• Newt Gingrich: Palestinians are "invented" people
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHWJWJocD6A&feature=player_embedded[/media] [quote] Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said this week that Palestinians are an "invented" people, a position that could be seen as putting him at odds with the U.S. push for a two-state solution in the Middle East. "Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire," Gingrich told the Jewish Channel, which [URL="http://newsdesk.tjctv.com/2011/12/the-jewish-channel-exclusive-interview-with-gop-front-runner-and-former-speaker-of-the-house-newt-gingrich/"]posted portions of the interview online on Friday[/URL]. "And I think that we've have invented the Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs and are historically part of the Arab community, and they had the chance to go many places." He added: "And for a variety of political reasons, we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940s, and I think it's tragic." Gingrich's comments that Palestinians are an "invented" people, and presumably thus not entitled to a state, would seem to break with U.S. policy under both President Obama and former President George W. Bush, both of whom have pursued a so-called "two state solution" to the Israel/Palestinian conflict that would include the creation of a Palestinian state. Steven I. Weiss, who interviewed Gingrich, [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/gingrich-says-palestianians-are-an-invented-people/2011/12/09/gIQAV4VXiO_blog.html"]told the Washington Post [/URL]the comment was a surprise. "It's a comment I've heard before because I've covered the far right in the Jewish community and the pro-Israel community," he said. "But I was surprised to hear a mainstream Republican figure say it, and I've tried to research to find other mainstream Republican figures who said it. I've yet to find that." In other excerpts of the interview posted online, Gingrich suggested there was a moral equivalence between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, which he said both "represent an enormous desire to destroy Israel," and said the Obama administration's policies of "evenhandedness" are "out of touch with reality." "If I'm evenhanded between a civilian democracy that obeys the rule of law and a group of terrorists that are firing missiles every day, that's not even handed, that's favoring the terrorists," he said. Most of the major Republican presidential candidates appeared before a lobbying group called the Republican Jewish Coalition, where they vowed to be closer to Israel than the current administration. Gingrich [URL="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57338890-503544/gingrich-bachmann-move-embassy-to-jerusalem/"]claimed [/URL]the Obama administration takes the position "it's always Israel's fault no matter how bad the other side is," saying that "has to stop." He also vowed to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. [/quote] [url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57340513-503544/newt-gingrich-palestinians-are-invented-people/]CBSNews[/url]
It's true. I made them in a lab.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVMib1T4T4[/media]
Gingrich is probably the worst Republican candidate.
"we have sustained this war against Israel" He's a laugh riot.
how the fuck does he know about that
MY god. When you think he's finally hit the rock bottom of the IQ scale, he then grabs a pickaxe and digs further down.
Oh dear Christ. How stupid can he be?
[QUOTE=DamagePoint;33658528]Gingrich is probably the worst Republican candidate.[/QUOTE] Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman are the only ones that have any sense. But I still would rather have Obama win again. [sp]I say when I have a Herman Cain grinning in my avatar[/sp]
Lets [I]hope[/I] this becomes the thread music: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE[/media]
Another Republican committing Political Suicide....
[QUOTE=DamagePoint;33658528]Gingrich is probably the worst Republican candidate.[/QUOTE] It's pretty hard to beat Rick Santorum as worst Republican candidate, both Ricks, for that matter.
god i fucking hate all of the GOP candidates gingrich you stupid cunt how do you have the gall to sit there and ignore the plight of the palestinian peo-- oh right, you aren't a human being
Please don't let him win the nomination. Please.
mymindisfulloffuck.jpg Are they actively trying to make themselves look bad?
Most of you who aren't from the states probably don't even realize this guy is most likely going to be the republican nomineee. He's leading in all the polls and has been pretty steadily gaining even more support. The man fucking cheated on his cancer stricken wife. He's a disgusting excuse for a human being.
Gingrich is really making himself out to be the perfect archetype villain in the GOP race and that says a lot. I don't know why people are calling this political suicide though, certain sects of the US eat this shit up.
Newt Gingrich is dying a slow and painful political death. The Republican party should divorce him.
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That's disgusting.
Republicans should nominate Obama so the democrats can pick a democrat
I wonder if he'd say the same thing to native americans . . .
[QUOTE=Derubermensch;33658624]It's pretty hard to beat Rick Santorum as worst Republican candidate, both Ricks, for that matter.[/QUOTE] Gingrich wants to restart American colonization, so I'm pretty sure he's still the worst.
Before you go on your tirade, they are invented. Palestine was never historically a nation, and they were only declared in the 60's in order to keep up the fight against Israel by the UAR
[QUOTE=Zambies!;33658769]Before you go on your tirade, they are invented. Palestine was never historically a nation, and they were only declared in the 60's in order to keep up the fight against Israel by the UAR[/QUOTE] Palestine is no more an invented country than Israel.
the fact he said it in the first place should raise a red flag that his intelligence rests on the austistic spectrum
[QUOTE=OogalaBoogal;33658851]Palestine is no more an invented country than Israel.[/QUOTE] I'm not saying its not. Just pointing it out.
[QUOTE=Zambies!;33658769]Before you go on your tirade, they are invented. Palestine was never historically a nation, and they were only declared in the 60's in order to keep up the fight against Israel by the UAR[/QUOTE] The United States of America historically wasn't a country in the first half of the 1700s. Look where we are now.
[QUOTE=oldeskoolfan;33658987]The United States of America historically wasn't a country in the first half of the 1700s. Look where we are now.[/QUOTE] Americans are an invented people! :O
[QUOTE=The Vman;33659029]Americans are an invented people! :O[/QUOTE] Oh well, there goes my existen*Poof* [Post deleted due to User's refusal to continue existing]
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