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Ray Hanania, wrote:
"Two prominent American Arab journalists have come under attack this past year, Octavia Nasr at CNN and Helen Thomas at the Hearts Newspaper Corporation. Both were fired for expressing their opinions. And that's amazing that in American society where free speech is held above all and that America declares itself the leader of the free world, two media outlets would fire two people for expressing their opinions.
"The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) is being taken to account
for their actions involving the arbitrary closure of the American Arab
Journalism Section and the al-Sahafiyeen Blog. It was done without discussing
any of the issues with NAAJA members who partnered to create it.
"This closure of the Arab Journalism Section came within weeks before the SPJ and several of its leaders began its efforts to terminate the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award.
"They can bring Democracy to Egypt. We need to bring Democracy back to America." - Ray Hanania
On June 8, 2010, I wrote:
Dear Helen Thomas with a PS to all her 'Colleagues' and Every American
Nearly ninety-year old Journalist Helen Thomas has taken a lot of heat for daring to address the fact that any Jew without any historical connection to Israel is encouraged to settle-as in colonize-upon legally owned Palestinian land.
I learned about, Aliyah , which means "going up,' during my first of seven trips to Israel and occupied Palestine in June 2005 from an American Jewess who had taken the deal and she informed me:
I get fifteen hundred shekels or about thirty-six hundred dollars a year in increments to help with my expenses. I can apply for unemployment benefits after seven months, as long as I look for a job. I just completed Ulpan, which was five hundred hours of Hebrew language immersion studies that took five months, five hours a day, for five weeks. I get subsidized rent and just moved out of the Absorption Center Projects. All the new immigrants get room, utilities, and three meals a day for the first five months in Israel. We also receive free medical care and all the doctors here are dedicated. We can go to the university with 100 percent of the tuition paid by the government. College is much cheaper here; it's about three thousand to four thousand dollars a year. Until I am thirty years old, I can receive up to three years of education for my master's degree.
On February 9, 2009, Journalist Helen Thomas, asked President Obama about Middle Eastern states with nukes.
Helen Thomas on her one question for Obama
9:20 Obama blew her off stating he didn't want "to speculate" and her 'colleagues' remained mute, but the US State Department has published reams of material about President Kennedy's concern about the Israeli bomb!
In 2005, Mordechai Vanunu, the Whistle Blower of Israel's WMD's told me:
President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic weapons.
Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection.
Nixon stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result, Israel increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs. Today, they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year."
On Armistice Day, 1948 General Omar Nelson Bradley warned US:
We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on The Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.The Rest and MUCH More @
http://wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1986&Itemid=243
