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From Wikipedia .... Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman. During World War II, he negotiated the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps, including 450 Danish Jews from the Theresienstadt camp. They were released on 14 April 1945.[1][2][3] In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected.
After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab–Israeli conflict of 1947–1948. He was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948 by the paramilitary Zionist group Lehi while pursuing his official duties. Upon his death, Ralph Bunche took up his work at the UN, successfully mediating the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Egypt.
3 comments:
Seems to have been a nice guy.. sucks he was killed like that. But he certainly had an impact on history, saving so many people
Even today there are mixed reactions in Israel to this assassination by an extreme group. The Count proposed, as did US and UN, that Jerusalem be under international control and located in Arab assigned territory.
Bernadotte was a good man and should never have been assassinated, but his peace plan was unrealistic. Not only would it have removed territories subsequently occupied by Israel after the war, but it would have removed territories previously assigned to Israel during the partition before the war!
In almost every other case in the world, diplomacy assumes the military victor will extract some sort of concessions from the defeated, especially if the defeated were the aggressors. But in Israel's case, diplomats always seem to think the military victor (Israel) needs to make concessions to the defeated aggressors.
Chris
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