As we prepare to join the global Palestinian diaspora in remembering the ethnic cleansing of 1948 (and 1867) a personal story illuminates Zionism in action. Zionist forces launched the Nakba ...
In Paris, the nations listened to the earnest, urgent words of Count Folke Bernadotte. The U.N. General-Assembly considered his proposals for a Palestine settlement which he had completed just before ...
For a week members of the Stern gang, who haunt the Galina café on Tel Aviv’s Herbert Samuel Esplanade, had been telling correspondents that they intended to deal with Count Folke Bernadotte. Posters ...
Folke Bernadotte with his future wife Estelle Mansville in 1928 In naming Sweden's newest princess Estelle, the Royal Family is trying to revive the legacy of Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish royal and ...
Over the past two days, two Swedish international civil servants who died in service to the United Nations were honoured in New York: Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and mediator Count Folke ...
With the Jewish High Holy Days upon us, a calendrical coincidence gives a particular twist to the spirit of self-examination which prevails from Rosh Hashonah, the New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of ...
On April 11 a delegation from the Swedish Folke Bernadotte Academy met with Head of Mission Dr. Firas Raad and Deputy Head of Mission Mark Singleton at the Office of the Quartet Representative. The ...