Pat's analysis around Israel also takes the facts only as he wishes to see them. Israel being sanctioned by the UN ignores the undeniable anti-Semitic bias of the organization. The disparity between Israeli and Palistinian incomes ignores the corruption and graft by Palistinian leadership that steals the sizeable amounts of aid that flow into their coffers and leaves their people destitute and undeveloped.
I don't think Pat is anti-Semitic. I do think Pat is an isolationist, and resents the difficulties he sees us as undergoing because of our support for Israel. I think this has colored his thinking and his positions.
One thing Buchanan does is reduce the Arab/Israeli conflict to the goliath Israel against the David "Palestinians"
With the daily pronouncements from Iran vis a vis Israel, you would think that would get a mention.
Maybe when discussion the economic numbers, he would mention the World's oil wealth, Saudi arabia, et all, and the oil weapon that's posed against Israel.
Syria? Even Egypt.
But most telling, in a piece published after Sharon's stroke, is that Buchanan has so much venom towards Israel that he still takes shots at a man lying in a coma whose influence is over.
Those insertions and omissions don't point to an isolationist only but to a hard core anti-Semite.