Ambush
The Ambush of Helen Thomas
By GARY LEUPP
Outrage!
White House journalist Helen Thomas, covering a Jewish American
Heritage Month celebration at the White House May 27, is accosted on
the sidewalk by someone who asks: “Any comments about Israel? We’re
asking everybody today---any comments about Israel?”
Smiling in grandmotherly fashion----the way an 89 year-old woman might
do when suddenly approached by an 17 year old boy who seems sincerely
interested in her thoughts---she replies: “Tell them to get the hell
out of Palestine.”
“Oooh…” responds the questioner. “Any better comments?” (A voice in
the background: “Helen is fun!”)
“Hah hah hah,” laughs Helen. “ Remember these people are occupied, and
it’s their land, not German, and not Poland.”
“So where should they go? What should they do?”
“They could go home. Poland. Germany.”
“Where’s home? You’re saying Jews should go back to Poland and
Germany?”
“And America and everywhere else.”
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http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp06082010.html
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