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by Helen ThomasMonday, May 19, 2008 The Israelis are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the creation of the nation of Israel.
The Palestinians have only to mourn the loss of their land and the oppression they have suffered as refugees in camps and caves since 1948, their life under military occupation and their humiliation at myriad Israeli checkpoints. Full Story »
by Helen Thomas, Aspen Daily News Columnist Monday, May 12, 2008 Some readers resented The Washington Post for publishing an Associated
Press photograph of a critically wounded Iraqi child being lifted from
the rubble of his home in Baghdad’s Sadr City “after a U.S. airstrike.”
Two-year-old Ali Hussein later died in a hospital. Full Story »
by Helen Thomas, Aspen Daily News Columnist Monday, March 24, 2008 A salute is due Adm. William Fallon, who tried to prevent a wider war with Iran.
After serving one year as commander of U.S. Central Command, Fallon has resigned, saying he is quitting because his differences with official U.S. policy have become a “distraction.” Full Story »
by Helen Thomas, Aspen Daily News Columnist Monday, March 10, 2008 Let us hope that the next president of the United States knows some history.
And let us hope that the next president will know that the United
States cannot call all the shots, or pick and choose which
leader-dictator we will talk to or decide which countries can have
unconventional weapons. Full Story »
by Helen Thomas, Aspen Daily News Columnist Monday, March 3, 2008 The successor to President Bush has a clear-cut choice: Saving lives or saving face.
Bush wants to leave to the next president the burden of ending the
debacle he started five years ago when he ordered the invasion of Iraq
under false pretenses, against a people who had done us no harm. Full Story »
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