Newt Gingrich says Palestinians are 'invented' people and terrorists

[Patriot]

The former House Speaker indicated that he would break with longstanding US policy that the region's territorial dispute should ultimately conclude with a two-state solution.

Accusing Barack Obama of “favouring the terrorists” in the region, Mr Gingrich, 68, said his policy would be “pretty close” to that of Benjamin Netanyahu, the hardline Israeli prime minister whose relations with the US president have been frosty.

“I see a much more tougher-minded and much more honest approach to the Middle East in a Gingrich administration,” he said in an interview with The Jewish Channel.

Mr Obama has come under intense pressure in the US since calling in May for a peace deal based on Israel's borders before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Describing the current peace process as “delusional,” Mr Gingrich said Mr Obama's evenhandedness towards “a civilian democracy that obeys the rule of law” and “a group of terrorists firing missiles every day” ultimately meant “favouring the terrorists”.

Emphasising that "the Jewish people have the right to a state,” he dismissed the notion that Palestinian aspirations for a state of their own might be legitimate.

“Remember there was no Palestine as a state,” he said. “We've had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places”.

The remarks drew surprise among experts and commentators on the middle east. David Harris, the head of the National Jewish Democratic Council, said Mr Gingrich's position was “far to the right” of Mr Netanyahu's own Likud party. Hussein Ibish, a Senior Fellow for the American Task Force on Palestine, said: “There was no Israel and no such thing as an 'Israeli people' before 1948”.

Earlier this week Mr Gingrich pledged to appoint John Bolton, George W. Bush's strident former ambassador to the United Nations, as Secretary of State if he were elected president. Mr Bolton has long campaigned for the US to invade Iran to stop Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to protect Israel.

God Help the World if this Twat Gingrich is elected to the Presidency of US.
US election 2012: Newt Gingrich says Palestinians are 'invented' people - Telegraph

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Mr Gingrich America and Americans are also invented. Remember the first illegals came off the Mayflower from England and proceeded to steal the lands from the native residents. Remember the pilgrims you foolish man.Stop acting like a hypocrite Mr Gingrich

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Mr Gingrich America and Americans are also invented. Remember the first illegals came off the Mayflower from England and proceeded to steal the lands from the native residents. Remember the pilgrims you foolish man.Stop acting like a hypocrite Mr Gingrich

The real Americans are the Native Americans.

 

[InFn-0]

In his logic Egyptians, Syrians, Lebanese and everything are invented people because they never existed as a country anytime. Oops i forgot, UN recognition of countries only started in the last century. Also, Israel is also an invented nation in his theory right? Since it came into existence in 1940's?

 

[Kambojaric]

All countries are inventions to some extent. Italy can be said to be an invention of Cavour, Germany of Bismark, Bolivia of Simon Bolivar. The list goes on and on, whats his point? The people of Palestine province are the natives of that land no matter what nation or country that ruled over them. Most Israelis however belong to Russia, or Germany or wherever they came from. They are not natives of Palestine and thus do not have the right to claim it for themselves.

 

[T-Rex]

What about the americans? What was their nationality only three hundred years ago? Gingrich and his compatriots are like gangrin, wherever they are, they rot everything they touch. Their existence is a disgrace to human conscience.