re: #133 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Yesterday: “Palestinians are an invented people!”
Today: “I support a Palestinian state! It’s all very complex!”
Tomorrow: “The Palestinians are swell people! I never said they don’t exist!”

I think he was trying to make a relevant point with that “invented people” line, that point being that no one thought of themselves as “Palestinian” until the Zionist movement started the return of Jews to the Holy Land. There is a very good case to be made that the Palestinian identity was an invention used to rally Arab opposition to a homeland for the Jews, and that that invention was enhanced after the Israeli victories of 1948 and 1967.

So Newt may not have expressed himself in the best words, but I don’t think he was being an ass on this one and, unlike Rick Perry, I think he knows what he’s talking about on this.