I support this view on the arabs in the g-strip and across the river which - I am sure - is Michele Bachmann's vision as well. The arabs are held hostage by hamas and hezbollah and the left church in the rest of the world to fulfill their aspiriation to ally with any entity to establish some redistributive theocratic or otherwise utopia ... leading to total economic, scientific etc., stagnation.
I am excited that Frank Gaffney sends me everyday a tsunami of news on security issues throughout the world selected by the best specialists (CfSP) and it takes more than one hour to get it al on my Facebook everyday ... and I appreciate it that Caroline Glick is also sending me news which I also put on my facebook.

I support republicans Nick Santorum and Jon Huntsman who share Michele Bachmanns take on Iran's undeniable ambition to aquire atom bombs and acuse the kenian in the White House a consistent policy supporting the evil sharia oriented Muslim Brotherhood instead of the western oriented freedom fighters in Egypt and the kenians lack of policy in the Syria uprise.

Well done.

If only words were enough for Israel from another seasoned politician who in incapable of keeping his word.
They are not.
Israel needs to grow some teeth,stop looking for 'green lights' from across the pond and act like an independent,free nation which only bends their knee to God and NO ONE ELSE.

To do this Israel must dump the fearful,faithless politicians who have brought the nation to the edge of the pit and who only make war against true and obedient Zionists.

Last night under the cover of darkness in Israel under the criminal Netanyahu

"Government forces set out after dark Monday night to destroy five budding Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.

Residents of the central Samaria outpost of Ramat Gilad received a message late in the evening that Israel Police officers and IDF soldiers were "on the way" to their location first.

The residents told Arutz Sheva they believed "the army will attempt to throw us out of our homes and demolish them."

Just as an interesting aside...Rubin it seems, as she promoted her entry into blogging, is a friend of Rachel Abrams, a Podhoretz, who is married to Elliot Abrams.The Abramses and Podhoretzes are RJC insiders with their own candidate to promote and their own axes to grind. It is hard for republican insiders not to be able to choose their own candidate for office and to have to give way to the people. They couldn't handle the assent of the Tea Party and they can't abide Gingrich. Mostly because the former Speaker wont kowtow to them or their agenda. He will do as he sees fit for the US.

yeAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa for gingrich and for the truth ,Obaba has to go,and we canuks believe,love the tuth

Great article, as usual. Thank you.

Caroline, Gingrich’s fresh hop e” needs to become an epidemic.

No doubt about it, the Jews have G-d given rights to the Holy Land and the reason archaeologist have yet to uncover any evidence of the Palestinian history, is simply there is none.

While Newt calls them an invention, I contend they are nothing more than an anti-Semitic tool employed by the Arab to harass and eventually destroy Israel.

G-d will not permit it.

I often stated, “no matter where you reside, if you are Jewish you are connected to Israel by heritage, faith and by G-d”.

Every American Jew needs to know and understand this.

Trust me, Obama who embraces Islam does not like Israel and if he doesn’t like Israel it’s a good bet he doesn’t like Jews either.

Do you still want to support him? I don’t think so.

Please, Israel needs your help; G-d is counting on you.

I agree with Ms. Glick's opinion - and I was so glad to hear that at least one of the candidates was refreshingly candid about the Palestinians.

AND, Newt is standing behind his statement and not backpeddling as so often happens with politians who become the subject of idiotic backlash. Good for him! I hope he keeps it up. The truth is indeed refreshing to hear, painful as it may be. But the pain of living a lie is far worse, and much more dangerous.

ms. glick you are " right on" , the cowards that run my country should be in prison for treason for what they have tried to do to "Israel" and as far as I am concerned what should happen to the arabs in the middle east is what "GOD" had saul preform on the amaalekites in ( 1 Samuel 15 : 3 ), these people are all responsible for their actions , so be it !!!!!!!!!!!!! , keep up the "GOOD" fight!!!!!!!

I'm not a Republican. I'm not 'right wing'. And I couldn't agree more!
The truth about this conflict has been buried long enough.

