ABSTRACT
In May of 1991, in the pages of Commentary, the author wrote that "From so acute and interesting a mind as William Buckley, one might have expected better than vapid remarks about Patrick Buchanan's 'insensitivity' and A. M. Rosenthal's 'over-sensitivity.'" Buckley never admits that his colleague is an antisemite, only that he "went cuckoo," that is, became obsessed on the subject of Israel, became licentious in dealing with facts, and was "not industriously curious to uncover refutations of his burgeoning case against Israel". Most of Buchanan's litany of complaints against Israel and Jews, and his tedious whining about how his voice is being "stifled" could have come out of the pages of the Nation, especially the fierce mouthings of Alexander Cockburn. Buckley notes in his conclusion that Buchanan's survival, like Gore Vidal's, shows that "anti-Semitism with Israel as its focus is no longer professionally suicidal".
