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Gingrich: Palestinians an 'invented' people
Reuters and Elior Levy
Published: 10.12.11, 15:06
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31. Sir : If you run for an office in Israel you will get
olim hadashim ,   tel aviv/israel   (12.10.11)
my vote.
32. He's 100% Right!
Taz Man ,   USA   (12.10.11)
The Palestinians are only a pawn for the Arabs' to use for their political agenda. Read the freakin' history. The world has been forced-fed a lie. Since Arafat (rat) couldn't beat Israel militarily, he decided to try a different tact: the fabricated Palestinian lie; thus, land-for-peace. A slow death by taking pieces of land until Israel would be no longer able to defend itself. That's why all deals have been a tragic mistake! One cannot deal with lying animals--the Muslims'. As far as the origin of the Palestinian moniker: the Jews were first known as such. Also, check into the Roman connection back in 70AD. It's all there for the inquisitive mind. God bless Israel and His Jerusalem (Muslim free)! A Christian Zionist
33. Dear Mr. Gingrich,
berlonski ,   berlin   (12.10.11)
Remember, there was no America as a state. It belonged first to Indian societies and thento European Colonialist Empires until the end of the 18th century. I think that we had an invented American people who were in fact mainly white Europeans, and who were historically part of the European community. And they had a chance to go to many other places than to America.
34. Gold Digger
Joe ,   USA   (12.10.11)
1- married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old and she was 26 2- . He divorced his late ex-wife on her death bed, after cheating on her with a campaign House of Representatives staffer.. 3- In the late 1990s, Gingrich began an affair with Congressional staffer Callista Bisek, who is 23 years his junior 4- For tax fraud the House Ethics Committee sanctioned Gingrich US$300,000 on a 395-28 House vote. 5- The House Ethics Committee concluded that inaccurate information supplied to investigators represented "intentional or ... reckless" disregard of House rules.[68] Special Counsel James M. Cole concluded that Gingrich violated federal tax law and had lied to the Ethics Committee.
35. To Number 18
Shimon ,   Poleg   (12.10.11)
Your invented people have a large invented country called Jordan of which you are a citizen of so you have no input in this debate whatsoever! LOL!
36. To his detracters in this talkback...
Jake Stone ,   USA   (12.10.11)
He's more of a Zionist than you are. It's a shame when idiots like you all try to spit on those trying to help you! As in the Holy Scriptures: a stiff-necked and disobedient people; always complaining, even when Moses led you out of Egypt; that whole generation didn't cross over the Jordan because of being ignorant. There are politicians' who truly believe what he's saying! God bless Israel...praying for the peace of Jerusalem!
37. #18 nutty YOU!
Linichka ,   Gdynia, Poland   (12.10.11)
In Jerusalem since 900? In your dreams!
38. What a stupid statement
r cummings ,   london UK   (12.10.11)
On the basis Gingrich sets out, there would be no Kenyans, they'd just be 'africans', no Burmese, they'd just be 'asians', etc. Did this man leave school early or something? He does not seem to realise that former colonies and territories are states, whether independent or not, and from that statehood derives their nationality. The fact that there were Palestinians in Palestine several thousand years ago doesn't really matter, the modern legal FACT is that there have been Palestinians since the Palestine mandate was created in 1922. It is such a clumsy attempt to delegitimize a people. But he is a mere mouthpiece for AIPAC and the Jewish ultra lobby, who seem to believe they are doing some good by feeding this kind of race-based, Jew-centric drivel to gullible electors. In any other democracy, he'd be taken apart by the opposition and media and shown up for being an ignorant clown, and Israel's standing would take a hammering. In the AIPAC-dominated USA though, it seems any kind of invention that promotes Israel and Jews, including this kind of thinly-veiled race-hate, is just par for the Zionist course.
39. R cummings palestinians were Jews pre 48
Joe Fraser   (12.10.11)
Arabs were Egyptian, Syrian, Arabian, Lebanese and still are.
40. Gingrich interview
Karen Pimentel ,   Vallecito, US   (12.10.11)
The Truth! How Beautiful!
41. Why be upset when a person observes reality for what it is?
Adam Smith   (12.10.11)
42. #18 even if were true, that doesn't make you "palestinian"
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43. curious
Michael ,   Haifa   (12.10.11)
Curious to know who, or what, invented Gingrich
44. Cummins get over yourselves tens of millions of CHRISTIANS
(12.10.11)
support Israel in the USA and they vote. The Arabs and Moslem world spend many millions lobbying in the USA. Its not Londonistan and leftist pseudo intellectuals who cannot cope when not everybody mindlessly and uncritically equates leftist dogma with fact.
