Posted on 12/10/2011 10:43:40 AM PST by jimbo123
Senior Palestinian leaders on Saturday strongly criticized comments by Republican presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich that the Palestinians are an "invented" people, calling the comments ignorant and racist.
Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said the Gingrich remark was "the most racist statement I've ever seen." Erakat, who has negotiated in talks with Israel and the United States, said the remarks show "how really despicable things can get" in American politics.
"Such thinking should be an alarm and concern for the world," Erakat said.
Gingrich made the comments in an interview that aired Friday with The Jewish Channel, a U.S. cable channel.
"I believe that the Jewish people have the right to have a state," Gingrich said in the interview. "Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. And I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, who are historically part of the Arab community."
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Can someone please show me which part of Newt's statement referred to the Arabs who call themselves "Palestinians" by their skin color, or other physical attributes? I love how these Mooselimb savages can redefine "racist" as having nothing to do with race, and CNN drools along.
LOL.
They might as well call themselves a “race” because they’re sure not a “people”.
How can there be a Palestinian state is there is no such thing as a Palestinian?
How can “Palestines” get miffed when they don’t exist?
Besides their future home, Hell, they had a home in Jordan. Until Jordan felt threatened and kicked them and Arafat out. It's in Jordan's best interest to help Israel survive. Jordan has the friendlier "palestinians" (a political entity, not a race).
They seem to prefer a degenerate state, especially if they can destroy the Jews.
He’s correct again ... they are “invented.” What’s the “hoopla” all about? A man states a fact and CNN can’t handle it?
If the American people favor Gingrich's stand here (demonstrated by rising approval numbers in the polls) he is going to capture the Republican presidential nomination and defeat the corrupt, America-hating Obama. If Americans buy the PC bilge and reject Gingrich's speaking the truth about the fabricated 'Palestinian question', we're screwed and RINO Romney will probably be victorious and either lose to Obama or defeat him and give us more of the same, only watered down. We'll soon find out.
Before WWI, Egypt was no longer under Turkish control (rather under British), Libya was under Italy, Tunisia and Algeria were under France, and Morocco was divided between France and Spain. Much of the Arabian peninsula was not under effective Ottoman control.
Mehmet Ali, whose family ruled Egypt until 1952, was of Albanian descent.
North Africa achieved independence later than Mesopotamia and the Arabian peninsula due to the involvement of the French and British.
Truman's quick recognition of Israel was helpful, but he didn't create the state--it came into being through the efforts of its citizens.
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