Not a Parody. (from The Weekly Standard)
“Respected American journalist Helen Thomas’s answer shows … a courageous, bold, honest and free opinion which expresses what people across the globe believe: that Israel is a racist state of murderers and thugs,” Hezbollah MP Hussein Moussawi said in a statement.
Ugh again.
As Dennis Miller said today in his show, Helen Thomas has enrolled in an immersion language class for Farsi. He also opined that he doesn’t think she attained her lofty position by sleeping her way to the top, meant as a compliment, I guess.
Unfortunately for civilization, too many people think that Hussein Moussawi’s opinion is worth something. I find it disturbing but not surprising that Arab Christians side with their oppressors against Israel and the Jews (Ms. Thomas is an Arab Christian, by descent). My impression of the zeitgeist in the areas surrounding Israel that used to have vibrant and large Christian populations is that those populations are fully dhimmified, despite the fact that they are being steadily de-Christianized thanks to laws that forbid the selling of property to non-Muslims, among other things. Of course, Ms. Thomas’s antisemitism may well be just garden variety leftist joo-hate.