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Newt Gingrich: Palestinians are an ‘Invented’ People, Peace Process ‘Delusional’

Newt Gingrich: Palestinians are an Invented People, Peace Process Delusional

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said the Palestinians are an “invented” people and the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process is “delusional.”

The former Speaker of the House made his comments this week in an interview with cable network The Jewish Channel, which posted excerpts online Friday.

“I believe that the Jewish people have the right to have a state, and I believe that the commitments that were made at a time,” Gingrich said when asked whether he considers himself a Zionist. “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, and were historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places. And for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940s, and I think it’s tragic.”

Asked about peace negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians, Gringrich said, “I think it’s delusional to call it a peace process.”

“We have an armed truce with a Palestinian Authority that’s relatively weak. And on its flank is a Hamas authority which may become relatively weak because it can’t deliver anything. But both of which represent an enormous desire to destroy Israel,” he said. “Frankly, given their school system and the hatred they teach in their schools, often with money that comes from us through the United Nations, I mean I think there’s a lot to think about in terms of how fundamentally you want to change the terms of debate in the region.”

He identified his approach to foreign policy as closer to that of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he believes in a “tough-minded realism.”

“I believe that if somebody is firing rockets at you, they are probably not engaged in the peace process. I believe if somebody goes around and says you don’t have a right to exist, they’re probably not prepared to negotiate for peace,” he said. “I think if someone says they wanna wipe you out, you should believe them. So I see a much more tougher-minded, and much more honest approach to the Middle East in a Gingrich administration.”

Gingrich was also sharply critical of the Obama administration’s so-called “evenhanded” approach to dealing with Israel and the Palestinians, saying it’s actually “favoring the terrorists.”

“If I’m evenhanded between a civil democracy that obeys the rule of law, and a group of terrorists who are firing missiles everyday that‘s not evenhanded that’s favoring the terrorists,” Gingrich said. “I think they [the Obama administration] actually lie to themselves, I don’t think they lie to the American people, I think they believe the stuff that they say. But is so out of touch with reality.”

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  • Krazy_Kreepy_Ketchup
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:42pm

    He is 100 percent correct but EVERYONE needs to remember exactly what he is – a white Obama. He is almost as big a wolf in sheeps clothing as pakistan.

    Americans beware. Unless he is prepared to declare a total war on radical islam he is speaking with a forked tounge.

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    • jnealer
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:53pm

      It’s good to know that Newt sympathizes with ethnic cleansing. To think, I may have voted for a monster. Call me crazy, but if a people live an an area for around three thousand years, they aren’t “invented.”.

       
    • nocalifornia
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:56pm

      You mean the same radical islam that has declared war on the United States and all Christians and Jews? You need to go to the tool box, get a screw driver and tighten up that loose screw of yours. It is refreshing to hear a politician speak his mind and tell the truth about these islamic nut cases.

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    • mad_hatter_
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:59pm

      With your criticism of Gingrich, you may want to see this. This is from a PAC that was leaked last night and no one is covering. Its the ad they were planning to release and haven’t yet… wow: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2011/dec/antinewt_ad_linked.html

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:02pm

      KKK – While you enjoy fooling yourself, you’re ignorant before us. Tell us more to explain more of yourself.

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    • blaaaaackwoman
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:07pm

      All Arabs are monstrocities.

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    • elkhunter48
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:10pm

      Krazy, it’s nice having liberals in the discussion. It continues to confirm the stupidity of the left and their total lack of reality.

      Your comments are so googy – Newt is exactly right – but – he’s a white obama – are you kidding me. He’s right and Obummer is a lieing socialist who would trade America in totally for a French like Government. So just how are the the same? Go back to reading Al Gore’s books, so you can remain in your fantasy (non-reality) world.

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:13pm

      Mad Hatter – Have you heard Newt talk about all that was said in the video you posted? He isn’t for millions of illegals getting amnesty. He had a large company that got paid for consulting to Fannie and Freddie. He didn’t get all that money, all the people in his company got it. Have you heard him explain his position on a mandate? It isn’t what you think. This is all being distorted to make him look really bad. He has matured and changed many of his ideas. Everyone changes their mind as things in life change. He regrets the video with hag Pelosi. He wants continued work on the environment, but not cap and trade. He want oil and gas from America. You have to listen to what he is say now. He will repeal all the regulations Obama put on business and repeal Obamacare.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:19pm

      Finally someone with enough guts to speak the truth.

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:19pm

      @ jnealer
      The people are not being invented ,the Nationality called Palestinian is. You do see a difference don’t you?
      .” Call me crazy, but if a people live an an area for around three thousand years, they aren’t “invented.”.

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    • mad_hatter_
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:26pm

      NHWinter,

      I have heard these positions and he is all talk. I say that because, for example, he says that he is against the individual mandate but he supported it 6 month ago (May 15, 2011 on Meet the Press), now he doesn’t support it.

