Defending Helen Thomas

[Note the up-beat- even jubilant tone that Rabbi1 has framed this video. Triumphantly exclaiming "Anti-Semitism" and reveling in their power to end the distinguished career of a senior dean of the White House Press Corp.]



[A lengthier clip which gives Ms. Thomas the opportunity to contextualise her comment]

The original 'anti-semitic' comments made by Helen Thomas, deceptively procured by a rabbi with a concealed video camera. While quite a blunt remark, it is on the more extreme end of a very reasonable argument. There is nothing factually untrue about her opinion, which was expressed off the cuff when she was unaware that she was being recorded with being given the opportunity or time to make a balanced statement.
However, having sympathy for the plight of Palestinian people is not 'anti-semitic'. It is a fact that they their homes have been bulldozed and they have been forcefully evicted from where have lived for centuries, and subjected to a brutal military occupation. Israeli settlements are encroaching further and further into Palestinian territories- a red rag in the face of understandably angry and desperate Palestinians- while supposedly in peace negotiations. Israel routinely breaks international laws and agreements and does so much that is legally, politically and morally reprehensible, yet plays the victim and cries 'anti-semitism' when any justified criticism is leveled at them.
I find it extremely fascistic that any criticism of Israel is deemed 'anti-semitic'
The word anti-semitism is fallacious and redundant. It is derived from the Greek words 'anti'-meaning against, and 'semite'-meaning the people of Shem. The people of Shem span Egypt, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, the Spanish Canary Islands and Portuguese Madeira Islands and the North Atlantic Ocean northwest of the African mainland.
It was a term coined in 1879 when the Zionist movement was first gathering momentum, and Theodore Hertzl, the founder of Zionism and visionary of the modern political state of Israel, was quick to recognize the usefulness of anti-semitism to helping to add validity to their claim that Jew's needed to have their own separate state in order to escape persecution. Hertlz and his lobbyists actively sought to intensify anti-semitism in order to further the cause of the Zionist political agenda.
“It is essential that the sufferings of Jews. . . become worse. . . this will assist in realization of our plans. . .I have an excellent idea. . . I shall induce anti-semites to liquidate Jewish wealth. . . The anti-semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews.  The anti-semites shall be our best friends”.
(From his Theodore Hertlz'z diary, Part I, pp. 16)
Anti-semitism was actively propagated by Zionist lobbyists who made public statements like;
“We Jews are aliens… a foreign people in your midst and we… wish to stay that way.  A Jew can never be a loyal German; whoever calls the foreign land his Fatherland is a traitor to the Jewish people“.
[by Nahum Goldmann, who went in to become the President of the World Zionist Organization and head of the World Jewish Congress]
Chaim Weizman, who later became the first President of the State of Israel stated the Zionist agenda clearly at the Zionist Congregation in 1937 with this statement; made this Zionist policy very explicit:
"The hopes of Europe’s six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked: “Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?” I replied, “No.” ... From the depths of the tragedy I want to save ... young people [for Palestine]. The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They are dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world ... Only the branch of the young shall survive. They have to accept it."
The Zionists were quite happy for some of their own to be put to death. In fact on Feb 1 1940 Henry Montor, executive vice-president of the United Jewish Appeal refused to assist a shipload of Jewish refugees stranded on the Danube River, stating that,"Palestine cannot be flooded with... old people or with undesirables."

Contrary to popular belief, the creation of the state of Israel was not a concession made to Jewish people after the holocaust, [with the implied subtext of "what kind of monster would deny us that right after what we suffered at the hands of the Nazi's?" It's the gypsies who should most feel persecuted. The Jewish people were nearly the last to be rounded up ], the creation of the state of Israel was brokered in 1916 as part of the secret Sykes–Picot Agreement between the UK and France.
Germany had all entirely defeated France and England in WW1, and Germany had offered a peace truce, but in the craftiest of political manoevers the Zionists [ who had established control over the banking, media and political systems in America ] bargained that if they brought America into the war, which would secure their victory, the United Kingdom would give them Palestine.
Benjamin Freedman, the prominent former Jew who spoke out against Zionism, puts it aptly;
"It's absolutely absurd that Great Britain -- that never had any connection or any interest or any right in what is known as Palestine --should offer it as coin of the realm to pay the Zionists for bringing the United States into the war.'
[Read up on more of the interesting details here -
http://benjaminhfreedman.blogspot.com/

While there were many opportunities to save thousands of Jewish people by evacuating them to neighbouring countries, the Zionist actively sought to prohibit it from happening, insisting that other countries didn't accept Jews and that the only place that they should be is Palestine. Yitzchak Greenbaum, a vocal Zionist proponent stated, "One Cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews in Poland".
Another Zionist spokesperson, Ben-Gurion proclaimed in 1938;
"If I knew it was possible to save all the children in Germany by taking them to England, and only half of the children by taking them to Eretz Israel, I would choose the second solution. For we must take into account not only the lives of these children but also the history of the people of Israel."
A Zionist “religious” leader, Rabbi Klaussner made the following comment at The Jewish American Conference on May 2nd, 1948;
"I am convinced people must be forced to go to Palestine...For them, an American dollar appears as the highest of goals. By the word "force", I am suggesting a programme. It served for the evacuation of the Jews in Poland, and in the history of the 'Exodus'... To apply this programme we must, instead of providing 'displaced persons' with comfort, create the greatest possible discomfort for them...At a second stage, a procedure calling upon the Haganah to harass the Jews."

