J Post conclusion: US to blame due to Vietnam war!

clipped from www.jpost.com May. 15, 2007 16:53 Did Israel want the Six Day War? Papers released by Britain's Public Record Office and the United States National Archives clipped from www.jpost.com the Six Day War erupted not as a result of Arab belligerency but in reaction to socioeconomic factors within Israel, as a tactic by the nation's leaders to distract attention from their failed domestic policies. that Arab actions had little to do with the outbreak of hostilities in 1967, and that Israel not only failed to prevent war but actively courted it. The massing of Egyptian troops in the Sinai, the expulsion of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) and the closing of the Straits of Tiran, the Arab defense pacts and public commitments to eradicate the Jewish state - all were either provoked or blown out of proportion by Israel for its own purposes of internal cohesion, territorial expansion or other ulterior motives. "There was indeed no justification for the panic that preceded the war, nor for the euphoria that took hold after it." Segev

Who was....Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg

clipped from en.wikipedia.org Folke Bernadotte was the son of Oscar Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (formerly Prince Oscar of Sweden) Bernadotte's grandfather was King Oscar II of Sweden. Oscar married without the King's consent in 1888, however, thereby leaving the royal family On 1 December 1928 he married Estelle Manville of Pleasantville, New York (1904-1984), a wealthy American heiress World War II vice-president of the Swedish Red Cross in 1945 he led a rescue operation transporting interned Norwegians, Danes and other western European inmates from German concentration camps to hospitals in Sweden. Around 15,000 people were taken to safety in the "White Buses" of the Bernadotte expedition, including between 6,500 and 11,000 Jews. Assassination Bernadotte was assassinated on 17 September 1948 by members of the Lehi group, sometimes known as the Stern Gang. The assassination was approved by the three-man Lehi 'center': Yitzhak Shamir, Natan Yellin-Mor, and Yisrael Eldad[ assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948