      To go further I say he still supports it. Because of this video from an interview yesterday: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2011/dec/gingrich_health_mandate.html . Now he has reversed it in a 360 degree turn… yes 360 degrees. He says, we shouldn’t mandate people to buy insurance on a federal level. But if they don‘t pay up they should put money into a fund to pay for those that don’t pay their own bills… aka A mandate of you buy insurance or you get fined. This is worse than RomneyCare because its the Federal govt doing it and this is what makes up ObamaCare, buy insurance or you will be fined.. by the IRS.

      NEWT GINGRICH STILL, TO THIS DAY, STILL SUPPORTS THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE…

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:35pm

      @JNEALER – How have “pals” lived there for 3,000 years? Where are their written histories; their archealogical evidence; their coinage; their kings? Name a pal before the Egyptian arafat. Plus there are 100′s of thousands of “pals” in several ARAB countries. All without citizenship or rights. These particular “pals” are from Syria, Egypt and Jordan.

      Archeology, however, everyday confirms that JEWS lived in this so-called disputed land. In other words, it’s not disputed territory (i.e. Judea, Samaria and Gaza) were all won in armed combat – that was started by the ARAB countries. They (The Jews) won. When, in history has a country ever been forced to give back war-booty? If you wish to make precedent with Israel, then the ARABS MUST give back ALL their war booty – which is the ENTIRE middle east.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:42pm

      DRMIKE…by all means…find me an group of Philistines today that want to file claim to the region. I won’t be holding my breath. Will they be asserting their power with the jawbone of an a$$?

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    • jnpg
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 7:24pm

      I find it so hard to listen to the people who decry abortions as murder while our government kills innocent civilians in foreign countries. Don’t get me wrong- I think abortions are murder, but so is killing innocent people in their homes in another country in the name of freedom and national security.

       
    • Rob in Katy
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:14pm

      JNEALER: I wonder if you could tell me the president/king/ruler of Palestine before Arafish? I am pretty much betting that you cannot because there was not one!

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    • Rob in Katy
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:16pm

      Sorry Virginia, somehow I missed your post, so let me do my best Ed McMahon, “You are correct, sir!”

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    • ConservativeAndProud
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:29pm

      JNEALER – You need to do some research on the Palestine area (not the lies spread by today’s Palestine). The Palestine area was settled by other races, including Jews, well before any of those termed “Palestinian” moved into the area. In fact, most of them were KICKED OUT of their own countries because they were such violent groups of people.

      I can’t stand such ignorance on a topic that is easy to understand if you read authentic historical books and not the propaganda fed our country today.

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    • Lufts
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:37pm

      Jnealer – what people (besides the Jews have lived there for 3000 years?). The word Palestine didn’t exist that long ago and it was only 2000 years ago that the Romans created the word to describe the area specifically as an insult to the Jews, naming it “Palestina” i.e. Philistine in Latin, after the Jews biblical enemies.

      Up until 1948 it was the JEWS that were referred to as Palestinians by the British who ruled the region. Hence, the “Palestine Post” etc.

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    • Lufts
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:40pm

      A white Obama? Despite the fact that he is the only candidate running who openly calls Obama a Saul Alinksy radical socialist?
      Despite the fact that all of Newt’s solutions are about going to the private sector? (job training rather than unemployment, privatizing SSI, workfare instead of welfare, etc, etc).
      Of all the charges against hm, this is the most absurd. When did Obama (or any other politician since Harding) balance the budget? Let alone 4 times?

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:57pm

      Newt is correct. 100%. All you have to do is know history.

      Palestinians are an invented nation / people. Palestine is a region. Like Prussia. Or Europe. Or America.

      Why do you think the IRS asks if you are a ‘Caucasian’ or ‘ Hispanic’ or ‘ black’? Because “America” is a made up nation. It’s an IDEA. A concept. Just like Palestine. We pay taxes to the ‘government’ of America so we can ‘participate’ in that idea.

      The so called ‘people’ of Palestine are tools of Arab nations. They could just as well be Arab ‘jews’ for the way they are treated by their so called “Arab” brothers. No Arab nation will accept them. And they are victimized each and every day by every Arab nation as fodder in the effort to destroy Israel.

      And they are used internationally, to do so. America uses them. Israel uses them. Egypt uses them. Iran uses them. Iraq uses them. Syria uses them. Jordan uses them. Libya uses them. Bahrain uses them. Kuwait uses them. Turkey uses them. Other nations of the world use them, too.

      How long will the world be willing to be the tools of evil? Hard to say. History has a record of people being used right up to the point where they are killed in bunches. What do you suppose history will say about our present condition?

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    • gettingirritated
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:17pm

      Why don‘t you take a history lesson and you’ll understand what he is saying. He understands the foreign policy situation and will shut off the money flow. Watch how these animals respond when there is no more aid.

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:21pm

      @ NHwinter
      you are so true – it is amazing what a bit of context can do for a sound byte. I too actually listen to the whole q & a. Is Newt perfect? No – can he beat Obama on the battlefield of ideas – heck yes.

