"Donaldson called Thomas “the best White House correspondent ever!” Abourezk gibed Thomas was not fired because of comments she made about Jews. Her “fatal sin,” he said, was asking President Obama if any countries in the Middle East currently possessed nuclear weapons. The always-self-righteous Ralph Nader said, “If ten reporters had acted the way Helen acted there never would have been an Iraq war.”"
(Via Mondoweiss)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Israel's thugs:
ReplyDelete#mce_temp_url#
Jump 129 years to 1621, year of the supposed "first Thanksgiving." There is not much documentation of that event, but surviving Indians do not trust the myth. Natives were already dying like flies thanks to European-borne diseases. The Pequot tribe reportedly numbered 8,000 when the Pilgrims arrived, but disease had reduced their population to 1,500 by 1637, when the first, officially proclaimed, all-Pilgrim "Thanksgiving" took place. At that feast, the whites of New England celebrated their massacre of the Pequots. "This day forth shall be a day of celebration and thanksgiving for subduing the Pequots," read Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop's proclamation. Few Pequots survived.
ReplyDelete<span>"At that feast, the whites of New England celebrated their massacre of the Pequots" </span>
ReplyDeleteScary observation when one see how Israelis celebrate the "liberation" of such and such town or city when it was in fact an outright massacre of innocent unarmed or barely armed population..
An interesting exercise would be to examine the possible parallels between the Pilgrims of yore and the creation of the state of Israel.
ReplyDelete<span>That "interesting exercise" you refer to, is de riguer at this time of year, as common as the kind of post you cited, in fact. </span>
ReplyDeleteAlso de riguer is to remind people around here about your racist roots that are evident in this statement which you CANNOT deny you ever made:
ReplyDelete"It is pertinent to note that many Muslims do not object to invasion and occupation as long as they are doing the invading and occupying. They do not object to a people losing their homeland if they are the ones stealing it." vza
Wow! Unreal! So petty to continue to post this over and over again. How many years is it now? I hope you obtain all of the satisfaction you apparently need from these little episodes.
ReplyDeleteI have never denied making it and I reject your phony, self righteous charge of racism. ( Note the word many as opposed to all?) Are you really going to deny that many have absolutely no problem with the invasions and conquests that created the Islamic Empire? Are you even slightly aware, mr. college professor, of the Armenian and Assyrian genocides and ethnic cleansings in what is now Turkey? Did you know that the Iraqi general who led the massacre of Assyrians and the destruction of 65 Assyrian villages was hailed as a HERO in 1933, Iraq?
Do you think the Copts, Berbers, Kurds and indigenous Africans just might have a few problems with the Islamization and Arabization of parts of Africa? Ethnic cleansings and murder in Sudan? Mauritania? in OUR time...where was the outrage from the Muslim world? So muted evidently, the world did not hear it.
I (and the rest of the readers) see you regret that remark. Tough cookies. You showed your true colors and it is on public record.
ReplyDeleteMuslims were in fact welcomed and even helped by the Copts and it was armies of Berbers, not Arabs, that conquerd Spain in the name of Islam, and the Islamic world, or large parts of it, was ruled by Kurdish leaders for centuries.
ReplyDeleteFrancis E. Peters, in his article on "The Early Muslim Empires," writes, "The conquests destroyed little: what they did suppress were imperial rivalries and sectarian bloodletting among the newly subjected population."