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Gingrich Describes Palestinian People as 'Invented'
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| 12/10/2011
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Posted on 12/10/2011 9:24:58 AM PST by TBBT
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Many media heads are going to explode on this one. How dare anybody say anything critical or non-PC about the Palestinians. Facts be damn.
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posted on
12/10/2011 9:25:12 AM PST
by
TBBT
To: TBBT
Newt is right about this one.
And his remark about picking John Bolton as SOS was smart.
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posted on
12/10/2011 9:29:51 AM PST
by
Reagan Man
("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
To: TBBT
Historically he is right. The old Roman term covered a majority of the middle-east but you don’t see other countries there giving up their land for ‘Palestine”. The recent ‘Palestinians” are refugees from Lebanon and Syria with modern ‘activists’ thrown in. If they were serious about ‘returning Palestine’, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan would all need to step up and give up their lands too.
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posted on
12/10/2011 9:30:01 AM PST
by
mnehring
To: TBBT
There goes the media's 3 week infatuation with Newtie. How dare he speak the truth about a protected class !!
Stone him !!!
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posted on
12/10/2011 9:38:31 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
To: TBBT
They are. About time the truth was told.
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posted on
12/10/2011 9:45:20 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: TBBT
He’s exactly right... they are invented, but why support a Palestian state?
Of course, they wouldn’t have any place that would welcome them, but I guess they could disguise themselves as Iranians.
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posted on
12/10/2011 9:48:00 AM PST
by
altura
(Perry 2012)
To: TBBT
Newt is pushing the right buttons. He improves his support on a daily basis. The base is clearly more anxious to hear someone who will fight than they ever will be about the PC ankle biters who are bent on hitting him rather than Obozo. This ought to really piss off the Newt will implode folks.
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posted on
12/10/2011 9:49:17 AM PST
by
Steamburg
(The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
To: Reagan Man
I’ll bet Christianne Amanpour is about to have a stroke. LOL!!!
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posted on
12/10/2011 9:51:40 AM PST
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: TBBT
Newt will never be my first choice, but if he is willing to expand on this sort of truth and plainspeak, it will make the thought of pulling the lever (touching the screen) for him a bit easier.
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posted on
12/10/2011 9:51:57 AM PST
by
trebb
("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
To: TBBT
Newt is 100% right. There is no such thing as a Palestinian people or even Palestinian culture. They are just plain old Arabs.
To: altura
Hes exactly right... they are invented, but why support a Palestinian state? It can be said Americans are an invented people can it not?
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posted on
12/10/2011 9:53:57 AM PST
by
newzjunkey
(Republicans will find a way to reelect Obama and Speaker Pelosi.)
To: newzjunkey
No, we are not an invented people. Does not a country called the USA exist? Show us where, at anytime in history a country called Palestine existed, especially when it existed exactly where Israel stands today. Since there was never a Palestine there never existed a Palestine people, therefore they are an invented people. Americans MADE their country and became Americans after the country was formed.
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posted on
12/10/2011 10:14:05 AM PST
by
calex59
To: calex59
No, we are not an invented people. Does not a country called the USA exist? Show us where, at anytime in history a country called Palestine existed, especially when it existed exactly where Israel stands today. Since there was never a Palestine there never existed a Palestine people, therefore they are an invented people. Americans MADE their country and became Americans after the country was formed.
So if they have a country they will become a people?
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posted on
12/10/2011 10:19:29 AM PST
by
x
To: TBBT
FTA: “Gingrich pledged at a forum earlier in the week that if elected, he would name John Bolton — a hawkish, pro-Israel former U.N. ambassador who served in the George W. Bush administration — as his secretary of state.”
Okay, right there he got my support.
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posted on
12/10/2011 10:20:24 AM PST
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: libertarian neocon
That's not quite what Newt said. He merely pointed out that the Palestinians were "invented". America and Americans were "invented" ~ actually several times, first, in the mind of King Philippe II/III of Spain as a sort of Protestant ghetto where he and his other Hapsburg relatives could send troublesome people from all over Europe.
Interesting concept. I'm still very much in awe of the King ~ this was divinely inspired.
Then, we were reinvented in about 1676, then again in 1775, then in 1861.
What I find interesting in this is the fact that the Palestinians can't bear the fact that their "nation hood" is a recent invention. They imagine it's an insult to live in an "invented" nation. We consider it a visible manifestation of God's Grace.
There's not going to be any communication with these people possible until they finally realize they owe it to the West for their liberation from the Ottoman Empire, and to America for their liberation from the British and French!
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posted on
12/10/2011 10:40:23 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: calex59
Actually, we were invented by King Philippe II/III (of Spain). It is an incontrovertible fact.
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posted on
12/10/2011 10:42:40 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: muawiyah
We weren't invented by anyone. You facts are BS. We were made but the British subjects who had had enough of King George. Our country exists therefore we are and we are not invented, this country was made not made up. Palestinians are a made up people, made up out of whole cloth with no history to back them up.
I would say you are either a muslim or a some other Jew hater.
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posted on
12/10/2011 10:52:44 AM PST
by
calex59
To: TBBT
Newt’s right on. They are but rejected Arabs and as pointed out their neighbors could easily give them land for their country. They’re a manufactured, financed populace.
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posted on
12/10/2011 11:01:32 AM PST
by
mcshot
(Neither handsome nor handy but took an oath and will vote to save our Country.)
To: calex59
You are so full of it. I had people here in 1598 ~ there presence was recorded, and they had names ~ Northern European names. They lived in Spanish North America. Then, King Philippe II/III divided the land among Spain, France (and in a separate codicil for Russia to be determined later). He set aside a portion of the land for "others" ~ that was the area from Nova Scotia in the North to Carolana in the South (present N/S Carolina). Eventually even Carolana came under English rule, but that didn't happen in 1604.
The English are Johnny Come Lately's to the Americas ~
BTW, Virginia counts its history from the very foundations of the first Spanish permanent campsites on the East Coast. We were a nation created by people who are themselves known to history. We invented ourselves ~
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posted on
12/10/2011 11:02:03 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: calex59
Calex59, AMERICANS believe that they created their nation ~ why you don’t want to believe that is a good question. Do you think somebody else did it?
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posted on
12/10/2011 11:03:55 AM PST
by
muawiyah
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