PrintJune 12, 2010
Rosie O'Donnell in All Her Glory
Is she merely uninformed or interminably stupid? Anti-Semitism from every corner of the world is deafening, and yet Rosie O'Donnell cannot seem to understand the negative connotations of Helen Thomas' latest retort about sending Jews back to Europe. This is the Europe that permitted the Nuremberg Laws and gave Jews second-class citizenship status at best. This is the Europe that seventy years ago was comfortable looking the other way while Jews got rounded up, endured the whip of slavery, and then got burned in gas ovens.Surely glib Ms. O'Donnell cannot be that ignorant of these recent historical events. Author Jan Gross in his book entitled Fear writes about the brutal Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as a result. More than half of these were Jews. Thus, three and a half million of the second-largest Jewish community in the world were wiped out. And, Ms. O'Donnell, when the remaining survivors returned...(Read Full Article)