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    • Cause4Liberty
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:34pm

      Follow the paper trail of the candidates: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/264837/20111209/ron-paul-newt-gingrich-mitt-romney-funds.htm

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    • FreedomPurveyor
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:00pm

      Regardless of whether or not he is a right, does anyone else see a problem with Newt saying things that will be absolutely volatile in the general election?

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    • Maji
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:25pm

      J nealer ok your… crazy!
      Before 1948 Palestine was Israel…Jews referred to themselves as Palistinian.
      Palestine was given to Israel by the Romans as an punishment for uprisings
      as a form of humiliation.Renaming the home land for centuries
      So they were made up!

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    • Qohel
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 3:16am

      The Palestinians are nothing to with the Philistines, they are arabs, the very earliest of whose ancestors came to Israel in the murderous islamic invasions of the 7th century. The Jews have had an unbrloken association with the land for 4,000 years. Palestine was simply the name of an Ottoman province. People living in that province never identified themselves as ‘palestinians.’ That word only began to be used as an ethnic description after the Six Day War. Whatever you think about Newt’s history and policies, he is right about this.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 3:23am

      NEWT is 100% correct. I think he just got my vote. Palestine was a territory, never a country…and here’s some news FYI: If Jordan and Lebanon and Syria would give back the land they grabbed in the 1947 UN allocation of Jewish State (in land JEWS had been in for 6000 years) then there would be MORE THAN ENOUGH land for a safe ISRAEL (current borders) and plenty of land for a thriving NEW country called PALESTINE. IF you don’t know the history, if you have not been there or studied it, you don’t know what is really going on. NEWT nailed it !!

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    • Renalden
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 4:15am

      Good gosh JNPG, have you ever talked to a member of the US forces defending/fighting?

      Regardless of your missguided/middlemanaged/braindead/uninformed, ( nuff stuff?) opinion, I consider this form of demagoguery so basically ignorant as to verge as being foolish. In the day that we all spoke and understood standard English, ( not the type taught today), Sorry, a Ref to the teachers unions. We all are doing what we can to protect and defend. Agreed that a part is VERY distasteful, killing innocents, we do as least then ANY other form of militia or army, And I would please ask you to defend your narrow sentiments with any or all proof? Being a 22 yr Vet with a lot of unmentionable service stuff, I know that you will not be able to. #1, tell me when US force personnel cut off a mans head on camera yelling praise Jesus?

      Dave

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    • MaxineH20Sux
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 8:38am

      There is no such thing as palestinians. He is 100% right! The Arab countries use the “palestinians ”as a pawn in the war against Israel. The Arab countries keep them poor and impoverished on purpose. It would nit take much for Egypt to donate some land to them, but they do not. Or any other Arab natin to give some land to them, but they do not. Newt is 100% right.

      Folks, we really do not have a choice in the matter if Newt becomes the nominee. I do not see anyone -we the people- standing up for the country and speaking our minds out infront of congress and the white house. Where is the Tea Party and the big rallies? We all just sit back, chat on messages about this one is no good that one is no good and watch it all happen. We get what we deserve! It is either obama or newt you need to pick one!

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    • WhiteFall
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 11:27am

      I agree with wolf in sheep’s clothing. He is now a “grandpa” and that has changed him. He called for a Clinton impeachment for lying about having sex while he himself as speaker of the house was having his second affair. He is just staying off the Viagra long enough to get the nomination and earn some more Freddie and Fannie money through the front door this time. (Newt Gingrich married his third and current wife, Callista Bisek in 2000 after carrying on an extra-marital affair with her during the 1990s. Newt Gingrich divorced his second wife, Marianne Ginther, shortly before marrying his current wife. And Newt Gingrich married his second wife after carrying on an extra-marital affair with her while married to his first wife, Jackie Battley.)Newt Gingrich has admitted:”There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate. And what I can tell you is that when I did things that were wrong, I wasn’t trapped in situation ethics, I was doing things that were wrong, and yet, I was doing them. I found that I felt compelled to seek God’s forgiveness. Not God’s understanding, but God’s forgiveness. I do believe in a forgiving God. And I think most people, deep down in their hearts hope there’s a forgiving God.” (Newt Gingrich to Christian Broadcasting Network on March 8, 2011)God is forgiving but His forgiveness comes after the sinne

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    • Trebuchet
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 11:34am

      There was no Palestine until the Roman Emperor Hadrian punished the Jews and Christians for not recognising his murdered lover Antinious as a god by plowing the City under and building a temple to Jupiter over it. He then renamed Israel Palestine for the Greek fishermen who had lived on the coast. Palestinians are Greek not Arab. Also, when Israel was partitioned it was broken off from a larger area known as Palestine Trans Jordan, Palestine on the eastern side of the Jordan River, which we now call Jordan. The Arab Palestinians have a country, it’s called Jordan.

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    • Mustangrider
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 12:08pm

      Hey Krazy your name is totally correct you are krazy, the palestinians lived in the ottoman empire and that makes them Arabs, they’ve been trying to declare themselves palestinians since Israel became a nation kind of like if Missouri tried to declare itself a country of its own, totally divisive dribble. And jnealer, the monster You voted for is already in the whitehouse!!

