kistenger was incredibly macchievalian, but unlike his modern day equivalence, he wasn't stupid and he certainly wasn't demented. kistenger was also the architect of some of the 20th century's worst human rights abuses and war crimes. the tfabo chakra has been looking back at henry kissinger's life and legacy. the passing of a war criminal: the death of henry a kissinger at 100 years old marks the end of a bloody life. kissinger is well-known for his role in engineering the coup that brought general pinoche to power in chile and overthrowing the democratically elected leader, salvador alende. kissinger's fingerprints were all over the wars, from vietnam to cambodia to east temore to bangladesh. less well known though, is kissinger's role in the neutralization. of egypt as effective actor in the struggle against zionism and the marginalization of palestinians by regional allies. it's fair to say you would not have the same level of egyptian complicity that you have today, including the genocidal blockade of ghazza at raffa crossing, without kissinger's work to subvert the powerful arab

discussion in a moment after our next report about the lecut parties plans to assassinate henry kistenger in 1977. despite his services, the designist entity in neutralizing egypt, there were some in the israeli political arena who could not trust henry kissinger and saw his activity is harming designer's project, while his work on normalization was carried out in lock step. with the israeli labor party, the right-wing liquid party, which currently governs designist entity, was deeply opposed to him. us state department officials leaked the story to the new york daily news in 1977 that the liquid party had put $150,000 contract for the assassination of kissinger. at first it was claimed that the threat eminated from palestinian groups aware of his work in isolating them, but it was... described as a quote, a small radical splinter faction within israel's liquid opposition block. end quote: what is the truth? was this merely us state department propaganda to depict kissinger as somehow an unbiased neutral arbitrator between the two sides, or was the threat genuine? as we've previously reve

david, um, what would you say kistenger is best known for today? well, if you look, google, he's known for being a man of peace, bringing china into the global system, and for helping with the middle east peace process, but of course the main thing that he's known for is the secret bombing of cambodia, which he accomplished with richard nixon, and as famous song in bristol, which refers to this and talks about how nixon and kissinger should be tried for. crimes for the secret bombing of cambodia, that was attempt to to directly bomb a country which wasn't involved in the conflict in vietnam uh in order that uh they could try and uh defeat the vietnamese communist party and of course they failed in that effort, but that was huge crime against humanity, the use of the defoliance of agent orange, the the the chemical after effects the war on vietnamese people for generations still... this day is a is key war crime of the century. let's also remember of course as was referred to in the film there, the role uh he played in the coup in chile in 1973 when

ask scott, what he made of the reports that some members of the lacut party wanted to assassinate kistenger. in the 1970s, well apparently the reports are true, the look good party uh denies it uh, they said that uh, you worst case it was an extreme faction of the lacut party acting independently of the lacut party itself, but the the principal interlocuteur uh for henry kissinger in israel were uh representatives of the labor party and so um the could party... was feeling isolated, was feeling um minimized and was feeling threatened because uh the the uh initiatives that henry kissinger was putting israel down um were not initiatives that the liquid party believed best represented their vision of what israel should be, and so i think they took umbrage at what henry kissinger was doing, and either collectively or through rogue... operative you initiated the processes putting money on the table to get henry kissinger assassinated. david, would you say that that would have been out of character for the code had they gone through with that? well, of course not, i mean comes out of the the arag

kistenger was incredibly macchiavalian, but unlike his modern day equivalence, he wasn't stupid and he certainly wasn't demented. kistinger was also the architect of some of the 20th century's worst human rights abuses and war crimes. the tfabo chakra has been looking back at henry kissinger's life and legacy.