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    Documents: Kissinger called Jews 'self-serving'

    WASHINGTON (AP) — American Jewish groups lobbying the Nixon White House on behalf of their Soviet brethren got under Henry Kissinger's skin in demanding intense pressure on Moscow. That's according to documents released by the State Department.

    Among the appeals flooding the White House was one from late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir to President Richard Nixon in August 1972 asking him to protest to the Kremlin its practice of levying fees for exit permits.

    Kissinger was Nixon's deputy national security adviser at the time. In exasperation, Kissinger said to another White House official, Leonard Garment: "Is there a more self-serving group of people than the Jewish community?" Kissinger is Jewish.

    A call to Kissinger's New York office seeking comment Thursday night was not immediately returned.

     
    • Boodica  •  6 mths ago
      He should know.

      But of course he will now be labeled a "self hating Jew"...
      • Cin Jin Smite 6 mths ago
        and a anti semite, a devil worshiper, a nazi, a hater of all people, a person that should be on death row, should be casterated..lol
    • Obie  •  6 mths ago
      That's like the matzah calling the bagel Kosher.
      • shaeree 6 mths ago
        Kissinger was born a jew, married a christian and has never been very supportive of the jewish people.
    • Scrumble  •  Elmhurst, United States  •  6 mths ago
      If anyone knows about self-serving, it's Kissinger.
    • Professor X  •  6 mths ago
      All special interests are self-serving. Jews just have one of the more powerful lobbies. It's unfortunate that Israels needs are usually put before America's because the average citizen has no one lobbying for them.
      • shaeree 6 mths ago
        How do you know? and Why not? if what you say is true.
    • Vice  •  Dallas, United States  •  6 mths ago
      We've caught Israel spying on us; why do we have to love them? In any other relationship it would be called abusive.
      • UI 6 mths ago
        Israel is the US's biggest blind spot. You're absolutely right that it's an abusive relationship, and I have never understood how a country that has cost the US so much in lives and money, continues to command such unbending support across political lines.
      • Patrick Crothers 6 mths ago
        For one thing we have the Joint US Israel Military Command/ Another is their mathematicians write the algorithms for our military encryption.
        they invented the cell phone and the Pentium computer chip. If there was no Israel we would need at lest two Carrier Groups to protect our shipping lanes.
        All nations spy on each other. What is the cost in lives you are talking about???
      • UI 6 mths ago
        @Patrick Crothers: The cost in lives: Rachel Corrie, Furkan Dogan on the Mavi Marmara, 34 crew members on the USS Liberty, just off the top of my head. Add in the thousands in wars that are at least partly to do with Israel refusing to be civilized. That's not the kind of US citizen murdering country I want to be friends with.
    • rico  •  6 mths ago
      Why would this be a surprise or news? Henry the K bathed in the blood of innocents while in the Nixon and Ford White Houses. Forget SE Asia, just count the bodies in Chile.
    • _  •  6 mths ago
      I'm going to laugh when Kissinger is the one who gets in trouble for an offhand comment he made in a private letter.
      This is the same guy who was extremely pro-Israel and helped give Israel a ****-ton of military aid during his tenure.
    • BongwaterBetty  •  6 mths ago
      I've yet to see a group of people who aren't self-serving. You show me a truly selfless person and I'll show you a corpse.
    • g  •  Hartwell, United States  •  6 mths ago
      he hit the nail on the head!
    • Highway to Yaeweh  •  6 mths ago
      That is really telling when a Jew says that about his fellow Jews...

