Helen Thomas: Israel should get that Hamas was chosen democratically
Palestine Information Center – 24/12/2011
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Noted US journalist Helen Thomas told a Hebrew newspaper that she wonders why Israel cannot absorb the idea that the Palestinian people elected Hamas Movement democratically.
“I do not know why it is difficult for Israel to believe that the Palestinian people elected Hamas,” she told Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
Replying to a claim during the interview that Hamas was a terrorist group, she said that she is against violence, but she understands Hamas’s desire to restore what was taken from the Palestinians.
She noted that she is not against Jews but against Zionism and stressed that the Jews must give back what they took from others and is not theirs.
The US journalist added the Jews’ right to exist does not give them the right to seize other people’s land.
The journalist underlined that the Jews in the 1940’s after the end of the second world war had homelands and they should have returned to their homes without having to occupy the country of another people.
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I agree with Ms. Helen Thomas because her statement makes sense. Let the Misleaders in both Knessets, Washington -Tel Aviv see the logic and bring peace to that part of the world.
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Should we as Americans, feel the need to return America proper to the Native Americans ?
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Oh those poor Jews, they chose to commit genocide in a place that had already been exposed to all the old world pathogens. Kind of stupid actually. Especially given that in the 20th century they should have known that the end of the colonial era was at hand.
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“American” Indians are really SIBERIAN Indians ….. since they too, IMMIGRATED.
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Please put that question to the “Original owners of America”. I am sure their answer will be YES! THEY will also let you know that you are an: Jewish, African, Italian etc. American but they they are the REAL AMERICANS
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DinoN,
Do you think that Palestinians live with comparable civil liberties to Native Americans? Is the US also an Apartheid state?
Has the US demanded that Native Americans swear loyalty to the US as a White and Christian nation?
Is it wrong that Native Americans should describe themselves as the original peoples?
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I agree with the comment Walter made.
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Native Americans have indeed been wronged, but they are considered to be equal American citizens. Not so for any non jewish Israeli.
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James you couldn’t be more wrong if you tried. Why perpetrate a lie? Why suggest that non Jews are subservient or do not have equal rights in Israel? The facts on the ground are much different than the falsehood you seek to spread.
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The UN charter specifically states that no land may be obtained by force. That charter didn’t exist when the land was stolen from the Native Americans.
Israel is in violation of the UN charter. And Israel doesn’t appear to care one iota.
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Non Jews serve in the Israeli Parliament, so any statement that indicates they are somehow unequal to Jews is both misleading and false.
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Revelation 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
The Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 10, (1971) relates the following about the Khazars (Chazars):
“Khazars, a national group of general Turkic type, independent and sovereign in Eastern Europe between the seventh and tenth centuries A.D. During part of this time the leading Khazars professed Judaism.”
(Encyclopedia Judicia, Vol. 10, (1971)
Academic American Encyclopedia, Deluxe Library Edition, Volume 12, page 66 states:
“The Khazars, a Turkic people, created a commercial and political empire that dominated substantial parts of South Russia during much of the 7th through 10th centuries. during the 8th century the Khazar aristocracy and the Kagan (King) were converted to Judaism.
Collier’ s Encyclopedia, Volume 14, page 65 states:
“Khazars [kaza’rz], a semi-nomadic tribe of Turkish or Tatar origin who first appeared north of the Caucasus in the early part of the third century…in the Eighth Century Khaghan Bulan decided in favor of the Jews and accepted Judaism for himself and for his people.
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“Jews in the 1940′s after the end of the second world war had homelands” but preferred Paris or New York to the little Asian place called Palestine. That is why jewish nationalists (Zionists) had to organize pogroms like the one in Kielce to get the jewish lumpen-proletariat to leave Europe for Israel.
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