Posted on 12/10/2011 9:40:02 AM PST by Scanian
JERUSALEM - Palestinian officials are reacting with dismay to Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich's statement that they are an "invented" people.
The Jewish Channel on Friday released excerpts of an interview in which the former House Speaker said Palestinians were not a people because - unlike Israelis - they never had a state.
"Remember, there was no Palestine as a state," Gingrich said. "It was part of the Ottoman Empire.
"I think we have invented the Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs and who are historically part of the Arab community, and they had a chance to go to many places, and for a variety of political reasons, we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940s. It's tragic."
Palestinian official Nabil Abu Rdeneh on Saturday described Gingrich's comments as "unfortunate" and called him "ignorant".
The Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, demanded Gingrich "review history."
"From the beginning, our people have been determined to stay on their land," Fayyad said in comments carried by the Palestinian news agency Wafa. "This, certainly, is denying historical truths."
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Guess the truth hurts.
The Speaker is correct.
"I think we have invented the Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs and who are historically part of the Arab community...
One more reason to vote for Gingrich... he knows the truth ...
That cinches it! Newt is the one!
The Newt is correct on them thar Pallies............
Newt finally called a spade a Fakestinian. LOL!!!
“We are determined to conquer the world and we intend to kill, maim, rape, behead and plunder all Jew and Christian infidels and countries as we go! May Allah Obama be blessed for delivering the USA into our blood-soaked hands!”
That does it for me!
Yep, what he said, the truth hurts..
This must mean that Gingrich is against the two-state solution. One democratic state that would do it if he could make people disappear.
“Sybil” Gingrich recently stated ~ 300 pages of Obamacare is OK.
With Sybill, you never know which Gringrich will show up.
“Sybil” Gingrich recently stated ~ 300 pages of Obamacare is OK.
With Sybill, you never know which Gingrich will show up.
Gonna call for a fatwa on him now because he said something you didn’t like? Isn’t that the Muslim way...kill those who threaten your world view?
Unless he´s intimidated out of it.
Think it might ever occur to the Death-to-America-Kill-the-Jews Beard & Burka crowd that every muzzie threat against Mr. Newt will translate like magic into thousands of infidel votes for the Republican candidate?
Probably not. Newt should plan a speaking engagement in Dearbornistan. The resulting riots will help propel him to victory.
Omar & Achmed seem to have forgotten that the Great Satan is just that for a reason.
Please tell us what’s in the 300 pages he said were OK.
That boosted Gingrich in my estimation too.
These ignorant Philistines use a map that does not have the country of Israel on it.
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