INDEX:
INTRODUCTION:
The purpose of this page is to document and discuss the assassination of U.N. Peacekeeper Folke Bernadotte and Colonel Andre P. Serot of the French air force on September 17, 1948.
"...Jewish terrorists assassinated Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden as he sought to bring peace to the Middle East. His three-car convoy had been stopped at a small improvised roadblock in Jewish-controlled West Jerusalem when two gunmen began shooting out the tires of the cars and a third gunman thrust a Schmeisser automatic pistol through the open back window of Bernadotte's Chrysler. The 54-year-old diplomat, sitting on the right in the back, was hit by six bullets and died instantly. A French officer sitting next to Bernadotte was killed accidentally."
"The assassins were members of Lehi (Lohamei Herut Israel—Fighters for the Freedom of Israel), better known as the Stern Gang. Its three leaders had decided a week earlier to have Bernadotte killed because they believed he was partial to the Arabs. One of those leaders was Yitzhak Shamir, who in 1983 would become prime minister of Israel."
Jewish Terrorists Assassinate U.N. Peacekeeper Count Folke Bernadotte (WWW.WRMEA.ORG) (2014/0801)