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12/10/11 11:52 PM

#163289 RE: arizona1 #163287

Perry said the West Bank was Israeli land, and, of course,
not one of the erstwhile Repugnants today queried it.

fuagf

12/11/11 12:02 AM

#163290 RE: arizona1 #163287

Newt Gingrich calls Palestinians an 'invented people' as Mitt Romney prepares to attack the new GOP front-runner

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 4:36 PM on 10th December 2011 .. Comments (7)

GOP presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich is taking fire from a slew of
Palestinian groups for comments that the Palestinians are an 'invented' people.

The newest controversial remarks come as the former House speaker prepares for a showdown at tonight's debates with Mitt Romney, who was once at the head of the Republican pack and is beginning to wage an all-out offensive against Mr Gingrich.

The Jewish Channel, a US cable TV network, released excerpts of the interview on Friday in which Mr Gingrich said Palestinians were not a people because they never had a state and because they were part of the Ottoman Empire before the British mandate and Israel's creation.

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Controversial remarks: The Jewish Channel has released excerpts of Newt Gingrich's interview in which he called Palestinians 'invented'

'Remember, there was no Palestine as a state — (it was) part of the Ottoman Empire. I think we have an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and historically part of the Arab community and they had the chance to go many places,' Gingrich said, according to a video excerpt posted online.

Political watchers expect fireworks at tonight's debate in Iowa as former Massachusetts Gov Romeny grows more aggressive now that he has dropped to second place behind Gingrich.

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Texas Gov Rick Perry and Texas Rep Ron Paul have also launched attacks against Gingrich.

In response to Gingrich's remarks, Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad demanded the presidential candidate 'review history.'

'From the beginning, our people have been determined to stay on their land,' Mr Fayyad said in comments carried by the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

'This, certainly, is denying historical truths.'

Gingrich's statements struck at the heart of Palestinian sensitivities about the righteousness of their national struggle.



Target on his back: The new controversy, combined with his frontrunner status, are certain to make Mr Gingrich the object of criticism

Palestinians never had their own state -- they were ruled by the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years, like most of the Arab world. When the Ottoman Empire collapsed in the aftermath of World War I, the British, then a global colonial power, took control of the area, then known as British Mandate Palestine.

During that time, Jews, Muslims and Christians living on the land were identified as 'Palestinian.'

Gingrich leads in the polls

An average of the most recent polls shows Mr Gingrich with a sizable lead.

Newt Gingrich - 33.8 percent

Mitt Romney - 20.8 percent

Herman Cain (dropped out) - 13 percent

Ron Paul - 9.5 percent

Rick Perry - 7.3 percent

Michele Bachmann - 5 percent

Rick Santorum - 3.5 percent

John Huntsman - 2.3 percent

Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi said Gingrich had 'lost touch with reality.' She said his statements were 'a cheap way to win (the) pro-Israel vote.'

A spokesman for the militant Hamas rulers of the Palestinian Gaza Strip called Gingrich's statements 'shameful and disgraceful.'

'These statements... show genuine hostility toward Palestinians,' said spokesman Fawzi Barhoum.

Palestinians bristle at the implication that they were generic Arabs with no specific attachment to the land that Zionist Jews coveted. Using the word 'Palestinians' is a way for them to emphasize their claims.

Palestinians are culturally Arabs — they speak Arabic and their culture is broadly shared by other Arabs who live in the eastern Mediterranean.

But they, for the most part, identify themselves as Palestinians, just as the Lebanese, Jordanians and Syrians also identify themselves with a specific national identity.

For Palestinians, their identity was hewed over decades of fighting against another nationalist struggle over the same land — that of Zionist Jews.

During the war surrounding the Jewish state's creation in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled, or were forced to flee their homes.

Gingrich's reasoning was popular in the decades following Israel's creation, although that argument has since fallen out of favor among mainstream Israelis.

Israeli officials were not immediately available for comment on the Jewish Sabbath.


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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2072503/Newt-Gingrich-calls-Palestinians-invented-people-Mitt-Romney-prepares-offensive-new-runner.html

.. after today's debate? .. Gingrich solid ..

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F6

12/11/11 11:54 AM

#163307 RE: arizona1 #163287

arizona1 -- the ultimate "invented people": "Americans"

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