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    • ofass
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 2:16pm

      It is 100% correct. There so called “Palestinians” are not 3000 years on this land but more or less 150 years. Actually they were arabs who came to work for the jews in the land during the 19th century. They came from many arab countries like Tunis, Syria and egypt. This is the simple historic fact. You must all know it.

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    • Mich9Bran
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 2:52pm

      Newt is Telling The Truth , Now the Liberals are going to spin it ,I stand by the truth, Vote Gingrich in 2012.

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    • Hossua
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 4:47pm

      The sheer horror of this man as president is debilitating… Under a Gingrich administration WE would fight the Palestinians? This guy is off the walls bonkers. Let Israel deal with these people and we need to keep our noses over here on our own side of the world.

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    • Anamah
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 6:11pm

      Arafat claims were based on an hoax he created in the sixties. He elaborated a farce based on fake facts. He invented “the palestinian people” at that time as a business to receive donations from around the world.. Newt says the truth about the lack of a Palestinian State. It never existed before around 1967 … ever! in the Middle East from the Ancient age until the year.despite the political inventions and is refreshing to hear him. The farse was He speaks as an history professor teaching the facts. The shocking thing here, is how anchors, journalists, and the MSM react to his comment. Any of them have idea of history! The reaction of this people shows how ignorant and bias they are. I should require to all who works in the media communication to make a test they need to reach a minimum level to work in the news. I find unacceptable the lack of knowledge. Now it became really offensive…

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    • Robert999
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 8:52pm

      If Newt is elected President, he probably will declare war on the “Palestinians.” Whether you think that is good or not will probably determine how much you support Newt.

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  • bernbart
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:42pm

    Of course Newt is a second rate historian, and this comments prove it. When the Jewish immigrants went to Palestine, they changed the name of land hey grabbed land beyond the UN 1948 borders to Israel.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:55pm

      Put the crackpipe down BERNBART. Palestine is the name the Romans gave to Judea, Samaria and Israel after the suppression of the jewish revolt in A.D. 70. In the Latin it’s called “Palestina”. It was done to attempt to remove ALL jewish identity from the region much like what they did to Carthage. Josephus writes extensively on the events and I assure you Gingrich has read Josephus. The Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius also have good details of the events. The area itself in modern times untill the state of Israel was established in 1947 was called the TRANSJORDAN it was indeed under Ottoman rule for centuries until Syria and Jordan asserted influence over it. After 1967 and the six day war and yom kippur wars Israel gained the Golan Heights from Syria and the Sinai from Egypt. They returned the Sinai to Egypt after Egypt formally recognized Israel. The region never was formally termed Palestine. I’ll let you argue with King Hussein of Jordan who said that the area is kept an open wound by arabs in order to have an excuse to attack Israel.

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    • Tankertony
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:57pm

      Wrong. Jews have always been there. Ever since they had their own nation there 3,000 years ago.
      Certainly many moved there in the 20th Century, to help restore their nation. There was never a nation of arabs in that land. Go back into your tent and read the Bible.

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    • nocalifornia
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:00pm

      Please take your opinion (that which you have been told by arabs) and do a little research on the formation of the Nation of Israel. You post this crap without doing any research beyond liberal socialist talking points.

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    • cc
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:26pm

      No body wants the Palestinians. The Jew are better to them than any other country and those living there have a much higher standard of living. They are roaming nomads who just want to cause trouble, egged on by Iran.

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    • DrMike11
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:38pm

      @avengerk, You have it almost right but go back even further. The Romans renamed the area “Palestina” because it was the name of a group of people living there on the coast in a state of detente, somewhat, with the people of Judea – the Philistines. These have been the arch-rivals of the people of Israel ever since they came to the land.
      I am disappointed in Newt for not really knowing this stuff as a historian. It is, among many other things, beginning to sour me on Newt.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:54pm

      I’ll try it again…By all means DRMIKE, find me a group of Philistines that want to file claim to the region and we’ll talk…and I’m not speaking in the metaphorical context nor am I holding my breath. Jewish identity is intrinsic to the region. The Jewish/Israeli people have proven to be the best and most capable stewards of the region- more than Christians and by far moreso than Muslims.

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    • twistin
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 7:06pm

      Hey Dr. Mike,

      Your head is in your a$$, where I‘m sure we’ll find a Hebrew National Salami as well.

      “These have been the arch-rivals of the people of Israel ever since they came to the land.” Since the People of Israel CAME BACK to the land OF ISRAEL.

      And yep, let’s call them Philistinians, usurpers from the start. There has NEVER been a Palestinian tribe, or country, or history, or anything at all except violence, envy, greed, and hatred. Those are the things that are Philistinian.

      It’s all about whose side you are on, in the end. And EYE don’t side with Arabs against Israel.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 7:17pm

      Seems to me that Drmike11 is pretty much right: Palestine was named for the “Philistines” — even though the Jews were most of the population at the time of the Roman occupation (the Philistines were actually Greeks, BTW). The Romans burned down the Temple around AD 70 and scattered the Jews. I suppose that Philistines were who mostly remained. Then the Arabs came along, conquered, imposed their language, etc. I don’t see how that makes the “Palestinians” a made-up ethnicity. In any event, there has been a “Palestinian State” for over 50 years — it is called “Jordan”.

