Helen Thomas Retires Effective Immediately

[Helen Reyes]

I reject the idea that Israel is illegitimate because it is an "artificial state."

I never claimed Israel is illegitimate because it is an artificial state. I believe the creation of Israel was a disastrous and costly mistake that was set to fail from the start. You're way off beam there.

Two things:

1) I never said "I reject Mark's idea that...", I said I reject the idea that some states are not artificial.

2) You called the UN partition plan for Palestine an "artificial construct" as if the borders of the other states in the Middle East drawn up by the colonial powers were somehow more natural. I challenge the idea that the failure was due to some "artificiality."