Hey, stop this dangerous candidate! He's told the truth!
US presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich (whose Lazarus-like trajectory to the Republican nomination I flagged up here a month ago) has recently demonstrated yet again Melanie’s First Rule of Modern Political Discourse – the more obvious the truth that you utter, the more explosive and abusive the reaction.
For Gingrich said the Palestinian Arabs were ‘an invented people’ – and the world promptly started hurling execrations at him...As Elder of Ziyon pointed out, the Arabs who lived in Palestine were a disconnected bunch of tribes who had nothing in common with each other except that they were Arabs. They never were, are not and never will be a Palestinian people (the claim that they are now just because they say they are is risible and would be dismissed out of hand if applied to any other self-defined grouping)...
...‘Palestinianism’ was invented solely to destroy Israel. The one and only characteristic of this spurious ‘national’ identity is the aim of destroying another - authentic - national identity...The agenda of ‘Palestinian rights’ is, however, now so deeply rooted in western discourse and diplomacy – and even in Israeli leftist discourse – that Gingrich has found himself under attack for talking rubbish. But it is his attackers whose arguments are jaw-droppingly absurd...
...Gingrich’s remark goes to the very heart of the issue; and it is the fact that so many in the intellectual, political and diplomatic world – including in Israel itself – find what he said so outlandish that goes a long way to explain why there is still no peace in the Middle East.
Gosh – a presidential candidate who actually understands what’s going on in the Middle East and speaks the truth about it! No wonder they’re so desperate now to stop him.
Read it all, though.
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