Pat was at one time pro Israel. Somewhere along the line, he switched and turned into a Pro Arab activist.
Selected Quotations from columns by Patrick J, Buchanan
*On the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, 6/25/82
“Politically, mankind suffered no irreversible loss with the sweeping of the PLO from the international chess board. As virulently anti-American as it was anti-Israeli, the PLO has been a Soviet cat’s-paw, the linchpin of international terror, the base camp for the worst elements on earth, a friend to every enemy of the United States from the Sandinistas in Nicaragua to Idi Amin in Uganda.”
*On the state of Israel, 1983
“Israel remains a tough, resourceful, energetic nation, an offspring of the West . . . whose current struggle merits sympathy and support.”
*On the Israeli strike against Iraqi nuclear reactor, 6/11/81
“From a security perspective, the Israelis’ preemptive strike against the Iraqi nuclear reactor outside Baghdad was timely and crucial.
..Given the implacable hatred of Baghdad for Israel— the nation is referred to only as “The Zionist Entity” — the prospect, indeed, the probability of atomic weapons in Iraqi hands, was one with which the Israelis literally could not live.
..righteous United States condemnation of Israel, a small sliver of land with three major cities, rings hollow. How, for example, would we expect President Reagan and Secretary of State Haig to act if weapons-grade material were being fed into a Soviet-built Cuban reactor, with Castro declaring: ‘This one is for the Yankees.
..what Israeli could go to sleep secure with revanchist Palestinians a few miles away nursing their hatred of the ‘Zionist imperialists’ who destroyed their homeland and drove their fathers and mothers into refugee camps?”
*On the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights, 12/17/85
“It would not be at all unreasonable if the Israelis came to the conclusion that their survival, more than ever, depends upon themselves alone. If a majority in that country have arrived at such a conclusion, it is natural to seek security in geography and guns, not treaties and talk.
..The militants — Syria, Libya, Iraq, the military wing of the PLO — will settle for nothing less than eradication of the “Zionist entity” from the Arab world. Within Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, there are millions more for whom the humbling and destruction of the Jewish state is a nightly dream. Even the “moderate” governments in the region — Egypt, for example — could probably not survive a permanent peace which left East Jerusalem under Israeli control.”
My source is the Buchanan Press release in 1996 shown on the following website:
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/b/buchanan-pat/buchanan-on-buchanan.html