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Hearst White House reporter Helen Thomas retires over anti-Israel remarks

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — Hearst Newspapers White House reporter Helen Thomas on Monday announced she will retire after her controversial anti-Israel remarks caused an outrage.

“I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians,” Thomas said in an earlier apology. “They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that pace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.”

Thomas, a long time White House reporter, last week said that Israelis should “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go home” to “Poland, Germany… America and everywhere else.”

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Monday, June 7th, 2010 at 4:14 pm | BNO News | 17 Comments

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GW

This is long overdue. That old skag has been a negative and extremely biased “reporter”/commentator for probably 30 years or more. Good riddance to rotten garbage!
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Todd

I am actually surprised the old battleaxe got the axe. The media is full of people hateful to our Israeli friends. I would have thought she would have been given a Nobel Peace Prize, a raise and a promotion. Hats off to the Hearst people for retiring this horrible woman. God bless Israel!
sbenard

Ding! Dong! The wicked witch is dead!
John

Also surprised that they actually “retired” her – Although I still won’t be surprised if she winds up with a Nobel Peace Prize… Wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Leni Reifenstahl

Helen and I helped to further the same dream as dear Adolph for so many years. Too bad she must now seek her retirement as official toejamlicker in the court of Ahmadinejad.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com Ben

This report is untrue and seeks to hide the truth of her antisemitism. She said nothing about Israeli’s getting out of “Palestine”. She said the “Jews” should get out of “Palestine”.

Sorry that is a VERY big difference.

Most of these liberals like to hide their antisemitism behind words like Zionism or Israel…
She let the vale down and wants some old fashioned ethnic cleansing of all Jews from “Palestine”.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com Ben

This was not an “anti Israel” statement it was an “ant Jew” statement.
Max

Be that as it may, Ben, the insinuation was strong enough. Despite the fact that Israel is no longer “just for the Jewish.”

I do like how they mis-spelled “peace” (pace). Perhaps an intentional slip-up to hide her disdain for peace?
http://BlogforCuba Ziva

Here is video of what she actually said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aeqb8h0I-Bg

It’s a shame she allowed to “retire”. She should have been fired.
Joe

“…my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance…”

This statement is SO illustrative of the dying media’s mentality… They are so arrogant and narcissistic that they think everyone else is feeble-minded compared to their self-described intellectual superiority… Helen Thomas says here that “all parties must recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance” when in fact SHE HERSELF is so casually advocating RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC CLEANSING of an entire region!! The comments by this old hag PROVES that the media is filled with bigoted people who define “peace” as something else… something closer to the way the Third Reich would define “peace.” The Third Reich was a genocidal manical regime who exercised deadly force as a matter of DOMESTIC POLICY, but they defined their acts as “peace.” Just as those who were on the so-called “aid flotilla”… “Peace” to them means barbaric beatings and references to Auchwitz, while they call Israel the terrorist nation.. Israel, the nation that has won wars, only to RETURN THE CAPTURED LAND to the VERY ENEMY they just defeated because they were told that would bring “peace.” But when the enemy uses that land to launch rockets and use preschools as their body armor, the media calls THOSE VERY BARBARIANS “peace activists” or “freedom fighters”… Do you know that there are MUSLIMS who serve in the Israeli Parliament?? Do you think Muslims would allow JEWS to serve in their government?? Do you know that Hamas won an election in Gaza in 2006 and people like Jimmy Carter called it a successful exercise in democracy,, but now its 2010 and Hamas has NO PLANS TO HOLD ANOTHER ELECTION EVER… why is that? Because they are peaceful and wishing for freedom? NO. Its because they are deranged genocidal maniacs addicted to death and human suffering.
Spike

Ah it’s always fun when the progressive mask slips. You’re expected to hold those beliefs but not let them leak out!!! Didn’t you read the playbook? Oh well, it’s been fun, welcome under the Obamabus. It’s getting crowded under here but it’s not too bad. Introduce yourself to Reverend Wright when you get a chance.