Today was supposed to have been the day that a high-profile, bi-partisan event was to occur at the United Nations to protest the appearance of genocidal madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but it was not to be. There's an event happening, yes, but the high-profile representatives of both mainstream parties won't be there, and a damaged and fractured Jewish community is left holding the bag.

And you better remember who's at fault. You better remember who put party ahead of a non-nuclear Iran: The Democratic Party, the National Jewish Democratic Council, J-Street and their backers like Alan Solomont.

For years and years, groups like AIPAC have done almost miraculous work keeping the interests of mainstream Jews the interests of both parties in government. How many events over the years have we seen where representatives of both the Republicans and the Democrats have come together for a common cause, and even partisan outlets like the one you're reading now have laid that aside for a day to praise people who are...at least for a day...at least for one issue...on the right side. The same side.

But the Democrats are really feeling the heat this election, and the derangement runs deep, and some people are becoming desperate. Like the drowning man who pulls his rescuer down with him, desperation makes people irrational, cast the veneer of civilization aside and show their truest, deepest selves and priorities.

And when it comes down to it, it's not Jews in Israel that motivates Democrats, and it's not Jews in America that motivates them either. It's their own power. It's their own little dinners, and board memberships, and their silly narcissistic college freshman platitudes...that's what motivates them. And when they finally get around to looking out the window, their bogeyman isn't an Iran armed with nuclear weapons led by a Holocaust-denying antisemitic America-hater...it's "conservatives." Ahmadinejad is, after all, an ocean away, but it's conservatives here at home that prevent them from inflicting their peculiar vision of the worker's paradise on all of the rest of us.

Never forget that it wasn't an extremist group, it was the National Jewish Democratic Council that politicized this event: NJDC Calls for Withdrawal of Palin Invitation to Iran Rally

What Orwellian turn-speak! It was the NJDC that brought partisanship to the event. Rather than letting their high-profile Democrat show up, or encouraging their party to one-up the Republicans and send their Presidential nominee, they crapped on the entire event. When did Sarah Palin become David Duke?

And when the dirty-work was done: NJDC Commends the Withdrawal of Palin's Invitation to the Iran Rally It's typical liberal "thinking" -- if you're a leftist that's just being moderate and non-partisan, if you're on the right you're a partisan.

The partisans against the rally were willing to stop at nothing, including threats against the tax-exempt status of the sponsoring groups -- a nonsensical threat that nevertheless can cost money to defend: Sources: Intense Pressure Led To Palin UN Snub

Soccer Dad, who has a good post on this, thinks I'm too quick to let J-Street off the hook, tying matters in to the common-denominator, self-appointed exilarch, local left-wing activist and Obama supporter, Alan Solomont. I still say that J-Street itself doesn't have the pull to screw a rally like this by itself. The groups involved wouldn't bow to them, though they, and Solomont are names to remember and have their share of responsibility (See J-Street's crowing about their "victory": We Won! Palin Not Speaking at Iran Rally).

Solomont is one of the jet-setting busy-bodies who went off to Switzerland a few years back, watched a parade at the podium to praise Arafat and denounce Sharon, then came back to Boston to act as pimp-daddy for an idea so skanky he couldn't give it away. In the post CJP's Email Apologizes for Inviting Sarah Palin to anti-Ahmadinejad Rally, Jewish Russian Telegraph notes:

I've heard through the grape vine that even Elie Wiesel was pressured to drop out of the event.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, a bi-partisan group, Richard Holbrooke, R. James Woolsey, Dennis B. Ross and Mark D. Wallace, writes that a nuclear Iran is a serious matter: Everyone Needs to Worry About Iran

But here's the fact. The Democrats not only don't want to allow Sarah Palin to have a stage that would show with finality that their smears about her cavorting with "Nazi sympathizers" is plain crap, but they also don't want to admit that they simply don't support the goals of this protest. They are afraid of serious sanctions against Iran. They don't want it. They don't support it, and their friends in the organized Jewish community are willing to run cover for them.

Update: Dennis Hale has an excellent piece on this, here: What Obama means by "bipartisanship"

The NY Sun has the text of the speech Sarah Palin would have delivered: Palin on Ahmadinejad: 'He Must Be Stopped'

Despite the best efforts of the Democrat party, the rally has drawn a huge crowd. The Boston Jewish Community couldn't fill a single bus and the trip had to be canceled.

Update: Iowahawk: Council Demands Palin Ouster from Fallout Shelter (brilliant)