Bolton and Glick

Caroline Glick with ZOA President Morton Klein (center) and Ambassador John Bolton at the ZOA National Dinner, Sunday, December 11, 2005.

U.N. Ambassador John Bolton was the Keynote Speaker at the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National Dinner Sunday night at the Marriot Marquis Hotel in New York.  According to the ZOA, 1,000 people attended, and Bolton’s speech was “repeatedly interrupted by applause and . . . received a standing ovation.”

Bolton . . . has worked to have Syria and Palestinian Islamic Jihad named in connection with the terrorist attack against Israelis in Netanya . . . and also succeeded in having the Islamist terrorist group Hezbollah condemned for its attack upon Israel. . . .

Bolton said at the dinner that the U.S. would not back down and that naming terrorists "is something we plan to do in the future."  He also spoke of Iran’s public threat to wipe Israel off the map as being "no mere flight of rhetoric when it comes from a state that has been pursuing weapons of mass destruction." . . .

Referring to last week’s "Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People", at which a "Map of Palestine" was displayed from which Israel was expunged, Bolton said that there was reason to believe the map had been produced and paid for by the UN . . . saying that the U.S. would pursue these matters: 

"If that is true, then you, the American taxpayer, paid for 22% of that map (percentage of UN budget paid for by US).  You probably paid 22% of that entire event.  We’re going to find out if that is true . . . I want to make it clear that we are not finished with the issue . . . We are setting a new standard for honesty at the U.N." 

Also at the dinner, the ZOA’s Ben Hecht Award for Outstanding Journalism on the Middle East was presented to Caroline Glick, Deputy Managing Editor of the Jerusalem Post and syndicated columnist for the Post and Makor Rishon, who in 2003 was named the most prominent woman in Israel by the Israeli daily Ma’ariv.

Congratulations to the Glick Brigade.