http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/06/ari-fleischer-helen-thomas-fired/So according to Ari Fleischer (press secretary for W), Helen Thomas, the mastermind journalist who has covered every president since Eisenhower, should be fired for her "anti-Semitic" comments.
Even Obama called her comments "offensive." The Anti-Defamation League derided her, etc.
Her controversial comments (for which she has since apologized for) were: "Tell [Israel] to get the hell out of Palestine. Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land -- not German, not Polish. So they should just go home -- to Germany, Poland, and everywhere else." She is referring to the Jews claiming aaliyah to return to the Promised Land (promised first by God, and then promised by the British to at least two large "meta-ethnic" groups). See the video of the comments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcQdWBqt14.
The Huffington Post blog item (by MJ Rosenberg) on this is slightly more intelligent:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/why-did-obama-diss-helen_b_165544.html. He asks (and I presume he is Jewish), what does Obama feel when he sees the horrible murder and destruction in Gaza? (Is it the categorical answer, "Israel has the right to defend itself"? Or is it, "if I was there, then those kids would have been my own children"?)
I will make a more controversial leap. Even Ahmadinejad has been saying similar lines: "Israel should be [politically] wiped off the map" ; "why did they [the Jews] start occupying Palestine, when they were wronged by the Nazis (if they was 'Holocaust' at all)? Why couldn't they colonize Germany or some other European party to the 'Holocaust'?"
Of course, we should take the usual caution against someone who questions the Nazi Holocaust, but isn't the rest equivalent to Thomas's comments.
(This is completely unrelated and may even be a trollism, but Helen Thomas has Arab heritage.)
