Michael Coren: Newt Gingrich is right

White House hopeful Newt Gingrich weathered a pummeling by rivals who attacked the Republican frontrunner's conservative credentials, marital infidelities and a provocative remark about Palestinians.

But the former House speaker coolly defended his most controversial views in a feisty debate Saturday night, including a recent remark calling Palestinians an "invented people," while conceding that voters will have to decide whether he is fit to be president.

Polls this week show Gingrich with a significant lead over Romney, who had been seen as having the party's best chance of beating Obama in 2012 despite his inability to win over the party's conservative base.

When slammed by his rivals for saying in an interview with the Jewish Television network (embedded at the bottom of this story) that the Palestinians were an "invented people," Gingrich refused to back down.

"The Palestinian claim to a right of return is based on a historically false story," he insisted, adding: "These people are terrorists. They teach terrorism in their schools."

"I think sometimes it is helpful to have a president of the United States with the courage to tell the truth," Gingrich said. "Just as it was when [Ronald] Reagan went around his entire national security apparatus to call the Soviet Union an evil empire."

Gingrich currently has the support of 27% to 33% of likely Republican voters both nationally and in Iowa, while Romney's support ranges from 16% to 23%.

Gingrich has also narrowed Romney's robust edge in New Hampshire, which votes on January 10, and is ahead of him in South Carolina and Florida, which vote on January 21 and January 31, respectively.

- National Post

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Newt Gingrich
• Michael Coren
• Israel
• SDAMatt2
• palestinians

[00dfjedmngi]

Why is Newt Gingrich swine? The "Palestinians" already have a state; it's called Jordan. They are merely a tool of the unending jihad against the Jews and Israel.

[biggpete100]

BRAVO!

[madarurimex]

thas how all contries were made. at first, most of the planet was empty. , every country was invented. is about being born and being there for long time, taking care of the land,living there for long time, to have the rigth to call it your own.

[Libertyorelsestupid]

Sun News should discuss Ron Paul's Issues. Would be interesting to see Corens , Lillys and Levants perspective on Paul.

[AnnoyingTypoSyndrome]

So, does this guy want america to be handed back to the american indians, or do his sympathies only lie with jews ?

Cus all those jews in new york would have to leave, according to what he's saying here, and give new york back to the sioux, or whoever !

[Rumblepish]

LOL@1:40"just as they(the British)artificially created Countries all over their empire"....Like Australia for example?The nation this fat propagandist toad comes from,or is he a white indigenous aborigine?Oh and when "Richard the Lion Heart Landed in Palestine"over 1000 years ago,what were the people called?PALESTINIANS...even if (as you say)they were invented in 1920 that means they were called Palestine 28 years before the birth of Israel,either way your logic is flawed..nice try douche...

[IsraelisJordan]

The "Israeli" People were invented in 1948. Did Gingrich Know that?

[mskitty12311]

@PHONEYPOLITICS

-- (who died in 1994) was their messiah. A lot of people are still under Jewish mind control and may not ever wake up

theoccidentalobserver . net/2011/12/menachem-mendel-sc­hneerson-the-expedient-messiah­-part-3/