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Helen Thomas: Blood on Her Hands

Posted on | December 5, 2010 | 35 Comments

Yesterday I joked about Helen Thomas’s latest expedition into Jew-baiting paranoia. Yet, ridiculous as it is, what Thomas is telling the Arab world is what too many people — Arab and non-Arab alike — are all too eager to believe: That American foreign policy vis-a-vis the Middle East is controlled by a conspiracy of wealthy Jews.

Thomas cannot claim that her remarks were “taken out of context.” Jeff Dunentz at Yid With Lid has a 7-minute  video of Thomas’s remarks at Wayne State University’s campus in Dearborn, Michigan:

Having taken the trouble to transcribe part of Thomas’s remarks, I ask you to notice what she uses as the precedent to her claim about politicians and the media being “owned by the Zionists”:

“If we invade a country like Iraq for no reason that’s valid, no weapons of mass destruction, no ties to al-Qaeda – a very bad dictator, yes. But is that a reason to kill thousands of people? No reason to invade Aghanistan – no president has yet been able to defend it or explain it. . . . To kill or die, for what? . . . There is an actual campaign constantly, since I’ve been at the White House. Every president has known the truth about the Arab world, but they have not been able to act for the truth. And the whole question of money involved in politics – we are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There’s no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where there mouth is.”

Thomas is not merely saying that “Jews own Hollywood” (an assertion that is actually not even controversial) or “Jews own Wall Street.” What Thomas is saying is that America waged war in Afghanistan and Iraq entirely because of “Zionist” influence.

Is her assertion true? Was there “no reason” — or “no reason that’s valid” — for either of these military campaigns? Have thousands of American soldiers, and many thousands of Iraqis and Aghans, died merely to satisfy the blood-lust of Zionist Jews?

Leaving aside any debate about the overall wisdom of Bush-era foreign policy, is it really the case that the root of the world’s problems is the insidious (and allegedly insuperable) influence of a Jewish conspiracy?

Or is it not rather the case, as I am inclined to believe, that the incitement of hatred against Israel by Arab demagogues — whose ranks Helen Thomas proudly joins – is the real root of this problem?

Egged on by bloodthirsty radicals both Arab and non-Arab, Muslim and non-Muslim, Palestinian leaders have made the annihilation of Israel their casus belli for decades, and have recruited killers around the world to rally to that banner.

Everywhere that Islamist terrorists shed the blood of innocents, they do so in large measure because they have been indoctrinated with the belief that the continued existence of the Jewish state is an offense against Allah, so that there is a divine commandment for the destruction of Israel. Indoctrinated with that belief, the terrorists are waging what is quite literally a holy war that justifies the purposeful slaughter of men, women and children. Suicide bombers who seek death in the worldwide war against against “Zionism” do so in the belief that they are martyrs in a sacred cause.

Allah commands this.

And so does Helen Thomas.

There is blood on her hands, just as there is blood on the hands of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and al-Qaeda. Indeed, by her slanderous accusations against Israel, Helen Thomas dips her hands in the blood of Bobby Kennedy and proclaims to the world that RFK was wrong to support Israel, and that Bobby’s killer was right.

This is not a debate about U.S. foreign policy or about the terms of peace between Israel and Palestine.

We can debate such things civilly and amicably. But there can be no room in that debate for those like Helen Thomas who foment anti-Semitic paranoia by making accusations of mala fides against Israel’s allies, claiming that anyone who defends Israel is “owned” by shadowy Zionist conspirators.

Helen Thomas belongs to the Sirhan Sirhan wing of the Democrat Party, and it is high time we begin to speak frankly about how far and how deep this dangerous radicalism has spread.

UPDATE: Thomas actually had the effrontery to invoke MLK. “No Mistake About It,” says Aaron Goldstein of The American Spectator.

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Comments

  • Anon Y. Mous

    Sirhan Sirhan was a Christian Palestinian, so his motives were not to obey the will of Allah. His motives were of the ethnic/nationalistic variety.

