We want to start with saying this is in no way an anti semitic post but simply a look at the truth and the possibility that although unfortunate in her way of stating it, Helen Thomas simply spoke the truth. Historicaly Ms Thomas was present during many of the historical moments that led up to the formation of the New Israeli state. To begin, let us look at the facts as pointed out in Wikipedia:
1945–1947: Jewish uprising against British rule
“The Second World War left the surviving remnant of Jews in central Europe as displaced persons (refugees); a survey of their ambitions found that 97% wanted to migrate to Palestine. Many turned to the clandestine migration. A stream of small boats ensued, carrying stateless Jews to Palestine. The British took counter measures against the holocaust survivors and the organization helping them. This led to growing Jewish resistance to the British administration in Palestine.
Shortly after VE Day, the Labour Party won the elections in Britain. Although the Labour party conferences for years had called for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, the Labour Foreign Minister, Ernest Bevin, decided to maintain the 1939 White Paper restrictions. This was due to the continued importance of cordial Anglo-Arab relations to British strategic concerns throughout the region and their weakened empire. Britain governed Transjordan, Sudan, Kuwait, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and the Yemen, and had treaties of alliance with Iraq and Egypt. At this time Jewish militias in Palestine, (the Haganah, ‘Etzel’ and Lehi) decided to form a unified Jewish Resistance Movement against the British.
In June 1946, following instances of sabotage and kidnapping, the British launched Operation Agatha in Palestine and arrested thousands of Jews, including the leadership of the Jewish Agency. They were held without trial.
Post-war pogroms in Eastern Europe, led to a wave of Jews seeking to escape Europe. In July 1946, after the Kielce Pogrom in Poland, the British government expected a massive wave of illegal migrants and decided to hold illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine at Cyprus internment camps; migrants were imprisoned indefinitely and without trial. Those held were mostly Holocaust survivors including large numbers of children and orphans; the camps were funded by taxation of the Jewish community in Palestine. In response to Cypriot fears that the Jews would never leave (since they lacked a state or documentation) the administration subsequently began to release them at a rate of 750 per month, allowing those released to move to Palestine.
The unified resistance movement in Palestine split up in July 1946, after Irgun’s bombing of the British Military Headquarters, the King David Hotel bombing, which killed 92, mostly civilians. In the days following the bombing, Tel Aviv was placed under curfew and over 120,000, nearly 20% of the Jewish population of Palestine, were interrogated by CID.
The negative publicity generated by British attempts to halt Jewish migration to Palestine added to voices in US Congress delaying the Anglo-American loan which was vital to preventing bankruptcy of the British Empire . Fearing a parallel conflict with Britain’s Arab allies and subjects at a time when the Empire was severely weakened, the Labour Government decided to refer the Palestine problem to the United Nations.”
This is quite plain and obvious in it’s explanation. Regardless of the reason why the Jewish refugees did so they fled to (then Palestine) and began their occupation. It was for good reason they did so, obviously they were once again escaping what most of them saw as persecution.
Let us look further and see that it was teh UN who created the State of Israel for many reasons:
The United Nations decides to partition Palestine
“The UN appointed a committee to decide how to deal with Palestine, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP). While the UNSCOP mission was visiting Palestine, in July 1947, Jewish and Zionist delegations met with the committee; the Arab Higher Committee boycotted the meetings. At this time, British Foreign Secretary Bevin ordered an illegal immigrant ship, the Exodus 1947, to be sent back to Europe. The migrants on the ship were forcibly removed by British troops at Hamburg after a long period in prison ships.
In July 1947 several Irgun fighters were executed in Acre Prison. The Irgun responded with execution of two British sergeants which triggered anti-semitic riots in Liverpool; these spread to other major British cities, including London, Manchester, Cardiff, Derby and Glasgow.
The principal non-Zionist Orthodox Jewish (or haredi) party, Agudat Israel, recommended to UNSCOP that a Jewish state be created after reaching a religious status quo agreement with Ben-Gurion regarding the future state. The agreement granted future exemption of yeshiva (religious seminary) students and orthodox women from military service, made the Sabbath the national weekend, promised Kosher food in government institutions and allowed them to maintain a separate education system.
