KISSINGER - 'If they put Jews into gas chambers ... it is not an American concern.'

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‘America’s most notorious war criminal’

“… [The] murderous regimes Kissinger supported and the conflicts they waged were responsible for millions of deaths, and millions of other human rights abuses …”

“… [The] most infamous crime Kissinger committed [was] a secret four-year bombing campaign in Cambodia … [He] personally ‘approved each of the 3,875 Cambodia bombing raids’ that occurred between 1969 and 1970 … The bombing campaign ultimately killed between 150,000 and a half-million Cambodian civilians … It also helped unleash a civil war inside Cambodia that led to the rise of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot … whose regime killed as many as 2 million Cambodians”

“Kissinger also directed illegal arms sales to Pakistan as it carried out a brutal crackdown on its Bengali population in 1971 … Bengali forces, with support from India, eventually forced the Pakistanis to surrender, leading to the creation of independent Bangladesh — but not before Pakistani armed forces and other allied militant groups killed as many as 3 million people and raped some 400,000 women … To Kissinger, it mattered little …”

“He supported the 1973 military coup that overthrew a democratically elected socialist government in Chile … Augusto Pinochet established a murderous dictatorship that killed an estimated 3,000 supposed dissidents and tortured as many as 40,000 more … Kissinger mocked the concerns State Department officials expressed about the dictatorship’s abuses”

“[He] gave the go-ahead to Indonesia’s 1975 invasion of East Timor …Indonesian forces proceeded to carry out … a genocide … [Some] estimates suggest they murdered 2,000 people in the initial days of the invasion alone. A truth and reconciliation committee later suggested that between 100,000 and 200,000 East Timorese people died throughout the conflict and the resulting Indonesian occupation …”

“[He] backed Argentina’s repressive military dictatorship as it launched its ‘dirty war’ against dissenters and leftists in 1976 … [He] told the country’s foreign minister to ‘get the terrorist problem’ — by which he meant dissenters against the new dictatorship — ‘over as quickly as possible’ … [He] attended the 1978 World Cup in Argentina as a special guest of Videla, the dictator, and lauded the regime for its success in ‘wiping out’ its opponents’ … [The] dictatorship … eventually disappeared as many as 30,000 people … Kissinger knew these many abuses were taking place …”

“His policies during the Ford administration … fueled civil wars in Africa, most notably in Angola …”

“He … [cheered] for war in Iraq: In 2002, a year before the US invaded, he called for regime change in Baghdad. Kissinger served as an ‘informal adviser’ … to President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and top aide Karl Rove throughout that war, [which killed] as many as 200,000 Iraqi civilians”

“His critics have made persuasive cases … that Kissinger was not just a war criminal, but responsible for the creation of an imperial foreign policy that [has] embroiled the US in a state of perpetual war …”

“Kissinger never showed remorse ... He maintained a mocking tone toward critics of his human rights record throughout his life …”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/henry-kissinger-dies_n_6376933ae4b0afce046cb44f

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PROF JOSEPH MASSAD: ‘Kissinger was a faithful representative of the elites whom he served all his life’

“The Clintons loved him dearly and attended his birthday parties. Hillary Clinton could not stop praising him for the advice he had given her when she served as secretary of state, insisting that ‘Kissinger is a friend’ …

“In 2016, Obama’s defence secretary gave the accused war criminal an award ‘honouring Dr. Henry A. Kissinger for his years of distinguished public service’ …

“In his book about Kissinger, [Christopher Hitchens] charged him with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ‘… conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture’.

“Hitchens, however, did not seem to realise that … each of those crimes should be levelled against the US government more generally …”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/murderous-legacy-henry-kissinger



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Time to repost Anthony Bourdain’s thoughts on Kissinger:

“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag … without choking.

“Witness what Henry did in Cambodia — the fruits of his genius for statesmanship — and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague …”

https://x.com/Baileymoon15/status/1730042805622374461?s=20


Kissinger & Schwab (centre)

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Kissinger’s attitude toward poorer Jews

“In 2012, he received Israel’s highest civilian honor from President Shimon Peres for his ‘significant contribution to the State of Israel and to humanity’”

“[But after] Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir pressed Nixon in 1973 to address the plight of Soviet Jews, Kissinger issued a blunt dismissal.

“‘The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy,’ Kissinger said, according to Oval Office recordings.

“‘And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.’

“After the recordings were released in 2010, Kissinger apologized for the gas chamber remark in a Washington Post op-ed …”

https://stljewishlight.org/news/world-news/henry-kissinger-influential-first-jewish-secretary-of-state-dies-at-100/