A Bullet for the Count

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: September 11, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Michael S. Arnold
Jerusalem Post
09-11-1998
The handover of parts of Eretz Yisrael to the Arabs. Arrangements undermining Jewish claims to Jerusalem. The murder, by an extremist Jewish nationalist, of the statesman responsible for these plans.It may seem familiar, a snapshot from Israeli politics of the 1990s. In fact, it's a snapshot taken from one of the earliest pages of Israeli politics, barely four months after the founding of the state.

Fifty years ago next week, on September 17, 1948, UN peace mediator Count Folke Bernadotte was assassinated in Jerusalem by a gang of ...

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