Newt will speak at AIPAC

Foreign Policy ^ | Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 5:08 PM | Josh Rogin

[Red Steel]

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich may be slipping in the polls, but he will deliver a speech at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference in Washington, a spokesman for AIPAC confirmed today.

Gingrich's speech will be on the morning on March 5, one day after U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the conference and before the speech of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who will speak that evening. Obama and Netanyahu will meet in the Oval Office that day.

Last December, Gingrich made news when he called the Israeli-Palestinian peace process "delusional" and called the Palestinians an "invented" people. He also said the Palestinian Authority and Hamas share "an enormous desire to destroy Israel."

"If I'm even-handed between a civilian democracy that obeys the rule of law and a group of terrorists who are firing missiles every day, that's not even-handed. That's favoring the terrorists," Gingrich said.

[Red Steel]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Newt Gingrich

[Cindy of Nashville]

Both the 2 men in that picture are the real thing. The world needs them both. Go Newt!

[ncfool]

I can’t wait to hear what he says at AIPAC. Sadly Obama is going to speak on the Sunday Morning of AIPAC. I know those in attendance (myself) will try not to boo him. But I am sure he will kiss up to the pro Israel crowd on Sunday and then on Monday crap on Israel. Newt on the other hand will give the most dynamic speech as he is a historian and knows the truth. He could teach Obama a think or two about history.