{"id":5691,"date":"2011-12-10T22:59:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T04:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2011-12-10T22:59:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T04:59:30","slug":"newt-gingrich-palestinians-dont-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/10\/newt-gingrich-palestinians-dont-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt Gingrich: Palestinians Don&#8217;t Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a theory that the Palestinian identity is a fairly recent invention.  Maybe.  But if so, the Israeli identity is even more recently invented if the same standards apply.  And, the American identity, by the same standards, while rather old today, was very young at the time of the War of 1812. Had Newt Gingrich been around then, would he have said that there was no America, only a British Colony that needed to be straightened out?  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always wondered, ever since Gingrich&#8217;s &#8220;Contract On America&#8221; why he hated his own people so much.  Now, I ask, why does he hate the Palestinians, and by extent ion, the Israelis, and for that matter, modern Russians who did not exist just a few decades ago?  And himself?  He does, after all, reinvent himself every four years or so.<\/p>\n<p>Those who can&#8217;t teach run for office, I guess. <\/p>\n<p>My source is <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2011\/12\/10\/gingrich-defends-comments-on-palestinians\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a theory that the Palestinian identity is a fairly recent invention. Maybe. But if so, the Israeli identity is even more recently invented if the same standards apply. And, the American identity, by the same standards, while rather old today, was very young at the time of the War of 1812. Had Newt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/10\/newt-gingrich-palestinians-dont-exist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Newt Gingrich: Palestinians Don&#8217;t Exist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[883,284,438,346],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1tN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}