Patent for an Invented People

This cartoon is a response to the dangerous and perplexing position stated, and reiterated, by US Republican party 2012 presidential nomination candidate, Newt Gingrich, that the Palestinians are an invented people. Specifically, he claims that they were invented in the 1970s.

In such a strange and an unfounded claim, Mr. Gingrich, is echoing a statement made by Ms. Golda Meir. She was one of the founders of the State of Israel and the fourth Israeli Prime Minister who was quoted by The Sunday Times (15 June 1969) and the Washington Post on (16 June 1969) as saying that "Palestinians did not exist."

The danger of such a statement by a US politician who might become a president of the United States is that the United States is the main broker between the Palestinians and Israel in a conflict that has mainly left the Palestinians treated as though they are invisible, invented, or less than deserving of human and national rights.