corps last
year.

Speaking to Playboy, she denied she was anti-Semitic but railed against
Jewish lobbies she said controlled power in America, from the White
House and Congress to Hollywood and financial markets.

The combative 90-year-old also reiterated her view that Jews should stay
in Europe and the United States rather than moving to Israel, which she
said was stolen from the Palestinians.

"I’m not anti-Jewish; I’m anti-Zionist. I am anti-Israel taking what
doesn’t belong to it. If you have a home and you’re kicked out of that
home, you don’t come and kick someone else out."

Thomas was forced to quit last June after being
recorded saying, when asked about Israel: "Tell them to get the hell out
of Palestine," adding: "They can go home, Poland, Germany, and America
and everywhere else."


 

Asked about those comments by Playboy, she said: "Well, that immediately
evoked the concentration camps. What I meant was they should stay where
they are because they’re not being persecuted -- not since World War
II."

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Roozbeh_Gilani

fuzzygoril, playboy can be bad for your eyesight!

by Roozbeh_Gilani on Tue Apr 05, 2011 08:05 AM PDT

Dont "read" it too much or you end up like Khamenei!

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."


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fussygorilla

Roozeh

by fussygorilla on Tue Apr 05, 2011 06:37 AM PDT

I will indeed call you a "simpleton" since you indeed must have missed the great essays most of the issues of the Playboy published. One cannot be more simple-minded than being satisfied at "looking", at pictures without ability to read.


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Roozbeh_Gilani

"Speaking to Playboy"??!!!!

by Roozbeh_Gilani on Mon Apr 04, 2011 08:13 PM PDT

Call me a simpleton, but I always thought that Playboy was looked at and not read!

But hey, if ahmadinezhad/khamenei duo are now supposedly defending the rights of palistinains, why not Playboy?

Poor palistinians, indeed......


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Bavafa

Beautifully said, and more power to you Lady Helen Thomas

by Bavafa on Mon Apr 04, 2011 07:20 PM PDT

"I’m not anti-Jewish; I’m anti-Zionist. I am anti-Israel taking what
doesn’t belong to it. If you have a home and you’re kicked out of that
home, you don’t come and kick someone else out."

Mehrdad


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