# Helen Thomas Forcibly Retired **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 7, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helen-thomas-forcibly-retired/542299 "2010-06-07T17:06:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helen-thomas-forcibly-retired/542299/401 "2010-06-11T20:48:16Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > I already clarified, but I can make it even more explicit if you require. Since we’re attempting to communicate, yes, it would help if you made yourself understood. 😉 I think point #2 in particular is dodgy. But that aside, I see where you were coming from. I think you could have been clearer that you were speaking about those positions in general, but I accept that that’s what you were doing. So I withdraw what I said about your attributing those views to me. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helen-thomas-forcibly-retired/542299/402 "2010-06-11T21:19:13Z")
I think everybody who spends inordinate amounts of time arguing over Israel and Palestine should be forcibly retired. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helen-thomas-forcibly-retired/542299/403 "2010-06-11T22:08:47Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I think everybody who spends inordinate amounts of time arguing over Israel and Palestine should be forcibly retired. You mean like… Blade Runner-style? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helen-thomas-forcibly-retired/542299/404 "2010-06-11T22:36:37Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Israel doesn’t have to dissolve herself, she can abandon zionism and the injustices that are necessary to maintain it. I doubt that’s going to save them, even if the Jews would accept it. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helen-thomas-forcibly-retired/542299/405 "2010-06-11T22:56:26Z")
What the hell’s with the thread title anyway? It’s not like they fitted Helen Thomas with cement overshoes. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helen-thomas-forcibly-retired/542299/406 "2010-06-12T04:17:06Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Since we’re attempting to communicate, yes You immediately claimed that I was (yet again :eek:) tying to falsely allege that someone was advocating for the destruction of Israel. When I pointed out that I wasn’t, you said I was ignoring your post and/or lying. All while casting disparaging remarks about how you claim I post. And that was after I’d already pointed out the difference I was drawing between the end of a state and its military annihilation. If you want calm attempts to communicate, maybe don’t lead off with insults? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helen-thomas-forcibly-retired/542299/407 "2010-06-12T23:18:52Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > You mean like… Blade Runner-style? I hadn’t considered that, but .. works for me! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helen-thomas-forcibly-retired/542299.md?page=20)