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Gingrich stands by ‘invented’ Palestinians remark
Associated Press via Houston Chronicle ^ | December 10, 2011 | DANIEL ESTRIN and THOMAS BEAUMONT

Posted on 12/11/2011 4:57:48 AM PST by humblegunner

DES MOINES, Iowa — Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich said he supports a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians that includes two separate states, but he did not step back Saturday from his assertion that Palestinians are an “invented” people, an incendiary comment that infuriated one side in the Mideast peace process.

The burden to show a willingness to reach a peace accord with the Israelis lies squarely with the Palestinians, he said.

“When the president keeps talking about a peace process while Hamas keeps firing missiles into Israel, if we had a country next to us firing missiles, how eager would we be to sit down and negotiate?” Gingrich told a veterans forum in Des Moines, before participating in a nationally televised debate with six other GOP candidates vying for the presidential nomination.

Palestinian officials reacted furiously on Saturday to Gingrich’s assertion, accusing the Republican presidential hopeful of incitement and staging a “cheap stunt” to court the Jewish vote.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.chron.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gingrich; palestinians
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To: humblegunner

To paraphrase, Newt jut tells the truth and they think it’s hell.


41 posted on 12/11/2011 6:28:52 AM PST by Obadiah (Obama's America: His Own Private Venezuela)
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bttt


42 posted on 12/11/2011 6:33:00 AM PST by Matchett-PI ("One party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious. Guess which ones." ~GagdadBob)
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To: Vendome

Bump


43 posted on 12/11/2011 6:34:50 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: muawiyah

>>This goes on all the time here. Palestinians will never be taken seriously until they can understand how WE think in America. <<

Please.
They can “invent” themselves any way they want. It doesn’t make them what they are.

And make that, not how ‘we’ think but rather how ‘you’ think.


44 posted on 12/11/2011 6:38:41 AM PST by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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To: Edit35

Source please.


45 posted on 12/11/2011 6:47:04 AM PST by Rannug ("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
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To: Lady Lucky

Yeah, from now on they’re going to switch from “allahu akbar” to “Newt Gingrich is making me do this!”


LMAO...I’m stealing that line.


46 posted on 12/11/2011 6:48:19 AM PST by TShaunK
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

Beginning to think maybe these palestinians used to be called Philistines.


47 posted on 12/11/2011 6:50:03 AM PST by svcw (God's Grace - thank you!)
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To: humblegunner

Thanks for my first LOL today.


48 posted on 12/11/2011 6:51:30 AM PST by Rannug ("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
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To: humblegunner
Since Newt seems given to stating obvious truths, I wonder if there is a chance he might state the truth about those April 27, 2010 birth certificate images.

ML/NJ

49 posted on 12/11/2011 6:52:39 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: BunnySlippers

Yes, Newt is right, it is not Israel that is the problem regarding peace in the Mideast.


50 posted on 12/11/2011 6:58:10 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Burke)
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To: Servant of the Cross

O god, Please don’t ask him what he thinks of Kwanzaa, although it would make Ann Coulter extremely happy. Talk about a ruse. George Bush and Company swollowed it hook,line sinker....


51 posted on 12/11/2011 7:00:52 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121
I seem to recall many many years ago William F. Buckley wrote an article about making Israel the 51st State.

Bill Buckley wrote an article Let's Make Israel Our 51st State on July 30, 1972

[as carried in the Anchorage Daily News]

52 posted on 12/11/2011 7:02:39 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

You are wrong there... Islam IS the religion of peace. The will not kill us....they will only kill us Sloooooowly....


53 posted on 12/11/2011 7:03:15 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: humblegunner

ping for later


54 posted on 12/11/2011 7:07:28 AM PST by Dusty Road
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To: humblegunner
"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism.

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa. While as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

(PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, in a 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw.)

55 posted on 12/11/2011 7:17:52 AM PST by SC DOC
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To: vanilla swirl
Let’s say Newt is elected, would he keep this perspective? I’ve seen waaay too many conservatives get corrupted or coerced by “other” forces.

No reason to think he wouldn't keep the perspective - he's the first to verbalize it and "damn the torpedoes".

56 posted on 12/11/2011 7:27:27 AM PST by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: humblegunner

ABC radio news was gleefully playing Newt’s comment on the Palestinians as though it was some kind of gotcha moment on par with Rick Perry botching the number of justices on SCOTUS. They played his comment, then followed it with a member of the Palestinian government disputing his assertion and scolding him for making it. I’m sure the ABC newsies thought it was devastating. But anyone who’s aware of the history of the region knows Newt was dead nuts right.


57 posted on 12/11/2011 7:27:27 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: SC DOC

Wow, that is quite a quote.


58 posted on 12/11/2011 7:29:34 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: billorites

Yes, once again, he shows he is a mouth looking for a place to run off. The pin has been removed from the grenade, it is just a matter of when newt will pop off.


59 posted on 12/11/2011 7:30:00 AM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters)
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To: sand lake bar
Camel lips, aka Arafat, was an Egyptian .
60 posted on 12/11/2011 7:38:25 AM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters)
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