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on the chaotic politics of the Middle East.
But to manage it,
he knew that he was going to have to
deal with President Assad of Syria.
President Assad was convinced
a real and lasting peace
between the Arabs and Israel
if the Palestinian refugees were
allowed to return to their homeland.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians
were living in exile in Syria,
as well as in the Lebanon and Jordan.
Have you found that the
Palestinians here want to integrate
with the Syrians at all?
Oh, no. No, never.
They don't want...
Not here or neither in
Lebanon or in Jordan, never.
No, because they want to stay
as a whole, as... Palestinian.
As... They call themselves, "Those Who Go Back" -
"al-a'iduun", you say in Arabic.
Assad also believed that such a peace
would strengthen the Arab world.
But Kissinger thought that strengthening the Arabs
would destabilise his balance of power.
So, he set out to do the very opposite -
to fracture the power of the Arab countries,
by dividing them and breaking their alliances,
so they would keep each other in check.
Kissinger now played a double game.
Or as he termed it, "constructive ambiguity".
In a series of meetings, he persuaded Egypt
to sign a separate agreement with Israel.
But at the same time, he led Assad to believe
that he was working for a wider peace agreement,
one that WOULD include the Palestinians.
In reality, the Palestinians were ignored.
They were irrelevant to the structural balance
of the global system.
The hallmark of Kissinger's thinking
about international politics
is its structural design.
Everything is always connected
in his mind to everything else.
But his first thoughts are on that level,
on this structural global balance of power level.
And as he addresses questions of human dignity,
human survival, human freedom...
...I think they tend to come into his mind
as an adjunct of the play of
nations at the power game.
When Assad found out the truth, it was too late.
In a series of confrontations
with Kissinger in Damascus,
Assad raged about this treachery.
He told Kissinger that what he had done
would release demons hidden under
the surface of the Arab world.
Kissinger described their meetings.
"Assad's controlled fury," he wrote,
"was all the more impressive for its eerily cold,
"seemingly unemotional, demeanour."
Assad now retreated.
He started to build a giant palace
that loomed over Damascus...
...and his belief that it would be
possible to transform the Arab world
began to fade.
A British journalist, who knew Assad, wrote...
"Assad's optimism has gone.
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