#folke bernadotte

[hero-israel]

Given that we’re getting a Golda Meir movie, I’m really not looking to people taking her statement that “there is no such a thing as a Palestinian” out of context—that context being that the Palestinian identity was mostly constructed post-the establishment of Israel and in response to it—which I personally think is a moot point now and was also largely a moot point when she said it, but it’s not the endorsement of genocide I’ve seen claimed too many times

If everyone can admit that "There was a time when Jews weren't Israelis yet" and "There was a time when Jews weren't Zionists yet" and "There was a time when Canaanite tribes weren't Jews yet," they should be able to admit that "There was a time when Arabs in Palestine didn't have a Palestinian identity yet."

There is way too much present-ism in these discussions. Distinct Palestinian identity didn't really catch on until 1970. Golda Meir was born in 1898.

"The Palestinian Arabs had at present no will of their own. Neither have they ever developed any specifically Palestinian nationalism. The demand for a separate Arab state in Palestine is consequently relatively weak. It would seem as though in existing circumstances most of the Palestinian Arabs would be quite content to be incorporated in Transjordan." --U.N. negotiator Folke Bernadotte, 1948

He was right: they were content with exactly that.

It feels, as you said, moot to even bring it up; an obsolete argument from the 1940s. Yet the whole point of Palestinism is to constantly relitigate the 1940s, so we do not have the option of leaving the actual chronology behind.

[marcogiovenale]

abdul rahman's article (nov 22nd, 2023) "israel has been ‘above’ international law ever since its inception"

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[ronnydeschepper]

Het Evangelie volgens de Lukas (28): van boyscout tot weerwolf

Gedenkschriften en geschiedkundige studies over de Tweede Wereldoorlog zijn onuitputtelijk. Over de concentratiekampen stroomt het van getuigenissen en reconstructies. Maar sommige episodes blijven onderbelicht. Wat zich afspeelde in de chaos rond de finale afrekening met Hitler en de verdwazing van de opgejaagde Duitse burgers en kampgevangenen was zo gruwelijk dat er maar weinigen durfden of…

[fittlebottom]

Timeskip shenanigans my beloved

Also finished girlycard doodle from yesterday .

[isthenapoleoncute]

Is it safe to let a Napoleon and a Bernadotte interact, or will that just prove awkward for my Désirée?

i just honestly think it's easiest to just shoot bernadottes on sight.

it's illegal but anything to protect your napoleon from a betrayal that he did nothing to deserve no way nuh-uh

[royal-confessions]

“Given recent events, I think it’s important that more people know about Count Folke Bernadotte who negotiated the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps, including 450 Danish Jews from the Theresienstadt camp in 1945. Three years later while he was negotiating a peace settlement in Palestine in 1948, a Zionist Gang shot him in West Jerusalem. All the ones caught were pardoned by their first prime minister Ben-Gurion and he became a personal close friend of one of the murders, Yehoshua Cohen. Yitzhak Shamir, the 7th Prime Minister of Israel, was one of the three men who ordered his assassination. Folke Bernadotte was also King Carl XVI Gustaf’s godfather. It is suspected that the Carl still holds a grudge against Israel for not properly prosecuting the Lehi paramilitary organisation for killing his godfather. He has never visited Israel even if Israeli officials have visited him.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[a-typical]

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappé (2006)

[pebblezone]

Once again thinking of cocolacola’s hellsing Pokemon thoughts

[duchessofvastergotland]

23rd January 2023 // Crown Princess Victoria attended a seminar arranged by the Folke Bernadotte Academy, a Swedish government agency promoting peace, security and international development. 

[satotoshio]

スウェーデン

スウェーデン、NATO加盟 　ついにあの、永世中立の王国スウェーデンが、「もう中立やめますッ！」と、ブチギレてしまった。 　スウェーデンのNATO加盟 全加盟国が承認へ…

[ashwantsafreepalestine]

Never forget when Zionists assassinated Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte, after he wrote his UN report detailing the devastation of the Palestinian villages he saw, and the mass killings.

Folke Bernadotte successfully negotiated with the Nazi regime in Germany to secure the release of thousands of concentration camp prisoners.

He stated:

“It is … undeniable that no settlement can be just and complete if recognition is not accorded to the right of the Arab refugee to return to the home from which he has been dislodged by the hazards and strategy of the armed conflict between Arabs and Jews in Palestine."

"It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine, and, indeed, at least offer the threat of permanent replacement of the Arab refugees who have been rooted in the land for centuries.”

Zionists have always been the terrorists.

