Santorum: 'There Is No Palestine'

[Serpo]

Submitted by Douglas Bloomfield on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 07:29
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GOP Presidential contender Rick Santorum>:D, who appears likely to come from far behind to finish in the top 3 in Tuesday's Iowa Caucuses, is trying to out-do his former Congressional colleague Newt Gingrich when it comes to insulting Palestinians.
Gingrich called the Palestinians an "invented" people who didn't exist until sometime in the 20th century. Santorum criticized Gingrich’s widely-reported remarks as “provocative,” but his own more extreme views got little attention at the time because he was considered a hopeless back-of-the-pack candidate and not being taken very seriously.
But now that he is rising rapidly in the polls, his comments deserve a second look.
As far as Santorum is concerned, Palestinians don’t exist.
“There are no Palestinians,” he told a questioner at a campaign event in Iowa. You can see the video here (http://digitaljournal.com/article/314869).
"All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis. There are no Palestinians. This is Israeli land," the former Pennsylvania senator said.
"The West Bank is part of Israel," which won it as "part of an aggressive attack by Jordan and others" in 1967. Israel doesn't have to give it back any more than the United States has to give New Mexico and Texas to Mexico, which were gotten "through a war," he said.


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[Down1]

Oops. Sometimes bad things happen when you try to be a Zio-whore.

Will Santorum’s ‘No Palestine’ Comments Backfire? (http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/04/will-santorums-no-palestine-comments-backfire/)

Is Israel Ready for 2.5 Million 'New' Citizens?

by Jason Ditz, January 04, 2012

Coming within a hair’s breadth of winning in Iowa (http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/04/2012/01/03/iowa-voters-bring-antiwar-message-into-the-mainstream/) has brought increased credibility to former Sen. Rick Santorum’s (R – PA) campaign, but it has also added to domestic and internationally scrutiny of comments made during the final days of the campaign.
http://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/israel.jpgIn particular is Santorum’s insistence that “there are no Palestinians” and that there is no such thing as Palestine, a comment which attempted to mirror Newt Gingrich’s controversial statement to that effect (ironically because Santorum himself took Gingrich to task (http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/04/2011/12/11/newt-draws-rebukes-after-condemning-palestinians-as-terrorists/) for making such a claim at a debate). The effort was seen as attempting to curry favor with pro-Israel voters, but in Santorum’s case risks having the opposite effect.
That’s because while Gingrich claimed that the Palestinians were actually just a bunch of sneaky Arabs (http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/04/2011/12/09/newt-no-such-thing-as-palestinians/) living under occupation just to make Israel look bad, Santorum insisted that not only is the West Bank “Israeli” but everyone living there is an Israeli too.
It is that last part that is political kryptonite, as while the Israeli Lobby is likely more than comfortable claiming the whole West Bank, those 2.5 million Palestinians living there, currently with only a bare minimum of human rights, are another matter entirely.
Israel has long fretted internally about the “demographics” problem, that the nation’s Arab citizens are growing as a percentage of the overall population. Already 20 percent of the population, the Arab population threatens to become increasingly assertive in demanding equal rights and a society of religious pluralism, as opposed to the “Jewish state” demanded by so many in the majority.
This is a major concern when Israel only has 1.5 million Arab citizens. The annexation of the West Bank and a Santorum-style declaration that the 2.5 million Palestinians there are “Israelis” would turn Israel’s Arab population into 4 million. If the 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are treated in the same manner, Israel becomes an Arab-majority state overnight.
Santorum’s statement then boils down to what Israel’s lobbying base fears the most, the dreaded “one state solution” where Israel in its current configuration ceases to exist.

http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/04/will-santorums-no-palestine-comments-backfire/

[palani]

Bankers perspecitive ... If you don't have an account here then you do not exist (on my books).

Kurds don't exist either (similarity between little Miss Muffit and Turkey ... they both have Kurds in their way).

[Neuro]

I doubt Santorum exists...

[letter_factory]

he lost by 7 votes. funny how lately a lot of these votes have been won by <1%....