The only question that really matters is which republican is the best to win against Obama ? Gingrich has a strong , fierce rethoric, and Romney is more balanced . Now what will the effect of their personality on the voters: Obama has brought America to its knees , the economy is in shambles, and the US voters want solutions , not ideas and even less ideologies. They want someone who will puts his hands into the motor bay and fix it.I would really like Gingrich but I fear he sounds as an ideologue , a politician form Washington. Romney knows how to lead a business, he has political career that has not been tainted by scandals.The perfect ticket would be Romney Pres-Gingrich Vice P..

the character who said palestinians are jebusite /canaanite descendants can not be right.arafat and his ilk always said that they're semites and canaanites were not semites.period

Phillipe, I must beg to differ. There is no way Newt will accept a position as Romney's running mate. I'm sorry Phillipe, but Romney is finished.
Vice Prez Gingrich would be like Spiro Agnew; controversial, yet impotent.
For me, the raising of these issues by Newt was brilliant for a variety of reasons. I'm not prepared to outline them all, however; by raising the subject of who 'The Palestinians' are not, Newt went up against the media. The media would never have allowed these issues to surface on prime time or anytime for that matter. If they could have, I believe the media would have censored Gingrich's remarks as if they were expletives.
What it shows is, Newt will not be afraid to confront accepted wisdom on the economy either. If Newt Gingrich has as brilliant an analysis of the economy and remedies to match, I believe he will win the general election by a landslide.
Last Sunday's Republican debate ended Oslo.
There can be no going back.

Romney is a windsock.

Newt, while I have several disagreements with him, is a far better choice. If for no other reason than, the establishment of both parties wants to destroy him.

That's got to be a good sign. One pays attention to that with so many enemies afoot.

The settlers are the only ones in the way of our evil agenda .
We must break them and crush them to pieces,make and example of any who would oppose the will of the State which gets it's orders from the evil Empire.
We cannot afford to have the repeat and rise of any Maccabees to stand up against the evil agenda of our masters.

Every Jew must bend their knee to the image and the will of the Emperor and we shall continue to serve the Quartet's agenda of destroying Israel by their peace process.

Just Following Orders,
Bibi n' Ehud

Caroline, you wrote: "What many Americans fail to recognize is that Israeli leaders are not as free to tell the truth about the nature of the conflict as American leaders are.....When Romney criticized Gingrich's statement as unhelpful to Israel, Gingrich replied, "I feel quite confident that an amazing number of Israelis found it nice to have an American tell the truth about the war they are in the middle of, and the casualties they are taking and the people around them who say, 'They do not have a right to exist and we want to destroy them.'"

"And he is absolutely right. It was more than nice. It was heartening....."

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I'm sorry, I do not buy this rationale "that Israeli leaders are not as free to tell the truth about the nature of the conflict as American leaders are...."

I don't know how many times non-Jewish (largely Christian supporters of Israel) ask me how they can successfully work to alter U.S. policy aimed at the establishment of a Muslim-enemy state in Israel's heartland, when Israel's leaders are outspoken in their support of the immoral policy.

The fact that this current prime minister is 'not as free to tell the truth about the nature of the conflict', is due to a lack of political and moral courage.

It needs to be said Caroline. You should be the first one saying it.

Caroline. I anticipated your post on Newt Gingrich's refreshingly candid remark and am not disappointed. You've raised salient points, but it is only the beginning. My first question would be if this makes him a good candidate to run against Obama? Secondly I wonder if what was said was primarily an effort to garner the Jewish vote? It is nice to have a friend in our corner, but I admit I am not as confident as you about the immediate future of American politics. The Jewish state is still on her own and it will take action from within the Israeli government to strengthen her. We cannot depend only on words.

The Americans are an "invented" people.

For the first time ever I strongly disagree with Caroline Glick.

I remember many conversations I had with Israelis, who told me, "We have to tow the American line. We know all this Palestinianism is a lie, and peace process is nonsense only leading to war, but Americans (American leaders) do not let us say it or behave as we should.

And I was telling them, "No, you are an independent country, and nobody is old enough to tell you what to do. If Arafat could disregard everything Clinton demanded of him, so can you. Moreover, don't confuse Americans with the State Department; if you are brave enough to go against those few American politicians, they will have to adopt to you, just as they are now adopting to Arafat or his descendants."

Someone very aptly called this Israeli disease "Washingtonitis."

Well, Gingrich has blown this fear of "Big Bad Americans" out of the water. From now on, Israeli leaders will no more be able to blame their own pro-Arab and anti-Israel behavior on Americans. From now on, it is clear that Israel's own internal peace-processing mafia, set on selling out their own people and leading the country and all Jews around the world to national suicide, is the one to blame.

