Helen Thomas -- Put This B**tch Out To Pasture

She certainly should be finally and permanently "retired" from the White House Briefing Room for these charming comments:

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Helen Thomas to Jews: 'Get the Hell Out of Palestine' [Daniel Foster]

Helen Thomas had a message for Israel during a Jewish Heritage Celebration held at the White House on May 27:

“Get the hell out of Palestine. Remember these people are occupied, and it’s their land.”

Where should the Jews go, Helen?

“Go home,” to “Poland and Germany.”


Give Peace a Chance [Mark Steyn]

In contrast to the general directions of Helen ("Go back to Germany and Poland")
Thomas, the peace-lovers aboard the Mavi Marmara were more specific:

In response to a radio transmission by the Israeli Navy warning the Gaza flotilla that they are approaching a naval blockade, passengers of the Mavi Marmara respond, "Shut up, go back to Auschwitz" and "We're helping Arabs go against the US, don't forget 9/11".

Such amusing conversationalists.

These are not "humanitarian" "peace" "activists". These are, in any objective sense, a party to the conflict. They're not trying to bring "peace", they're trying to help their side win. That's their choice, and may the best man win, but the media collusion in presenting them as "humanitarian" "aid" workers is Orwellian - and all the more so in a world in which the Turkish Prime Minister accuses Israel of killing children on the beach and in which the doyenne of the White House press corps no longer recognizes Israel's "right to exist".

Now the Israeli navy is beseeching the MV Rachel Corrie (an Irish ship funded by the Malaysian government) to land in the port of Ashdod, where the authorities will deliver the (entirely unneeded) "humanitarian aid" to Gaza. The Rachel Corrie is flipping 'em the bird and saying "Gaza, here we come."

This ship is merely the latest memorial to Miss Corrie, a foolish young American killed while enjoying the frisson of vacationing in someone else's despair. There's never been a better time to read Tom Gross' piece on "The Forgotten Rachels":

Rachel Thaler, aged 16, was blown up at a pizzeria in an Israeli shopping mall. She died after an 11-day struggle for life following a suicide bomb attack on a crowd of teenagers on 16 February 2002.

Rachel Corrie's diaries have been published in book form, turned into a hit London play at the Royal Court, and her name has been cited in The Guardian alone hundreds of times ("Remembering Rachel", "Rachel's War", "Rachel Corrie: A True Martyr", "The Lonesome Death Of Rachel Corrie", "Rachel's Words Are A Spur To Action", etc).

By contrast, Rachel Thaler was a British subject. Yet not a single British journalist has ever mentioned her, profiled her, interviewed her parents or other British relatives, or published her diary in a Fleet Street newspaper - except for a single solitary mention by the great (Jewish) comedienne Maureen Lipman noting that nobody ever mentioned her, or the other victims of Palestinian terrorism.

Ah, but Israel is an "apartheid state", and the Palestinians are the Europeans' unending adopt-a-Third-World-pet project. I write in the new National Review (on sale now-ish) that, if old-school judenhass was a by-product of more or less traditional racism and conventional nationalism, the new judenhass advances under the cover of "anti-racism" and "multiculturalism". The oldest hatred didn't get that way without the ability to adapt.


Re ‘Give Peace a Chance’ [Jay Nordlinger]

I so appreciated this post — would add a couple of details. Onboard the MV Rachel Corrie is Denis Halliday, the U.N. man who was in charge of the Oil-for-Food program in Iraq. He resigned, saying U.N. sanctions were “genocide.” He is not the type to be concerned about what the likes of Saddam Hussein do. Also onboard the Corrie is Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1976. She and Betty Williams won for opposing the violence in Northern Ireland: It was a worthy award.

Maguire is an old anti-Israel hand. She accuses Israel of running an “apartheid system.” She was hit by a rubber bullet when protesting the Israelis’ security fence. She has made a pet of Mordechai Vanunu, the man who spilled Israel’s nuclear secrets: met him upon his release from prison. She accuses the Israelis of “ethnic cleansing.” Blah, blah, blah. You know the type: Maguire is hard-core, like Helen Thomas.

And her views of America are essentially those of Noam Chomsky. You can see this, hear this, in most any of her speeches. She even opposed the Nobel prize to Barack Obama, vociferously! She said, “Giving this award to the leader of the most militarized country in the world, which has taken the human family against its will to war, will be rightly seen by many people around the world as a reward for his country’s aggression and domination.”

And her co-laureate, Betty Williams? You may remember her from the George W. Bush years. In 2006, she told Australian schoolchildren, “I have a very hard time with this word ‘non-violence,’ because I don’t believe that I am nonviolent. Right now, I would love to kill George W. Bush. I don’t know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize . . .”A one-time deal, a crazed moment? Well, she performed an encore the next year, in Dallas, speaking to the International Women’s Peace Conference: “I mean, right now, I could kill George Bush, no problem. No, I don’t mean that. I mean, how could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that.” Big laughs — from her and the audience.

Charming, these Irish ladies who win the Nobel Peace Prize.