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Thomas apologizes for saying Jews don't belong in Israel
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Published: 06.06.10, 07:52
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1. unaccepted. go back to desert give lebanon back to phonician
ralph   (06.06.10)
from whom you stole it.
2. i agree - she is sorry
mike ,   israel (formerly usa   (06.06.10)
a sorry excuse for a human being.
3. Resignation is the only apology
Dov ,   Cape Town, SA   (06.06.10)
Let's see if she'll be fired from the White House Press Corps. Or are Jews second rate citizens in the US?
4. Stupid woman
Birdi ,   Israel   (06.06.10)
The damage is done. Helen Thomas we dont accept your apologies.
5. Guilty
Damien Rozan ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (06.06.10)
She should of course resign or stood down. These comments are her true thoughts and are totally unacceptable. Would surprise me if she supports hezbollah.
6. Would not surpise me
Damien Rozan ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (06.06.10)
7. Say that to the Holocaust survivors, you horrible Helen
Ted   (06.06.10)
You are not fit to be a journalist, if you are speaking such things. Your apology does not help AT ALL, because it only reflects your hypocrisy even more. It is sad that at your age, you are like this. i am sorry for you.
8. Apology NOT Accepted
Stu ,   New York   (06.06.10)
This is THE White House correspondent? At least she was stupid enough to tell us what she really thinks. (Oh no, the western media isn't biased against Israel! If you believe that one I have a bridge to sell you!)
9. Thomas only reflect the prsident Barak Hussein Obama's
Itai ,   Israel   (06.06.10)
opinion. The atmosphere that the new muslim president in the white house create, just strengthen the hate against jews and Israelies that is in every anti-Semite heart. Hessein obama nows exactly what happend this week with the ship of turkish mercenary murderers but he is such a whoose and anti-Semite him self so he didn't say a word. On that poor ground mrs. Thomas allow herself to send all jews to hell!!! all because Obama administration. Second holocaust will not happens, we now better!!!! Dear americans you better wake up becase when the Islam will finish his job her in Israel it will come to haunt you. 11/9 was just there sign to show you how serious they are.
10. Helen Thomas
sas ,   israel   (06.06.10)
TOO TOO LATE to apologize. Now the world knows the REAL YOU.
11. She's a sorry excuse ...
Arielush ,   Ramat Ha Golan   (06.06.10)
That old bag is a sorry excuse for a journalist. She should learn some tolerance and objectivity. Maybe she should go back to Lebanon,
12. Helen Thomas "jews go back to Poland...
Stella ,   Tel Aviv   (06.06.10)
You should go back to Lebanon "dear Helen" and whithout a doubt resign inmediatelly. You're a disgraced to the americans.
13. She's not sorry
Kiwi ,   Auckland NZ   (06.06.10)
That old hag would feel right at home in a KKK retirement village. First she says what she really thinks and then claims 'mea culpa'. The vitriole is her and the apology has been made with fingers crossed behind her back. She reflects the new attitude in Washington. And Israel should tell them- contact us again when Hussein Obama is out of office.
14. She didn't apolog. because she is sorry,
Mamud ,   Lebanon   (06.06.10)
but she did because in America there is no freedom to say what you believe.
15. she is the number two or three arab agents in the white hous
nerm   (06.06.10)
agent one obummer agents two and three mitchell and helen. all orders come from agent one. no one now believes the white house has had its mask torn off to reveal a white house full of evil.
16. Go back to Lebanon - Stupid Woman...
Joy ,   jerusalem, Israel   (06.06.10)
17. to #1 the phonetians weren't arabs
ghostq   (06.06.10)
they were very close to jews and had had very similar peliohebrew glyph writing, accept 3 letters their writing were the same, very interesting indeed, they also left ston scriptures after them, and since there r no war in the bible known with the phonetians that habitat haifa and akko you can get conclution they were cousins, they were amazing sea empire, again no known war with the israelits can only lead to peace family relations, how ever she is an arab she isn't local lebanese and not lokal amerikan just immigrant that need to go back to Saudi Arabia.