  • Serfer62

    Her face reflects her evil heart

  • Joe

    There was a great youtube clip of Johnny Cash’s “When the Man Comes Around” that came out a few years after 9/11. It had Helen Thomas’ face flash up when it referenced the virgins. Anyone have a copy? The later versions pale in comparison.

  • Anonymous

    …Helen Thomas belongs to the Sirhan Sirhan wing of the Democrat Party, and it is high time we begin to speak frankly about how far and how deep this dangerous radicalism has spread.

    Quite right. For too long we’ve shut out eyes to the committed Leftism and Anti-Semitism that have infected the Democratic Party.

  • TR Sterling

    Please include Jeffy Jihad (the self-hating Castro loving jew from Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/12/dont-give-to-the-jewish-national-fund/67436/) in the Sirhan SSirhan (SS, anyone?) annihilist wing of the Democrat Party.

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  • Tfhota

    The time is coming when we will have to deal with these quislings in our midst.

  • Nobody 108 11529

    Bravely spoken, and true.

  • Anonymous

    Instalanche!

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NXB2XLP26NEUL6OE5S5T2JVRGY Chris

    “Every president has known the truth about the Arab world, but they have not been able to act for the truth.”

    Not to go OT here, but when I read that part of Helen’s emission it reminded me of Wikileaks. Yes I know there could be some disinfo in there, but what is striking about the Wikileaks material is all the comments that reflect State Department knowledge about “the truth of the Arab world” –and about the real nature of Iran, North Korea, et cetera — that normally never appears unfiltered in mainstream media. Every day big media are quoting Wikileaks that say Arab governments are corrupt, that they’re very worried about Iran and not at all about Israel, that they’re funding Al-Qaeda, et cetera. Of course the intent of Wikileaks was to harm the USA, but there appears to be a highly educational aspect also. One of the effects of that education is to expose how twisted Helen-think actually is.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Emily-Haase-Rollinson/1375071090 Emily Haase Rollinson

    She is a poisonous old toad who needs to be excluded from polite conversations.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/XRCPGCWX2Z6ZSG7FFVT6G5P5SA Nick

    After watching and reading Helen’s comments, one would assume she’s
    OWNED by the ISLAMISTS. I’m more concerned about ISLAM, than I am about Zionists.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/XRCPGCWX2Z6ZSG7FFVT6G5P5SA Nick

    I’m not sure Helen is a quisling. I think she’s ALWAYS been true to her hateful beliefs and we’ve been too pc, too busy or too preoccupied to notice. Go back and watch some of her older interviews. Listen to her pov when she questions various press secretaries. She’s been in some
    sultans, or imams, pocket for a very long time.

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  • Anonymous

    Nazi Germany is now history. And so is the interregnum it brought to Jew hating.

    BTW Jew hating in America peaked in 1944.

    It was so virulent among Republicans that my mother has never forgiven them despite the train wreck that is the current Democrat Party.

    Which is why despite Jews earning like Episcopalians they vote like Puerto Ricans.

    Hatred has consequences that often far outlive the hatred. “Unto the tenth generation…..” I believe is the rule of thumb.

  • Doug

    Can they really be that stupid? Cut off your nose to spite your face for the next 200 years, that will teach those bad 1930′s Republicans.

  • Doug

    Can they really be that stupid? Cut off your nose to spite your face for the next 200 years, that will teach those bad 1930′s Republicans.

  • Doug

    Can they really be that stupid? Cut off your nose to spite your face for the next 200 years, that will teach those bad 1930′s Republicans.

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  • Anonymous

    One day she said, the TRUTH will be out.

    Really everybody in the world knows the zionist control America. Thats what they are doing in hollywood is to make sure Americans see Jews as themselves and the Arabs and Muslims as the other. Quite remarkable given their disdain for everything European and most of all Christian. But I guess they believe if our activism is invisible, whitey won’t get it. The problem is is whitey always ends up getting it.

    Read Dr Kevin Macdonald about Jewish history and activism and their influence in America like the passing of the 1965 immigration act to diplace whitey as a majority in America.