What mafia? Just look at every Israeli government since 1992. In particular, look at Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak. They are the biggest mafiozi.

Caroline Glick seems to expect American leaders to save Israel from itself (from its own mafia) by running it from Washington. This is very naïve. No leader in Washington will dare to be more pro-Israel than Israel's own prime-minister. Nor should he. American president should take care of Americans, and Israeli prime-minister - of Israelis.

We Jews always wish for some kind uncle to take care of us. For the first half of 20th century we trusted the British uncle. It took 50 years for us to finally realize that he has sold us for Arab oil and multitudes. To this day, Churchill is strongly disliked in Israel for selling out the Jews. To which I respond, "What else do you expect. Churchill was British prime-minister, so he cared for the British people first, and he sacrificed us." He was right.

Now we put all our trust into the American uncle. Not realizing that when one country puts all its trust into another country's hands, it makes the first country a slave of the second. And a slave can freely be sold for oil, or prestige, or UN votes, or money under the table.

Israel is an independent country, it has its own elected government, and when that government leads it to national suicide, it is right and proper to get rid of it. By any means necessary.

No American uncle, not even uncle Gingrich, will take care of us. We have to take care of ourselves.

To expect that American leaders will be more pro-Israel than Israeli ones is ridiculous.

Just the opposite, if Netanyahu now comes out against Gingrich's statement, it would probably mean the end of Gingrich as political candidate. With everyone else learning that there is no penalty for being too pro-Arab, but there is a very costly one for being too pro-Israel.

So whatever they will say in the presidential campaign, when they become American presidents they will tow the same pro-Arab line as Obama. Complete with bowing to Saudi emir.

So far, Netanyahu has been quiet about what Gingrich said. But pressure on him to say something is growing.

And if he condemns Gingrich for this statement of truth, or even mildly criticizes him. Think what it would do to Jews all over the world. It would leave us completely lost: who do we trust, truth on our side, or Israel's prime-minister who is against both truth and ourselves?

Come on. Israel was in much more dire straights in 1948, yet its leaders could say things much more honest than today. Today, they lie and lie, and the stench of their lying is nauseating. And with the "American bugaboo is not letting us tell it like it is" buried by Gingrich's remark, the fault and the blame for all their lying and cowardice is finally setting where it belongs: on them. On Rabin, and Peres, and Barak, and Sharon, and Olmert. And yes, on Netanyahu too.

Maybe I am a naïve idiot, but I still believe that truth and honesty is the best policy, and wherever there is fear to tell the truth, there is a mafia.

Israel, for G-d's sake, deal with your own mafia.

If this is such a bold move for Gingrich, then certainly you, Caroline, should be way ahead of him.

Have you ever pointed out that Palestinian Nationalism is fake? That the so-called Palestinian people are an antisemitic fiction? If so you should quote yourself.

"This is of course absurd. What many Americans fail to recognize is that Israeli leaders are not as free to tell the truth about the nature of the conflict as American leaders are."

But you are very outspoken beyond the restraint we imagine Israeli leaders are obliged to.

1. "a simple reading of the Hebrew Bible." - That's why the Evangelicals are to be embraced. Those religious Jews who are wary of them should wise up: first Israel has to be made secure, and then you'll argue about the theology.

2.Facinating to watch and hear the Israeli media on Gingrich: they can't really say he's wrong (that may be too much even for the brainwashed natives), so their line is that he's doing it just to get the Jewish vote, i.e. for expediency's sake, cynically. The implication is he doesn't really think it's true. The implication of that is that it isn't true. A clever trick: and the Taxpayer is paying for being bamboozled on State TV and Radio.

Do we really believe that tying ourself to this statement by Newt is going to be helpful? I believe that historically the statement that there was no "Palestinian people" is probably correct (depending on definitions) and the statement that there was no "Palestinian State" is clearly correct. So what?

Since 1948 and the various existing Arab State's "ghettoization" of the Arabs who left what is now Israel into refugee camps - which are now cities - because those Arab States refused to integrate them into their societies, as Israel has integrated all immigrants into its society, unfortunately for us a Palestinian people has in fact been developed. To say that they weren't - doesn't deny the fact that today they are.

