Dinner with Helen Thomas, for dmr, lpbk2713 and others who asked

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23. Like I said, that was not what this thread was about

But as for her being anti-Semitic (as if an Arab could be anti-Semitic, seeing as how Arabs are as much a Semitic people as Jews), one of her best friends, a Jewish journalist in Washington for fifty years, who happened to be my father, would have disagreed with you mightily. What she thinks of Israeli foreign policy is another matter entirely, and we have disagreements there even though I don't consider myself Jewish. But anti-Semitic? I stand by my statement--that one is a line.

My wife, who is from Germany, despised what our country did in Iraq, and did not hold back on her comments on the Cheney (dba Bush Lite) administration, nor Reagan before him. But she has many wonderful friends in America, always enjoys her time here, and is in no way anti-American (hey, she has stayed with me for 38 years--how's THAT for a sacrifice?).