Israel Today: Gingrich: There are no Palestinians!

Israel Today Magazine ^ | Dec 11, 2012 | Ryan Jones

[zeestephen]

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“The State of Israel is one of the few western style democracies that does not have a constitution. Never has.”

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Correct.

I should have made that clear.

In 1947 Israel appointed a “Constituent Assembly” that produced several drafts of a Constitution.

That was my reference point.

[W. W. SMITH]

I have been of the opinion that Lord Balfour (sp), the British appointed governor of the area, coined the term Palestinian when directed to determine the borders of a Palestinian mandate. This was to be a homeland for the Jews whom Balfour referred to as Palestinians. The mandate, as determined by Lord Balfour, included all of Jordan, a part of Saudi Arabia and Syria, the southern third of Lebanon and all of Gaza.

Lord Balfour hated Jews and viewed the mandate as a solution to the “Jewish problem”. He considered the area as a barren desert incapable of supporting the worlds Jewish population and with the Jews forced to move there, most of them would die of starvation thereby eliminating the problem.
The Jews thrived despite Balfour’s expectations and the expectations of their Arab neighbors. Israel should demand the borders of the Palestinian mandate be the borders of Israel.

[avacado]

"I wonder who first named the Arabs "Palestinians", was it the Arabs themselves, a Western politician, or the media."

From the article:

And it was the British, not the Arabs, who reinstated that 
term, borrowing it from earlier conquerors, the Romans, who 
had taken the name from Israel's ancient enemies, the 
Philistines, who were not Arab, but of Greek origin. 

[Maryhere]

You just haven’t been listening

[Stonewall Jackson]

At that time, the only persons living in the region who referred to themselves as "Palestinians" were the Jews.

The British had begun referring to the Jews living in the region as Palestinians, but as another FReeper pointed out earlier, it was Arafat who brought it to prominence when referring to the Arabs from the West Bank and Gaza.

[Carry_Okie]

“Equine feces........” Speaking of....get off your high horse, and prove your point.

To you? Waste of time. Do your own homework.

[itsahoot]

I wonder who first named the Arabs "Palestinians", was it the Arabs themselves, a Western politician, or the media.

Re read post #1 it tells you.

[itsahoot]

Here is a thread dealing with the greatest internal threat to our nation and it devolves into an argument about who boinked who.

Great, and we wonder how we get the crappy candidates we do.

[Stonewall Jackson]

In the article, it mentions that the Brits named the locals “Palestinians”, but it was only applied to the Jews. Another FReeper pointed out that Arafat claimed the phrase after the 6-Days War, sometime around 1968.

[Tzfat]

Jews called themselves Palrstinians before 1948. It was the term used by the Zionist movements in the late 18th Century.

[sheik yerbouty]

He was in it up to his misbegotten eyeballs...

[Stonewall Jackson]

There were some unconfirmed reports that he died of complications from HIV/AIDS. do you know if this was ever confirmed one way or the other?

[sheik yerbouty]

The French did the autopsy and have not revealed the COD..given his...err..habits, it is likely. His squealing was heard by surveillance teams of several countries..