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Gingrich defends comments on Palestinians
Associated Press ^ | Dec. 10, 2011

Posted on 12/10/2011 8:04:40 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich says he is being factually accurate when he calls the Palestinians an "invented" people and says they are the creation of anti-Israel propaganda.

Gingrich's chief rival for the presidential nomination, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, says the former House speaker has made a mistake in the description and has made it more difficult for Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate toward peace.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: newt; palestine; palestinians; palestinianstate
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Newt backed the truth as to what he said, and to the LSM, that is a bad thing.


21 posted on 12/10/2011 8:34:57 PM PST by Sea Parrot (%When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Newt gets a lot of brownie points for telling the truth about Palestine and rejecting the notion that the president of the United States has to call and ask somebody before he makes a statement. Mitt really flubbed that one.


22 posted on 12/10/2011 8:37:15 PM 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.)
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To: true believer forever

“Zahir Muhsein said this in 1977: The Palestinian people does not exist.”

Great quote! Thanks.


23 posted on 12/10/2011 8:39:01 PM PST by garjog
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To: stormhill

>> Newt is right and Mitt is wrong.

Mitt’s reply was feeble.


24 posted on 12/10/2011 8:42:14 PM PST by Gene Eric (Save a pretzel for the gas jets.)
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To: PALIN SMITH

Milt’s little ten grand bet offer when Americans are out of work and the median income is less than three times that bet, showed he is a smelly elitist in an instant of reality. I just hope the media doesn’t spin it for him ‘cause we know they want him up against their little barry bassturd demigod.


25 posted on 12/10/2011 8:44:00 PM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they cannot be deceived, it's impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

BTW Romney, I believe Bibi said the same thing in a speech he gave at the UN a few years ago.


26 posted on 12/10/2011 8:45:01 PM PST by abigailsmybaby ("To understan' the livin', you got ta commune wit' da dead." Minerva)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It’s the truth, Mitt.


27 posted on 12/10/2011 8:49:28 PM PST by expat1000
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To: MHGinTN
"Milt’s little ten grand bet offer when Americans are out of work and the median income is less than three times that bet, showed he is a smelly elitist in an instant of reality. I just hope the media doesn’t spin it for him ‘cause we know they want him up against their little barry bassturd demigod."

Mitt's bet will reverberate across the country on talk radio this week.

He's just put himself in bed with the 1% crowd, the ones the OWS people despise.

Was Mitt trying to impress everybody with the number 10,000, or was it to him like a $5 bet for us?

Either way it was his "macaka" moment.

28 posted on 12/10/2011 8:53:34 PM PST by PALIN SMITH (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: true believer forever
Nobody ever thanked me for posting a link before - and I support Newt - so this is a good night for me!

I'm leaning in Newt's direction but after my love affair with Sarah {I dumped her, she didn't drop me, heh, heh} then my Hermanator experience, I'm taking my time on this one.

In watching the debate tonight, the only two on the stage that I couldn't really go for are paul and mittens.

The other 4 are OK.

29 posted on 12/10/2011 8:54:32 PM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke The Terrorist Savages)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I loved how Newt made the point that Reagan’s state department wanted him to take out his “Mr. Gorbachav, tear down this wall” part of his speech and Reagan refused.

Like Reagan, Newt favors truth over political correctness.


30 posted on 12/10/2011 8:54:51 PM PST by MNnice
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Newt is right. Too bad he has never said anything like this before, and I can’t know whether or not he actually believes it, since this is just one of 4-5 ultra-pro-Israel statements he has SUDDENLY made in the past week.


31 posted on 12/10/2011 8:58:32 PM PST by montag813
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Noot is going to fool around and have ME in his corner..

Not that I have any choice.. course I didn’t and still don’t like George Bush..
There something serious wrong with George Bush.. Noots no angel either..


32 posted on 12/10/2011 8:59:03 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: upchuck

That may win him applause with red meat ready base. But, these statements are irrational. They advance no interest of the US.


33 posted on 12/10/2011 9:02:48 PM PST by indianrightwinger
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To: 4buttons

The occupants of Pallywood came from Jordan and Egypt.

Thus, the so-called ‘palestinians’ are actually JORDYPTIANS.


34 posted on 12/10/2011 9:03:32 PM PST by LyinLibs (All moslems are somewhere on the killing-you spectrum)
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To: montag813

Newt is and has always been a Reaganite. And a knowledgeable, accomplished student of history.


35 posted on 12/10/2011 9:09:36 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: indianrightwinger
They advance no interest of the US.

Yes they do. They delegitimize the 'palestinian' terrorists and their left-wing, anti-semetic supporters.

36 posted on 12/10/2011 9:17:22 PM PST by death2tyrants
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To: kozanne
This has been raging at the UN for months. Newt's timing on this is actually very good.

The so-called Palestinians are trying to pull a fast one via the UN.

37 posted on 12/10/2011 9:17:40 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Jim Robinson
Newt is and has always been a Reaganite. And a knowledgeable, accomplished student of history.

Agree with that. But many other candidates have made such pronouncements (ex. moving embassy to Jerusalem) and then punted when the time came. But that can be said of all the candidates - except Romney. Hopefully Mittens' disgraceful comments about "Palestinians" will finally cause his numbers to plummet with the base.

38 posted on 12/10/2011 9:20:39 PM PST by montag813
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Newt 1, Mitt 0.


39 posted on 12/10/2011 9:24:39 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Newt 1, Mitt 0.


40 posted on 12/10/2011 9:24:45 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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