In September 1947, one month after Partition of India, (UNSCOP) recommended partition in Palestine, a suggestion ratified by the UN General Assembly on November 29, 1947. The result envisaged the creation of two states, one Arab and one Jewish, with the city of Jerusalem to be under the direct administration of the United Nations.
The General Assembly resolution called upon Britain to evacuate a seaport and sufficient hinterland to support substantial Jewish migration, by February 1, 1948. Neither Britain nor the UN Security Council acted to implement the resolution and Britain continued imprisoning Jews attempting to migrate, in camps on Cyprus.
Concerned that partition would severely damage Anglo-Arab/Muslim relations, Britain refused to cooperate with the UN, denying the UN access to Palestine during the interim period (a requirement of the partition decision). Final evacuation was completed by May 1948. Britain continued to hold Jews of “fighting age” and their families on Cyprus even after leaving Palestine. They were eventually released in March 1949.
In 1946-47, the Dead Sea Scrolls were found by a Bedouin Shepherd, Muhammed edh-Dhib. On the day the UN voted to create a Jewish state, archaeologist Eleazar Sukenik identified the scrolls as authentic copies of the bible dating back to before the destruction of Judea. Sukenik bought three of the scrolls the following month.”
It is common knowledge that a larget percentag of displaced Jews were very eager to go to Palistine for many reasons, but one must ask, was it their intention to create the state that exists now between Jew and Pailtinian? Why has this occured and what is it that drives the State Of Israel? Mnay events have occured since those days and wars ahve been fought. How did it come to this between the Children Of Abraham once more? For further understanding one must look at the many sources of information to understand.
SS Exodus was a ship that carried Jewish emigrants, that left France on July 11, 1947, with the intent of taking its passengers to Mandate Palestine. It’s story is a must read.
A close look at Zionism is needed to understand the roots of all of this. Here is avery good site for information of the historical basis that led up to the fomration iof Israel as a state. The history of Zionism and the creation of Israel
The author suggestts that you do your own research and find out for yourself, was Ms Thomas wrong or just a bit gruff with the truth. Her comments were not too mush different than if someone were to say Americans should leave the United States and give it back to the Indians, is not the US an occupied nation for all practical purposes.One can only specuylate and think perhaps the truth hurts and for all the complaining about Ms Thomas comments by other people, in the words of Shakespear “Me thinks the Lady doth protest too much”
and last but not least here is Helen Thomas in her own words, watch this and you decide;
I received this email forward from a friend, after reading it, I had to admit it got me thinking and I found it to be very funny and most likely true.
Subject: Police Harassment
Recently, the Chula Vista Police Department ran an e-mail forum (a question and answer exchange) with the topic being, “Community Policing.” One of the civilian email participants posed the following question, “I would like to know how it is possible for police officers to continually harass people and get away with it?”
From the “other side” (the law enforcement side) Sgt. Bennett, obviously a cop with a sense of humor replied:
“First of all, let me tell you this…it’s not easy. In Chula Vista, we average one cop for every 600 people. Only about 60% of those cops are on general duty (or what you might refer to as “patrol”) where we do most of our harassing.
The rest are in non-harassing departments that do not allow them contact with the day to day innocents. And at any given moment, only one-fifth of the 60% patrollers are on duty and available for harassing people while the rest are off duty. So roughly, one cop is responsible for harassing about 5,000 residents.
When you toss in the commercial business, and tourist locations that attract people from other areas, sometimes you have a situation where a single cop is responsible for harassing 10,000 or more people a day.
Now, your average ten-hour shift runs 36,000 seconds long. This gives a cop one second to harass a person, and then only three-fourths of a second to eat a donut AND then find a new person to harass. This is not an easy task. To be honest, most cops are not up to this challenge day in and day out. It is just too tiring. What we do is utilize some tools to help us narrow down those people which we can realistically harass.
