By Patrick J. Buchanan – April 30, 2002

When fascism comes to America, said Huey Long, it will come in the guise of anti-fascism. And since Vietnam, it has been so.

Brownshirt tactics, shouting down speakers, disrupting opposition rallies, demonstrations that degenerate into riots – all have been used repeatedly by self-described fighters against racism and fascism. And invariably, these crimes against decency and democracy have been ignored or condoned by those who share the left’s revulsion of the right.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – April 26, 2002

Ariel Sharon is now contemplating annexation of half of the West Bank. So The Washington Times reports, and so Israel’s Foreign Minister confirms. And if Sharon is that cocky, who can blame him? Indeed, why does he not simply annex it all?

After all, who is going to stop him?

Certainly not the Americans. In short order, Sharon has put Arafat under arrest, smashed his Palestinian Authority, killed hundreds of his fighters, locked up thousands more in camps and jails, eclipsed his rival Netanyahu, become the most popular man in Israel, and bested the president of the United States in a face-off, as the president conceded defeat by declaring him a “man of peace.”

By Patrick J. Buchanan – April 23, 2002

“Non” screamed the single-word headline in Liberation. “The French political system, tottering for years, has imploded,” howled the editorial. Now, any election that can produce that kind of pain on the Trotskyite-Socialist Left cannot be all bad.

And the stunning showing of Jean-Marie Le Pen, who ran a close second to President Jacques Chirac in France’s elections with 17 percent of the vote, to 16 percent for Premier Lionel Jospin, is by no means all bad. Indeed, there is much that is healthy in this rightist uprising, beyond ending the political career of the ex-Trotskyite Jospin.

By Patrick J. Buchanan – April 12, 2002

President Bush’s war on terror is close to being derailed, and his Middle East policy is starting to look like downtown Jenin.

What happened? Not long ago, President Bush, victorious in the Afghan war, seemed everywhere invincible. But this last month has left him looking almost impotent in the Middle East.

What happened was predicted here six months ago. When Phase I of the war on terror ends, I wrote, the president will face a tough choice: Follow the War Party and invade Iraq, which will shatter his Arab and allied coalition, or try to force a peace in the Palestinian conflict, which will shatter his domestic coalition.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – April 10, 2002

“Volkert van der Graf, 32, is a slender, blond-haired Dutchman whose pictures reveal nothing special except perhaps a taut, ascetic look.

“But for almost a decade, friends and associates say, this quiet man and strict vegetarian has been consumed by his fight to reduce the suffering of animals reared in industrial quantities for food, fur coats or medical experiments.”

Sounds like a description of St. Francis of Assisi, doesn’t it? But it is not. These are the lead paragraphs in The New York Times story that describes the enviro-fanatic charged with gunning down Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn outside a TV studio this week.

By Patrick J. Buchanan – April 9, 2002

Seventy-two hours after President Bush told Ariel Sharon to pull out of the West Bank “without delay,” the Israeli army was still pounding away at Palestinians in the biggest offensive there since 1967.

“I meant what I said,” an exasperated president railed at Sharon yesterday afternoon. Yet, still, the Israeli war machine rolled on.

Round one in the clash between the president and prime minister thus goes to Sharon. And before the president puts America’s credibility on the line again, he might reconsider. For in any face-off with Sharon, he is likely to be rebuffed again.

By Patrick J. Buchanan – April 5, 2002

If President Bush is visibly agonizing over this Mideast crisis, who can blame him? For the president is facing a painful and stark choice – between doing what is right for America, and doing what is angrily demanded of him by Ariel Sharon and the War Party in the United States.

Incited by the savage suicide attacks over Passover, Sharon sent his army rampaging onto the West Bank, shooting up Arafat’s headquarters, killing Palestinians by the score, and igniting a storm of protest from our friends and allies. Why, they demand to know of us, does the president not rein in the raging bull of Ramallah?

By Patrick J. Buchanan – April 2, 2002

“Citizens of Israel, the state of Israel is at war – a war against terror,” thundered Ariel Sharon in his Sunday address to the nation.

But Sharon’s rage and resolve notwithstanding, Israel is not at war with terror. Israel is at war with Palestine.

The terrorism of the suicide bombers of the intifada – ugly and awful as its manifestations are in Netanya, Haifa, and Jerusalem – is but a tactic in a guerrilla war of national liberation being waged by the Palestinian people against Israeli occupation. It is a tactic with a venerable pedigree in the 20th century, where it was used repeatedly and successfully against the Western empires.