Pat Buchanan stands up for Obama against that mean Netanyahu

Jihad Watch ^ | 8/15/15 | Robert Spencer

[Nachum]

Pat Buchanan has for years been such a virulent opponent of Israel that he has frequently been accused of anti-Semitism, and this column condemning Benjamin Netanyahu for supposedly interfering in America’s internal affairs by opposing the Iran deal is not going to erase that impression. The paleocon Right hates Israel with such abiding passion that it is increasingly self-contradictory: for a small government advocate like Buchanan defending Barack Obama and tacitly supporting a deal that threatens not just Israel, but the U.S. as well, manifests a moral myopia of catastrophic immensity.

But it’s no surprise. I’ve noted before how the paleocons over at Buchanan’s American Conservative have embraced the hard Left’s invention of “Islamophobia” and even come out in favor of submitting to violent intimidation and kowtowing to the foes of the freedom of speech. If they’re the opposite end of the political spectrum from the hard Left, the ends are meeting.

And now Pat Buchanan pretends that Barack Obama, who has shown himself again and again to have the attitude and assumptions and sensibilities of a Marxist internationalist, is an old-school President like Truman or Ike who only makes deals with other nations with America’s best interests at heart. That’s some serious hatred of Israel, to make Pat Buchanan pick up the pom-poms for a far-Left statist. But lines are being redrawn all over the place these days.

[Jane Long]

Wonder if Hannity will ask his “good friend” Buchanan about this.

[GunRunner]

I like your summation of the spectrum of thought regarding our political relationship with Israel. I think it may be on point.

However, I don't think it explains Buchanan, whose anti-Israel views are nothing but a by-product of old white guy syndrome. It's inherent in a lot of aging paleocons; the others that come to mind are Joseph Sobran and Charlie Reese.

I used to mash my teeth reading Reese's columns back when he was above ground. Anti-semitism maybe an overreaction for Sobran and Buchanan (but maybe not), however I am absolutely convinced that Charlie Reese was a legitimate old-school anti-semite whose hatred of Jews caused him to cross the line and actually become a supporter of terrorism. I smiled the day he croaked.

[ek_hornbeck]

The foreign policy realists, such as James Baker or Brent Scowcroft, are also often called anti-semites. Another of the realists, Henry Kissinger, because he is Jew, is called a self loathing Jew

Caspar Weinberger (Reagan's Secretary of Defense) was tarred with the same brush. In other words, in some circles, "anti-semite" (or "self-hating Jew") has come to mean anyone and everyone who deviates from the AIPAC line.