GOP Candidate Pat Buchanan
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In response to “Buchanan an Anti-Semite? It’s a Smear,” by Murray Rothbard, Column Right, Jan. 6:
As a professor of economics, Rothbard should distinguish between a person’s ideas and his personality. His friend Buchanan may be a human being with some admirable person-to-person traits. But does this excuse a consistent trail of disturbing comments that seem to put him on the side of those who hate the Jewish people?
Opposing the Gulf War was one thing; the insinuation that Israel is somehow the culprit is correctly threatening. John Demjanjuk may be (perhaps) technically innocent of one war crime notwithstanding his indefensible complicity in the Holocaust. Do Demjanjuk or similarly deported war criminals deserve the kind of unequivocal sympathy and support Buchanan gave him in his columns?
And to suggest that the intifada is so squeaky pure and clean and Israel so wrong is universally accepted as true is blatantly anti-Israel, if not anti-Semitic. Come on now!
The planning of the new neo-Nazis is to divide Jews and decent non-Jews and accomplish by guile what they failed to do by gross brute force in the past.
Don’t be fooled, Murray Rothbard. Buchanan’s no real friend of Jews.
WILLIAM S. GREENE, Granada Hills
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