The Palestinians can always count on the Democrats to come to their defense.
(Briefing Room) — Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) on Saturday dubbed Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s stance that the Palestinians are an “invented” people as “cynical” and “destructive.”
“[Newt] Gingrich is wrong to think his attempt to turn the Palestinians into a non-people with no claim to a state will appeal to his audience on The Jewish Channel,” Levin said in a statement, referring to an American cable network with which Gingrich spoke Friday.
Levin hit the former House speaker for offering “no solutions” to the decades-old conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians. Instead, the veteran senator charged, Gingrich only brings to the debate “a can of gasoline and a match.”
“Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire,” Gingrich said. “And I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, who are historically part of the Arab community.