Posted on 01/09/2009 6:13:35 AM PST by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of conservative pundit Pat Buchanan on MSNBC yesterday making comments about Israel that are just amazing. Buchanan likens Israel's Ground Offensive in Gaza to the Nazi "blitzkrieg," actually using the word in describing it. He also went a step further and says that Gaza is an "Israeli concentration camp," where "cruelty" by Israel is taking place.
Let's step back for a moment. I have always liked Pat Buchanan's analysis when he is talking about inside the Beltway political matters. He is a very good analyst on those things. But he has real blinders when it comes to Israel. Every so often he pops off and says things that are bizarre. I don't enjoy criticizing Pat, but he is just dead wrong when it comes to Israel.
To think that Israel should be content to just accept Hamas or Hezbollah lobbing "little missiles," as Buchanan called them, into their country is irrational. Israel has every right to self-defense. Buchanan would be better off not commenting on matters related to Israel. For whatever reason, he is not rational on the subject. . . . (watch video)
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Take it easy on Pat, he lost a relative at Auschwitz. He fell out of a Guard Tower.
Pat Butch is mentally stuck in the Third Reich.
I have never been overly impressed by the out-of-balance Mr. Buchanan.
I am wondering how long ole Pat would put up with folks lobbing “little missiles” into his back yard.
Patty’O Duke at it again? Jeeze. Someone lock this guy in an old folks home and never, ever let him or anyone proclaim he is anything near Conservative ever again.
Must be a talking point. A Cardinal said the exact same thing yesterday. “Concentration camp”.
Certain people are trying very hard to get the “Israel=Nazis” meme going.
As long as it takes him to polish his jackboots and Luger.
Pat is of the religious conviction that just cannot forgive the Jews for “killing Christ”- imho that is the “binders” he (and many other fundamentalist-sect-etc “Christians”) wear
same with Jimmy Carter
No rational sane person can look at what the Pals do and continue to do to themselves, or suffer having done to them by other “muslims”, versus what Israel has tried to do and is willing to do and is capable of doing to live in peace-
and come to the conclusions of a Buchanan or Carter
Much less use nazi era terminology to make a deluded comparison
Is this man insane? I mean truly, literally insane?
Is the writer just learning this about Buchanan?
Most of the Palestinians in Gaza aren’t even Israeli Muslims, over 1.5 million moved in after they where given Gaza from places like Egypt and Lebanon. They moved there for the sole purpose of jihad against Israel.
Israel actually has a Muslim population not part of the Palestinian territories. They have not pushed anyone into Gaza, those who are there either lived there before or came for the purpose of jihad.
... and pathetic, don't forget "pathetic". The once-admirable Mr. Buchannan obviously lost his mind several years ago.
Anyone who chooses to take the side of barbarians who still engage in the primitive practice of child sacrifice to placate their god(s), is beyond reasoning with.
Buchanan is a Catholic.
One thing I’ve always wondered. Is his sister Bay this whacked out about the Israeli conflict? She has always seemed very sensible to me and I would tend to think not, but I don’t know.
As for Pat, I think this and his hatred of free trade are the reasons he is persona non grata in the Republican party now.
“No rational sane person can look at what the Pals do and continue to do to themselves, or suffer having done to them by other “muslims”, versus what Israel has tried to do and is willing to do and is capable of doing to live in peace-
and come to the conclusions of a Buchanan or Carter.”
Exactly. bttt
“...it can surely be no coincidence that the most humane place in all of the Middle East is surrounded by barbarians who wish to extinguish it in the exact degree to which they systematically abuse their own children.
As a matter of fact, a couple of days ago a reader sent me this link to a piece in the Claremont Review on child sacrifice. In it, the author recalls Golda Meir’s famous remark about how “peace with the Palestinians will be possible when they love their own children more than they hate the Israelis. In saying so, she touched upon a fundamental difference between pagan and biblical religion: the presence or absence of child sacrifice.... Many ancient peoples believed in sacrificing a child to an angry god like Moloch or Baal in order to avert misfortune. Today, thousands of Muslims believe that sacrificing their children as ‘suicide’ bombers in a crowd of people pleases their God Allah. More, Islamic terrorists invite the death of children by placing their military and political headquarters in residential areas which they know their enemies will strike.”
Folks, is this not an obvious, if horrid and therefore denied truth about mankind in general and the Islamic world in particular? The author concludes his piece on a pessimistic note, speculating that “if the current intellectuals’ project of undermining the Biblical traditions of the Western world continues unabated..., rather than embracing some new, ‘enlightened’ philosophy which previous generations were supposedly too dull to conceive or practice, likely we will wind up with ancient paganism instead. ....” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2157592/posts?page=7#7
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