Helen Thomas was the first woman to do many things in journalism. She achieved acclaim merely due to that, but mostly due to her longevity as a White House correspondent. She did perform, apparently, as journalists are supposed to, by asking some hard questions now and again.
She has been given two types of legacy: one by the Left, and one by the Jews she despised.
She probably deserves both.
My take is that she had a strong emotional affiliation with the Palestinians which was somehow associated with her (admitted) Syrian/Lebanese heritage. Her placement in the White House and her long and close association with people in world-wide power gave her an extraordinary opportunity to foist her opinions on governmental policy – an abuse of journalism.
In order to understand Thomas and my personal characterization of her attitude, the history of the Palestine / Israeli region must be understood, especially the dominance of the Palestinians by fascist attitudes which they did not have prior to WWII, at least not in the degree to which they were introduced during that period.
Al Husseini, the Uncle of Yasser Arafat, and the Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood:
It is necessary to understand the history of the Palestinians and their relationship to the fascism of Europe. The Palestinians have a fascist history going back to WWII, when Arafat’s uncle, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Amin al-Husseini, became an affiliate of Hitler. He was influential in the war with the Muslim Nazis, forming the Muslim Hanzar (Hanchar) Division of the SS in Bosnia.
On 1 March 1944, while speaking on Radio Berlin, al-Husseini said:
'Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you.'
(Note 1)
He retained his influence in the Arab world after the war, being instrumental in the formation of the Arab League. He travelled throughout the Middle East, spreading fascism and antisemitism.
Al Huseini’s nephew, Yasser Arafat – full name: Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini - founded the PLO and FATAH and Black September.
Although they enjoy separate land and self—government, the Palestinians have refused to be granted sovereign statehood several times, because those international promises did not include all of what is now Israel and especially 100% of old Jerusalem in the proposed lands and hands of Palestinians.
The Palestinians remain fascist genocidal anti-Semite terrorists. It should be noted that all nationalities coexist peacefully within Israel’s borders, including Arabs. This is not the case in Palestine. Part of the Palestinian Hamas Charter contains this Qu’ran Hadith:
“Moreover, if the links have been distant from each other and if obstacles, placed by those who are the lackeys of Zionism in the way of the fighters obstructed the continuation of the struggle, the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:This is directly preceded in the document by a declaration of association with the Muslim Brotherhood:
"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim).”
”The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the links in the chain of the struggle against the Zionist invaders. It goes back to 1939, to the emergence of the martyr Izz al-Din al Kissam and his brethren the fighters, members of Moslem Brotherhood. It goes on to reach out and become one with another chain that includes the struggle of the Palestinians and Moslem Brotherhood in the 1948 war and the Jihad operations of the Moslem Brotherhood in 1968 and after.”
There is to be no peace with the Jews. Even the concept of “hudna” as a ceasefire is a ploy of Muslim warfare, because it actually refers to a restocking and rearming period.
CAIR in the USA is a part of the Muslim Brotherhood, and is defined as terrorist by FBI Director Robert Mueller, although the Obama administration does not.
”FBI Chief: Muslim Brotherhood Supports Terrorism
IPT News
February 10, 2011
Elements of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group whose ideology has inspired terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, are in the United States and have supported terrorism here and overseas, FBI Director Robert Mueller told a House committee Thursday.
Mueller joined seven other Obama administration intelligence and law enforcement officials at a hearing of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. They spoke of the Brotherhood's U.S. ties as word spread in Egypt that President Hosni Mubarak was prepared to resign. Mubarak has repeatedly said his administration, in place since 1981, is the one thing keeping an Islamic state led by the Brotherhood from taking over Egypt.
While Mueller, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and other witnesses spelled out a variety of threats, they and some committee members highlighted the Brotherhood's ties in the United States. It was a significant departure from earlier hearings, which focused on groups more directly involved with terrorism.
"I'm concerned that the Muslim Brotherhood is using peaceful protests in Egypt for a power grab, and our government doesn't seem to grasp their threat," Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., told the committee and the witnesses. "The Muslim Brotherhood isn't a danger because they are terrorists, but because they push an extremist ideology that causes others to commit acts of terrorism."
Clapper agreed that "there are entities associated with the Muslim Brotherhood here in the United States." Mueller told Myrick that he would provide the committee with greater detail on the Brotherhood's activities in closed session.
However, Clapper also characterized the Brotherhood in Egypt as a mostly secular umbrella organization. "The term 'Muslim Brotherhood'...is an umbrella term for a variety of movements, in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam," Clapper said in response to a question from Myrick. "They have pursued social ends, a betterment of the political order in Egypt, et cetera.....In other countries, there are also chapters or franchises of the Muslim Brotherhood, but there is no overarching agenda, particularly in pursuit of violence, at least internationally."
Clapper's "secular" reference is odd, given the Brotherhood's motto is "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."
In a statement issued after the hearing, Myrick expressed astonishment at Clapper's assessment. ""Either the Administration doesn't know who the Muslim Brotherhood is, which shows incompetence," she said, "or they are apologizing for them, which is inappropriate for those in charge of protecting the American people. Let's be clear – the Muslim Brotherhood is NOT secular."
