GLICK: JEWISH DEMOCRATS BETRAY WORLD'S JEWS

Caroline Glick, the foremost analyst of Middle Eastern affairs, is a citizen of Israel and of the United States. She writes regularly for the Jerusalem Post and is a fellow at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC.

American Jewish organizations had organized a rally in New York for September 22nd to protest the appearance of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, at the United Nations. The reason is obvious: Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for the elimination of Israel and is believed by all those in the West who are sane that he is intent on developing nuclear weapons to use, in the first instance, against Israel.

Invited guests who had accepted were Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin. It is reported that the Obama campaign pressured Clinton to withdraw, which she did. Pressure was immediately put on the organizers of the event to disinvite Palin so the event wouldn’t appear to be “partisan.”

Caroline Glick in no uncertain terms denounced the event organizers and Democratic Jews for putting their desire for a Democratic president to be elected ahead of the survival of the State of Israel. As she put it, "Democratic American Jewish leaders decided that putting Sen. Barack Obama in the White House is more important than protecting the lives of the Jewish people in Israel and around the world."

Glick's disgust and outrage is evident in this excerpt:

LIBERAL AMERICAN Jews, like liberal Americans in general, and indeed like their fellow leftists in Israel and throughout the West, uphold themselves as champions of human rights. They claim that they care about the underdog, the wretched of the earth. They care about the environment. They care about securing American women's unfettered access to abortions. They care about keeping Christianity and God out of the public sphere. They care about offering peace to those who are actively seeking their destruction so that they can applaud themselves for their open-mindedness and tell themselves how much better they are than savage conservatives.

Those horrible, war-mongering, Bambi killing, unborn baby defending, God-believing conservatives, who think that there are things worth going to war to protect, must be defeated at all costs. They must intimidate, attack, demonize and defeat those conservatives who think that the free women of the West should be standing shoulder to shoulder not with Planned Parenthood, but with the women of the Islamic world who are enslaved by a misogynist Shari'a legal code that treats them as slaves and deprives them of control not simply of their wombs, but of their faces, their hair, their arms, their legs, their minds and their hearts.

The lives of 6 million Jews in Israel are today tied to the fortunes of those women, to the fortunes of American forces in Iraq, to the willingness of Americans across the political and ideological spectrum to recognize that there is more that unifies them than divides them and to act on that knowledge to defeat the forces of genocide, oppression, hatred and destruction that are led today by the Iranian regime and personified in the brutal personality of Ahmadinejad. But Jewish Democrats chose to ignore this basic truth in order to silence Palin.

They should be ashamed. The Democratic Party should be ashamed. And Jewish American voters should consider carefully whether opposing a woman who opposes the abortion of fetuses is really more important than standing up for the right of already born Jews to continue to live and for the Jewish state to continue to exist. Because this week it came to that.

Click here to read the full Glick denunciation of Democratic Jews putting partisanship ahead of the survival of Israel.

Click here to read the address that Sarah Palin would have given had she not been disinvited.

Glick has already made it clear that Israel should not trust Obama.