{"id":7842,"date":"2010-10-18T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T22:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=7842"},"modified":"2010-10-14T00:20:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T22:20:30","slug":"helen-thomas-you-cannot-criticize-israel-in-this-country-and-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/10\/helen-thomas-you-cannot-criticize-israel-in-this-country-and-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Thomas: &#8220;You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Veteran Reporter Blasts US over Israel. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Former White House veteran reporter has criticized the United States for not allowing people to talk about Israeli policies against the Palestinian people<em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive,&#8221; Helen Thomas said in an interview with Ohio station WMRN-AM that aired on Tuesday [12 Oct 2010].<\/p>\n<p>In June, Thomas had been forced to resign after she told Israelis to leave the occupied Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n<p>During the Jewish Heritage Celebration at the White House, Thomas said &#8220;Tell them (Israelis) to get the hell out of Palestine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In her new interview, she said the comments were &#8220;exactly what I thought,&#8221; even though she realized soon afterward that it was the end of her job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(It was) very hard for the first two weeks. After that, I came out of my coma,&#8221; Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p>The 90-year-old correspondent gave up her front row seat in the White House press room, where she had often pointed questions at 10 presidents, going back to Dwight Eisenhower.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas worked as a correspondent for United Press International (UPI) for 57 years from 1943 to 2000. She then joined Hearst Newspapers Corporation who owns 15 daily newspapers as a columnist.<\/p>\n<p>She was the first female officer of the National Press Club, the first female member and president of the White House Correspondents Association.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas has been a fixture at White House press conferences for decades and was often allowed to ask the first question.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"  http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/146446.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 presstv.ir<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former White House veteran reporter has criticized the United States for not allowing people to talk about Israeli policies against the Palestinian people. &#8220;You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive,&#8221; Helen Thomas said in an interview with Ohio station WMRN-AM that aired on Tuesday [12 Oct 2010]. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}