18. to #1 just to emphesize this here r two links
ghostq   (06.06.10)
of the leters paelo hebrew and phonetians, they both start with the letter ALEF, and end up in TAF. paelo- hebrew: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paleo-hebrew_alphabet.jpg the ponetians glyphes, same letters same names to the letters, well accept 3 letters, here compare them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet so you see ponetians were semetic, and comunication with the Israelits weren't problem, especially when it came to exporting goods by phonetians boats.
19. Helen Thomas shows her age
Abe   (06.06.10)
It's time you set aside your pen and hung up your mouth. With a single phrase, you blew an honourable career out of the window. Too bad, so sad, Helen.
20. Explosion Waiting To Happen
Armchair General ,   Wisconsin, USA   (06.06.10)
At press conferences all the way back to LBJ, Helen Thomas has asked questions that were more like hostile statements directed toward Israel. Even at times when Israel was not on the radar screen or relevant, she would furiously bring the subject back to a verbal attack on Israel. As a rule her inappropriate manner was met with indulgence and patronization. A mistake. One wonders how many in the mainstream media share this view, albeit in a more sophisticated form. Or are they naive as to the dangers Israel faces from radical Islam? A Lebanese Christian who does understand the dangers of radical Islam to Lebanon, Israel, and globally, one can read Brigitte Gabriel. By the way, if the very worst should overtake Israel, most Israeli Jews would stay in the Land. The simple reason is that they have nowhere else to go nor the wherewithall to get there. They are not going to Poland or Germany.
21. Helen Thomas dhould go back to Lebanon
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22. Aww...stop! please! you're making me cry...
Joy ,   jerusalem, Israel   (06.06.10)
23. to #14 that not the reson she is sorry
ghostq   (06.06.10)
that's cause nobama told her she cares for her job, and nobama care to shut jews up, but this is the true face of nobama administration. it's all part of the damage controll he keeps doing.
24. She didn't really apologize
R ,   Israel   (06.06.10)
Read her "apology" closely. It's not an apology. She doesn't regret saying that Jews should go back to Poland and Germany. Wonder where she would send the Iraqi Jews, the Iranian Jews, the Syrian and the Libyan and Algerian Jews, and the Jews whose ancestors never left here?
25. The real Helen Thomas finally revealed herself
Paqid Yirmeyahu ,   Ra'anana, Israel   (06.06.10)
The deep-down misojudaic Helen Thomas behind her motivations and in her heart. The real misojudaic comes out when Israel stands up and defends herself. The videos proved that terrorists lynched peaceful soldiers armed with paintball guns. The consequences of the lynching is that those who were killed richly earned and deserved it!!! I would have shot them in defense too. So would any reasonable person. No amount of veneer will hide her misojudaism again. It will be her epitaph.
26. apology not good enough
disgusted ,   New York, NY   (06.06.10)
Your apology is not accepted nor should it be. Obama and the White House should immediately cancel you press credentials. You don't know your history, you stupid cow - the Jews were in the Land of Israel almost 2,000 years before the Muslims even existed. Your are disgusting and should be tossed into the garbage where you belong.
27. Was there an apology there somewhere?
Shaul R ,   USA   (06.06.10)
I certainly missed it. Regardless, it is pretty clear what Helen Thomas is all about. Her looks match her soul. File this one along with Jimmy Carter's.
28. Go to Hell 'n Thomas
Tom Cameron ,   Las Vegas, NV   (06.06.10)
Perhaps now Jews can begin to understand that conservatives are Israel's best friend. Just as the non-revisionist histoical evidence shows that it was Republicans who abolished slavery and were right on civil rights. Hell 'n Thomas reveals the anti-semitic / pro- arab agenda of clowns like Barrack Hussein
29. She's 89 years old and on the way out
Talula ,   Israel   (06.06.10)
Maybe the Jew-hating statement was her last attempt at a bit of notoriety. Whatever, she said it and no-one's listening to her empty apology. Evil, sour bitter old hag!
30. She spoke her mind and heart in the first place and be
Jehudah Ben-Israel ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (06.06.10)
judged as a person and as a journalist based on her very clear and direct words: she must not be employed as a journalist because racism - including anti-Jewish racism - should have not place anywhere, and certainly not in the press. Jehudah Ben-Israel A proud Jew , a proud Zionist and a proud citizen of the nation-state of the Jewish people on our people's ancestral land of Eretz Israel (Land of Israel).
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