Juliette Kayyem
Will an Obama tactic work for Gingrich?
Newt Gingrich’s Palestinian bashing is more than sheer pandering to the Jewish vote, a vote that is sophisticated enough to recognize the pandering of any politician. Though Gingrich may be getting flak for his claims that the Palestinians are an invented people, his desire to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem - a divided city whose control is a core dispute in the ongoing peace process - is equally controversial. Indeed, Gingrich’s policies that claim such fidelity to Israel can’t be validated by history tomes or some searching analysis of the Torah.
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