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n unrepentant Helen Thomas
said in an interview with
Playboy magazine that she
knew exactly what she was doing
when she said on camera that Jews
"should get the hell out of Palestine."
"I knew I'd hit the third rail;' she
said in an interview published in the
April issue of Playboy. "You cannot say
anything about Israel in this country.
But I've lived with this cause for many
years. Everybody knows my feelings
that the Palestinians have been short-
changed in every way.
"Sure, the Israelis have a right to
exist — but where they were born,
not to come and take someone else's
home. I've had it up to here with the
violations against the Palestinians.
Why shouldn't I say it?
"I knew exactly what I was doing —
I was going for broke. I had reached
the point of no return. You finally get
fed up."
Thomas, 90, told a video blogger
at the White House on May 29, 2010,
that Jews "should get the hell out of
Palestine" and "go home" to Poland,
Germany and the United States. The
comments cost her her job as a colum-
nist for the Hearst Corp.
Thomas, who is a graduate of what
is now Wayne State University in
Detroit, will return to Metro Detroit
on May 14 to speak at a dinner com-
memorating what the Palestinains call
Al-Nakba (the disaster), the founding
of the State of Israel. She will be one
of the featured speakers at the event
hosted by the Palestine Cultural Office
Michigan at Burton Manor in Livonia.
In the Playboy interview, Thomas
also told contributing editor David
Hochman, who is Jewish, "Everybody
is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies,
which are funded by wealthy support-
ers, including those from Hollywood.
Same thing with the financial markets.
There's total contror
Hochman reported that Thomas
cried when asked what people will
say when they write her obituary,
and that Thomas said she knows it is
going to say "anti-Semite" instead of
cc reporter: ,
Thomas recently told a national
conference of campus journalists that
President Obama owes her an apol-
ogy for his criticism of her comments
about Israel at the White House.
"Her comments were offensive':
Obama said during an interview on
NBC's Today show shortly after the
video of her comments was made
public and was widely viewed on the
Internet. "It's a shame because Helen's
someone who has been a correspon-
dent through I don't know how many
presidents, was a real institution in
Washington, D.C. But I think she made
the right decision. I think those com-
ments are out of line, and hopefully
she recognizes that."
Thomas apologized for the com-
ments, but has since reiterated the
same sentiments in several public
forums.
"I want an apology from the presi-
dent': Thomas said during the keynote
session of the annual spring conven-
tion of College Media Advisers in New
York City.
The White House refused to com-
ment on Thomas' demand. El