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    • Lufts
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:42pm

      As others have told you, actually it was the name Palestine that was invented. The name Israel is the name taken by Joseph after his vision of g0d. The name is mentioned dozens of times in the bible.

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    • Freedom from liberals
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:41pm

      Hey Bernbart; Instead of posting your ignorant and vile comments here, go get a pell grant and take an English course. Your grammar and spelling are horrible. You are a dangling participle. My 3rd grader could write and spell better than you and actually make more sense.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 3:34am

      I’m pleased that most of these comments are factual and to the point. THE ISLAMICS do NOT want peace. They never did. in 1993, Arafat (who died of aids in a Paris hospital and who had a group of young boys travel with him at all time…whose wife took our US AID $ and lives the high life in Paris to this day) … in 1993 Arafat was offered everything and then some for the Palestinian people. He did not go along with it however because that mean he would have to give up control and the money. HE is the one who poisoned the children’s brains, kept the people ignorant and filled with hatred. HE is the one who denied his people any opportunity at the good life which he enjoyed on OUR MONEY. Now they’ve made him a martyr …. as he rots in hell. This trying to make PEACE with people who want only to kill all of us is a joke. WE need a strong man like NEWT there I think. We need him to say: NOT one more dime, boys, until you do ….and lay it out. The fact that we are paying BILLIONS to a ‘state’ that has rockets aimed at Israelis day and night 365 is ridiculous. I hope NEWT gets in and make JOHN BOLTON the SEC of STATE. This is our only route back to AMERICA !!!

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    • Anamah
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 6:44pm

      Your comment is wrong. Always were Jewish people in that conquest (around XV) by Turkish region. After so many pillaging and conquerors the Kingdom of Israel, the Jews always remained loyal to their faith and its history. Survived despite so often attacked and enslaved, faced horrors as they face today, the people of Israel has been offended and threatened, have been envied and hated thousands of years but they never, never! betrayed their religion and their one God. As you can see, at the present they are attacked by violent enemies incapable to make a peaceful living, intolerant and respect anybody. I ask you to learn history. The real one.

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    • Anamah
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 6:58pm

      I find wrong your comment. Always were Jewish people in that conquest (around XV) by Turkish region. After so many pillaging and conquerors the Kingdom of Israel, the Jews always remained loyal to their faith and its history. Survived despite so often attacked and enslaved, faced horrors as they face today, the people of Israel has been offended and threatened, have been envied and hated thousands of years but they never, never! betrayed their religion and their one God. As you can see, at the present they are attacked by Arabs, disguised as an imaginary Palestinian people, violent enemies incapable to make a peaceful living, intolerant and respect anybody. I ask you to learn history, but please specially the real one….

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:40pm

    Gingrich is Presidential, he’s not afraid to confront the issue with solutions when compared to the Fabian Obama who says one thing and does another, or run and hide, avoid a position Romney.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:43pm

      Newt is right about the “invented people” remark!

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:07pm

      so what is to be done to these “invented” people? give them israeli citizenship? keep them in “reservations” ?

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:31pm

      As I seem to be able to discern from looking at maps from the not so distant past – “palestinians” seem to have lived in Jordan before 1967 -wouldn’t that make them Jordanians or does that mean they were unlawfully “occupying” Jordan?

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:25pm

      Of those ungodly people, death becomes them. Bring them before me and I will see the deed is done.

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    • flipper1073
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 7:28am

      Kaydee
      You are right Jordan was the palestinian” state not Israel

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  • Todd P
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:39pm

    AVENGERK… That’s a good point. I hope you’re right. We will not survive another 4 more years of the Obamanation!!!

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 6:14am

      For anyone believing that Newt is as bad as Obongo, think again. At least Newt listens to what the people have to say, and he can effect many American ideals. Do you want a real ‘likeable’ type? Or do you want someone who can do the job and tackle the myriad problems Obongo has caused?

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    • Todd P
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:37am

      TURBOCAT….. Actually, what I want is ANYONE BUT OBAMA. I would prefer it be a stalwart conservative, someone who will DO what Newt SAYS he will. In the end, I will vote for whomever opposes the Obamanation – but I HOPE it is a true conservative. BTW: Newt is right about Palestine.

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  • qz2026
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:39pm

    As long as Palestine is Islamist, there will be no peace. Threre will always be a jihad against the Jews, the West and nonbelievers. Anyone who thinks they can negotiate with these idiots are delusional. I wish that just ONE of our politians would voice that, just ONE.

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    • PilgrimStuckInBizarroWorld
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:45pm

      I think Newt just did.
      TRUTH
      TEA

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    • AMERICA4EVER
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:55pm

      No other peoples could live next to Islamist people. If your religion is not Muslim, then they feel they have the right to kill you. How could they possibly ever have peace. It’s a joke.

