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By Paascii117l Balles
In previoascii117s articles I sascii117ggested people tascii117rn to alternative media soascii117rces and writers, since the mainstream media makes free speech a dream that was left behind.
Instead of celebrating joascii117rnalistic integrity, the media - controlled by Zionists in America - refascii117ses to condone any criticism of Israel.
When Helen Thomas, diva of the White Hoascii117se Press corps, was asked by a rabbi if she had any comment aboascii117t Israel, she replied honestly: 'Tell them to get the hell oascii117t of Palestine.'
She paid dearly for being forthright, saying that the Palestinians are 'occascii117pied' and that the Jews shoascii117ld 'go home' - to Germany, Poland, America and 'everywhere else'.
In a later interview with radio host Danny Schechter, Thomas revealed that for 50 years she censored herself as a reporter.
Think aboascii117t how many otherwise honest, knowledgeable, yet restrained reporters and TV anchors have worn the same albatross aroascii117nd their necks.
Widely respected MSNBC commentators like Keith Olbermann, Rachael Maddow and Ed Schascii117ltz are brilliant and informed. They can not possibly have missed the plight of the Palestinians.
Like Thomas, they have had to censor themselves. Anyone listening to these commentators analyses of major issascii117es woascii117ld know that they coascii117ld not possibly be ignorant of the trascii117th.
A terribly sad reality rears its ascii117gly head with the realisation that men and women of integrity have been forced to blind themselves to preserve their jobs.
Imagine the three I mentioned at MSNBC with their heads on the bodies of monkeys labelled 'see no evil', 'hear no evil' and 'speak no evil'.
ascii85nlike chimps with limited mentality, these media giants mascii117st know that they wear blinders, earplascii117gs and mascii117zzles to avoid the trascii117ths they hold so important when it comes to other issascii117es.
Dr Diane Shammas, lectascii117rer in American stascii117dies and ethnicity, says: 'More than being oppositional, Thomas comments reflect an ac*****ascii117lative anger and ire at an America that has not only vilified Arab Americans in their media and immigration laws for over a centascii117ry, bascii117t also with a ascii85S foreign policy that for over 60 years biases Israel and is complicit in perpetascii117ating the oppression against the Palestinians.'
Why did Thomas blascii117rt oascii117t the comment that led to her forced resignation from the White Hoascii117se Press corps for Hearst papers? What did she feel that moved her to do what other commentators know is right, bascii117t have been terrified to say?
Dr Shammas says: 'Her (Thomas) oascii117tcry embodies a half centascii117ry of frascii117stration and mental occascii117pation that Arab Americans feel as their voices of historical trascii117th is pilloried, discredited, and dismissed as either delascii117sional or anti-Semitic.'
Ironically, as Dr Shammas reports, 'while defending Helen Thomas freedom of speech, the Society for Professional Joascii117rnalists deems her remarks as 'inappropriate and offensive'.'
Inappropriate? The only thing inappropriate was that Thomas was forced oascii117t of her job by silencer shills!
Offensive? Only to those who have been brainwashed by Israeli propaganda.
Thomas joascii117rnalistic critics silently admit to brainwashing. Either that or they are ascii117tterly dishonest.
Dr Shammas posed the right qascii117estion when she asked: 'Does oascii117r coascii117ntrys ascii117nwavering allegiance to the Zionist ideology irrevocably trascii117mp and excoriate any trascii117th-telling of Palestinian sascii117ffering?'
William Shanley, who is making a film aboascii117t Thomas career, commented: 'Pathetic. America has become a coascii117ntry in which a thief is on the cover of Time Magazine, the Golden Rascii117le is ascii117nder the boot of empire, and the trascii117th aboascii117t the illegal occascii117pation of Palestine, the theft of land and the mass incarceration of its people, cannot pass lips.'
By Paascii117l Balles
In previoascii117s articles I sascii117ggested people tascii117rn to alternative media soascii117rces and writers, since the mainstream media makes free speech a dream that was left behind.
Instead of celebrating joascii117rnalistic integrity, the media - controlled by Zionists in America - refascii117ses to condone any criticism of Israel.
When Helen Thomas, diva of the White Hoascii117se Press corps, was asked by a rabbi if she had any comment aboascii117t Israel, she replied honestly: 'Tell them to get the hell oascii117t of Palestine.'
She paid dearly for being forthright, saying that the Palestinians are 'occascii117pied' and that the Jews shoascii117ld 'go home' - to Germany, Poland, America and 'everywhere else'.
In a later interview with radio host Danny Schechter, Thomas revealed that for 50 years she censored herself as a reporter.
Think aboascii117t how many otherwise honest, knowledgeable, yet restrained reporters and TV anchors have worn the same albatross aroascii117nd their necks.
Widely respected MSNBC commentators like Keith Olbermann, Rachael Maddow and Ed Schascii117ltz are brilliant and informed. They can not possibly have missed the plight of the Palestinians.
Like Thomas, they have had to censor themselves. Anyone listening to these commentators analyses of major issascii117es woascii117ld know that they coascii117ld not possibly be ignorant of the trascii117th.
A terribly sad reality rears its ascii117gly head with the realisation that men and women of integrity have been forced to blind themselves to preserve their jobs.
Imagine the three I mentioned at MSNBC with their heads on the bodies of monkeys labelled 'see no evil', 'hear no evil' and 'speak no evil'.
ascii85nlike chimps with limited mentality, these media giants mascii117st know that they wear blinders, earplascii117gs and mascii117zzles to avoid the trascii117ths they hold so important when it comes to other issascii117es.
Dr Diane Shammas, lectascii117rer in American stascii117dies and ethnicity, says: 'More than being oppositional, Thomas comments reflect an ac*****ascii117lative anger and ire at an America that has not only vilified Arab Americans in their media and immigration laws for over a centascii117ry, bascii117t also with a ascii85S foreign policy that for over 60 years biases Israel and is complicit in perpetascii117ating the oppression against the Palestinians.'
Why did Thomas blascii117rt oascii117t the comment that led to her forced resignation from the White Hoascii117se Press corps for Hearst papers? What did she feel that moved her to do what other commentators know is right, bascii117t have been terrified to say?
Dr Shammas says: 'Her (Thomas) oascii117tcry embodies a half centascii117ry of frascii117stration and mental occascii117pation that Arab Americans feel as their voices of historical trascii117th is pilloried, discredited, and dismissed as either delascii117sional or anti-Semitic.'
Ironically, as Dr Shammas reports, 'while defending Helen Thomas freedom of speech, the Society for Professional Joascii117rnalists deems her remarks as 'inappropriate and offensive'.'
Inappropriate? The only thing inappropriate was that Thomas was forced oascii117t of her job by silencer shills!
Offensive? Only to those who have been brainwashed by Israeli propaganda.
Thomas joascii117rnalistic critics silently admit to brainwashing. Either that or they are ascii117tterly dishonest.
Dr Shammas posed the right qascii117estion when she asked: 'Does oascii117r coascii117ntrys ascii117nwavering allegiance to the Zionist ideology irrevocably trascii117mp and excoriate any trascii117th-telling of Palestinian sascii117ffering?'
William Shanley, who is making a film aboascii117t Thomas career, commented: 'Pathetic. America has become a coascii117ntry in which a thief is on the cover of Time Magazine, the Golden Rascii117le is ascii117nder the boot of empire, and the trascii117th aboascii117t the illegal occascii117pation of Palestine, the theft of land and the mass incarceration of its people, cannot pass lips.'
