Posted on 11/25/2024 7:43:38 PM PST by Words Matter
Gorka, President-elect Donald Trump's pick as senior director for counterterrorism, made several statements in favor of Israel recently, including that "Palestine" doesn't exist and that IDF generals should forget about diplomacy and focus on defeating terrorists militarily. Gorka, who had served as deputy assistant to Trump from January to August 2017 during Trump's first term in office, broached the issue of Palestine in an interview on Nov. 16 with a host for RT, a Russian state-controlled international news television network. "Why can't you talk about genocide[sic] in Gaza? And is that the same with all of the Trump team?" the host of an RT talk show asked Gorka, who responded, "Because there isn't any genocide in Gaza. There is no such thing as Palestine." Gorka added that the "etymology of the word Palestinian" is a "name invented by the Roman Empire to insult Jews." The host informed Gorka that "the rest of the world disagrees with you." Gorka replied, "I'm glad you talk for the rest of the world." The host, Afshin Rattansi, cited the United Nation's support for Palestinians, launching Gorka on a monologue about the international body. "The United Nations that sends people in blue helmets to rape little girls in Africa," he said. "Why did I not listen to the United Nations? What a clown show, really. As far as I'm concerned, the United Nations could be pushed into the Hudson, OK? What have they done to solve anything of late except create child prostitution rackets in Africa?" U.N. troops and officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and Haiti have been accused of hundreds of cases of sexual abuse, including against minors, over the past 20 years..
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He seems like my kind of guy.
<< “Why can’t you talk about genocide in Gaza? And is that the same with all of the Trump team?” the host of an RT talk show asked Gorka >>
RT. Figures.
I agree with pushing the UN into the Hudson river.
They were wiped out during David’s reign.
LOVE this too.. I agree, my kind of guy!!
>> Gorka added that the “etymology of the word Palestinian” is a “name invented by the Roman Empire to insult Jews.”
Interesting point. I hadn’t thought about it that way before, but it’s accurate. The Roman Province of Judea was renamed Syria Palestina following the Bar Kokhba Revolt (132-136 A.D.). The defeat of the Jewish rebels represented the last significant efforts by the Jews of the region to regain their independence. In the aftermath, Rome incorporated Roman Judea into a larger province which it called Syria Palestina. The also exacted a heavy retribution on the Jewish inhabitants of the area, killing many, causing others to flee, and resettling the region with Roman citizens from other parts of the empire.
The Jewish population dropped dramatically after this defeat, but it would be incorrect to say that it ever completely disappeared. Jewish communities remained in the area all the way until the modern Zionist movement created a steady stream of European Jews to the region. I’ve seen estimates that the population of the region at the start of the Zionist migrations was approximately 60% Moslem, 20% Christian and 20% Jewish. These numbers may be off a little bit, but the point is that there remained an existing Jewish presence in the region of some significance. Beyond that, the region was sparsely populated and had been under Ottoman control for centuries. Most of the modern day “Palestinians” are descendants of relatively recent immigrants to the region who arrived because of the new economic opportunities that were created by the the European Jewish immigrants.
Or Palestinians ... they’re all Jordanian Arabs.
Wow. I can count how many times I've seen that in print on one hand, while having said it myself continuously for years.
Heartening.
Dr G laying it out
In geography, yes but in terms of a political entity, no.
Gorka ain’t afraid of woke mob.
Yes
RT + an Islamist journalist...= zero credibility.
But you would have to push it all the way across midtown, with its traffic snarls. It would be far easier to shove it into the East River!
Gorka is awesome.
Exactly and no Arab nation wants to claim them.
That’s a lot of keywords for 17 replies.
from the Avenue to the river!
btw, a perfect site for a synagogue plus a firing range
the UN can sucky sucky long time
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