Media criticized her on her comments a lot and blamed her for issuing racy comments like that. Elan Steinberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress immediately responded to that comment and said that she had certainly become very old now and she ought to remember Holocaust and the Second World War again. He forced Thomas to apologize for hurting Jews. The video of her comment is available on YouTube where you can watch it. Thousands of people have already watched it.
Thomas, later on her official website, issued an apology and asked the forgiveness of Jew Community for what she had said about them. She said that she did not mean to hurt them and her comment was not reflecting her belief that Middle East would only be a place of peace when all the parties recognized the importance of respect and tolerance.