{"id":1113,"date":"2010-06-07T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/07\/so-long-helen"},"modified":"2010-06-07T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T18:40:00","slug":"so-long-helen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"So long, Helen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\"\"<\/a>Helen Thomas said what? That the Israelis should “get the hell out of Palestine”? That they should go “home” to, um, Poland, Germany and America?<\/p>\n

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Well, the so-called “dean of the White House press corps” has announced her retirement — under extreme duress, it should be noted. It’s time. <\/div>\n

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Thomas was wrong to say such things about Israel, which has come under intense international criticism for seeking to protect a blockade against weapons being smuggled into Gaza that terrorists have used against the Israelis. <\/div>\n

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It’s been said in recent days that Thomas, a longtime United Press International White House correspondent who has been a columnist for Hearst Newspapers in recent years, may be suffering from some form of dementia. Why else would she say something so offensive?<\/div>\n

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My guess is that she’s alert, but that she’s gotten even more cantankerous. She long ago blurred the lines between commentator and objective reporter. As a reporter, she never should be allowed to reveal her own bias. And even though she’s been a columnist of late, she continued to sit in the White House briefing room — in her front-row seat — and pepper White House press aides with often-pointed questions.<\/div>\n

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Thomas’ recent intemperate remarks, of course, ignore history. Israel was created in 1948 by those who had fled the Holocaust. They had gone “home” to their ancestral origins. <\/div>\n
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And home is where they should remain.<\/div>\n

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