      Just imagine what the Gentiles and Goys secretly think...no wonder Israel is armed to the teeth with illegal nukes and every other weapon imaginable...most of those arm free of charge courtesy of USA...
    • Jereld S  •  Stone Mountain, United States  •  6 mths ago
      I'm Jewish and if I was being honest, I would say they are. Try to get a job within their community, Hollywood or anything they have forced control of. Of course, you are more than welcome to play a Nazi in another Holocaust movie we love to whine about and shove down the throats of everyone on Earth while doing quite the same atrocities to Palestinians.
      • shaeree 6 mths ago
        I'm not a jew and I doubt that you are. From reading these posts fairly regularly I would say your rhetoric sounds more than familiar.....more likely an islamist but not a jew.
      • Dicky 6 mths ago
        We all keep kosher K & U!
      • Patrick Crothers 6 mths ago
        Nailed him Shae.
    • Nice and Fluffy!  •  6 mths ago
      Jews being selfish? Is that all he has to say?
      How was Henry Morgenthau (the Jewish American Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire) being selfish when he expressed concern for the Armenians being annihilated in the Ottoman Empire, stood up to Talat Pasha( one of the Armenian Genocide perpetrators), and even founded The Near East Relief to get all those Armenian orphans into other countries away from the Turkish government (who wanted to kill them and make them forget their own history)?

      How is Eli Wiesel being selfish since he founded his own foundation to help Holocaust survivors and other victims of genocide! He also called Turkey’s denial of the Armenian Genocide a “double killing”, why because he’s empathetic he knows what its like to be targeted for elimination!

      What about Raphael Lemkin who founded the word “genocide”, he was not only a Polish Jew, but he also used this term to describe the Armenian Genocide, along with the Holocaust to give people more of an idea about what he was talking about! He could have just described the Holocaust as a genocide, but he didn’t, he also included the Armenian Genocide from the 1st World War!

      What about people like Natalie Portman, Julianna Margulies, both Jews who didn’t have to lend their voices to The Armenian Genocide PBS documentary, but they did!

      I think Jews can be good people like everyone else, yes they can seem to cry wolf sometimes, but they're scared that people are going to kill them? How can you blame them for calling wolf when it’s a small form of oppression!

      Also keep in mind that Jews do in fact give to charities, and not just Jewish charities, but disability charities, genocide (other genocide) charities, cancer, AIDS, and any other charities.

      Personally I'm not much of a Kissinger person, but I guess he is the one that grew up in the Jewish community, idn, still doesn’t mean that all Jews are selfish because that is what he seems to be implying, but maybe he was being sarcastic!
    • phil  •  Rochdale, United Kingdom  •  6 mths ago
      The Jews were quietly asking the American President to pressure Russia to let the Jews out. Russia was refusing to let Jews out, and imprisoning people for practicing religion. Russia didn't want to let the Jews out because they were contributing so much intellectually, it'd have been a brain drain, while they banned religion.. Furthermore, if Jews are so self-serving, howcome many led and died for blacks to have civil rights, and marched with blacks for them to have civil rights.. If Jews are self serving, howcome they (perhaps stupidly) vote -democrat- and thus give a lot of their money away in taxes to the poorer, when they could keep more money if they voted Republican. Howcome they voted Obama, when clearly Obama and Netanyahu don't and wouldn't get on so well and it'd be better for Israel to vote Republican. There are anti-semites / self hating Jews Kissinger, he said if Soviets sent Jews to gas chambers, I hope nobody here would cheer that.
    • JevyJev  •  Bricktown, United States  •  6 mths ago
      That was in 1972 imagine the political power these groups have today.
    • Jose Winters  •  6 mths ago
      President Harry S. Truman wrote in his diary on 7/21/1947, "The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish...[W]hen they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment of the underdog."
    • Justin Saane  •  6 mths ago
      Tricky Dick meet Doctor Strangelove...(oy vey baby)
    • Boston02116  •  6 mths ago
      "Kissinger called Jews 'self-serving' "

      Because they are. At least he calls it like he sees it. Are they going to call him an anti-semite now?
    • Dennis W  •  Indianapolis, United States  •  6 mths ago
      And in the "Bible" Cain killed Abel. May history repeat itself (2012)?
    • LtDanhasnolegs  •  6 mths ago
      So he told it like it is...Good for him
    • c c  •  6 mths ago
      Wow, so what are they proactively going after Kissinger to make sure he's not on anyone's ticket in the next election? Nice timing!
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