45. Berlonski #33
Steve   (12.10.11)
I think you missed Gingrich's point. He said, the Palestinians are an "invented" people who want to destroy Israel. Maybe you are right about the "American people." Perhaps Gingrich would agree. Before America became a melting pot, the earliest Americans might have been a "people." Israel however is a people that goes back many millennia. The Jews, unlike the "Palestinians," are not a human invention or fabrication.
46. Just happens to be true...
Abie Dee ,   New York, US   (12.10.11)
I couldn't see myself voting for this guy but he just happens to be correct with this statement concerning the 'Palestinians'. Palestine, historically has always been a geographic location. Before the creation of Israel, the word almost always referred to the Jews in the area...the Jews of Palestine. It was years later that Arafat adopted the word to label the Arabs who were living in Israel before 1948.
47. I, a Jew, intend to vote for Gingrich, although a Democrat
Gabe J. Adelman   (12.10.11)
by registration.
48. You don't have to believe Newt read what Arabs say
Rod ,   Fargo N.Dakota   (12.10.11)
For example look up what Zuheir Mohsen said himself a member a Fatah as well as being born in Tulkarem or read what King Abdullah said in 1948 "Palestine and Jordan are one''.Read what King Hussein said "The truth is that Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan or what Abdul Hamid Sharif former Prime Minister of Jordan said Palestine is Jordan and Jordan Palestine they are Arabs and share the same Jordanian culture.I guess newt knows history better then most pandering Israeli 'leaders'
49. most of anti Grinrich talkbacs are leftsts
danielle   (12.10.11)
If the Jews in the United States wise and are not naive and not believe with blind faith in Obama then there is a chance that he will choose. But unfortunately there are a lot of leftists in the United States that work to bring down Netanyahu government and strengthen Obama,
50. Newt. The most visionary, best...
Gideon Reader   (12.10.11)
...educated presidential candidate in a looong time. (By that I mean that he is an autodidact, and actually knows things) Merely placing one tuchis in a seat at a prestigous school and then drinking, smoking, whoring and BEE ESSing your way through four or eight years of flash and dazzle does not make one well educated. I cannot wait for the Gingrich-Obama Debate. ZerObama can run but he cannot hide. He can bring his Teleprompters, too. To all 57 states.
51. In fact, we are ALL invented people! Think about it.
Jerusalem   (12.10.11)
52. Cummins The PA covenant defines them"part of the Arab race"&
PETER SM ,   AUSTRALIA   (12.10.11)
the covenant calls Palestine,"Arab land" Neither they nor their fellow travellers want to" liberate" the vast majority of the mandate hived off to Jordan up front. Why no crocodile tears for "historic Palestine" by them or their slogan shouters?
53. To #5-8
Big TX ,   Texas,USA   (12.10.11)
The truth hurts doesn't it. Sorry for yea!
54. 1834 revolt was a reaction to draft into Egyptia Army
Scott Simon ,   Beer Sheva, Israel   (12.10.11)
This occurred in Egyptian controlled Ottoman Syria & was supported by Arab clans of Nablus, Hebron & Jerusalem-Jaffa. Under the Ottoman Empire, the Southern part of Ottoman Syria's Arab population mostly saw themselves as Ottoman subjects. It was not the start of a "Palestinian" national movement.
55. Gingrich just got my vote
American in Israel ,   US / Israel   (12.10.11)
There is no telling what Obama will do to Israel if he gets re-elected. Gingrich is telling like it is and its refreshing. The Pals and the Dems (even the Jewish Dems) can scream and kick but Israelis want and need the anti-thesis of Obama in the White House.
56. Gingrich
graczek ,   Maryland, USA   (12.10.11)
Gingrich's outspoken views, if truly stated, make it absolutely essential that President Obama be reelected. The President knows what side America's bread is buttered on in the Middle East.
57. FINALLY THE REAL political TRUTH WITH NO PRETENSES
JEWISH DOCTOR ,   AMERICA THE BEAUTIUL   (12.10.11)
Gingrich: Palestinians an 'invented' people... AND THERE IS NOTHING NEW HERE EITHER...JUST A PLO LAND GRAB to destroy the Jewish Peoples accomplishments and wipe them out....
58. Gingrich objects to the $ trillions USA sends for oil
PETER SM ,   AUSTRALIA   (12.10.11)
he called to largest shift of funds in history Time for that money to spent on making the USA independent of unstable despot regimes The technology and alternate sources are out there, it just needs government focus.
59. invented Palestinian people
Ruslan ,   Solon, OH   (12.10.11)
Gingrich for President!!!!
60. to 33
Joshua Hoban ,   Atlanta USA   (12.10.11)
They received their nation in the 1947 UN Resolution that also created Israel. They turned it down. They refused it . They said no. They have to be the most stupid people that ever walked the earth.
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