Rosie Defends Helen Thomas

Rosie O’Donnell defended Helen Thomas on her Sirius
satellite radio show Wednesday, saying the longtime journalist’s comments
weren’t as offensive as people suggest they were.

Thomas retired from her job as a White House correspondent
for Hearst after saying that Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and go
to Germany, Poland, or the United States.

“Now, I think, in the year 2010, what she was
saying was not, ‘Go back to the ovens,’ O’Donnell said. “What she was saying was,
the homeland was originally Palestinians’ and it’s now occupied by Israel, and
Palestinians should be afforded human and civil rights.”