Lucidity is skin deep, but senility goes straight to the bone

Good god that is one ugly biatch.

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She was born in 1920.

Lest anyone wonder who’s really in charge, let a crazed lefty express a thought in public that is probably widely held in US universities and she is promptly sacked.

If she’s right, then shouldn’t all White people go “back” to Europe? Where they will be minorities as Muslims take over? Shouldn’t all Black people go “back” to Africa? Heck, Europeans would argue (and have) that Jews belong in Israel because that’s where they are from, not Europe.

Shouldn’t White Australians (and Asians) all go “back” to Europe or Asia, “give it back” as that tall, bald lump of idiocy Peter Whatshisname from Midnight Oil argues?

Shouldn’t all Turks “go back” to Turkey and leave Cyprus?

Shouldn’t all Russians “go back” to Russia and leave Chechnya?

Shouldn’t all Serbs “Get the hell out of Serbia” since Muslims are taking over?

Shouldn’t all Chinese “get the hell out of Tibet” since it “belongs to Tibet?”

Shouldn’t all Lebanese “get the hell out” of Lebanon since it belongs to the Phoenicians? Shouldn’t all Muslims “get the hell out” of Egypt since it belongs to the Pharoahs?

Hell, La Raza tells White people like me to “get the hell out of America” it belongs to them not me. Indians tell me the same. Both say “go back to Europe.”

Thomas told Jews to “go to Auschwitz” one step removed, she mentions Poland the notorious site of concentration camps and the notorious sites of killing Jews AFTER Liberation, in 1946, 1947, and 1948. If anything, this ought to be a wake-up call that Jews have only their own strength of arms, and nothing else, to save them, since nearly all Muslims (99.99999%) want them dead.

As for Thomas’s defenestration, it proves that Hearst was responsive to the American people, who by large majorities approve of Israel’s handling of the blockade, hate Muslims, and like Israel.

Mostly because Evangelicals consider themselves “New Jews” and part of a new Covenant that simply extends the old. Not replaces it. This is why Palin had an Israeli flag on her desk. It speaks to Evangelicals (she’s one of them) and is about them (more than Jews, though philo-semitism mostly characterizes Evangelicals and America).

Its proof that America has not yet succumbed to SWPL latte swilling PC, there’s enough older people to maintain some sanity. [According to Peter Beinart's story and poll by Frank Luntz, most American young Jews would be unperturbed by Israelis all being wiped out -- it would simply save them PC embarrassment.]

In this story I’ve noticed three, not really related, interesting things:

1. Helen Thomas is of Lebanese descent, and thus presumably has an axe to grand with Zionism

2. The incredible extent of Jewish power in the United States that leads a 90 year old woman to be publicly rebuked from multiple quarters for expressing a negative opinion about a foreign country

3. The ignorance of Helen Thomas in particular but people in general of the origins of Israelis

Regarding point one, when this story broke I had no idea who Helen Thomas was. I was born in 1985, so by the time I was an adolescent her career was mostly over. Like all good members of gen Y, my immediate reaction was to look her up on Wikipedia. She strikes me as one of those people the journalism profession likes to celebrate as important, chiefly because journalists have a grossly overinflated sense of importance. Walter Cronkite and Edward Murrow come to mind.

In her Wikipedia article I noticed this interesting tidbit, “Her parents, Mary (née Rowady) and George Thomas, were Lebanese immigrants from Tripoli, Lebanon;[5][6][7] her father’s surname had originally been “Antonious” before being anglicized to Thomas at Ellis Island”

Lebanon, as we know, was invaded by Israel in 1982 in an attempt to root out the PLO there. The South was occupied until 1985, and had an on-and-off Israeli presence until it ended in 2000. In 2006, Israel invaded again as well as bombing most of the country.

While Helen Thomas grew up in an era where America was still America and thus she never in her education would’ve been encouraged to nurture ethnic grievances, not even the mighty melting pot of that era eradicated ethnicity overnight. Odds are very good that Helen Thomas isn’t anti-Zionist for liberal reasons (though she might think so), but for the quite sensible reason that her urheimat has been repeatedly reduced to smithereens by the IDF.

Unsurprisingly, this has not been reported on at all in the media. Diversity!

The second point doesn’t need much elaboration. This ninety year old woman has been dropped from her speaking engagements, her collaboration with Craig Crawford, Hearst Newspapers, and likely other things.

Not only that, but she was officially rebuked by the White House. That is to say, the extent of Jewish power in America is so strong that the White House felt the need to rebuke the extreme anti-Zionist remarks of a journalist.

Predictably, Helen Thomas has apologized. Why? What does this ninety year old woman have to lose? Why doesn’t anyone (besides James Crowley) caught in a public spate over violating the dominant structure of taboos stand his ground?

The third point concerns Helen Thomas’ own ignorance. She tells the Jews to go “home”, as if before 1948 world Jewry were concentrated in Germany, Poland, and the United States. I am not sure what structure the Israeli population had at that time, but as far as I know most Israelis there had either been continuously present in Palestine for centuries or had immigrated before the war after the development of modern Zionism. Recently the largest source of immigrants has been the former Soviet Union.

The video, perhaps deliberately, makes an error about the German Jews. While it is a fact that most of Polish Jewry was exterminated, by 1941 540,000 Jews from Germany and Austria had emigrated. Very few German Jews suffered the fate of the millions of Central European and Eastern European Jews in the death camps.

I think Helen might have fared better if she’d just said Jews should get the hell out of Palestine.
Telling them to “Go back to Germany and Poland” was what really did her in. It doesn’t sound good.

Actually I don’t know why people don’t get this. She thinks that jews have a right to call germany and poland home, and this is ridiculously insulting to german and polish people because the jews did in fact financially take over those countries. They owned the businesses and real estate. One known phrase, and source of antisemitism in eastern europe was jews saying “our buildings, your streets” to the people in who’s countries they lived in and profited off of. This is also the reason why hitler was so angry at them.

“The third point concerns Helen Thomas’ own ignorance. She tells the Jews to go “home”, as if before 1948 world Jewry were concentrated in Germany, Poland, and the United States. I am not sure what structure the Israeli population had at that time, but as far as I know most Israelis there had either been continuously present in Palestine for centuries or had immigrated before the war after the development of modern Zionism.”

Relative to the Jewish population beforehand, there was a lot of Jewish immigration to Palestine between the two wars, especially (and unsurprisingly) as the Nazis came to power. That’s a very small window compared to “centuries.” I haven’t been able to find precise figures, but it looks like the Jewish population of what’s now modern Israel/Palestine was something like half a million around 1930. Poland’s was over 3 million. Even today, the number of Jews in Israel is less than the commonly accepted 6 million Jewish Holocaust victims–and about a third of today’s Israeli Jews are foreign born.

Why is it ignorant to think of Central Europe as a much greater hub of world Jewry, pre-WW2, than the comparative backwater of Palestine?