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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So is Pelosi,Kennedy and Dodd - so what?
Wow, that is true.
Calling themselves Catholic, Jewish or Evangelical doesn't make them so by a stretch.
Mel Gibson is Catholic, too
My DD in Catholic school (5th grade) from the other kids has picked up some inaccurate, antisemitic comments and statements I've had to correct her on
McNamara tried to switch camps late in the game, too. He begged forgiveness and put his “apology” in a book and took it on tour.
Pat is doing the same thing. He long ago became a liability to the moderate/middle-of-the-road Republicans who valued office over principles and doing right by the American People and the Constitution. Being an all or nothing pouty guy, he feels betrayed by the party. He believes he is doing with his tongue on the talk shows what Martin Luther did with with his theses on the church door.
I attribute the root cause of Bob’s and Pat’s behavior to a bitterness born of regrets realized in later stages of the aging process.
If there is such a person, this one isn't it. Pat hasn't been "conservative" since, well, I'm not sure he was ever so much conservative as he was opportunistic, but certainly since the early 80s.
ROL!!!
Buchanan is an idiot.
Pat Buchanan is an idiot.
Yes, I have seen an irrational prejudice against the Jewish homeland by those traditional pre-Vatican II types as well. I wonder if they would see it differently if Israel was populated by Anglo Catholics? The image of brave people defending their homeland against the Muslim hordes?
What do you think the reaction of New Yorkers would be if
Connecticut started lobbing little rockets into Manhatten?
Actually anywhere, if they can get visas. You might recall Condi's outrage when Israel refused entry to students from Gaza bound for the US who had terror connections. The good news, Israel relented for those whose terror connections were minor, so they made it here.
LOL...
I think Jimmy Carter is (or was) a Southern Baptist. Now, are Southern Baptists a sect? no. Are Southern Baptists (or Catholics) Jew haters or otherwise antisemitic on some level?
No- not as a denomination. But “some” people are and it is their belief.
I've a former Baptist friend with a Jewish husband (Rick) who recently was invited for tea at the home of a friend of a friend- an older Baptist “church lady”- who pointedly addressed the unwillingness of Jews to accept Jesus as Their saviour blah blah blah. It was very uncomfortable for them but they laughed it off.
Unfortunately, Rick does not know the hearts and beliefs of enough gentiles to know whether this old woman was an anomaly, or a “threat” to him by rejecting him as a moral person.
I think that this moral rejection of Judaism lies at the heart of Carter and Buchanan's hostility toward Israel- but they would never admit that, focusing instead on acts and politics to justify their resentment and dislike.
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I’m reminded of the time Buchanan gave a speech, I think it was the Republican Convention, that was extremely inflammatory and bordered on anti-Semitic. 99-99/100ths of the assembled GOPers were utterly mortified. And while I’m not a real fan of Dick Cavette, his response when asked what he thought of the speech, was priceless:
“Actually, I preferred it in the original German.”
“But, Gibson et al turns this “mirror” around and uses it to blame the Jews. Here is the “fundamental” error.”
I agree and I am often confused by any Christian who places “blame” on the Jewish people for “killing” Jesus. Without Jesus’ selfless act of dying for our sins, the gift of salvation would not have been realized.
Your anecdotal reference about the older Baptist church lady is now second hand. Your take on their take. You seem to focus on the possible antisemitism of her remarks, and it is possible she meant it as such. But, if the lady was engaged in a discussion in the vein of Peter, she was absolutely correct. The Jews in general do reject Jesus as Messiah and pointing this out is not any more antisemitic than explaining the Gospel to an atheist is cruel to that unbeliever.
The distinction is important. If I hate a peoples, whether due to their color or their resistence to belief, I am displaying the very reason I need rescuing. But, to turn and attempt to persuade them to embrace that rescue is a commendable act.
Absolutely.
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