Successful Way towards US Presidency: Distorting History

Batoul Wehbe

It seems that the road for the White House passes through Israel. No candidate for US presidency can have the chance to reach this road except through flattering to Israel.
And the most effective way to please the Zionist entity is to undermine Palestinian people and rip them off their rights, even if it takes to distort history.

Republican presidential candidates (L-R) Rick Santorum, Texas governor Rick Perry, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Rep Ron Paul and Rep Michele Bachmann before the Iowa debate

This is what leading Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich did. In an interview with a US-based pro-Israeli cable network, the Jewish Channel, Gingrich said Palestinians are “invented people who are in fact Arabs,” a view that is considered far outside of the conventional view of historians, even Israeli academics and which was condemned widely.

Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich

And still he dug his heals in those views in a feisty debate among the narrowing field of Republican presidential contenders who were racing to attract Jewish support. Gingrich, whose ex-wife worked for the Israeli government during the time when he presided over the US House of Representative, insisted that “the Palestinian claim to a right of return is based on a historically false story,” adding: “These people are terrorists. They teach terrorism in their schools.”
“Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire” until the early 20th century, Gingrich said. “I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs, and who were historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places, and for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940s, and it's tragic,” he added.

These mere insolent comments are what he called “courage” that a President should have. “I think sometimes it is helpful to have a president of the United States with the courage to tell the truth. Just as it was when (Ronald) Reagan went around his entire national security apparatus to call the Soviet Union an evil empire.

Mitt Romney

Polls this week, according to the AFP, show Gingrich, who’s known for being the “walking, talking definition of untrustworthy” with a significant lead over Mitt Romney, who had been seen as the party's best chance of beating Obama in 2012. His rival former Massachusetts Governor Romney, who vowed that his first trip as president will be “Israel”, said Gingrich's comments made it more difficult for Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate toward peace.
Senator Carl Levin said Gingrich’s comments in an interview to be aired by the Jewish Channel television network offered "no solutions - just a can of gasoline and a match."

His blatant comments prompted a barrage of condemnations.

Hezbollah denounced such comments that shows “racism and a grudge” against the Palestinian people. It said such a statement “expresses total ignorance of history that intended to forge history”. “Everyone knows that for thousands of years, the Palestinian people lived in this land,” Hezbollah said in a statement. “Are these the values that the US administration brags about?” it wondered.
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad urged Newt Gingrich to apologize to the Palestinian people for “these extremely trivial, demeaning and ridiculous remarks.” “Even the most extremist settlers of Israel wouldn’t talk in such a ridiculous way,” he told reporters. Such remarks would be better suited for a politician adhering to “a Nazi ideology, a source of suffering for humanity, and the Jews topped the list of victims” of that ideology, he said.

Hamas movement spokesman called the statements “shameful and disgraceful.” “These statements … show genuine hostility toward Palestinians,” Fawzi Barhoum told the AP.
Gingrich is one of many US officials who harbor such hatred towards Palestinians and such homage to Israelis.

He’s no different than Obama who had sought with all his strength to thwart the Palestinian attempt towards a state and a membership at the UN.


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