On This Day: Stern Gang assassinates UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte in 1948

The Jerusalem Post ^ | Sept 17 2021 | AARON REICH

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September 17, 2021 marks 73 years since the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish diplomat who had worked as a mediator between Jews and Arabs, by the pre-state militia known as the Stern Gang (Lehi).

Bernadotte was a member of the Swedish royal family and had worked extensively as a diplomat during World War II. During this time, he had helped free tens of thousands of prisoners held in Nazi Germany and had worked unsuccessfully to negotiate an armistice between the Nazis and the Western Allies, notably without the knowledge of Adolf Hitler.

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And a few years later, Dag Hammarskjoeld was taken out.

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https://youtu.be/CPks6vvjIwg?t=16

Busy at work for Hamas?

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Skip Ad WATCH: Gaza resident criticizes Hamas on Al Jazeera, reporter turns away and ignores him × White Teen Charged With Attempted Murder After Allegedly Trying Drown Black Teen While Calling Him ‘George Floyd’ White Teen Charged With Attempted Murder After Allegedly Trying Drown Black Teen While Calling Him ‘George Floyd’ Sponsored by Blavity Children are being held underground by Hamas Children are being held underground by Hamas Demand their freedom now. Help bring them home Sponsored by Bring Them Home Now In May 1948, the UN Security Council appointed Bernadotte the United Nations mediator in Palestine in an attempt to negotiate an end to the violence between Jews and Arabs following the war that broke out right after Israel declared independence. Bernadotte worked extensively to try and mediate during the war, and had even helped mediate an initial truce in the conflict. However, he is most well-remembered for his plan, known as the "Bernadotte plan," which he wrote in the summer and submitted to the UN General Assembly on September 16, 1948. Advertisement The first draft of the plan, submitted in the summer, called for the establishment of a union between Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan with two member-states, one Arab and one Jewish, with autonomy over foreign relations and fixed boundaries regarding the status and sovereignty of notable cities and territories belonging to the Jewish and Arab state. The second and far more complex draft recognized the existence of Israel (the wording specifically noting that "A Jewish State called Israel exists in Palestine and there are no sound reasons for assuming that it will not continue to do so"). Advertisement Of note regarding the second plan were the territorial considerations and the right of return. In terms of territory, the proposal specifically stated that the Negev would be Arab territory while the Galilee would be Jewish. Haifa would be declared a free port and the airport at Lydda (known today as Lod and the airport now known as Ben-Gurion Airport) be a free airport. Jerusalem would essentially be an international city under the control of the UN. In terms of the right of return, Bernadotte was very vocal in his support for an Arab right of return, and said they should be allowed to return to their homes in Jewish-controlled territory at the earliest date possible, and those who do not return should be repatriated, resettled and financially compensated. "The exodus of Palestinian Arabs resulted from panic created by fighting in their communities, by rumors concerning real or alleged acts of terrorism, or expulsion," he said in the proposal. "It would be an offense against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine, and, indeed, at least offer the threat of permanent replacement of the Arab refugees who have been rooted in the land for centuries." Advertisement The plan would ultimately be rejected by the UN, many crediting the lack of support from then-US president Harry S. Truman. In addition, Israel's leadership had also decided to reject the plan. But one day after his plan was submitted to the General Assembly, Bernadotte would be killed. His was planned by the Stern Gang during a truce period between Israel and the Arab states. The Stern Gang was unaware Israel rejected the plan, and feared they might actually agree to it. Your gift can ensure our life saving response. In times of crisis, we need your support. Sponsored by Save the Children THE COUNTRY pays their last respects to The assassination was approved by Stern Gang leaders, including future Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir and future MK and peace activist Natan Yellin-Mor, and was carried out on the 17th in the Katamon neighborhood in Jerusalem. A four-man team ambushed his motorcade, with one of the men firing six rounds into Bernadotte, and another 18 at Col. Andre Serot, who sat next to him, killing them.

The Stern Gang assassinated him because they were afraid their own country would approve of his plan.

The Stern Terrorists were a nasty lot. The deniable left hand.

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The assassination was approved by Stern Gang leaders, including future Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir and future MK and peace activist Natan Yellin-Mor, and was carried out on the 17th in the Katamon neighborhood in Jerusalem. A four-man team ambushed his motorcade, with one of the men firing six rounds into Bernadotte, and another 18 at Col. Andre Serot, who sat next to him, killing them.

The Stern Gang assassinated him because they were afraid their own country would approve of his plan.

The Stern Terrorists were a nasty lot. The deniable left hand.

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" The Stern Terrorists were a nasty lot. The deniable left hand."

For a time they were working with Irgun to try to establish "street cred" (my term). According to former officers with both Haganah and Irgun, Stern gang & Irgun got permission from the Haganah commander to lead the attack on the Arab village of Deir Yassin during the 1st civil war (Apr 9th, 1948). Whether he did this to spare his own troops, or whether he wanted Stern/Irgun to open a can of whup-ass on them, or whether he simply couldn't control them I couldn't say, but I suspect the latter.

When they found the village was full of Palestinian fighters, they went house-to-house, throwing a grenade in the front door before entering. That the Palestinians were using civilians as human shields cut no muster with them and they killed women and children along with the Arab belligerents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre

Which sounds brutal but they were still in the same decade when a third of their people world-wide had been exterminated for being Jewish, and they obviously were fed up and in no mood to let anything prevent them securing a homeland where they could control their own security and fate.

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From the article you cite:

“Yoma Ben-Sasson, Haganah commander in Givat Shaul, said after the village had been captured that, “there was not even one incident between Deir Yassin and the Jews.”[22] The view was echoed in a secret Haganah report which stated that the village had stayed “faithful allies of the western [Jerusalem] sector.”[2]”

Deir Yassin had ordered three groups of Arab militants to move off, and they did.

Irgun and Lehi were a nasty lot. Not all the Israelis went so low, but neither did Israel investigate or punish or disavow their terrorists to any degree.

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Bernadotte also helped save many sick Holocaust survivors after World War 2 and was responsible for bringing a few thousand, including my maternal grandparents and uncle to Sweden. He did some good things. I am a third generation revisionist Zionist. I don't agree with everything done by the Freedom Fighters of Israel. Then again, I think that some of the things done during the American Revolution were wrong. Tarring and Feathering is often fatal and effectively was terrorism.
The US and Israel both have a right to exist.

[rmlew]

There was no Deir Yassin Massacre. The Arab Army occupying Deir Yassin faked surrender and then shot at the Israelis from homes. These were cleared and civilians died in the fighting. Many Arab civilians were armed.
https://www.asmeascholars.org/the-massacre-that-never-was

[rmlew]

Yoma Ben-Sasson was happy to lie to attack the Revisionist Zionists, even if it meant that all Jews and Israel would have their reputation harmed. Labor/Socialist Zionist scum have a long tradition of such lies. It is how they gained power int he 1930s, collaborated with the British to keep religious and revisionist Zionist Jews from immigrating, and set up the institutions in Israel. And this included violence, like Rabin firing arterllery ont he Altalena, an Irgun ship carrying refugees and weapons.