Buchanan has said and written things that make him sound like an anti-Semite. He has, however, often put forward a balanced position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I can't say I disagree with what he said in the video, outside of his loaded language and his glossing over how hard it will be to create peace with Hamas.
Buchanan's sort of an awful person, with his antisemitism being just once facet of a rich tapestry of cultural bigotry.
But, as I've said before, I like him as a pundit. He's not usually a bully and when he talks you know you're getting his opinion, rather than a coordinated party line. Maybe because of his experience in actual electoral contests, he's candid about how realpolitik works, including ethnic loyalties and other less-than-noble impulses.
I remember seeing him years ago (on the McLaughlin Group) predicting that Ariel Sharon was going to win the elections in Israel. "When people are scared, they turn to a strongman." He didn't say it with any apparent malice, judgment, or glee.
He's held up as the avatar of a once-dominant strain of Republican foreign policy that was displaced by Bush and the neocons, which is wrong. The conservatives who gravitated to him in the 90's weren't real isolationists; they were comfortable as interventionist anti-Communists before and are comfortable as interventionist anti-Islamists now.
I do sometimes wish he'd drop out of the public debate. Charges of antisemitism are used as a bludgeon against any and all critics of Israel (see Jeffrey Goldberg sliming Stephen Walt) and at the very least Buchanan's presence gives them extra ammunition.