The tools available to us are as follows:
PHONE: People will call us up and point out things that cause us to focus on a person for special harassment. “My neighbor is beating his wife” is a code phrase used often. This means we’ll come out and give somebody some special harassment.
Another popular one is, “There’s a guy breaking into a house.” The harassment team is then put into action.
CARS: We have special cops assigned to harass people who drive. They like to harass the drivers of fast cars, cars with no insurance or no driver’s licenses and the like. It’s lots of fun when you pick them out of traffic for nothing more obvious than running a red light. Sometimes you get to really heap the harassment on when you find they have drugs in the car, they are drunk, or have an outstanding warrant on file.
RUNNERS: Some people take off running just at the sight of a police officer. Nothing is quite as satisfying as running after them like a beagle on the scent of a bunny. When you catch them you can harass them for hours.
STATUTES: When we don’t have PHONES or CARS and have nothing better to do, there are actually books that give us ideas for reasons to harass folks. They are called “Statutes”; Criminal Codes, Motor Vehicle Codes, etc… They all spell out all sorts of things for which you can really mess with people.
After you read the statute, you can just drive around for awhile until you find someone violating one of these listed offenses and harass them. Just last week I saw a guy trying to steal a car. Well, there’s this book we have that says that’s not allowed. That meant I got permission to harass this guy. It is a really cool system that we have set up, and it works pretty well.
We seem to have a never-ending supply of folks to harass. And we get away with it. Why? Because for the good citizens who pay the tab, we try to keep the streets safe for them, and they pay us to “harass” some people.
Next time you are in my town, give me the old “single finger wave.” That’s another one of those codes. It means, “You can harass me.”
Kucinich: Why Is It We Have Finite Resources for Health Care but Unlimited
Money for War?
WASHINGTON - November 6 - Following a statement on the Floor of the House
of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the
following statement:
“Why is it we have finite resources for health care but unlimited money for
war?
“The inequities in our economy are piling up: trillions for war, trillions
for Wall Street and tens of billions for the insurance companies. Banks and
other corporations are sitting on piles of cash of taxpayer’s money while
firing workers, cutting pay and denying small businesses money to survive.
“People are losing their homes, their jobs, their health, their
investments, their retirement security; yet there is unlimited money for
war, Wall Street and insurance companies, but very little money for jobs on
Main Street.
“Unlimited money to blow up things in Iraq and Afghanistan, and relatively
little money to build things in the US.
“The Administration may soon bring to Congress a request for an additional
$50 billion for war. I can tell you that a Democratic version of the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan is no more acceptable than a Republican version of
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Trillions for war and Wall Street, billions for insurance companies…
When we were promised change, we weren’t thinking that we give a dollar and
get back two cents.”
With Madoff’s sentencing comes the relief that the culprit is caught, and those who were duped by him and his henchmen are at least, to some degree, relieved to see some kind of justice. I know that those who suffered thier loss because of him will never have their lives back and with all due respect to the victims of Madoff, there is another side to all of this. Has it not occured to anyone that perhaps Madoff was offered up to the sacrifice? Is it not possible that what Madoof has done is only a small part of a much larger whole and we as a country have yet to feel the effects of the greates ponzi scheme ever perpetrated.
Let’s look at Wikipedia’s definition of a Ponzi Scheme:
“A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors rather than from any actual profit earned. The Ponzi scheme usually offers returns that other investments cannot guarantee in order to entice new investors, in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent. The perpetuation of the returns that a Ponzi scheme advertises and pays requires an ever-increasing flow of money from investors in order to keep the scheme going.
The system is destined to collapse because the earnings, if any, are less than the payments. Usually, the scheme is interrupted by legal authorities before it collapses because a Ponzi scheme is suspected or because the promoter is selling unregistered securities. As more investors become involved, the likelihood of the scheme coming to the attention of authorities increases.”