  • Donna V.

    The most famous American Jew hater in the 1930′s was Fr. Coughlin, the radio priest. Coughlin was most certainly not a Republican – his economic policy was to the left of FDR.

    Really, point me to some examples of “virulent” anti-Semitism coming from Republicans. When I think of virulent hatred, I think of the eliminationist rhetoric coming from the Nazis and today’s Islamonuts and the Rachel Corrie left. And, of course, the actions that sort of rhetoric leads to.

    Snooty Republicans who black-balled Jews (and anyone else who didn’t have the right family background and the right schools on their resume) from their country-clubs and resorts in the 1930′s and 40′s -that’s “virulent?”

    It’s remarkable to me that Jews could have been so hurt by not being accepted to the WASP La-Te-Da Club in 1944, that it would influence their voting patterns 60 years, and yet now they’re willing to overlook people who wish them dead.

    I suspect the real reason Jews are Dems is because politically, they have always leaned left, and, unlike other groups (like the Catholics, for example) they have never shifted right as their economic fortunes improved. Does Jewish guilt include feeling guilty for being hard-working and successful and believing one has to atone for success by voting for self-punishment?

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  • TJ Parker

    Your demonization of Helen Thomas for her opinions seems, I think, to almost prove her point. What the press should examine dispassionately, logically and methodically, you do with venom. Why?

  • Anonymous

    “I suspect the real reason Jews are Dems is because politically, they have always leaned left, and, unlike other groups (like the Catholics, for example) they have never shifted right as their economic fortunes improved.”

    Some people don’t care for a level playing field.

  • Boyodontyano

    A lot of the augment that Thomas has “blood on her hands” here is predicated on Zionist being equal to Jew. This is not true. Zionist refers to someone who advocates on behalf of the Jewish state. Think of Woodrow Wilson for example—not a Jew, but a Zionist. If “advocate of the Jewish state” is substituted, for “Zionist” then Thomas’s rhetoric seems less inflammatory as it is in reality.

  • Boyodontyano

    I think if religion is subtracted from the Middle East equation, the solutions become clearer. The reason to subtract seems rational: Jewish atheism and Arab nationalism. Arab nationalism has more powerful ideological content in the Middle East than Islamist thought. The claim of the Promised Land (and its boundaries) appears dim in the light of Israeli atheism.

  • Anonymous

    It’s nice to see the Jew-Haters are still out there doing their cretinous thinking.

  • Anonymous
  • http://www.anti-republicanculture.com Howard Towt

    Stacy:

    You have restored my faith in the words on your masthead.

    Good job. But don’t take my word for it, ask James Taranto! You are walking with the gods…
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704156304576003331282575692.html?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb_h

  • Guest

    Three things:

    1.) Who is Helen Thomas?

    2.) I really could have done without that particular picture of RFK.

    3.) “We can debate such things civilly and amicably.” Was that particular picture of RFK supposed illustrate civility? Or amicability? Which one?

  • Ron S

    Listen closely Helen; Our country was attacked by people of your ilk! The first time our country was actually attacked. Pearl Harbor was in Hawaii which was not even a state then. So the proper response is to go and find the dirt bags and destroy them! Iraq said they had weapons of mass destruction and proved it by gassing its own citizens. The U.N, Germany, France, etc. and the Clintons together with every politician in D.C. agreed. We go there and then it’s all George Bush’s fault. Helen, it would be grand if you were duct taped to the first bomb, you miserable piece of dog shit! There – ‘Freedom of Speech’ in your ugly, ugly, ugly face!

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  • Donna V.

    “Who is Helen Thomas?” Er, the thread is about her. And the picture of RFK has some pertinence to the point being made.

    If you don’t know who she is, maybe you should do a little research before presuming to comment on something you are admittedly ignorant of.

  • Another_Guest

    He knows who Helen Thomas is — that is a cynnical question he asks and the answer to that question is supposed to elicit another question in your mind along the lines of “why should we care about Helen Thomas today” and the answer to that question is something that has eluded me for decades.

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