“Solidarity with Palestine!” The day after the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel which left more than 1,200 dead on the Jewish state’s side, the slogan was chanted in the Berlin district of Neukölln. A large Muslim community – Turks, Syrians, Afghans – inhabits these streets of the German capital. In the process, Germany banned these rallies in support of Palestine. For former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who spoke in an interview with Germany’s leading channel Welt TV, this would prove that Germany has let too many foreigners into the country.
“It was a big mistake to let in so many people of totally different cultures, religions and concepts, because it creates a pressure group inside each country that did the same thing,” said the former head of American diplomacy, aged 100. Henry Kissinger said it was “painful” to see these demonstrators rejoicing in Berlin over the aggression against Israel.
Born into a Bavarian Jewish family on May 27, 1923, Heinz Kissinger – his real name – fled Nazism and reached the United States with his people in 1938, five years after Hitler came to power. Twelve members of his family would disappear in the Holocaust. He did not become an American citizen until 1943. Two decades later, he gradually established himself as the architect of American diplomacy from the 1970s with two guidelines: détente with Russia and openness with China. And this, until he was sidelined by Reagan, a supporter of a policy of standoff with the USSR.
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The real objective of Hamas “can only be to mobilize the Arab world against Israel and to get away from the path of peaceful negotiations,” Kissinger warned. According to him, it is also “possible” that Israel will take measures against Iran, if Tel Aviv believes that Tehran played a role in the attack. Iran is one of the main supporters of Hamas and shares its desire to eradicate the Jewish state. Henry Kissinger also spoke of a “fundamental attack on the international system” regarding Hamas’ aggression against Israel, which is further shaking the global order, a year and a half after Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine.
Hamas’ “act of aggression” must be subject to “a certain sanction,” he said in the same interview, while warning of the danger of escalation in the region. . “The conflict in the Middle East risks intensifying and dragging other Arab countries under the pressure of their public opinion,” warned Kissinger, referring to the Yom Kippur War of 1973, which saw the emergence of an Arab coalition led by Egypt and Syria against Israel.
The attack launched by Hamas came 50 years and one day after the start of that 1973 war. Henry Kissinger had just been appointed Secretary of State in 1973, at the time of the Yom Kippur War.
