i read those transcripts, and they were surprising and distasteful to me.
However, these were meant to be private conversations and we don’t know the context of them at all.
Apparently, Richard Nixon had very little good to say about Blacks and Italians, too, so we Jews are in good company.
I don’t think you should rate a man by what he says in private, or what he thinks, particularly out of context.
You need to look at his actions:
Kissinger and Nixon were most definitely responsible for making possible the exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union in the 1970’s, using diplomacy and trading Jews for grain, when the USSR had a famine. What they thought of those Jews they freed is really of little consequence. Let my people go!
And don’t forget Operation Nickel Grass, that over a four-week period in 1973 hundreds of jumbo U.S. military aircraft delivered more than 22,000 tons of armaments to Israel to help win the Yom Kippur War.
You need to look at Kissinger’s contributions in the context of his entire career.