Helen Thomas Forced To Retire After Israel Remarks (Wizbang Pop!)

Helen Thomas, the veteran Hearst newspapers reporter was forced into an immediate retirement amid the uproar over her comments about Israel. Thomas has covered 10 presidents in her lifetime as a reporter that started out in 1943 as a correspondent. However, her comments this week that Jews should leave Palestine and go home to Germany, The U.S. and Poland created an outrage.

Thomas' view of history wasn't exactly that well informed. As early as 1100 BCE the same region used to be part of the ancient Kingdom of Israel and was known as Judea. However, in later centuries conquering armies from Babylon, Persia & Rome occupied the region, sometimes dispersing the population of Jews into slavery. Occupying armies and rulers helped to move different people into the region as the ancient Jewish kingdom lost it's identity as a Jewish state and was renamed by successive occupiers. From the second century AD to 1948, the region was renamed as Palestine. However, in 1947 as British rule over Palestine was ending, the United Nations set up a new divide between a state called Israel and the Palestinian West Bank. However, a civil war resulted and created the modern state of Israel in 1948. The current state of Israel is more than 75% Jewish and only 20% Arab. And even the Palestinian leadership is split between the more moderate Palestinian Authority and the radical Hamas elements, complicating peace efforts and a peaceful resolution to the ongoing conflict. Since 1948 this has become one of the most politically complicated world situations to resolve.

The dispute over the West Bank only continues to be a thorny issue among the Palestinians and the Arab neighboring states as well. Israel would be a landlocked state without these ports which are in this disputed region. However, arms to support radicals often flow into this area under the control of Hamas authorities who do nothing to stop this and even encourage the freelance violence of individual terrorists. Thomas did nothing positive towards the attempts by Israel to seek a peace with the more moderate Palestinian Authority elements by injecting her own unhelpful personal views on the issue.

Helen Thomas seemed to forget the most rule of journalism; You report the news, and not create it yourself. In this case, it ended her long journalism career.

What Thomas does now is a major question. But, likely doing PLAYBOY is out of the question.

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Comments (9)

Helen Thomas was FORCED to ... (Below threshold)

1. Posted by Thank You Helen Thomas | June 7, 2010 9:56 PM | Score: -6 (10 votes cast)

Thank You Helen Thomas:

Helen Thomas was FORCED to retire by the Jewish controlled media.

Israel SHOULD GET THE HELL OUT OF PALESTINE.

Israeli Jews are Germans and Polish - they are not Semitic.

The Jewish media can report whatever they want but the WORLD knows the TRUTH.

No More Lies! Jews stole Palestinian Land.

Posted on June 7, 2010 21:56

Morons,just poor little mor... (Below threshold)

2. Posted by G. | June 7, 2010 11:47 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)

G.:

Morons,just poor little morons. Try reading some history and educate yourself. It's Israel,moron. Jewish homeland for thousands of years? They just took it back is all. So educate yourself. Better yet, go find yourself a sheet and hood. It's something you guys on the left really know how to do well...besides lynching.... and Jim Crow laws and whats that other thing ...oh yea, slavery.. yea that's it.

Posted on June 7, 2010 23:47

Zionists are programmed idi... (Below threshold)

3. Posted by You Are Brain Washed on a Kibbutz | June 8, 2010 11:23 AM | Score: -6 (10 votes cast)

You Are Brain Washed on a Kibbutz:

Zionists are programmed idiots coming out of kibbutz (the Jewish version of a Madrassa).

Read "The Invention of the Jewish People" by Professor Shlomo Sand of Tel Aviv University.

Every Israeli Prime Minister has been involved in terrorists acts.

Look up King David Hotel bombing.

Look up Deir Yassin.

Dubai hotel murder.

Israel is a LOSER.

Posted on June 8, 2010 11:23

There is no such thing as a... (Below threshold)

4. Posted by Semitic Jews Do Not Exist | June 8, 2010 11:26 AM | Score: -6 (8 votes cast)

Semitic Jews Do Not Exist:

There is no such thing as a "Semitic Jew".

Semitic Jews DID come from Palestine.

Semitic Jews were all killed by white, Christians in Europe by the Catholic Inquisition.

Modern Day Jews have no genetic link to Palestine and no RIGHT to Palestine.

Posted on June 8, 2010 11:26

Ports in the West Bank, eh?... (Below threshold)

5. Posted by Captain Ned | June 8, 2010 8:41 PM | Score: 1 (5 votes cast)

Captain Ned

Ports in the West Bank, eh? Navigating the River Jordan is a real bitch, seeing as it has no opening to the sea.

I assume you meant Gaza, of whose ports Israel has no need.

That said, the usual frothing reactions by the tali-wannabees is as always very clear. You lot go to sleep every night with dreams of slaughtering Jews easing you off to sleep, secure in the knowledge that Europe never really threw off its inbred hatred of Jews.

For the record, Jews and Palestinians share a common pool of Y-chromosome haplotypes, i.e. they're genetically very close:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC18733/

Posted on June 8, 2010 20:41

Helen Thomas committed the ... (Below threshold)

6. Posted by LiberalNitemare | June 8, 2010 9:35 PM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)

LiberalNitemare:

Helen Thomas committed the only unpardonable sin that a member of the liberal media can make - she said out loud, what they really think.

Posted on June 8, 2010 21:35

Often when someone who refu... (Below threshold)

7. Posted by John S | June 9, 2010 9:59 AM | Score: -2 (2 votes cast)

John S:

Often when someone who refuses to retire is forced to retire, they die soon after. All those jihaddists in hell will soon get their promised virgin.

Posted on June 9, 2010 09:59

She is a Shmuck. Is she mar... (Below threshold)

8. Posted by AllaAkhbar | June 12, 2010 5:32 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

AllaAkhbar:

She is a Shmuck. Is she married at all? How ugly face can be?

Posted on June 12, 2010 17:32

So, Paul, trying to turn Wi... (Below threshold)

9. Posted by Oyster | June 14, 2010 1:26 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Oyster:

So, Paul, trying to turn WizbangPop into another political blog?

Just to be clear - "Helen Thomas seemed to forget the most rule of journalism; You report the news, ..."

Helen Thomas was a columnist and not bound by the restraints that a "reporter" is supposed to be bound. I'm glad she spoke out loud what she felt. I think a lot more should. We have too many pretenders "reporting" the news as it is.

Posted on June 14, 2010 13:26

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