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  • BO_Bill
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:39pm

    Semitic peoples are divided into two classes, namely Jews and Arabs. Jews have higher IQs and are better with money and influence than their Arab Semitic brethren, leading to great success in American finance, politics, and the media. In my experience, both classes are innately violent.

    It is permissible for American politicians to paint one of these classes of Semitic peoples as ‘Bad Guys’, as they, outside of oil reserves in their Native lands controlled by tight families, have very little money. Our current ’pacifist’ President goes as far as to brag about assassinating leading members of the non-preferred Semitic class.

    See also the character Snowball in Animal Farm.

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    • bernbart
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:44pm

      What a racist remark. The Arabs have a beautiful couture of art and poetry, for centuries and are just as intelligent as Jews.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:19pm

      Calling the Arabs animal like existance culture is almost as stupid as calling Africans hunter/gather society evolved.

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    • jungle J
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:28pm

      you are a progressive plant.

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:43pm

      @Bernbart – They USED to have a beautiful culture. Wonderful! Full of color, songs, poetry and literature. Until Mohammed. Since Islam, they have infected the entire culture killing all of it off. Then they spread like a disease through the entire middle east, killing one culture after another even into Europe. They enslaved each culture and all human progress in those cultures halted and regressed.

      It’s not racist – it’s cultural and political.

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    • Renalden
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 4:23am

      Good golly, where the heck are all these left wingers coming from Blaze? Nice that you are fair and balanced, lol.

      Dave

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    • Renalden
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 4:28am

      Oh, sorry, the idea that Arab/African cultures inspired/created our societies is quite true, we all had to start somewhere. The difference is when the judeo/christian religion became a hallmark for the roman and Spanish culture that it became a wide difference in the active roll in self government, persecution, and corruption We all should agree that we sucked in the early years, IE witch trials, crusades and all. But heck, I like our ideas better than getting my head cut off, or hand, or women raped killed, or whatever yo wish to go on about sharia law

      Dave.

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  • SUMTHINSTINKS
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:37pm

    Go NEWT! Tell ‘em like it is….

    http://www.NotMIttRomney.com

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    • slr4528
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:49pm

      Newt is the least conservative candidate in the Republican field. Newt is an academic and the ultimate Washington insider who has spent his life profiting from big government. Newt is only for government solutions not free market solutions. Fat chance that a man who has been a Big government tool will reduce the size of government. We currently have an academic in office who enjoys creating government programs to control peoples lives…Newt will be no different.

      I also highly doubt that Newt will eliminate the National Healthcare mandate. He pushed it for about 17 years. He was on record on Meet the press in the spring this year of still supporting it. Newt is a big government progressive and if you think this parasite can change his big government views overnight….you are sadly mistaken.

      Check out Newt’s voting record in Congress. A small government guy is not one of the few republicans who votes for the creation of the Department of education under Jimmy carter. A small government guy does not push for the Medicare Prescription D legislature on capital Hill representing Big Pharma….and since when does Paul Ryan promote right wing social engineering.

      Check out Ann Coulter’s article and check out the facts before you get on the Newt train. There is a lot of baggage and you really need to checkout the details of that baggage because if Newt is the nominee Obama will have Newt neutered before the debates.

      http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-12-03.html

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    • slr4528
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 7:02pm

      One other little Newty fact. Newt was one of the few Republicans who voted for reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine when he was serving under Reagan. The bill passed but thank God,Reagan vetoed the bill.

      Newty is feeding the GOP Tea Party language and the GOP voters are eating it up. Newty is very much like Obama in the fact that he uses soaring rhetoric and obscure facts to persuade the electorate and then he turns around and does the complete opposite. Congressman Peter King mentioned this on CNN yesterday.

      All I can say is that you really need to thoroughly vet this Big Government Cheerleader.

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    • Renalden
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 4:30am

      Um, how much do you get paid for that rant?
      Heard it from 30 different Dems today.

      Dave

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    • wlonie
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:07am

      Check out the DNA studies of Jews and Palestinians. Very interesting!

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:35pm

    100% true!

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:34pm

    I know I still don’t trust him…but he sure knows how to say the right thing. Dead on with this issue…if only our current buffon in chief had 10% of Newt’s grey matter.

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    • qz2026
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:41pm

      It’s hare to trust any of them, isn’t it? Even with some progressive tendencies, Newt will be my man. This country need to be reeducated as to who and what we Americans are. I would love to see some educational fireside chats that would have required attendance in order to receive your subsities.

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    • AMERICA4EVER
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:02pm

      QZ2026, I feel we have been let down for so long when it comes to elected officials, it’s any wonder some of us still show up at the polls. That said, I don’t think we could elect a true conservative to the White House. As much as a true conservative is needed I don’t think it can happen. I think that is why Bachman is polling behind. I think Newt is as close as we can get.

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    • Puddle Duck
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:27pm

      No one after the 1980 election result had any confidence in Reagan either…that turned out well despite Democrats reneging on a number of deals that they primised to fulfil when negotiating policy that turned America around 180 degrees but set in on a course of spending (thanks to the Democrats) that has now come home to roost (accelerated a thousand fold by Democrats from ‘06 to present).

