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Today, I received a letter from James Carville about supporting the Democratic Party, saying I have a choice to make. While I consider myself to be a liberal, while I am officially registered as a Democrat, and even though I doubt this open letter will reach anyone either physically or idealistically, I felt the need to write this and send it to the Democratic Party:

Dear Mr. Carville,

I have no choice to make. President Barack Obama has deserted my people and the world by his blatant, open support of terrorists and support for anti-Jewish actors. By choosing to show his support for the enemies of Israel and freedom, Mr. Obama has abrogated his responsibility to the world. By supporting his agenda, the Democratic Party has turned its back on me, my people, and the Western world.

While I didn’t support President George W. Bush (I voted for both Mr. Gore and Mr. Kerry, both of whom managed to put forth a pro-people domestic agenda without jeopardizing the survival of Israel or Western civilization), Mr. Obama takes Mr. Bush’s anti-Israel “Road Map” agenda a giant step further by pressuring Israel to halt even maintenance construction in the Jewish settlements that will ultimately be part of Israel.

We can clearly see that the Palestinian leadership has abandoned its people. They have taken all the “aid” money given to them to help their people and squandered it on bombs and missiles, which they lob “generously” on the people of Israel, and filling their own Swiss bank accounts. They took the land that Israel gave them as a gift (they made no concessions whatsoever), and destroyed the infrastructure, painstakingly and lovingly created and developed by the “settlers,” and bulldozed it under, creating in its stead a missile-launching zone.

They keep their own people in constant fear, feeding them lies about who is responsible for their dire situation, cultivating their hatred and desperation, turning them into human bombs, terrorizing the world into buying into their anti-democracy, misogynistic, anti-gay, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish agenda. And the Western world is bending over to kiss their toes, thinking, despite historical evidence to the contrary, that this appeasement will sooth the terrorists’ murderous ways and keep them out of the terrorists’ line of fire.

Mr. Obama’s position on the Middle East conflict was clear to many of us from the very beginning of his candidacy. By allying himself with a Farrakhan-admiring minister, he showed himself to be linked with the anti-Jewish world, a “world” that is growing by leaps and bounds, to our detriment. He made it quite clear to those of us who hold Israel in great esteem that he believes, as do the terrorist elements in the world, that Israel not only holds the key to peace in the region but is to blame for the constant state of hostilities.

Israel clearly can’t do anything to bring peace to the region or the world. Even if, God forbid, Israel were to cease to exist tomorrow, the terror elements of the world would turn, then, to all other non-Muslims and seek to subjugate them. These terror regimes see our overtures to peace as weakness; they think we have no faith in our own strength.

So, I’m sorry that the Democratic Party has forsaken us. I’m sorry partly because Israel needs everyone’s support and partly because the Republican Party, which seems to be more sympathetic to Israel, doesn’t back a working domestic program that I feel comfortable with.

So thanks to the Democratic Party’s endorsement of terrorist governments and the suppression of Israel and democracy I am an American without a party. I pray that some day you, Mr. Obama, and the Democratic Party as a whole will realize how counterintuitive it is for liberals to sponsor regimes that subjugate women, gays, and races, creeds, and religions other than their own. I pray that the world will wake up and acknowledge the danger these exploitive, despotic, tyrannical regimes pose to the survival of the human race. But until then, I can’t support your party, Mr. Carville.

Debbie Israel is a graphic artist (see https://www.cafepress.com/compugraphd2 for some of her work) and tutor living in Highland Park.