Emphasising that "the Jewish people have the right to a state,” he dismissed the notion that Palestinian aspirations for a state of their own might be legitimate.
“Remember there was no Palestine as a state,” he said. “We've had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places”.
The remarks drew surprise among experts and commentators on the middle east. David Harris, the head of the National Jewish Democratic Council, said Mr Gingrich's position was “far to the right” of Mr Netanyahu's own Likud party. Hussein Ibish, a Senior Fellow for the American Task Force on Palestine, said: “There was no Israel and no such thing as an 'Israeli people' before 1948” .... Read more at http://www.telegraph.co.uk
