An Open Letter to Pat Buchanan

Chronwatch ^ | July 31, 2006 | Burt Prelutsky

[SJackson]

Pat Buchanan, not satisfied merely looking like a Herblock depiction of a bigot, a man who never allows an opportunity to slam Israel slip through his fingers, has been on a rampage because Israel has finally gone after the murderous thugs and sadists of Hezbollah.

The fact that the terrorists don’t wear uniforms means that every time the Israelis kill one of them, Buchanan and his ilk get to insist that Israel is targeting civilians. Buchanan’s concern for civilians isn’t nearly so evident when it’s Jews who are targeted by Hamas, Hezbollah, and the PLO’s suicide bombers.

One of the sillier things Israel has done in recent years was to fall for the land for peace con game. They surrendered territory and any number of settlements as a gesture of good will. Good will gestures made to terrorists and tyrants are the height of folly and cowardice, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s the Arabs or Adolf Hitler. Offer your hand to the tiger and don’t expect him to stop nibbling when he gets to your wrist.

Because Israel plays such a prominent role in the news, and because it’s managed, against all odds, to survive for 58 years, one can easily over-estimate its actual place in the world. The fact of the matter is that unless you were at the top of your geography class, you’d be hard-pressed to find it on your globe. To give you a clear idea of what Israel is up against, keep in mind that there are 22 countries in the Arab League. The League encompasses 5,200,000 square miles; Israel was 8,000 square miles before giving up the aforementioned turf. What’s more, there are 312 million people living in those 22 countries. Israel’s population is six million, more than a million of whom are Arabs.

So far as Buchanan and his friends are concerned, it would seem that the only thing that’s required to make Israel the jewel of the Middle East is for those five million Jews to disappear.

You have to wonder what it is about those 8,000 square miles that the Arabs covet. It’s not as if Israel sits on huge oil deposits. Why aren’t five million square miles enough? I mean, if you had five million dollars, would you cry yourself to sleep every night because you didn’t have $5,008,000?

Let’s face it -- before the Jews built universities, hospitals and concert halls, and planted trees and crops, the place was nothing but a desert.

So many people are happy to trumpet “No blood for oil.” How is it that we never hear them, or Mr. Buchanan, telling the Arabs, “No blood for sand”?

About the Writer: Burt Prelutsky is a humorist, movie reviewer, writer for television series and movies, and author of the new book, "Conservatives Are From Mars, Liberals Are From San Francisco." His website is at http://burtprelutsky.com. Burt receives e-mail at BurtPrelutsky@aol.com.

[no dems]

"He has very little in coomon with AuH2O!"

Only what I mentioned with regard to "losing it" with age.

[rcocean]

"Yes, we are quite please with the numbers after Pat and friends did their best to drive Jewish voters out of the GOP"

And how did Pat "drive" Jewish voters out of the GOP? He hasn't held an elective office and wasn't nominated for President.

Any Jew who left because of Pat is an idiot or never should have joined the GOP in the first place.

[Holden Magroin]

What makes it clear to most of us that Buchanan is an anti-semite is that he always singles out Jewish advocates of the Iraq War like Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer while ignoring gentile pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Hugh Hewitt. Also, Buchanan always excuses pro-war gentile politicians like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld on the grounds that the "Israel Lobby" threatened them with defeat if they didn't adopt its positions on Israel and Iraq word for word and pressured Bush to appoint Jews to posts in his administration to police Cheney's and Rumsfeld's thoughts on this issue. The notion that Jewish lobbyists are bossing around guys as hard-headed as Cheney and Rumsfeld is preposterous. Meanwhile, Buchanan ignores the role of evangelical Christians, who are aggressively pro-Israel and far more numerous than Jews in the Republican electorate.

[kindred]

[So far as Buchanan and his friends are concerned, it would seem that the only thing that’s required to make Israel the jewel of the Middle East is for those five million Jews to disappear.]


And this is why I despise the man Buchanan,he calls himself a conservative but hates Israel the same as liberals do and therefore he puts himself under the curse of God almighty, our Father, and Christ Jesus, our Lord.

[Thorin]

Thanks for your kind words.