Newt Gingrich's Culturist Error

In a recent debate Republican Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich created a stir by calling the Palestinians “invented.”   In fact, no such type of Arab existed prior to the 1940s.  The term actually referred to Israeli Jews.  What Gingrich argued were undeniable facts. But his belief in the solidity of facts overlooks the culturist construction of reality.

After so many generations of people calling themselves Palestinians, the use of Palestinian flags, anthems, television, and politicians; the Palestinian people have been created. A nation is a shared set of ideas backed by emotion.  The reality of Palestinians has so much cache that people will die for it.  Nations and peoples are not eternally existing entities, they are creations.  But this does not make them any less real.

If fate threw all of the Palestinians into exile, say if all of them got sent to Saudi Arabia, would they persist as a people?  The Jews faced this very question in the 5^th century B.C.  Deprived of land and scattered, the Jews in exile compiled the Bible to consolidate their identity.  This common text allowed them to have something in common even when far apart. I suspect the Palestinian identity would only exist in academic / radical pockets after a few generations in exile. 

My unproven contention about time eroding the Palestinian identity in exile points to the importance of long standing shared traditions to a national identity.  The Palestinians flag and national anthem are recent creations.  They have no ancient traditional art forms particular to them. But in “The Invention of the Jewish People” Schlomo Sand argued that even the idea of Jews has been created in time. While this is obviously true, the duration of the Jews makes their identity more solid.    

What culturist lessons lie in this reality parsing? Well our starkest comparison to the Israeli situation comes from the strong concentration of people with Mexican loyalties in our Southwest.  This situation resembles that of the Palestinians because many Mexicans believe that America exists land that was stolen from them.  Herein lays the importance of Texas’ new culturist curricular laws.  To avoid Middle East style conflict our schools must teach our side of the Mexican-American War and the glory of American identity to all residents in our borders.

But many other culturist lessons emerge from my refutation of Newt’s statement. The “national existence without land” standard reminds us of the importance of shared language, flags, history, heroes, geography, ideals, etc..  Multiculturalism’s anti-colonial ideology must be replaced by culturism. We must emphasize our unity, not our differences. Our government should return to its traditional stance of considering national cohesion legitimate considerations. Borders and Nativity Scenes impact survival. But the most important lesson is that all nationalisms are fictions that must be reinforced to survive.

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Romney Versus Gingrich On Jihad And Sharia

From Big Peace, Andrew Bostom comes down on the side of Gingrich as the candidate who recognizes the threat of Islam. both the overt and the covert threat:

...Gingrich’s unflinching portrayal of the existential threat Sharia represents—whether or not this totalitarian system is imposed by violent, or non-violent means—was accompanied by a clarion call for concrete measures to oppose any Sharia encroachment on the U.S. legal code....

Go read the whole thing HERE. Worth your time.

At Least Newt Knows

This is a little speech by Newt Gingrich, five and a half minutes long, but surprisingly straightforward. Something to share with people who are on the fence about the Islamic Military:


I hope he's not right, but I'm afraid he is: It might take the destruction of an American city for the world to get seriously mobilized.

What will it take to prevent that? It would help if enough of us had conversations like this with our friends and family. And we can help cut off their money. Sharing choice articles from the IBA would help too. If you subscribe to the RSS feed of the IBA, it is easy to share individual articles via email.

To Feel the Fear is to Understand the Nature of the Beast

I have some very serious "domestic policy" differences with Newt Gingrich. I never thought I would find myself watching him speak and wishing he were our front runner candidate for president, but viewing these two superb short statements by him did just that.






Gringrich understands the danger from fundamentalist Islam thoroughly and viscerally. When he speaks of the fear he feels for the future of his grandchildren it resonates with the fear I feel every day. Not "concern". Fear. The sort of heart-pounding, pulse-racing, cold-sweat fear you feel when confronted by a large carnivorous animal that sees you as its next meal. Gingrich understands the nature of radical fundamentalist Islam and he understands, as the vast majority of his colleagues do not, that the nature of a thing determines its actions. The nature of radical fundatmentalist Islam is murder, destruction and enslavement, and at this time there is no effective force standing in its way.

At this point, I do not trust those who claim they "understand the situation". I trust only those who prove to me that they understand it and further, that they feel the same cold hand of fear that I do.