Newt Gingrich condemned for calling Palestinians 'terrorists'

Palestinian officials said the claim preferred Republican children are taught to kill in textbooks is based on Israeli propaganda

Senior Palestinian

stagnated in the Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich for his description of Palestinians as an "invented" people and "terrorists."

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insisted on Saturday - a warm applause from the audience - that "these people are terrorists terrorism They teach in their schools have textbooks that say, if there are 13 Jewish .. and nine Jews were killed, how many Jews left? We pay for textbooks with our help.

"Basically, it's time that someone has the courage to stand up and say, enough lying on the Middle East."

Palestinian officials said the accusations of Mr. Gingrich is largely based on the material produced by a watch Israeli, Palestinian media, which published a long list of entries on its website under " Promoting Violence for the Children "title. An article published in 2007 describes the Palestinian textbooks paid in U.S. aid that deny Israel's right to exist.

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But a senior adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organization, said the site and the allegations were unfounded Gingrich.

"[Gingrich] is welcome to come to Palestine so that you can stop talking about topics of conversation and talk about reality. If you are able to produce a manual Palestinian shows his point of view, then you should. But it does not exist in our schools -.. he quotes very cheap propaganda is what you do and not appropriate behavior for a presidential candidate

"If you ask a Palestinian boy of 13, he will know that there is a state called Israel. Go see if you can find Israeli boy the same age as you can find a green line [which marks the border between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories] in his book. "

Gingrich first stated its position on the Palestinian people in an interview with Jewish chain said Friday that the Palestinians were an "invented" them.

• Gingrich told the Jewish cable channel: "Remember that there was no Palestine as a state that was part of the Ottoman Empire .." He said that the Palestinians were "invented a Palestinian people who are in fact the Arabs."
• Palestinian officials refused comment
• Gingrich as an attempt to curry favor with Jewish voters. Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian Prime Minister urged to apologize, describing his comments as ridiculous and racist.

The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said the comments were an incitement to terrorism. "These statements ammunition and weapons to bin Laden Gingrich and extremists, long time," he said on CNN.

Speaking
of Ramallah, Sunday, Ghassan Khatib, a senior official of the Palestinian Authority, said Gingrich's position indicates a worrying turn towards extremism among Republicans and showed a trend in the U.S. policy toward the partisan in the Middle East that could damage the peace process.

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