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| Join Daniel Pipes on a Fact Finding Expedition to Israel (For full details click here) Please take a moment to visit and log in at the subscriber area, and submit your city & country location. We will use this information in future to invite you to any events that we organize in your area. Related Articles · Palestinians Blame Arab Leaders for the "Nakba" · The Year the Arabs Discovered Palestine [Short version] · The Year the Arabs Discovered Palestine {Long version] Newt Gingrich and the "Invented" Palestinian Peopleby Daniel Pipes http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2011/12/newt-gingrich-and-the-invented-palestinian-people
The former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and current Republican presidential candidate said yesterday that "there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. We have invented the Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs and are historically part of the Arab people, and they had the chance to go many places." Everyone from the PLO to a Mitt Romney spokesman jumped on Gingrich for this assertion, but he happens to be absolutely correct: no Arabic-speaking Muslims identified themselves as "Palestinian" until 1920, when, in rapid order this appellation and identity was adopted by the Muslim Arabs living in the British mandate of Palestine. For details, see a long article of mine from 1989 on the topic or a short one from 2000. (December 10, 2011) Related Topics: History, Palestinians This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is presented as an integral whole with complete information provided about its author, date, place of publication, and original URL. | ||||
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