Brilliant History
From that brilliant historian, Newt Gingrich, the Republican party's resident intellectual:
Of course, by that logic, the following countries also don't exist: Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, the Sudan, Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania, and a bunch of others.
I suppose we have good reason to also doubt the legitimate existence of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan and large parts of New York, since they were once part of the Iroquois Confederacy.
This is the ignorant, shoot-from-the-hip logic which qualifies one to be well informed by Republican standards. Sad, isn't it?
Of course, the response of the Palestinian authority to this remark isn't much better:
Listen, Saeb, if that is the most racist thing you have ever seen, you really need to get out more. How about this, for example, from your boss:
Depends on whose ox is gored, huh? Newt and Abbas- they deserve each other. Too bad that none of the rest of us deserves either one of them.
“Remember, there was no Palestine existing as a state. Part of the Ottoman Empire."
Of course, by that logic, the following countries also don't exist: Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, the Sudan, Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania, and a bunch of others.
I suppose we have good reason to also doubt the legitimate existence of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan and large parts of New York, since they were once part of the Iroquois Confederacy.
This is the ignorant, shoot-from-the-hip logic which qualifies one to be well informed by Republican standards. Sad, isn't it?
Of course, the response of the Palestinian authority to this remark isn't much better:
"The most racist remark I have ever seen,” said Saeb Erekat, a top negotiator for a new Palestinian state and a close advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas."
Listen, Saeb, if that is the most racist thing you have ever seen, you really need to get out more. How about this, for example, from your boss:
"In 1982, Mahmoud Abbas, later to become President of the Palestinian Authority wrote his doctoral thesis which later became a book, The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism. In the book, Abbas raised doubts that gas chambers were used for extermination of Jews, and suggested that the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust was "less than a million", claiming secret ties between the Nazis and the Zionist movement. He also claimed that the Holocaust was a joint Zionist-Nazi plot, writing "The Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule, in order to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them, and to expand the mass extermination."
Depends on whose ox is gored, huh? Newt and Abbas- they deserve each other. Too bad that none of the rest of us deserves either one of them.
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