In order to understand this interview, you have to realize that the Americans are also an "invented people" as Newt defines the term. The colonies were part of the British Empire. The American people are part of a larger language group that speaks the English language, including the peoples of the British Isles and Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and hundreds of millions in other countries of the British Commonwealth. A tiny minority of Americans are descended entirely from the pre-1492 occupants of North America, and the rest of us are descendants of people who came here from all over Europe, Africa, Asia, or Latin America. This is the great melting pot of a nation that has sought to meld people from many nations into one, ethnically diverse nation.
Newt knows all this as well as I do -- probably better since he is smarter than I am and knows more about American history. He knows that the largest invasion force mounted by the English before World War II came to deny American independence in the Revolutionary War, and that the English remained an enemy or a potential enemy for more than a century. And he would be the first to insist that our motley nation fight to protect our borders and be at war with any people who sought to deny our self invention as a people.
So Newt must be supporting the Palestinian people and their right to fight for and hold their land against Israeli pressure, mustn't he?
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