NY Post: Dems Diss Palin, Israel
With one astonishingly clumsy public temper tantrum, Hillary Clinton and the Obama campaign have transformed what for decades has been a bipartisan policy - American support for Israel - into a political football.
On Monday, a public rally is set for Dag Hammerskjold Plaza, across from the UN, to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s upcoming speech to the General Assembly and unite in opposition to his nuke program and his vow to wipe the US and Israel “off the map.”
Major Jewish and pro-Israel groups have sponsored such mass rallies for decades. And they’ve always featured political figures from both major parties - often, even rival candidates for the same office.
The point, and it’s an important one, is that support for Israel - and opposition to its warmongering enemies - generally transcends partisan politics in America.
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Hillary Clinton and the Obama campaign could have driven that point home by her appearance at Monday’s rally.
But they chose instead to play politics.
What a disgrace.