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    • Renalden
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 4:32am

      Agreed, politics suck, but one thing. ANYBODY BUT OBAMA. sorry for the catch phrase, but heck, its true, I’d love to see my cat a prez.

      Dave

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  • Emrys
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:33pm

    I think that if Newt wins the Republican nomination, and if Glenn Beck is to be consistent, then he will have to endorse Obama for a second term, or endorse a third party candidate, or endorse no one. During his railing against Newt this morning it suddenly dawned on me that Glenn will most likely have to endorse Obama.

    Over and over again Glenn has made it plainly clear that he was glad that Obama won over McCain, because it would wake America up. McCain would continue the slow, incremental slide into socialism, while Obama would send us full-tilt into it, and Glenn has said on numerous occasions that this outcome was probably for the best, so that Americans would finally realize where we are heading.

    However, if Newt somehow manages to win the nomination, then obviously Glenn’s work is not yet done. Afterall, if even conservatives vote for Newt in large enough numbers to get him the nod, rather than them voting en masse for real conservatives like Bachman or Santorum, then something has gone wrong and conservatives are still asleep; certainly Americans in general must still be asleep to the truth then.

    And so, in a race between Obama and Newt, Glenn’s only consistent course of action would be to endorse Obama. Four more years should be enough to finally wake America up! /sarcasm off

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    • SHASTADIANE1
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:51pm

      Glenn actually doesn’t have to “endorse” anyone. In fact he said he will never “endorse” anyone. He can vote for whom ever he wishes, just like the rest of us can. He has said he would vote for Bachman if he had to vote right now, but he can’t vote in the primary, as he is a Libertarian, and still he said he is not “Endorsing” Bachman. That is actually what was said. He also states that politicians no matter who it is, isn’t going to salvage this mess, only perhaps slow the process down. I doubt we will ever know who he choses to vote for, just like most comentators will not tell you who they vote for, but many you can tell….especially those on the left. You think you can guess who Chris Matthews voted for? I’ll bet you can, and it wouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out, when he has “shivers running up his leg” at the sight of Zero.

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    • SoulReaver
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:07pm

      Glenn would not do either, Newt is what the country needs. Glenn’s argument about small government is true but it needs to be a gradual change not just closing of entire departments. Remember that 90% of those expenditures are peoples salaries. So if yo eliminate 5 departments unemployment goes up 3-4% and the GDP goes down that is not a solution that is suicide. Newt is the only one talking about making the government more efficient using lean six sigma techniques. That is a real solution.

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  • libertytreecaretaker
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:32pm

    Newton would decimate Obama in any debate!

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    • TRONINTHEMORNING
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 7:56pm

      No question, LIBERTY. NG hopefully will have that chance cuz the others are just second rate candidates at this point. Then there is Ron Paul. Yikes, that dude is crazy and his supporters more so.

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  • momrules
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:31pm

    Eight more rockets were fired into southern Israel yesterday. The IDF retaliated and several civilians were killed. Of course the rockets were fired from an area where civilians live, a town. The Palastinians are whining about their deaths but of course that won’t stop them from using more people as human shields in the future.

    Newt is right on this issue. There will never be peace with Palastine. They want Israel dead, gone, wiped off the face of the earth.

    Nothing is more hate filled than that of Islam for Jews and Israel with the possible exception of their hatred of America and Christ.
    The only peace with them will be during the first half of the Tribulation………the second half, the Great Tribulation, will be Hell on earth and Islam’s followers will play a lead roll in that.

    God Bless Israel

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  • inferno
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:28pm

    The left will interpert these true and well thought remarks as another instance when Gingrich
    speaks without thinking. In fact, his remarks are based on history and current events. Only fools will try to convince the public otherwise.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:36pm

      No sir…You wrote without a brain…Newt, I hate to say it about him as i do not like him, is correct. 100% correct. You are a fool.

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  • NDPINDNT
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:27pm

    I like and agree with what he says. I wish others would line up with him.

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    • SoulReaver
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:01pm

      I have been on the Newt train from the beginning. Smart, knows how to negotiate win win situations and will destroy Obama. That is why they keep talking about Romney they cant beat Newt and they know it.

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  • jakartaman
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:26pm

    He is right – I also like Bibi.
    I think Newts foreign policy would be more like Reagan’ s
    Barry’s is more like Carters
    Newt carries some baggage but he is smart and tough.
    I think America could stand some smart tough leadership right now!

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  • vinnymac46
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:25pm

    At this point, I think Newt is the only one that can handle Oblama’s onslaught during the election season. Even if Oblama brings up Newt’s past, Newt will just bring up Oblama’s present…

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  • jsDway
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:24pm

    Palestinians do not want peace – they want to remove Israel from the face of the map. I believe that the Palestinians are just an arm of the Arab nation to keep the hatred & war going in the region against Israel! God please be with Israel and give them wisdom in all that they do – Amen!

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:27pm

      If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck……doesn’t matter, it’s still a big government progressive, just like Obama.

