Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth published a recently revealed U.S. document saying former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger led the U.S. administration to divide the Sinai Peninsula between Egypt and Israel. It was mentioned that Kissinger described Israelis as “bastards who only left Sinai by war.” The Israeli newspaper said the secret documents revealed by the U.S. Secretary of State said that Kissinger, who was working as a chancellor for the U.S. National Security and then became Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon, thought dividing Sinai between Egypt and Israel would stop the war. The Egyptian administration at the time refused to waive Sinai or even accept dividing it with Israel as a temporary solution to stop the war. The U.S. documents revealed that Kissinger was seeking Israel's withdraw from the Suez Canal region, to divide Sinai between Egypt and Israel, and to put pressure on Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights. During a meeting with then-Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Kissinger said Israel will refuse to return Sinai and Golan. The U.S. documents said Washington was prepared to put economic and moral pressures on Israel to divide Jerusalem with the Palestinians in return for Arab recognition of Israel's right of existence. American Jews put pressure to stop the U.S. plan, which made Kissinger describe them as “selfish bastards.”
