Evidently when Helen Thomas was dating Abraham Lincoln, he never told her that:  

It is better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

The following  jaw-dropping statement hit the internet Friday:

Elan Steinberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress, sharply reacted to the 89 year old representative of Hearst Newspapers:

Shame on Helen Thomas. She is certainly old enough to remember the Holocaust and the Second World War. She owes an apology to all victims of the Nazis.

The grand dame posted the following insincere apology on her personal Web site:

I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heartfelt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.

Thomas, the daughter of Lebanese immigrants, has covered the administrations of 10 Presidents in a career spanning nearly 60 years.  She made her idiotic comments at (believe it or not) a White House Jewish Heritage Celebration on May 27.

This statement was, in her mind I’m sure, a valid response to the Gaza Flotilla incident.

Speaking of the Gaza Flotilla Incident, the group Free Gaza is a major sponsor of that “relief” effort. 

The Free Gaza Movement is a Cyprus-registered charity.  Created on the initiative of six Americans in 2006, it now has a worldwide core group estimated at 200.   Their stated mission is to break Israel’s closure of Gaza, a strip of coastal desert territory blockaded since 2007.

Greta Berlin, a spokeswoman for the movement and a founder member, says:

Israel has no right to imprison 1.5 million Palestinians.  If governments won’t do the job, civil society will.

Free Gaza has been involved in nine seaborne aid missions to Gaza since August 2008, four of which made it to their destination. The flotilla intercepted on May 31 was the largest of the nine. Other boats turned away by the Israeli navy included one damaged in a collision with an Israeli naval vessel in December 2008, which barely made it into the Lebanese port of Tripoli. Israel arrested 21 activists sailing to Gaza from Cyprus in June 2009 and boarded their vessel after they ignored warnings to stop.

The Movement has not used Cyprus as an point of departure since last year, and Cyprus did not allow the latest flotilla to depart from there, citing reasons of national interest.

This organization claims it gets donations from citizens around the world. The largest donation received yet, was 300,000 euros ($366,000) from the Perdana Global Peace Organization in Malaysia. It says it does not receive funding from governments.

Guess who is a member of Perdana?  This is directly from their website:

Feisal Abdul Rauf has been Imam of Masjid al-Farah in New York City since 1983. Through his sermons and writings, Imam Abdul Rauf seeks to provide spiritual seekers with answers to their eternal questions that often hinder them from developing a personal relationship with the Divine.

He is the founder of the ASMA Society, dedicated to furthering Islamic Art and Culture. He invites non-Muslims to experience the spiritual impulse of Islam, and Muslims to develop on the spiritual path.

Does this guy sound familiar?  From my May 16th Blog, “Disrepecting the 9/11 Fallen:

The organization behind this project is the Cordoba Initiative and its leader is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.

Despite the fact that the Cordoba Initiative’s website calls part of the $100 million-plus project a mosque, Imam Rauf says the project is not a mosque (Liar, liar, burqa on fire.) but will include a community center for all faiths that will include recreational facilities, a prayer space and a 500-seat theater that can be a part of the neighborhood’s trendy (attended by pseudo-intellectual Liberals) Tribeca Film Festival. 

Plans were announced this week to build a 13-story mosque and cultural center on the site of a four-story building that was a Burlington Coat Factory retail store until 9/11, when part of a plane’s landing gear crashed through the roof.   The building, currently housing a mosque, will be torn down.

One more little bit of news and then I’ll tie all this together:

Federal authorities reported the arrests of two New Jersey men late Saturday night, trying to leave the country for terrorist training camps in war-torn Somalia.

The men were identified as 20-year-old Mohamed Hamoud Alessa and 26-year-old Carlos Eduardo Almonte.  They were taken into custody by FBI agents and others at J.F.K. International Airport outside New York City. They planned to take separate flights to Egypt and then make their way to Somalia, where they would join an Al Qaeda-linked group known as al-Shabaab.  This group has been at war with the nation’s fledgling transitional government.

Muslims currently comprise 1 – 2% of the population of America.  Islamic websites claim 5 million out of our almost 300 million, but most experts say that number is an exaggeration.  Muslim leaders claim that fanatics are responsible for acts of terror in America and around the world.  I want to believe that.  However, it is very difficult to when so-called Moderate Muslims will not condemn these actions and the Koran encourages followers to kill “the Infidels”.

Why are pseudo-intellectual Liberals, who do not have a clue as to the significance of Israel, sticking their nose into a sovereign nation’s business?  Why are some Americans defending a bunch of thugs who want to build a symbol of terroristic triumph next to a scene of unimaginable horror?  Why are we having so many terror plots on our native soil being uncovered under this administration?  And some, only after their explosive devices failed?  And finally, why did the American President have to be talked out of making a personal pilgrimage, i.e., another vacation, to Indonesia and Australia, just last week, to stay home and deal with all this, the Gulf  Coast/BP Situation, and our failing economy?

Perhaps Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) is treading water in the deep end of an Olympic-sized pool, when he should have stayed in the kiddie pool.

Sources:  drudgereport.com, youtube.com, nydailynews.com, reuters.com, perdana4peace.com, foxnews.com