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    • Renalden
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 5:05am

      Um, ducks poop all over the place, like chickens…hate them. Ever stepped barefoot in duck/chicken poop?
      It kinda sucks, takes like 1/2 hr to clean your feet, makes a beautiful summer day suck. Um ok, where the heck was I going with this? I give up, it was something about someone I consider ignorant, doesn’t matter.

      Dave

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  • sickntiredofliberals
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:23pm

    The Palestinians “disappeared” off the face of the earth about 2000 years ago. These people are of Arab heritage. Isreal should do all within their power to defend themselves. If people would just “do their homework” it is all explained how Isreal is/has been treated by Islam, a religion of terror. Do your homework people then you will understand.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:22pm

    Now tell us what u will do on the border…

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    • YepImaConservative
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:38pm

      On Dec first in an interview he said he’d complete a fence across the border and make the border secure (I’d like him to detail further). I’m all for securing the border… you?

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  • AvengerK
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:21pm

    YES!….The more this man speaks…the more I’m impressed. McCain chose to play nice and paid the price for underestimating Barack Obama’s political aparatus. Gingrich knows he must make a clear distinction between himself and his ultimate opponent. Furthremore…he’s right…there was no Palestine..it was part of the transjordan and the earlier Ottoman empire. Barack Obama being the faux-intellectual he is has no grasp of the actual history of the region..he only has his marination in leftist causes throughout his life.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:31pm

      By the way…both Hamas and Fatah have made it clear that NO jew will be allowed in any “palestinian” state. In fact Hamas‘ own charter quotes from Islam’s holy book “the Haddith” to call for the extermination of all jews. Gingrich is 100% on the money…when he says any peace process is “delusional” with the current “palestinian” players. Halelujah…we finally have a potential president who gets it.

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  • betterthantv
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:20pm

    I don’t agree with Newt on much. But he’s dead on, on this! In order for their to be “Palestinians” there would have to have been a “Palestine” first. Which of course there NEVER was.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:20pm

    Newt actions speak better than words.

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  • PATRIOTGRUNT
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:18pm

    Hey NEWT: If you win the nomination I will hold my nose with the left hand and have a Barf Bag in the right hand ready as I pull the lever for POTUS. ANY ONE BUT THE MUSLIM.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:27pm

      Sadly enough, I’m probably with you.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:38pm

      As I said to my wife last night…If Newt gets the nomination I will sell bumper stickers that say….

      Hold nose when adding Eye of Newt to ballot…

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    • nowhereman
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:27pm

      I guess you better better be pretty darn sure the other guy is a Muslim. Out of the frying pan, into the fire comes to mind.

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  • Rational Man
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:18pm

    Newt just scored some more points with me today!

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    • DrFrost
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:20pm

      With me as well.

      Wow.

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    • thekuligs
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:29pm

      Me as well, if only he wasn’t a progressive.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:36pm

      @thekuligs

      Yep! I still have huge issues with him too!
      But it was refreshing to hear the truth about the Palistinians, Israel and the ‘non-peace’ process for a change. And dare I say, brave? What he said will make progressive’s heads explode!

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  • mikeybull
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:17pm

    Bingo Newt! Keep talking in this manner and you will be the next President. Do not mince words…speak the truth…

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    • toto
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:21pm

      Couldn’t agree more!

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:21pm

      Exactly….well stated MIKEY.

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    • Todd P
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:28pm

      If he keeps talking this way, he will be the Republican nominee. I’m not convinced he would win over the moderates and independents who do not see themselves as Republican or Democrat. Many in the middle fear the Right as much as they do the Left.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:35pm

      TODDP…Gingrich knows how to play to the moderates. That commerical with Pelosi, although laughable to conservatives plays right into “independent” sensibilties. It’s pure theatre and symbolism I know…but it’s not tailored for conservative consumption. You have to remember..he was part of the political apparatus when Bill Clinton was ‘triangulating”. He’s seen it work, he’s very shrewd. Give the man some credit.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:43pm

      @Todd P

      What are you saying??? Newt IS a moderate. He just has the right view of the ‘non-peace’ process and Israel. The right, (like myself), are the ones who have problems with his “moderate” ways. And some go so far as to call him a progressive. Thats actually his biggest hurdle right now. Proving that he is not too far left.

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    • Todd P
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:44pm

      AVENGERK… That’s a good point. I hope you’re right. We will not survive another 4 more years of the Obamanation!!!

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    • Todd P
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 5:55pm

      RATIONAL MAN…. What I was trying to say is that although he may be a moderate, he will appeal to conservatives if he keeps talking this way. Unfortunately, the conservative vote by itself is not enough to put anyone into the WH, and the other people may be turned off by his conservative views. I’m not sure who would win in the general election – Mitt or Newt or someone else. I‘m just sayin’ we have to focus on winning the BIG election – not just the nomination.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 12:16am

      @Todd P

      Sorry if I mis-understood you.

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  • Renalden
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 4:40am

    Why the floor board religious stuff? This is POLITICS? Or your way to express total evangelical stuff?

    Dave

    Sorry, just totally confused

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