No! It was William Safire.
Pat used to be pro Israel and anti - Arab. When criticism began flowing because of his support for ethnic Nazis (a policy he probably copied from then congressman Nixon), Pat cleverly turned anti-Israeli so he could say that the Jews were picking on him for his support of an even handed mid east policy.
It was calculation when he first started it, but now he has internalized it along with the anti-Semitism.