Icheoku says never in the history of US politicking has pandering to the Jewish nation been this blatantly lowly that a Republican presidential candidate wanna-be mouthed off that a bona-fide people, the Palestine people, whose history squarely placed them in the same geographical location as the Israelis, are invented fictional people? The man whose middle name could pass for marital infidelity and the current front runner in the race to secure the Republican presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich, dismissed the Palestine as ghoulish and phantom terrorists who have no nexus or business contending a claim of right in the area around and near Israel. Icheoku says this blabber-mouth is either ignorant of history or is a shameless panderer trying just too hard to fool the Jewish people into thinking he gets their back; but not knowing that he had just poured gasoline into the smouldering Israeli/Palestine conflict with his unfortunate comment.
Some responses coming out of the Palestinian Authority to Newt Gingrich's guffaw says it all:- "These are extremely trivial, demeaning and ridiculous remarks, even the most extremist settlers of Israel wouldn't talk in such a ridiculous way" - Palestine Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. "Ignorant" and "despicable" said another official. "This is the lowest point of thinking anyone can reach, the comment only increases the cycle of violence" - Palestine Negotiator Saeb Erekat. "This proves that in the hysterical atmosphere of American elections, people lose all touch with reality and make not just irresponsible and dangerous statements, but also very racist comments that betray not just their own ignorance but an unforgivable bias" - Palestinian Liberation Organization official Hanan Ashrawi.
Icheoku says even Tel Aviv would be astonished at the vomit of Newt Gingrich as their relative peace might now unravel and give way to conflict since the Palestine might not be willing to wait to find out what a Newt Gingrich's White House will make of a none existent people. It is indeed unfortunate that this is the type of human-being the Republicans are clamoring and routing for as their presidential candidate to be. Imagine calling the Middle East peace process for which an Israeli Prime Minister Rabin was killed and for which many have died on both sides and for which many American presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, have spent countless man-hours a delusion; and then labeling an entire people terrorists? Icheoku says we don't know about you, but this Newt Gingrich will put America into real trouble if elected and therefore the Republican Party should deny him a platform to propagate his parochial agenda. What a nut this Newt is