NOVANEWS
by John Spritzler
U.S. presidential aspirant, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich recently declared that Palestinians are an “invented” people. This is a brilliant insight that lays the basis, finally, for a real solution to the Middle East conflict. Gingrich simply noted the well-known facts that Palestine, though referred to in old maps, was once part of the Ottoman Empire but not a separate nation, that after WWI and the end of the Ottoman Empire Palestine became merely “Mandate Palestine” under British rule and still not a formally separate and independent nation, and that so-called Palestinians speak Arabic, not Palestinianese, which means they are part of the Arab-speaking people (Arabs), who liv in many nations and certainly do not need one more named “Palestine”; thus there is no nation of Palestine and hence no “Palestinian” people.