It is not really easy to summarize what was going on when Samuel Pisar and I talked. We did not talk very often. When I was in France I would usually call him. Sometimes, I recall, his wife Judith would answer. I never really talked to Judith, just moments of “hello, is Sam around?”. One thing I noticed is Judith had a very deep voice for a woman. Judith Pisar is Antony Blinken's mother and Antony Blinken is Joe Biden's secretary of state. So I did not really have any interaction with Judith, not that I can remember.

When I first met Pisar it was probably 1982-83, I believe [I am not sure when it was exactly]. At his home near the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris. It was during the week, I believe. As I have said elsewhere, it was a buddy in Paris that told me to call up Pisar and go meet and talk to him. I cannot remember this guy's name. I think I recall getting an email from him back in 2009 or so, he told me he was a psychoanalyst in Paris. My memory is really sketchy for all of this. I just do not remember much at all.

Pisar and I bonded right away – we became friends right way – and we had a pretty intense conversation about the world and the forces driving the world. He admitted to me that I was already famous and powerful – I was 23-24 years old – and he wanted to read my stuff, a theory that I conceived on how the world worked, the human world. He told me about his writing, his books, his relationship with Francois Mitterrand – who was then president of France. He admitted to me that Mitterrand did not especially like Jews, that it was Pisar's job and duty to make sure the Jewish community in France did OK with respect to the Mitterrand government.

One thing that did stand out in our first conversation was Pisar's argument that he was in fact the real architect of the Nixon/Kissinger policy of detente with the Soviet Union. Pisar wanted to see what my reaction was, I could tell. I think I recall smiling, and saying “hey that makes sense, I believe you.” I was sincere, I do think he was the genuine architect of detente with the Soviet Union. Pisar did international law, he was an “East-West lawyer” and so he realized early on that the cold war was misguided, the extreme tensions, and that a cooling down policy and the encouragement of trade and business with the East Bloc would be very helpful – and powerful policy. Pisar spoke Russian fluently, as well as English and French, and I believe also German.

What do I really think of Pisar [1929-2015]? He was very smart, in my article in the early years of World Affairs Monthly, I called him a genius. I do not back off from that, now. He was in awe of me, no doubt, so sometimes it was uncomfortable for me. The main reasons we had discussions was to exchange thoughts about the world – what was going on – and I could tell he always wanted to know what I was thinking.

We did not often talk about the so-called Holocaust. I had the impression that he was really exploiting that part of his life, his experience as a kid and facing off with the Germans. Pisar knew I was pretty much a skeptic when it came to the Holocaust. Obviously the German nation had it out for the Ashkenazi Jews in the Pale of Settlement. Pisar got famous for being a Jewish kid who survived World War II – when many of his close relatives, including his parents, did not. I think the vast majority of the German nation was not out to annihilate the Jews, they were mostly outraged at what was going on east of Germany, in the Soviet Union. Communism.

Yes, there was maybe 20% of the German population that was extremely conservative, mainly in Bavaria, that detested Jewish culture and Jewish politics. The vast majority of Germans were typical Europeans – tolerant and Christian. It was the Versailles Treaty [“the Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919”] that really pushed things over into extreme anger and frustration.

My theory would be that if the Versailles Treaty had not been signed, then things would have been completely different. There may not have been a subsequent war, World War II. The Bolshevik Revolution did freak out the Germans, surely, and the fact that many Ashkenazi Jews – from the Pale of Settlement – were communists who were openly supporting what was going on in the Soviet Union did cause a lot of anger in Berlin.

One thing Pisar and I did not ever discuss was his stepson Antony Blinken, Judith's son from a previous marriage. We did talk about his daughter Leah, she is the only child of Samuel Pisar and Judith Blinken. What's really amazing is that Pisar – if I could call him up today – would likely be conceding to me that his stepson is an outrageously incompetent diplomat and secretary of state. That's what I would argue and I really doubt Pisar would challenge me. He never really challenged anything I argued. Biden and his boss Blinken are presiding over the disintegration of Zionism. It's funny, obviously; but not very funny to the Palestinians who are being genocided and slaughtered.

It is the end of hard-core Zionism, it is the end of Zionism/Israel, period. There is no doubt about this.

The last thing I will say about Pisar here is that I do not really think he was a genuine Zionist. He knew it was bullshit and stupid. It is just that he married into a hard-core Zionist Jewish family – his second marriage. What else was he going to do? He married up, it seems. A middle class Jewish kid from Bialystok Poland was going to have to do this shit to survive. Pretend to be a hard-core Zionist. I will republish the audio recording of the June 2006 interview with Samuel Pisar as soon as possible.

I have published below some information about Pisar and his stepson Antony Blinken. The publishers of Jewish Journal are likely deeply disturbed indeed frightened by what is now going on -- the calling out of Jewish power and the genocide of the Palestinians. The second to last image is the Google translation [which conveys the accurate meaning but is otherwise atrocious] of the French from Pisar's book La Ressource Humaine. It is a blunt and totally justified criticism of Ronald Reagan's foreign policy. The first and final image is a diagram of my theory which Pisar was so impressed with. This is the human mammal, its nature. 

So yes, Antony Blinken, Joe Biden's secretary of state, is one of the worst secretary of states the United States of America has ever had -- and there have been quite a few bad ones. Pisar would, I repeat, agree with me, everything I say. He always agreed with everything I said. He would not be surprised at what I am now doing. That's why he wanted to meet me in 1983. He'd be bragging about knowing me and being a friend of mine. Pisar was honest, really impressively honest. That's what war does to you, it makes you honest. Coming close to death is a powerful force in the human mammal brain.