„Ein Volk, das seit zweitausend Jahren verfolgt wird, muss doch irgendetwas falsch machen.“
zitiert in: Walter Isaacson, Kissinger - A Biography, S. 561
As was often the case, Kissinger's attitude toward his Jewishness was reflected in his humor, much of it directed at the pressure on him from "my co-religionists" to forgive any Israeli sin. At the height of his fury at Jerusalem for violating the October 1973 cease-fire and surrounding Egypt's Third Army, Kissinger grumbled at one WSAG[Washington Special Action Group]-meeting,
Original: (en) Any people who have been persecuted for two thousand years, must be doing something wrong.
