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.
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To paraphrase, Newt jut tells the truth and they think it’s hell.
bttt
Bump
>>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.
Source please.
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.
Beginning to think maybe these palestinians used to be called Philistines.
Thanks for my first LOL today.
ML/NJ
Yes, Newt is right, it is not Israel that is the problem regarding peace in the Mideast.
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....
Bill Buckley wrote an article Let's Make Israel Our 51st State on July 30, 1972
You are wrong there... Islam IS the religion of peace. The will not kill us....they will only kill us Sloooooowly....
ping for later
"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.)
No reason to think he wouldn't keep the perspective - he's the first to verbalize it and "damn the torpedoes".
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.
Wow, that is quite a quote.
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.
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