Newsweek rewrites Helen Thomas
For those of you who wonder why Newsweek is going down the drain, perhaps this post will provide an answer. Newsweek, which in my youth advertised that it was "the one news weekly that separates fact from opinion," tries to rewrite Helen Thomas' opinions to make the facts more palatable to its uber-Liberal audience (Hat Tip: Jennifer Rubin). Google “good riddance to Helen Thomas,” and you get 41,700 results, more than enough to get the gist of the blogosphere’s general disdain for the 89-year-old doyenne who was a fixture in the White House press room going back to the Kennedy administration. Much of the commentary reflects revulsion at Thomas’s characterization of the Palestinian issue as something that could be solved if Jews left the Palestine territories and went back to where they came from.So in Newsweek's world, vilifying 'settlers' is okay - after all, they all come from Brooklyn (they don't, but that's beside the point). And Helen Thomas really meant only the 'settlers' and not all Israelis, since 'everybody knows' that our conflict with the Arabs is about territory and is not about our very existence.
She was talking about the settlers, and if she had said they should go back to Brooklyn, where many of them are from, she probably wouldn’t have made news. But suggesting they return to Germany and Poland touched a nerve that led to an abrupt ending of Thomas’s storied career.
What a load of crap.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:42 PM
4 Comments:
Newsweek, Time and The Economist! All rubbish!
In Uk Economist,you cannot even respond to their libels because there is no byline, no list of contributors, nothing, just pages of outrageous lies you cannot respond to.
1984 is not as bad as this!
I have not picked up a copy of that trash for about 40 years now. And I haven't missed anything.
Buh-bye, Newsweak!
Of course, she must have been talking about the massive wave of right wing settlers that immigrated from Germany and Poland during the 70's and 80's. Of course that's what she meant. Why did she quit her job then?
Consciously or not, the NY Times are making a point about the Helen Thomas I've made from the start:
Had she never mentioned Germany and Poland, which could be connected to the Holocaust, and confined her "Go home" to America, would her remarks be all OK?
The answer to this question tells us how serious a Zionist one is. If it's only about Germany, Poland and the Holocaust, then we're back to the argument made by, among others, the Iranian would-be Hitler: that the Phakestinians should not be paying for what others did to the Jews.
But a serious Zionist would take offense even if Thomas had mentioned only America as the "home" to which Jews should go back to. He would take offense at any suggestion that Jews go "home" outside Israel, even if it's to a country that's been kindest to its Jews. Zionism is about the basic Jewish truth that the only true home of the Jewish nation is the Land of Israel.
It's good that she's been censured, but I think the main point has been lost on those who've decided to concentrate on the European locations she mentioned.
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