Another case where Ron Paul’s hardcore base, the one that still thinks the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is real, finds this acceptable but just about no one else does.

Look at it this way: When it comes to supporting our allies, he’s to the left of Nancy Pelosi. Dude.

Nearly three years ago, Israel launched a counterattack on Palestinian terrorists in Gaza who had been firing thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians. In early January 2009, Paul released a web video in which he charged that Israel was launching a “pre-emptive war,” that Palestinians were living in a “concentration camp” and that they merely had “a few small missiles.”

He then repeated this claim on Press TV — the state-owned propaganda channel of Iran’s Islamist government. “To me, I look at it like a concentration camp, and people are making homemade bombs,” he said of the situation in Gaza, adding sarcastically, “like they’re they aggressors?”

I mean, just because the terrorist organization they not only support but have welcomed with opened arms fires a couple thousand rockets into Israel? And just because that same organization has stated its dedication to destroying Israel? That makes them aggressors? Gee, what’s the world coming to?

Now Paul says he’s a supporter and friend of Israel. Why? Because he’s hoping doing well in Iowa will give him a real chance at the nomination, and he fully understands that his anti-Israeli statements and positions will come back to haunt him. But it’s too late.

He wasn’t some radical youngster making these statements. He was a fully-grown, multi-term member of Congress who was saying this just two years ago. He should have thought about the political and ideological implications before trying to ingratiate himself with anti-Israeli anarchists.