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12-12-2011, 02:06 AM #1
Here's that portion of the interview published by the interviewer. It doesn't appear to be edited for content:
The Jewish Channel Exclusive Interview With Newt Gingrich Excerpt: "Invented Palestinian People" - YouTube
I think it's pretty clear what Gingrich is saying - (1) The Jewish people have the right to have a state (2) There was no historic palestinian state (3) Palestinians are 'invented people' who are actually arabs and should've gone to other places (4) It's mostly political reasons why there is a war against Israel.
As a historian he certainly knows about developing national identity, so this wasn't about history as his advisors tried to spin it afterwards. It was a political answer to a political question.
If the right wing media has dumbed down the views on issues of the republican electorate so much that they end up going with Gingrich I think they're in trouble when it comes to the election.Last edited by gugi; 12-12-2011 at 09:07 AM.
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12-12-2011, 08:35 AM
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His argument can be used on Americans as well, on more than one occasion in history.
If he is indeed a historian, there are surely many omissions in his long term memory.
As I said before, in the primaries, the candidates need to say what the card carrying members want to hear, even if it is stupid. And as a result, the moderates get to choose between left and far right, there is not a center candidate. Every so many years, people get annoyed with the incumbent party, so the other candidate gets chosen pseudo automatically, regardless of the fact that he is far left or far right.
As a result, you get a race to the bottom in which the moderates always lose.
Last edited by Bruno; 12-12-2011 at 08:42 AM.
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