Buckley is an interesting mix of self conscious upper class tolerance of personal eccentricity (thus there the libertarian instinct), with perhaps a waning pre Vatican II traditional Catholicism. One cannot tar Buckley with the antisemitism brush. He had Churchill's sensibilities on that one. It offended him to his core, and he would have none of it. Indeed, one of the main reasons he founded the National Review, is that the conservative rags of the 50's, were mired in antisemitism.
Not "antisemitism" for a second. Anti-Israel. Bob Novak is a very anti-Israel Jew. And I'm just trying to understand why so many devout anti-Communists are against this war. It doesn't make sense.