Can you imagine the reactions and uproar of those ugly words of Kissinger were uttered by an Arab- or Muslim- American?

And the only reason why there is no outrage toward his remarks is because he is perceived as a racist pro-Israeli.  "As a child of refugees from Nazi Germany and a professor of modern Jewish history at New York University, I am horrified by a 1973 remark by Henry A. Kissinger captured on the tapes: “And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.”

Nixon’s anti-Semitism and general racism come as no surprise. But it is appalling that less than 30 years after some of Mr. Kissinger’s and my own relatives and countless other victims perished in the Holocaust, he can say something so despicable. A comment like this may offer new insight into the mentality of a man whose Realpolitik gave us Augusto Pinochet and the bombing of Cambodia.

Marion Kaplan
New York, Dec. 12, 2010"