If we lose credibility on tangential issues it adversely impacts our credibility on primary issues: the security needed for Israel to continue to exist within rational borders, with a demilitarized West Bank, the need for other neighboring states to force their inhabitants to cease intrusions into Israel by rockets, etc.

If Israel cannot avoid the label of an "apartheid state" when it admits all peoples into a fully democratic state while the PA (Saudi Arabia and others) effectively exclude all Jews and render Christians second class citizens in "true apartheid states," why would we think an argument that the Palestinian People or State never before existed is relevant or would persuade anyone - true though it may be - when those people exist today?

Newt said some far more important things: he pointed out that Palestinian television and schools teach the destruction of Israel and the benefits of the martyrdom of its children and adults in that cause. All of that can be easily proved and established by examples. An ad campaign showing all of that could be far more meaningful, far more productive, far more relevant, and far less subject to attack.

And if that truth fails to produce benefit - rest assured historical arguments would fair no better.

"...decades of US policy..." has not worked. It is not "...irresponsible and unstatesmanlike..." to speak the truth. Quite the opposite, in fact. Liars, deniers, and appeasers are so focused on the politics, they cannot see the purity of truth that history will see all too well.

Ms. Glick's agreement with Gingrich's offhand statement that the Palestinians are an "invented people" is intellectualized poppycock. To glorify Gingrich's pandering and twisting of history as the "truth" is to look through myopic interpretive lenses that purport to focus on historical fact, but which is nothing more than an "invented" fantasy. She refers to Hussein Ibish, one of a group of "Palestinian apologists in the postmodernist camp" [A lovely concatenation of affected verbiage, is it not?].

"Speaking to CNN, Hussein Ibish from the American Task Force on Palestine argued that Gingrich's statement was an outrage because while he was right about the Palestinians being an artificial people, in Ibish's view, Israelis were just as artificial. That is, he equated the Palestinians' 91-year-old nationalism with the Jews' 3,500-year-old nationalism."

I would remind Ms. Glick that Ibish did not refer to Jewish nationalism, but to Israeli nationalism. The Israeli people, as a nationality (not as an ethnic or religious group) are, indeed, just as much "artificially" produced as are the Palestinian people. I would also remind Ms. Glick that the same could be said for any of a number of other nationalities, such as Kosovo in the Balkan region.

The State of Israel is not the Israel of the Bible and thus can lay no claim to a 3,500 year history. Israel is a product of historical forces that intervened in the existing culture of the region (later known as Palestine) in which Jews, Christians, and Arabs had lived for quite a long time in harmony.

That Ms. Glick would accept Gingrich's straw-man argument, which he did not originate, but which he appropriated from a common meme in the Zionist culture, is quite unfortunate, since she is very quick to barrage the reader with her credentials which seem to say: Believe me for what I am rather than for what is sensible and historically correct.

Gingrich is correct; the Palestinians are an invented people. But Gingrich neglects to tell us who invented them. We know, courtesy of Major General Ion Mihai Pacepa who is the highest ranking officer to defect from the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. He tells us from personal knowledge that the first PLO Charter was drafted in Moscow in 1964. In itts preamble, the term "Palestinian Arab People" is used three times. The preamble also sets forth the motivation of this people to attain political self determination, self government.
The facts in the preamble are affirmed by the first 422 members of the Palestinian National Council, formed at the same time. Each of the 422, according to General Pacepa, was hand picked by the KGB. For the full story, read: Brand,"Soviet Russia, the Creators of the PLO and the Palestinian People." http://www.think-israel.org/brand.russiatheenemy.html and Brand, "Was there a Palestine Arab National Movement at the End of the Ottoman Period?" http://www.think-israel.org/brand.palnationalism.html

What about the hieroglyphs from the rein of Ramses 3 that mention the tribes of Canaan known as the Palaeste. "Another historian suggests that the name Philistine is a corruption of the Greek "phyle histia" ("tribe of the hearth", with the Ionic spelling of "hestia").[7] He goes on to suggest that they were responsible for introducing the fixed hearth to the Levant. This suggestion was raised before archaeological evidence for the use of the hearths was documented at Philistine sites."

