From ABCNews.com:
When a video surfaced this week of veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas suggesting Jews “go home” and “get the hell out of Palestine,” the media shock wave eventually led to Thomas’ retirement after a decades-long career.
On the other hand, Yoram Dori, an advisor to Israeli President Shimon Peres, wrote an open letter to Thomas in the Jerusalem Post recounting how his parents escaped the gas chambers of Auschwitz during World War II by their emigration to what would become the Jewish state.
Thomas, 89, suggested that Jews return to European countries some of their ancestors fled during the Holocaust. She later apologized for the comments, but that didn’t stop the controversy that cost her a front-row seat in the White House briefing room.Sarah Eisen, writing another open letter in the Israeli publication Haaretz, said, “Dear Helen Thomas, we Jews aren’t getting the hell out of anywhere anymore.”
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