Newt Gingrich's remarks about the "Palestinians" being an invented nation elicited many positive responses to his "telling it like it is". Journalist Caroline Glick was one of them. She welcomed Newt Gingrich’s stunning reference to the “Palestinians” as an “invented people.”
The intellectual courage of this American statesman makes the failure of Israeli leaders to tell the truth about the Palestinians appear shameful, to put it mildly.
Nevertheless, Glick, a long-time critic of the “land-for-peace” policy of these leaders, virtually apologizes for their failure to tell the truth about this invented people. She writes: “What many Americans fail to recognize is that Israeli leaders are not as free to tell the truth about the nature of the [Israel-Palestinian] conflict as the US is.”
This casual statement is a remarkable departure from Glick’s courageous criticism of the failed Oslo Policy of “territory for peace,” hence, of the Israel-PLO Agreement of September 13, 1993. This agreement may now be understood as an agreement between the leaders of Israel and the leaders of the invented Palestinian people! This agreement has been endorsed by every Israeli prime minister since it was signed by the Rabin government in 1993.
Israeli leaders may not be as free as their American counterparts to tell the truth about the “Palestinians” and of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, but Israel’s very existence has been jeopardized by this failure on the part of Israeli leaders to tell the truth about their county’s implacable enemy.
Israeli leaders have simply lacked the wit and courage to tell the truth about the invented Palestinian people. Which means they have lacked the intestines to inform their own people about the implacable nature of their country’s enemy—an enemy whose hatred of Jews and of Israel makes the policy of land for peace absurd—utterly fallacious.
But having proclaimed this falsehood, and having sanctified it via the Israel-PLO Agreement of 1993, every Israeli prime minister since then and to this day has felt compelled to perpetuate the lie about the Palestinians, hence to deceive the people of Israel about the true nature of the Israel-Palestinian conflict!
Nor is this all.
The policy of “land for peace”—which falsely implies the existence of a Palestinian people—has not only divided and very much weakened the people of Israel, but has also induced them to vote for politicians who support that futile and fatal policy. Israeli politicians have been playing the “peace” card to win votes. They have been playing the “politics of peace” for two decades to gain or remain in power.
These treacherous politics required them to yield Jewish land to the PLO—the consortium of terrorists recognized throughout the world as the sole and legitimate representatives of the “invented Palestinian” people!
Surely Ms. Glick does not need to be reminded that attorney Howard Grief, on behalf of eminent citizens of Israel, submitted a 78-page petition to the Supreme Court challenging the legality of the Israel-PLO Agreement—a petition which contends that an agreement having the intention to yield Jewish land to the PLO constitutes a prima facie act of treason.
The Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, refused to consider the merits of the case. (See HC 3414/96.)