I admit I have not read Martin Indyk’s 688-page love letter to Henry Kissinger, Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy. Of the above, here is the funniest headline: “Was Henry Kissinger a Misunderstood Idealist?” And here is the worst idea: Perhaps Biden could learn something from America’s most accomplished diplomat, Henry Kissinger. William Safire’s favorite president used to call Kissinger “Jewish, Jewish … Jewish as hell” and “a rag merchant” when Nixon was angry, but “my Jewboy” when apparently in a good mood. The second one was The State of Israel vs. the Jews by Sylvain Cypel. The first was a documentary called The Forgotten Ones, about the manner in which Mizrahi Jews (Jews who came from Arab countries) have been historically discriminated against in Israel and how that historic discrimination continues to reverberate today.

Source: CNN November 12, 2021 10:58 UTC