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Barry Goldwater on Israel
Substack Note ^ | Feb 23 | Glenn Greenwald

Posted on 02/23/2026 10:08:10 AM PST by RandFan

Glenn Greenwald

The leading icon of the American Right in the 1960s into the 1970s was Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ). He was so beloved that the party’s base made him their presidential nominee in 1964 despite the widespread belief that he was too “extreme” to ever get elected (LBJ crushed him in a landslide). He represented Arizona in the US Senate for 30 years.

Goldwater (whose father was Jewish) talked to Pat Buchanan in 1988 about many topics. Here’s what he said about Israeli influence in the US:

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You can see how Pat Buchanan shaped his views... Interesting video.
1 posted on 02/23/2026 10:08:10 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

In your heart, you know he’s Right.

AUH2O


2 posted on 02/23/2026 10:09:05 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: RandFan

My problem is not with Jews, it’s with leftist Jews.


3 posted on 02/23/2026 10:10:30 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

“My problem is not with Jews, it’s with leftist Jews.”

Yep. And they are the majority and many hold powerful positions and are very activists... often against their own interests... and America’s.


4 posted on 02/23/2026 10:17:32 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: RandFan

And he was born in The Arizona Territory,
so not a NBC,
and not eligible to be POTUS.

Go ahead, flame away


5 posted on 02/23/2026 10:21:41 AM PST by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: aquila48

Conservative Jews hate leftist Jews more than anyone. The same as conservative Christians despise leftist and fake Christians


6 posted on 02/23/2026 10:22:09 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Macoozie

Oooh that’s interesting.


7 posted on 02/23/2026 10:22:54 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

I wouldn’t be surprised if the ADL called the (partly Jewish) Goldwater an “anti-semite” for his statements about the power and influence of the Israeli lobby.


8 posted on 02/23/2026 10:25:05 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: Macoozie
Go ahead, flame away

Ok. You’re an idiot.

9 posted on 02/23/2026 10:26:18 AM PST by Ditto
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To: Macoozie

Did this ever come up in the 60s?


10 posted on 02/23/2026 10:26:27 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Goldwater’s naive thinking is what led to the “Land for Peace” initiatives under Clinton and Bush. PLO was allowed to run the West Bank. It resulted in intifada, suicide bus bombers, and car jihad. Gaza was given to the Muslims. It resulted in 3 major invasions and incessant katusha missile attacks. Israel needs to take off the gloves bring this issue to a close. Ethnic relocation of Arab colonizers.


11 posted on 02/23/2026 10:32:30 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Macoozie

Were his parents citizens?


12 posted on 02/23/2026 10:32:59 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Regulator

In your heart, you know he’s Right.


By the 1980s, it was “In your guts, you know he’s nuts!”


13 posted on 02/23/2026 10:36:29 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Regulator

He became a loser in the 80’s and bitter at Reagan. He was a Libertarian.


14 posted on 02/23/2026 10:46:32 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILLL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: dfwgator

Reagan’s Conseratism was more Populist than Goldwaters.


15 posted on 02/23/2026 10:47:53 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILLL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: dfwgator; All

From my limited knowledge (im a spring chicken) he was a straight talker with traditional views and you can’t have that in politics so he was smeared relentlessly

That proud tradition has been carried on by Ron Paul, Rand Paul and the now more famous Thomas Massie (who is being talked up as an independent presidential candidate for ‘28 such is the “you’re not welcome in the GOP” rhetoric)

We’ll see about that but there are plenty of posters on here who hold those kind of views. They try and demand my banishment claiming i don’t belong on a conservative site


16 posted on 02/23/2026 10:48:11 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Anyone who jokes about nuclear Ear doesn’t deserve to be President. He was a terrible candidate.


17 posted on 02/23/2026 10:48:38 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILLL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Ditto

Geoge Washington, etc born in British colonies


18 posted on 02/23/2026 10:50:26 AM PST by sopo
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To: Macoozie

He was still a citizen. And would have been grandfathered in if it were an issue.


19 posted on 02/23/2026 10:57:52 AM PST by odawg (,)
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To: RandFan

I loved small (l) libertarian thought when I was younger. As I become (hopefully) wiser I think it utopian in that it relies on man’s rationality. I think that libertarian thought provides a good counterbalance to the more puritanical impulses of a heavily Christian society. When it is the opposition to leftist ideologies it is a suicide pact as you may literally sell the rope that hangs you.


20 posted on 02/23/2026 10:58:16 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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