The Assyrians knew the people of peleshet. Just because the west didn't know about these people doesn't mean Newt Gingrich who is now branding himself is any smarter. It's written in hieroglyphs in 1150 bc, in the ottoman empire the Assyrians mention the region, ancient Greece 5th century. I mean really!

Thank you for all you do.

FYI: Upon reading your article, submitted a contribution through the Network for Good: Latma/Glick column.

Jeff, you raise such an important point. Somewhere along the way, basic issues such as truth, the right of a sovereign nation to defend itself, etc, have become politically polarized, which is nuts! A person shouldn't have to be conservative or liberal, republican or democrat, to grasp some very basic facts. Has no one any personal integrity left? Or sanity? In any case, I'm glad you posted what you did because I think you raised a very crucial point.

Meanwhile (unrelated to Jeff), Glenn Beck, the presumable pro-Israel Glenn Beck, is going after Gingrich without relent, slamming him, claiming that he's a progressive, accusing Tea Partiers who support Gingrich of being racists (yes, now even Glenn is stooping to the race card!). And, as if that's not enough, he just said that he would support Ron Paul as a third party candidate over Gingrich. Madness abounds!

Thank goodness for Caroline Glick!

Isn't it interesting how much of an orphan the truth has become, and how threatening it is to so many people. I recently passed along a viewpoint on this very issue and the author substantiated her claims about the bogus nature of Palestinian identity with credible historical facts, many in sync with what Caroline has mentioned here. One of my recipients is a noted Israeli leftist and one who feels that listening to such "propaganda" is harmful. He prefers to embrace the lie, as do many, many of the Left, in the US as well as in Israel. Newt's statement may not do anything to change current affairs, but it sure was stunningly refreshing to hear, and to realize that it was a shot heard round the world. Thank you, Caroline, and esp. Mr. Speaker!

Yes, it's immensly gratifying having a prominent American pol — a presidential candidate no less — speaking truth about Israel / Palestine. Though it will be interesting to see whether Newt sticks with an unabashedly pro-Israel "hasbara" stance once he's (hopefully) elected, or whether he'll "moderate."

Right on, Caroline. You bring great clarity to the dangerous situation that Obama has created for the United States and Israel. Speaking the truth as Gingrich did is a start in renewing the strong relationship between the U.S. and Israel and making the world face the fact there can be no meaningful negotiation by Israel with a people whose goal is to destroy Israel.

The Arab "Brothers" countrys have an abundance of land,has the situation between palestine and Israel a plan to keep war and terror groups brewing to destroy Israel as Iran threatens over and over... along with other arab countries like syria? Regardless Israel is a Democracy,small and independent with a promise from God that it is their land. No one will prevail against them.Have they (arabs) forgotten all the wars they waged in combined forces against Israel.

Your summation appears accurate Caroline, Newt has been speaking straight with the people. There`s still along way to go in the election,and how much Mitt wants to pay into his campaign will have an effect,but it shouldn`t be enough to overcome the people. Bachmann and Santorum are still good patriots they just aren`t resonating the way Newt is now.

Excellent article. Mr. Gingrich and Ms. Glick provide a great opportunity for the U.S. and Israel to start a new foreign policy in the Middle East and at the United Nations. The United States could pursue non-recognition of any governments and organizations that do not recognize the nation of Israel; and still further the U.S. could work to have certain governemnts like Iran, who threaten the existence of Israel, expelled from the United Nations.

To Elliot RN, I am not versed enough in american culture to decide if Romney is another GOP establishment fixture or not. Gingrich shows fierce courage by going against the formated leftist agenda of the medias but he should extend his unconventionnal speech of "calling a spade a spade " to almost every aspect of the american policy: Wake up America from the sweet lies of Obama_ Take back your industrial leadership - Take back your rule of the law : zero tolerance for law breakers- take back your pride of being american.

Dear Ms Glick , there is a very simple tool to reverse the anti-zionist slide occuring inside israel since 1993 and that is to give the right to vote to Israelis living abroad. Out of 800,000 israelis let's say half will vote and that amounts to 6-7 knesset members. Since those Israelis are very concerned , patriotic and well placed to understand the constant rethoric assault on Israel, I can assure you they will cast their ballot to the zionist and the national camp parties. It is no surprise that the extreme left ( Beilin ) and the arabs are totally opposed to granting such a basic right to those israeli citizens.I think you should help a lot to change that situation