[soon-palestine]

This is Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte who personally saved 31,000 Jews and non-Jews from the Nazi Germany…🇩🇪

He was chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Palestine–Israeli conflict of 1947–1948…

The Zionists killed him in Jerusalem after he wrote his UN report detailing the devastated Palestinian villages he saw and the mass killings

[skeppsbrott]

Lite pinsamt att folk fortfarande tycker kungen är kul och meme-ig!

Kungen på transflagga är bara kul om man kan förtränga att han fortfarande är bitter över att Victoria är före Carl Philip i tronföljden, att han står utanför lagar och demokratiska fri- och rättigheter, att Lundsbergsskolan gång på gång utpekas som korrupt och med helt vansinnig elevkultur.

"Nej, nej jag kan faktiskt inte dra mig till minne att jag någonsin skulle ha varit på en sådan klubb".

Tror ni att ett kungabarn som visade sig vara homo- eller bisexuell skulle få leva sin sanning öppet? Ett kungabarn som råkade vara trans? Ditt enda jobb som arvinge är att se till att föröka dig. Ja, det måste vara ditt kött och blod, nej, det spelar ingen roll att släkten Bernadotte inte har någonting med Vasa eller kung Erik att göra.

Låt dig inte luras av Young Royals; för den som faktiskt är nära kungamakten nog att ständigt behöva förhålla sig till den, är en världsbild där vissa människor har mer medfödd dignitet och rätt till makt än andra, ett ofrånkomligt faktum.

Familjen Bernadotte lär vara bra reklam för Sverige men de som står i kassor och går rundvisningar på Slottet har sämre lön och arbetstrygghet än vad jag hade på samtliga mina resturang- och barkneg. Slottet har 1400+ rum och i enorma salar står små koppar som hört till Marie Antoinette undangömda bland tusentals andra ovärderliga och unikt magnifika föremål.

Om kungen var allierad på riktigt skulle han låta mig och alla mina vänner suga transkuk på silvertronen.

[girlactionfigure]

The Tale of the Lehi Commander-Turned Ben-Gurion's Confidant

Yehoshua Cohen was born in Petach Tikva in 1922. At the young age of 16, Yehoshua joined the Irgun (Etzel) and later followed Yair Stern to the Lehi (Stern Group).

After the murder of Yair Stern and the subsequent jailing of the Lehi’s High Command in 1942, Yehoshua (aged 19) took command of the group and continued the struggle against the British.

Yehoshua hid out and operated from an orange grove in Kfar Saba, where he survived on stale bread, murky water, and oranges. Later that year, he assisted Yitzhak Shamir in escaping from prison and presented him with the command over the Lehi.

As a leading member of the Lehi, Cohen went on to recruit and train new fighters. In 1944, he trained Eliyahu Bet-Zuri and Eliyahu Hakim to carry out the assassination of Lord Moyne in Egypt. Shortly after, Cohen was captured and exiled to Africa.

After Israel declared independence, Cohen returned and resumed his role in the Lehi. In September 1948, the Lehi assassinated the UN mediator, Folk Bernadotte. Although Cohen never admitted his role in the assassination after his death, others revealed that he was the one who pulled the trigger.

In 1952, Yehoshua was among the founders of Kibbutz Sde Boker, the famed residence of David Ben-Gurion.

Despite their competing ideologies, Cohen and Ben-Gurion became very close friends on the kibbutz, with Cohen serving as Ben-Gurion's confidant and unofficial bodyguard.

Yehoshua Cohen passed away on August 8, 1986.

Pictured: Cohen (right), Ben-Gurion (left)

Im Tirtzu

[perdicinae-observer]

why does bernadotte love you so much

[*Confused squinting, mumbles*] "Love"? This must be a joke...Is hostility seen as romantic nowadays? Bon Dieu, these young folks should get off their romance novels more often...

[*Clears throat*] ...Very...absurd choice of words, anonyme.

I reckon it's the loneliness getting to him however...you're better off asking the man himself, in my opinion.

[sevenoctober7]

This is Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte who personally saved 31,000 Jews and non-Jews from the Nazi Germany…🇩🇪

He was chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Palestine–Israeli conflict of 1947–1948…

The Zionists killed him in Jerusalem after he wrote his UN report detailing the devastated Palestinian villages he saw and the mass killings…🇮🇱🇵🇸

هذا هو الدبلوماسي السويدي فولك برنادوت الذي أنقذ شخصياً 31 ألف يهودي وغير يهودي من ألمانيا النازية... تم اختياره ليكون وسيط مجلس الأمن التابع للأمم المتحدة في الصراع الفلسطيني الإسرائيلي 1947-1948... قتله الصهاينة في القدس بعد أن كتب تقريره للأمم المتحدة الذي تناول بالتفصيل القرى الفلسطينية المدمرة التي رآها وعمليات القتل الجماعي...