Editing Pat Buchanan (section)

====Comments about Israel====
In the context of the [[Gulf War]], on August 26, 1990, Buchanan appeared on ''[[The McLaughlin Group]]'' and said: "there are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East – the Israeli defense ministry and its 'amen corner' in the United States." Buchanan on ''The McLaughlin Group'' on June 15, 1990, asserted: "Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory".<ref name="ADLprofile">{{Cite web|title=Pat Buchanan in his own words|url=http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/buchanan_intro.asp|publisher=ADL|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026130115/http://www.adl.org/special_reports/buchanan_own_words/buchanan_intro.asp|archive-date=October 26, 2012}}</ref> He also said in the August 1990 program: "The Israelis want this war desperately because they want the United States to destroy the Iraqi war machine. They want us to finish them off. They don't care about our relations with the Arab world."<ref name="JTA19900831">{{cite news|url=https://www.jta.org/1990/08/31/archive/behind-the-headlines-buchanans-latest-anti-israel-slur-may-signal-new-conservative-trend|title=Behind the Headlines; Buchanan's Latest Anti-israel Slur May Signal New Conservative Trend
|work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=August 31, 1990|access-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref> [[A. M. Rosenthal]], in an article for ''[[The New York Times]]'' explicitly accused Buchanan of antisemitism on the grounds that he had used the word "Israelis" as a cover for Jews.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rosenthal|first=A. M.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/14/opinion/on-my-mind-forgive-them-not.html|title=On My Mind; Forgive Them Not|work=The New York Times|date=September 14, 1990|access-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref> [[Abraham Foxman]], the director of the ADL, compared Buchanan's comments to insinuations made during the [[World War II|Second World War]] "that Jews were the only ones who sought American entry in the war against Nazi Germany".<ref name="JTA19900831" />

Holocaust survivor [[Elie Wiesel]] in September 1990 said Buchanan "leaves the memory of Jewish victims in such disdain; a man who always takes the side of those accused of being killers; a man who is constantly criticizing Israel; a man who always has something nasty to say about the Jewish people".<ref name="WaPo19900920" />