News Roundup - Hour 2
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-06-11/news-roundup-hour-2
Prime Minister David Cameron speaking at the first Cabinet meeting on 13 May 2010
The Prime Minister's Office via Flickr
Iran reacts to new U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program, Britain's prime minister warns of drastic spending cuts and President Obama meets with Palestinian leader Abbas. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Guests
Yochi Dreazen
military correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
Abderrahim Foukara
Washington bureau chief of Al Jazeera Arabic.
Roy Gutman
foreign editor, McClatchy Newspapers; author "How We Missed the Story: Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban and the Hijacking of Afghanistan."
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Speaking today about "drill baby drill", we need to be better informed. As John Hofmeister says in his book "Why We Hate the Oil Companies", we will need oil for decades. It is not possible to replace carbon based fuels as quickly as Al Gore and the enviromentalist would wish. Being independent, I feel we need to have a non-partisant discussion regarding enery and regulation.
"I don't know what Helen Thomas was thinking."
I do.
While her comment was insensitive, and reminds one of the same sort of racist sentiment directed towards African Americans since the Civil War ("Back to Africa"), it is not as if she was completely off the mark. Israel is a state created in a land already inhabited. The inhabitants at the time of the creation of Israel are now suffering severely as a result of Israel's existence. This is the core thought of Helen Thomas's comment.
While it is correct in my mind to be outraged at the sentiment that Jews should go back to lands which represent the great persecution to them, let us not allow this outrage to spill over the core of her message, which is far from outrageous. It still does not make sense to many of us that Israel is given so much deference in their own oppression of an ethnic minority.
Helen Thomas did not step completely outside the norms of political thought with her comment.
Is this the year of happy revival of extreme racism in US? First Arizona, just one step from equivalent of yellow ribbons (first step Nazis took to mark Jews) and now Helen Thomas and again not a small support from mostly white people who don't even declare themselves as right wingers.
Just to make thing clear for everyone who still makes excuses like the post above - Helen Thomas first said the "Jews" (the nation, not Isreal - the state) should go back to Poland and only after that she added Germany. For those who forgot - there is only one thing for Jews in Poland, only one thing that anyone with a modest history education can even associate with Poland and Jews in the same sentence -- Auschwitz. Telling Jews to go back to Poland is euphemism for saying that they should go back to Auschwitz without spelling it out loud.
That is what Helen Thomas said. There's no symbol that strong in the whole known history of US.
very good