May 29, 2024
This is
an excellent question and a full-fledged mystery that will not be
fully answered in this episode. Teller From Jerusalem continues to
explore the various steps that occurred in the evolution of the
Soviet support for nascent Israel. It was beneficial to Israel that
the Soviets arrested the work of Count Folke Bernadotte, the
Swedish aristocrat that was appointed by the United Nations
Secretary General to hammer out a temporary truce between Israel
and her neighbors.
Bernadotte sought to achieve far more than just a temporary truce.
He foisted terms upon Israel, when she was already winning the war,
which would have deprived her of much of what she had achieved at
the very greatest sacrifice. This was going to cost him his life at
the hands of Israel’s underground and embroil Israel in
international censure resulting in Ben Gurion declaring war upon
any defense force that was not part of the Haganah.
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