Could it be that the “bailouts” are a sort of Ponzi Scheme and the investors are destined to lose. Who are the investors. All Americans, everyone of us and our children. We have no idea what the effects of the Bailouts will have until we begin to see the returns and I am convinced of one thing, there will be no return!! We will never see the money our government has freely given to multi-national banks and corporations. Our tax dollars are gone and I guarantee you and I and our children will be paying for this scheme for a long time!
Madoff is nothing compared to the people who have ripped off the coffers of the United States, our money, your money, the money that should have been used for the betterment of our country not to line the pockets of multinationals who have no allegiance to our country. These people only have one allegiance, Profit! Yes Madoff was a distraction, a dumb show for those of us who have not yet realized the greatest ponzi scheme ever perpetrated on a Nation.
Today we start something good, watch this video to hear how you can help Refugees find people who will help them. We need to stop this madness once and for all. Let today mark the beginning of something that will continue world wide!
Well here is something worth sharing, a chance to put your money where your mouth is. This by far is one of the nobelest causes yet, in my opinion. People all over the world are homeless because of wars and inhumanity to their way of life or beliefs and on November 10th bloggers around the world will give a voice to over 40 million refugees. Here is a quote from the site.
“On November 10th over 10,000 bloggers from around the world will unite to raise their voices on behalf of more than 40 million voiceless refugees. To ask the world to face the atrocities so many human beings must endure and to join hearts and minds to help bring forward information, understanding and action.”
For more information and how you can be a part of this go to this link
Well there it goes we let our government sell us down the road, we are up the proverbial river without a paddle. Do you really believe this so called bailout will benefit you and your children and their future. People who are losing their jobs as I write this and the ones who already have lost their jobs this month will see nothing in their future from this. People wake up , when in the history of our country has anyone seen a president sign a bill so quickly? What do they have up their sleeve? It’s definitely not your best interest in mind, we the people are in for some very hard times and the only people who will be helped by this boondoggle bill will be the very rich. Don’t kid yourself, you have been sold a bill of goods. I highly suggest you stock up on food and load the guns because you will soon see an America very different that you are use to. More people will lose their jobs more gas shortages will become prevalent, more food shortages will occur, more failure to protect us from our enemies will occur. Bush and his cronies have taken our government hostage and set up the future administrations for failure. The world bank will soon own our country lock stock and barrel, we are faced with globalization on the corporate level as we have never seen before and soon the curtain will fall on this great country. If you don’t believe me then all you have to do is wait and see if I’m wrong.
Does anyone else notice that we are setting ourselves up for the coming of what some call the Anti Christ, yep that’s what I said. An economic crisis on world proportions that will be solved by the coming of a man. Before I go on let’s look at the nature of what Anti Christ really is. Many paint a picture of a man who will be evil and set our world on the course of destruction. In some ways this may be correct but not entirely.
Let’s look at the nature of Christ. Christ was the ultimate sacrifice in the literal sense, a lamb of God, a true blood sacrifice for the good of humanity. Now let’s put anti Christ in this light. A Man who is a true innocent brought to the ultimate sacrifice for all that is evil. Someone who will be killed for the destruction of humanity not the salvation. Now this is Anti Christ, and what will follow the sacrifice of one such person will be the stuffs that horror movies are made of. So it is not the man who will solve the problems of the world that will plunge us in to a tailspin of destruction but the death of this man. The beast that will rise from this death will not be the man but much like the churches that sprang up around the death of Christ it will be the consciousness that will spring up from this death that will be filled with control and evil.
You may think me crazy, I am, you may think me wrong, I don’t believe so. The coming of extreme Islam is only an element of the great war about to befall us all. There is no right side in this realm. We will all be victims of the madness and insanity will act as a purging of our world.
As I said before arm yourself with food and water, if you have guns get them ready (although they will only help for a short time) the best thing you could do is hope, hope that the scenario that seems to be setting itself up is not the one we all seem to fear in some way or another. It sits in our subconscious waiting like a beast to devour our peace of mind. If you are an intelligent free thinking person you will know what I am saying is true. Hope is the only weapon we have, but I fear it’s too late.