Newt Gingrich: the Palestinians are an "invented" people.

The Most Racist Statement I've Ever Seen

PALESTINIANS RESPOND TO GINGRICH'S 'INVENTED' REMARK: 'MOST RACIST STATEMENT I'VE EVER SEEN'

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad demanded Gingrich "review history" after he called the Palestinians an "invented" people

Several Palestinian officials reacted with anger Saturday to Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's statement that the Palestinians are an "invented" people.

"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," the former House Speaker told U.S. cable network the Jewish Channel, which released excerpts of the interview Friday.

In response, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad demanded Gingrich "review history."

"From the beginning, our people have been determined to stay on their land," Fayyad said in comments reported by the Palestinian Authority-controlled news agency WAFA. "This, certainly, is denying historical truths."

Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat had stronger words, calling Gingrich's comments, "the most racist statement I've ever seen," according to CNN.

Erakat said the remarks show "how really despicable things can get" in American politics and that "such thinking should be an alarm and concern for the world."

Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi said Gingrich had "lost touch with reality" and that his statements show "ignorance and bigotry" and were "a cheap way to win [the] pro-Israel vote."

A spokesman for Hamas, the terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip, called Gingrich's statements "shameful and disgraceful."

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[Msmira3]

@A86 I misunderstood...I read it quickly and I assumed that you said that what's now Israel was all just abandoned for thousands of years, I see now that you posed it as a question to communicate the opposite message...I guess I am pretty annoyed with people who would say anything to deny the existence of the Palestinians and their identities.....

[A86]

@Uaz31 - Look at a map of the region pre-1945. So what's now "Israel" was all just abandoned for thousands of years? Complete horseshit.

[zayzay201]

Mr Gingrich's statements are absolute rubbish!!! And you would think he would know better as having done a Phd in history!! You can't just invent people. You can however invent nations or rename them. What is now known as Israel was before 1947 known as palestine for centuries.

He's clearly not read any work by the great historian, Herodotus who wrote back in 5th century BC about the palestine people, who inhabited a strip of land on the Mediterranean from Phoenicia down to Egypt. And later b

[A86]

@Msmira3 - That's exactly what I was saying.

[Msmira3]

@A86 Look at you tube videos about Palestinians in Palestine before Israel was founded...the videos PALESTINE PRE-1947 AND PALESTINE BEFORE 1948...sorry to disappoint you but there were Palestinians, the inhabitants of the Holy Land before Israel was established...

[christian32johnson]

@uplift20

Most dominant point in this whole conversation. This is exactly what I was thinking. That is a tremendous double standard that people most likely are aware of but simply choose to ignore.