Larry Auster of View From The Right deftly dissects Patrick Buchanan’s latest outré opinions on Israel:

“ I think it’s a legitimate question whether Israel’s reprisals are going too far. But Buchanan, having set up the entire situation as Israel’s fault, having portrayed Israel as provoking the Palestinians to dig a tunnel into Israel to kill Israelis, having portrayed the Hezbollah attack on Israel as a mere pretext that Israel seized upon to carry out a pre-planned attack on Lebanon (rather than as an act of war by a party that is an elected member of the Lebanese government), and, of course, having totally ignored the Israeli policy of appeasement that led to all this (since that would spoil the picture of Israel as a heartless aggressor) — Buchanan has zero credibility to make the case that the Israeli offense is excessive in execution, though technically justified, since the whole point of the first half of his column is that it is not justified.

Read the blog post, “The Mideast Conflict According to Buchanan, in its entirety, here.