Comment by emchammer
2 years ago
Jews are often accused of dual loyalty. Kissinger would have been livid at the suggestion that he placed Jewish interests above the American national interest.
2 years ago
Jews are often accused of dual loyalty. Kissinger would have been livid at the suggestion that he placed Jewish interests above the American national interest.
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"Placing Jewish interests above American national interests" is a contradictory accusation, there are just as many Jewish people in the United States as there are anywhere else. Showing preference for a foreign country he has been engaged in diplomacy with is an accusation that has dogged much of Kissinger's career, including a lot of criticism for being soft on the Soviets due to how nicely their diplomats treated him. Peace with the soviet union was probably not against US interests as his neoconservative critics of the time would have claimed, and Israel has done a lot at the behest of the united states - so maybe they are both wrong, but it is not necessarily an antisemitic accusation. Of course some people will think Kissinger was soft on Israel, he existed at one point on the spectrum of policy and he was not at an extreme.
P.S. If you want to hear my opinion, it's that ascribing to Kissinger the overall direction of our government's foreign policy is usually not the right answer, given that he was always surrounded by many others who agreed with him. You don't get to be a well-liked figure in Washington by acting like a disagreeable outsider slash maverick...