Tomorrow, September 17, is the 60th anniversary of the murder of U.N. negotiator Folke Bernadotte, a hero of the Holocaust who was calling for an open Jerusalem among other things. The Stern gang got him in Jerusalem. Itzhak Shamir, who reportedly played a role in the murder, became Israeli P.M. 45 years later.
Here's the Washington Report's piece on Bernadotte, saying that the murder was a blow to the authority of the U.N.–a pattern in Israeli history. Here's a progressive Jewish writer's memorial to Bernadotte, where he notes that Bernadotte was a "righteous gentile" during the Holocaust in northern Europe, saving thousands of Jews–and that the Nakba, during which Bernadotte died, has become the Palestinian Shoah. And here's Time Magazine's eulogy to Bernadotte. The magazine was actually anti-Zionist back then, and allied with Sec'y of State George Marshall. Note that Zionist screenwriter Ben Hecht says, "[Bernadotte] was an ass
not worthy of so fine a death."
There's a great anecdote about the murder in the late Times columnist C.L. Sulzberger's memoir, A Long Row of Candles. Sulzberger was in Tel Aviv in summer '48 when two handsome khaki-clad members of the Stern gang knocked on his door and made a vow that they were going to kill Bernadotte–"just the way Sternists had murdered (my word, not theirs) Lord Moyne because it was necessary to frustrate the UN effort to confine Israel within artificially constricted borders. At first I couldn't believe them….. inclined to dismiss this as just another one of the absurdities that are so commonplace here."
Then a few weeks later in August '48, Sulzberger learns that Bernadotte he has confided the following "ultimate solution for Palestine: There will be a Jewish state, no matter what else happens. Its boundaries will have to be radically altered [narrowed] to provide a more compact and workable state. Its Arab neighbors must be given an ironclad UN guarantee against any move to expand. But he personally does no think there is any danger of such a move. He believes immigration will never prove a source of overpopulation; within a few years emigration from Israel may exceed immigration. Meanwhile, he believes there will be no new outbreak of war."
Three weeks later, Sulzberger was shocked to hear of Bernadotte's murder. Of course, the west has continually been shocked by Israeli extremism. And no, the expansion was not stopped, and the Arab neighbors have continually felt threatened, and so has Israel felt threatened. There have been several wars; and the Palestinians have never had a state. In November we will celebrate the 89th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which helped to create Israel and also said: "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine." How we doing? No state. 60 years.
Wednesday marks another anniversary: the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon was discovered on Sept. 18, 1982.
"In November we will celebrate the 89th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration."
Uhhhh … who's this "we" you takin' 'bout? Maybe "mourn" would be a more apposite verb.
And on December 23, "we" will celebrate the 95th anniversary of the Federal Reserve, as it shreds the remaining 3% of the dollar's value that it didn't manage to destroy in the first 95 years of its misbegotten existence.
US, UK, Israel — three nuclear-armed banana republics, headed for history's funeral pyre.
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The young rabbi, Yaakov Yisrael Dahan was murdered on July 1, 1924. He was a man who devoted all his energies and the best years of his life to saving the remnant of loyal Jews, and to promote peace with the veteran Arab residents of the Holy Land. Through his knowledge of politics and diplomacy, Dahan contributed much to crystallizing an independent position for Orthodox Jewry unaffiliated with the Zionist leadership.
It goes without saying that the Eida Haredis was accepted warmly among non-Jews, much more so than was the case with the Zionists – both because of the fact that the Eida Haredis represented traditional, authentic Judaism against Zionism that openly rejected Judaism in its entirety, and because of the fact that the Orthodox position made more sense in order to prevent bloodshed and promote harmony in Palestine.
Rabbi Dahan then organized a delegation of Orthodox leaders to meet with Arab leaders headed by King Abdullah. The Jewish delegation was headed by Rabbi Zonnenfeld, and was welcomed by the Arabs like royalty. The king even gave them expensive gifts as a sign of his affection. Of course the Zionists were gritting their teeth when they learned of this event, and saw the possibility that all of their projects may end up collapsing in front of their very eyes. The Zionists began their attacks against the loyal Jewish community in general, and against Rabbi Dahan in particular. They slandered him with increasing brutality until they went so far as to call for his murder.
In those days the G-d-fearing Jews were persecuted greatly by the Zionists, and whenever they ran into Dahan in the street they would insult him. However, Dahan never ceased his holy work on behalf of our rabbis. When the Zionists realized that their persecution of Dahan had no effect, they decided to kill him.
In a plan approved by the leading Haganah Zionists a number of young Zionists encountered Rabbi Dahan as he left the Shaarei Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem. The Zionist Avraham Tahomi, may his name be obliterated, shot Dahan three times in the chest, and shortly thereafter Dahan expired, returning his soul to heaven. This murder was carried out with the approval of the Zionist leadership.
On that fateful day of July 1, 1924, when the Zionists committed their crime, for which we suffer to this very day and still do not see the end in sight, they shot him in his pure heart. But they did not only shoot him and kill him, but they shot and killed the entire People, thereby preventing any plan that did not comply with their wicked intentions.
De Haan was a gay man who took Arab lovers. (cf. _Orientalism and the Jews_. Kalmar and Penslar., pp.109-125). The opportunity to "take care" of him and make it look like a lover's quarrel was apparently too attractive pass up. The history of political murder in early Zionism and its opponents is disheartening–De Haan, Brenner, Arlosoroff, Avraham Stern, Bernadotte–were all murdered. A climate in which assassination was used as a political tool by Arabs, Jews, and British alike led straight to the assassinations of Rabin, of Abdullah of Jordan, of Naji al-Ali and Issam Sartawi, a massacre of Palestinian intellectuals by the secret services of many countries–Israel, Syria, Jordan, Egypt–the reflection of a conflict in which the other side has no legitimacy in rhetoric or law.