Are Palestinians Occupied

6/9/10 comment posted on Huffington Post 6/8/10
"Helen Thomas' Sad News Legacy"

Let's not reduce this situation to silly talk. Ms. Thomas stated a valid humanitarian viewpoint. She believes that no people should live under the oppression of another people. I'm absolutely certain that she'd have taken a stand against the WWII Nazi occupation of Poland or South African apartheid. These were some of the great injustices in world history. The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian people will someday be written into the history books too.

Her comment was that the Palestinians are an occupied people. And if we, the world, knows that the Palestinians are an occupied people, then her comments seem valid. And the occupiers should get out of there, she said. When asked where they should go, well, that was obviously an afterthought for her and let's face it a question of great complexity and not one she's qualified to answer. But back to the point, did anyone else hear her say that the Palestinians are an occupied people? And she identified the fact that Israelis are the occupiers, but since she referred specifically to Jews in her comment I will agree that when calling the heterogeneuos Israeli population Jews things can get a little confusing and might even open you up to risk of being labelled anti-semetic. But simply having said the occupiers should get out of the occupied Palestine isn't evil - it seems like a humanitarian viewpoint.