And force them they did.. Jewish people who had been living quite happily alongside their respective country men in a number of countries including Yemen, Morocco, Iraq, Algeria, Libya and Tunisia until that were were terrorised and forcefully encouraged to relocate to Palestine with a campaign of terrorist activities which included the bribery of officials and bombing of mosques.
To this day, Jewish people are encouraged to leave their home countries to live in the Israeli homeland where they can live in homes and territories that innocent Palestinians have been forcably evicted from because they have been manipulated into thinking that it's their "birth right".

And for what? The foundational principles of the Zionist movement are atheistic- even opposed to religion. Zionist principles, actions and indeed even the creation of the state of Israel runs diametrically counter to the principles and beliefs of traditional Judaism. A core part of Jewish religious belief is that they were made exiles from the land that the Torah states was given to them, and that it was their fate to live in other nations until their prophesied redemption upon the return of Elijah and Moshiach.
"We were given the Holy Land by G-d in order to be able to study and practice the Torah without disturbance and to attain levels of holiness difficult to attain outside of the Holy Land. We abused the privilege and we were expelled. That is exactly what all Jews say in their prayers on every Jewish festival, "Umipnay chatoenu golinu mayartsaynu" - "Because of our sins we were expelled from our land".

"We have been forsworn by G-d "not to enter the Holy Land as a body before the predestined time", "not to rebel against the nations", to be loyal citizens, not to do anything against the will of any nation or its honour, not to seek vengeance, discord, restitution or compensation; "not to leave exile ahead of time." On the contrary; we have to be humble and accept the yoke of exile. To violate the oaths would result in "your flesh will be made prey as the deer and the antelope in the forest," and the redemption will be delayed"

The Rebbe of Satmar, Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum goes even further in speaking out against the violation of this oath, exclaiming that Zionism was, "The work of Satan", "a sacrilege", "a blasphemy", was bound to induce the wrath of G-d, and that "the Holocaust was a direct result of Zionism, a punishment by G-d"
[From http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com ]

And it wasn't out of concern for the welfare of the Jewish people. In the pursuit of their political agenda, the Zionists actively sought to incite and inflame hatred towards Jews, increase their level of suffering and fear to the point that they feel that they can only live amongst other Jews by themselves committing terrorist acts, and cemented this fear as a reality by actively participating in their extermination in the Holocaust.
[ Read "The Millions That Could Have Been Saved" by I.Domb- http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/minhametzardomb.htm ]

During WW2, there were numerous offers of opportunities presented to the Zionists of way to save the Jewish people, all of which were refused in favour of using the casualties of the inevitable Jewish casualties to the gas chamber as political collateral. Several countries offered to take in Jewish immigrants fleeing certain death, including Spain, Hungary, Brittain and Romania but all of these offers were refused by the Zionist leaders who insisted that the only place that Jewish people could go would be Palestine. Most, if not all Jewish people could have been saved by such measures, but the Zionists made their priorities clear,stating;
"a) ONLY Palestine would be considered as a destination for the deportees. b) The European Jews must accede to suffering and death greater in measure than the other nations, in order that the victorious allies agree to a "Jewish State" at the end of the war. c) No ransom will be paid This response to the Gestapo's offer was made with the full knowledge that the alternative to this offer was the gas chamber."
[The official statement from the Zionist leaders in Switzerland and Turkey to the German Gestapo]

[A World War I recruitment poster. The Daughter of Zion (representing the Hebrew people): Your Old New Land must have you! Join the Jewish regiment.]

This horrendous fact renders any justification for atrocious acts committed by Zionist Israel as being justified in the light of the Holocaust null and void, and is a shocking indictment of the rotten core of corruption and lies that is the foundation of the state of "Israel".
What happened during the Holocaust was horrific beyond belief, and in no way can it be justified, but nor can the fact that the Zionist leaders were complicit of sealing the fate of millions of Jewish people so that they could get political leverage.

So if the Zionist agenda is not based on religious belief or concern for the welfare of the Jewish people, what is it all about??
This is a question which is beyond the scope of this entry, but well worth your inquiry..

The purpose of writing this now is to deconstruct the Zionist stance of perpetrating acts of persecution, mass murder and terrorism against others and then crying "Anti-Semitism!!"- as if it is the highest cardinal sin.
Zionist political leaders have no compunction about speaking about Palestinians in a grotesque and dehumanising way, calling them dogs and 2-legged animals and such.. No other "race" [though Jewish people aren't a race as such, or even united under a philosophic or religious belief ] has invented a special word for racial discrimination against them, and if the Palestinians were to do so, it ought to significantly out weight the loadedness of the word 'anti-semitism'.
By the true and literal definition of the word, it is the Zionist Israeli's who are the most "anti-semitic" in their treatment of many Arabic peoples, though particularly Palestinians.

"Anti-Semitic"

It is an empty word. It is fascism and hypocrisy in the extreme, and it is a tool that has been used to manipulate society for centuries and the way that Helen Thomas is being treated now, after a lengthy career as a foremost member of the White House Press Corp, is a sickening indictment of the American political system and media's inability to tell the truth.

I would like to conclude by adding that I am in no way opposed to Jewish people or Judaism, and see them as being quite separate from Zionism. Most of the information I have cited in this post come from Jewish Rabbi's and spokespeople who are vehemently against Zionism, and are easily referenced.
I agree wholeheartedly with Helen Thomas's hope that there can be peace with mutual understanding and respect between people of all nations, and it is only out of a sense of care for social justice and humanity, [ and a rational observation of the facts ] that I speak now.

I applaud Helen Thomas for not being afraid to speak the truth, and for the incredible example she has shown with her astute, incisive insight and courageous way of asking the difficult questions, and defending what is just and right.

I sincerely hope that many more will be inspired to do so..

Amid the web of corruption and deceit and moral bankruptcy that exists today, heaven knows, we need it.

Peace.


http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/
http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement
http://benjaminhfreedman.blogspot.com/]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionist_Zionism