Listen 0:00 / 0:00 − 1.0x + Default Ready   What: Assassination of Swedish diplomat Count Folke Bernadotte Where: Jerusalem, Palestine When: 17 September 1948 What happened? In May 1948, as the war raged between the military forces of the budding Zionist state and the various Arab armies, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) appointed as UN mediator in Palestine, a Swedish diplomat named Count Folke Bernadotte. As a member of Sweden’s royal family, Bernadotte had served as a diplomat during the Second World War Two, helping to free tens of thousands of prisoners held in Nazi Germany and having attempted to negotiate an armistice between the Nazis and the Allies. He took that diplomatic experience into the conflict over … Continue reading Remembering the Zionists’ assassination of UN Palestine mediator Count Bernadotte