grandmas' secret powers (and Helen Thomas)

e: ... when you hear an old-timer (especially a grandmother) say ... "[they] ain't got the balls" ... a young man can do just about anything ...

... that's why they had to get rid of helen thomas so quickly ... grandmas have secret powers.
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[wikipedia]
helen thomas

Thomas retired from Hearst Newspapers on June 7, 2010, following controversial comments she made ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Thomas
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[nytimes.com]
Reporter Retires After Words About Israel
jun 7, 2010

To every president since John F. Kennedy, Ms. Thomas, 89, was known for posing questions in the kind of tough and provocative manner that could make press secretaries gasp and her colleagues cringe.

And it appears that her tart tongue may have finally ended her career. Ms. Thomas said on Monday that she was retiring, effective immediately, after an uproar over her recent remarks that Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and go home to “Poland, Germany and America and everywhere else.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/business/media/08thomas.html?_r=0
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[wikipedia]
Israel

On 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly recommended the adoption and implementation of the partition plan of Mandatory Palestine. On 14 May 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization[8] and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel," a state independent upon the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine, 15 May 1948.[9][10][11] Neighboring Arab armies invaded Palestine on the next day and fought the Israeli forces.[12] Israel has since fought several wars with neighboring Arab states,[13] in the course of which it has occupied the West Bank, Sinai Peninsula (between 1967 and 1982), part of South Lebanon (between 1982 and 2000), Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. It annexed portions of these territories, including East Jerusalem, but the border with the West Bank is disputed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
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see also:

100 years in iraq (and not just iraq)
http://adventuresofagreenhorn.blogspot.com/2013/09/100-years-in-iraq-and-not-just-iraq.html

pt2 Haifa oil pipeline (Lebanon)
http://adventuresofagreenhorn.blogspot.com/2013/09/pt2-haifa-oil-pipeline-lebanon.html

Caspian Sea to Haifa oil pipeline (Syria)
http://adventuresofagreenhorn.blogspot.com/2013/09/caspian-sea-to-haifa-oil-pipeline-syria.html