Mueller and Myrick are right; Clapper is dead wrong, and history was quick to distinguish that fact.
The Palestine-originated Muslim Brotherhood, along with Bin Laden, is instrumental in radicalizing Chechnya, which produced the terrorists who slaughtered some 300 children at Beslan, ( note 2) and produced the Boston Marathon Bombers.
The full details of the radical fascism endemic to Palestinian leadership and the organizations spawned there are readily accessible for further study for those who wish to go deeper. (Note 3) Read also how it was that the Palestinian regions were created, and why.
Back to Helen Thomas: She has been a full-throated supporter of the continual Palestinian aggression against Israel, characterizing the Palestinians as victims and Jews as oppressors. For that reason, and the history of Palestinian fascism given above, I associate her with fascist anti-Semitism.
NOTES:
Note 1: From several sources via Wikipedia, including: Sachar, Howard Morley (1961). Aliyah: The People of Israel. World Publishing Company.
Note 2: John Giduck; “Terror at Beslan”; 2005, Archangel Group.
Note 3: Gaubatz and Sperry; "Muslim Mafia"; 2009, Midpoint Trade Books.
Kamal Saleem (psuedonym);"Blood of the Lambs"; 2009, Howard Books.
Glazer; "United In Hate -The Left's Romance With Tyranny and Terror"; WND Books.
8 comments:
Thank you, Stan. That clears things up quite a bit. I also learned a lot more about Arafat than I knew before. I seem to recall him from my years in the Navy as a scruffy 'statesman', but memories from my childhood - mostly news accounts - referred to him as a full-blown terrorist.
I always wondered how he made the transition. And yes, Helen Thomas was and is a wretch.
Palestine has never been an independent and autonomous nation. Great Britain conquered the Palestine region in 1916. In 1918, France and Britain established the current borders of Syria, Lebanon and Iraq on the territory that had administered the Ottoman or Turkish Empire of the Osmanli Dynasty, which followed the Abbasid Caliphate. In the area that was not assigned, the Society of Nations created the British Mandate of Palestine from 1918 to 1948. In 1947 the UNSCOP issued an official report on the territorial partition and the UN approves the plan of partition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah
Can you explain how any of this makes Helen Thomas a fascist?
V,
An advocate for a fascist state is a fascist, just as surely as an advocate for progressivism is a progressive.
"Al Huseini’s nephew, Yasser Arafat..."
George Bush's grandfather Prescott attempted a fascist coup of the United States and was a director of a company that financed the Nazis in the 1930s but that doesn't make George Bush a fascist because political beliefs are not hereditary. You need to show that Helen Thomas believes in Fascism not that you believe a country whose people she supports is somehow "fascist". Fascism doesn't not mean "bad" or "evil".
Historian Roger Griffen describes Fascism as a "revolutionary, trans-class form of anti-liberal nationalism". You need to show that she believes in that, otherwise your links to Fascism are less tenuous than hers! (Going by your writings).
I smell a rat. We're now discussing the meaning of the word 'fascist' and whether it's 'hereditary'. If you are raised by a liberal in a liberal environment and all the positive behavior reinforcement you receive is liberal in nature, there is a very good chance that you will grow up a liberal. Same for conservative, or any other ideology.
If it looks like a fascist, walks and talks and votes like a fascist, it is probably a fascist. The trouble is that fascism is a buzzword, and when folks see it, they stop thinking and start emoting.
I think someone is attempting to muddy the water for their own amusement, but I could be wrong.
V,
First, your analogy is incorrect. If Bush's grandad was a fascist, that has no bearing on the country in which he lived, unless that country adopted his fascism. It did not adopt fascism, and is not fascist.
Second, I did not say that beliefs are hereditary. I said that her sympathies might be due to her cultural heritage. In fact, she has had every chance to reject the fascism of the Palestinians, but instead she wanted to purge the Jews from the region.
The Palestinian regions are clearly under the popular control of fascists, and Thomas was vocal in their support.
Now let's take your definition (one of thousands of competing definitions):
(a)Revolutionary. The Palestinians qualify; they are terrorists who are trying to take country for rule by their own Sharia law. When they can get into Israel, they kill.
(b)Trans-class. There are few Gaza Palestinians of any class who support Israel's right to exist, and right of Israel to defend itself against Palestinian attack. Recent opinion polls in Gaza showed universal hatred of Israel and Israelis.
(c)Anti-liberal. The Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoots are definitely anti-liberal, if liberal means that human rights outwiegh governmental dictates. Sharia and imams determine rights as well as truth.
Even modern Leftists are anti-liberal. Which is one reason that they identify with the Palestinians and not the liberal Israelis.
(d)Nationalism. Yes. Sharia law and the Caliphate. All of Israel must become Palestine.
Even under your own definition, if one supports these pursuits, then one is a fascist. What do you think you'll gain by denying the obvious?
If you disagree that a strong, vocal supporter of those who are Xist can be rationally associated with Xism as an Xist, explain why.
V,
Also explain how fascism is not "bad" and yet is revolutionary and anti-liberal. If the overthrow of human rights as supreme is good, explain why, and how you define "good".
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