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War: Pat Buchanan vs. Neo Cons
The war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon is not the only conflict brewing. Here on the homefront, sydicated columnist Pat Buchanan has launched a broadside against what he says are "neo cons" - American conservatives who support Israel and, Buchanan claims, are really pushing for a wider war between the United States and Iran. Writing in his most recent column "This Is Not Our War," Buchanan bemoaned the violence directed at Lebanon by the Israelis. Fellow conservative David Horowitz's online magazine Frontpagemag.com has opened up a front against Buchanan, with an article that levels charges of anti-Semitism against Buchanan and other so-called "paleoconservatives" for their condemnation of Israel's actions in the war. Quoting Fouad Siniora - the prime minister of Lebanon who complained his country has been "torn to shreds," and demanding that Israel must pay for the "barbaric destruction" - Buchanan noted the comments of fellow Christians, such as columnist Lawrence Kudlow, who says that "Israel is doing the Lord's work."
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Buchanan writes: Do his fellow Christians "care about what is happening to our Christian brethren in Lebanon and Gaza, who have had all power cut off by Israeli airstrikes, an outlawed form of collective punishment, that has left them with no sanitation, rotting food, impure water and days without light or electricity in the horrible heat of July."
Buchanan also quotes Ken Mehlman of the Republican National Committee, who is Jewish, who told a gathering of Christians United for Israel, "Today, we are all Israelis!"
Buchanan's column set off a bitter dispute with David Horowitz's Frontpage Magazine, provoking a July 21 unsigned editorial "The Protocols of Pat Buchanan," which links Buchanan with the infamous fraudulent document "The Protocols of Zion," long used to stir anti-Semitism. Noting that in two of his columns Buchanan accused President Bush "of being a puppet of nefarious Jewish warmongers," the editorial charged that "nothing sets Buchanan’s imagination racing like a Bush-backed Israeli war. On Tuesday, Pat asked, 'Who is whispering in his ear?' His answer: "bloodthirsty Hebrews." (Note: Buchanan never used this term.) Frontpagemag continues: "It’s all designed to smear the Jews and paint the terrorists as the victims rather than the aggressors and sole instigators of this war. He accomplishes this by highlighting only Muslim suffering – which Israel has taken extraordinary lengths to avoid – while ignoring the daily panic that fills the heart of an average Israeli boarding a bus, attending a wedding, or lunching at a corner deli. "He does this by overlooking the fact that Hezbollah and other Muslim terrorist groups hide in residential neighborhoods to maximize the number of innocent civilians killed by IDF retaliation in the hopes the world media will highlight Israeli "brutality” – as Pat has so willingly obliged. "All of this is perpetrated with the single aim of making Israel an international pariah, his pastime for decades," the magazine editorialized.
For his part, Buchanan targeted Weekly Standard editor and Fox News commentator William Kristol charging that "all this carnage and destruction has only piqued the blood lust of the hairy-chested warriors at the Weekly Standard. In a signed editorial, 'It's Our War,' William Kristol calls for America to play her rightful role in this war by "countering this act of aggression by Iran with a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. Why wait?" "Why wait?" asked Buchanan. "Well, one reason is that the United States has not been attacked. A second is a small thing called the Constitution."
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