Decades Later, Kissinger’s Words Stir Fresh Outrage Among Jews
Published: December 16, 2010
*** What has caused many heads to swivel is a recording of Henry A. Kissinger, his ( Richard M. Nixon's ) national security adviser. Mr. Kissinger is heard telling Nixon in 1973 that helping Soviet Jews emigrate and thus escape oppression by a totalitarian regime — a huge issue at the time — was “not an objective of American foreign policy.”
“And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union,” he added, “it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.”
In New York, the epicenter of Jewish life in the United States, some jaws are still not back in place after dropping to the floor.
