In her first interview since retiring last year after telling the Jews to “go home” former White House correspondent Helen Thomas fronts up to the Joy Behar show on CNN, describes herself as a Semite and defends her controversial comments.
Helen Thomas fronts up to CNN
In her first interview since retiring last year after telling the Jews to “go home” former White House correspondent Helen Thomas fronts up to the Joy Behar show on CNN, describes herself as a Semite and defends her controversial comments.
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Joy Behar makes Kerri-Anne Kennerley sound like an intellectual.
Yeah, she sounds like a real airhead. That said, it also sounds like Helen is losing it a bit. It sounds to me that all she’s really trying to say is that the Palestinians are being oppressed by the Israelis. I’m happy with her having that opinion – it is at least defensible. But to say that the Jews should just go back to Germany and Poland is insensitive and ridiculous.
Behar: “My mother said: good luck with your mouth”.
Her mother should have added, “because your brain is a lost cause”.
Joy is funny, she is witty, she doesn’t pull any punches, and she describes herself (on certain matters of social and economic policy) as a communist. She’s ok in my book. The interview however was weird, and Helen Thomas, god love her, really failed to defend, or even properly articulate, her position.
Thomas’s position was clear: persecution in one part of the world does not give you a free ticket to go persecuting others for as long as you like somewhere else. Behar seemed unable to grasp this. She kept arguing as though Israel had always existed independently of Palestine, as though it was terra nullius, and the problem was only about West Bank encroachments.
The sensitivity issue is another thing altogether, but Thomas’s point was that speaking out against Israel is simply not tolerated in the US.
The hash they’ve made of the Middle East – in concert with France and Britain in particular – should, you would think, give them pause to rethink some of their foreign policy sacred cows.