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Is Rick Santorum for Apartheid or Ethnic Cleansing or What?

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 16:51 — Dave Culver
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Government & Politics
Race & Ethnicity

  • So which is it? Is Rick Santorum in favor of apartheid or ethnic cleansing or the left-wing variant of the one-state solution, in which Palestinians are given the vote? Or is there a fourth alternative I haven't thought of?
  • Republican Attacks Have Racist Undertones

Robert Wright, Atlantic

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Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum disagree about Palestinians. Gingrich says they're an "invented people." Santorum says they don't exist. "All the people that live in the West Bank are Israelis," says Santorum. "They are not Palestinians. There is no Palestinian. This is Israeli land."

As Glenn Kessler of the Washington (DC) Post points out, even the current right-wing Israeli government doesn't describe the situation this way. And if you pursue the implications of Santorum's view, you'll see why.

There seem to be three possibilities.

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Republican Attacks Have Racist Undertones, Andrew Rosenthal, New York (NY) Times
Talking about race in American politics is uncomfortable and awkward. But it has to be said: There has been a racist undertone to many of the Republican attacks leveled against President Obama for the last three years, and in this dawning presidential campaign.
 

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