I don't think Santorum or Gingrich (especially) will get the nomination, but the fact that they can spew stuff that the Israeli government can't even get away with....

This is from an Atlantic article called "Is Rick Santorum for Apartheid or Ethnic Cleansing or What?"

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 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:
(1) Is Santorum saying that Palestinians in the West Bank, being Israelis, should be allowed to vote in Israeli elections? This would be a version of the "one-state solution." This scenario is favored by a growing number of people who think it's too late for a two-state solution, but most of these people are several thousand light years to Santorum's left, and I think it's unlikely that this is what Santorum has in mind.
(2) So is Santorum saying that Palestinians in the West Bank, though (by Santorum's lights) living in the state of Israel and warranting the label "Israelis," shouldn't be given the vote? This would be a variant of the one-state solution known as "apartheid." Which may help explain why the Israeli government prefers to call the West Bank "disputed territory" rather than part of Israel, even though the charter of Netanyahu's political party, Likud, seems to rule out ever giving the Palestinians a state.
(3) Maybe, if Santorum isn't embracing scenarios (1) or (2), he's just hoping West Bank Palestinians will find another place to live? This is a view held by some right-wing Israelis. (It also may be held by Gingrich, whose notorious "invented people" utterance also included the less remarked-upon line that "they had a chance to go many places.")

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