Foreign diplomats come under Israeli fire on official West Bank visit, drawing swift international condemnation

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2. >**Diplomats:** “…such acts will not pass without accountability,” the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

   >**Israel:** “The delegation deviated from the approved route and entered an area where they were not authorized to be,” the military said in a statement Wednesday.

   >“IDF soldiers operating in the area fired warning shots to distance them away.”

   >**Diplomats:** “We definitely call on Israel to investigate this incident and also hold those accountable who are responsible for this,” Kallas said at a press conference Wednesday.

   Yeah, go figure Israel will downplay and divert the blame. The only way to hold them accountable is to incriminate their actions and go after them specifically.

3. The title is misleading, correct title is: Foreign diplomats are guided to safe place by Israeli unprovoked welcoming salute shots while on dangerous West Bank visit.

   yours sincerely Hasbara squad

4. Pariah state. embargo the country. Kick it out of every international athletic organization. Total arms and non-essential trade embargo.

5. How to speedrun losing all international goodwill and alliance in like 18 months….

   It looks like Israel will be losing all of its allies soon (even the US is getting tired of their bullshit) because of their stupidity and aggressive behaviors.

6. This is the story of Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte:

   Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat. In World War II, he negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 non-Jewish prisoners of many nations from the Nazi German Theresienstadt concentration camp.

   On May 14, 1948 – the day that Israel declared its independence – the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 186, which established the United Nations Mediator in Palestine with the responsibility to “promote a peaceful adjustment of the future situation in Palestine.” Six days later, Foke Bernadotte was unanimously chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab–Israeli conflict of 1947–1948.

   He was assassinated in Jerusalem on September 17, 1948 while seated in the last car of a three-car convoy flying the UN flag that was on route to Jerusalem. He was murdered by Yehuda Cohen, who was a leader of the paramilitary Zionist group Lehi (aka Stern Gang). Yehuda Cohen was also the unofficial body guard of the first prime minister of Israel, David Grün (aka David Ben Gurion).

   The following day, LEHI (aka Stern Gang and predecessor of the IDF) sent a letter to the press stating that:

   “In our opinion all United Nations observers are members of foreign occupation forces, which have no right to be on our territory.”

   Folke Bernadotte was seen by the Provisional government of Israel (lead by David Grün) as a danger to the ambitions of the Zionists to establish a state on both sides of the Jordan river.

   Although the identity of the murderers remained unclear for the broad public, it soon became obvious that LEHI was responsible. For UK and Swedish intelligences services (and higher ups in the diplomatic corps) it was an open secret that Cohen was behind the killing.

   Salient detail:

   When Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, the then second secretary-general of the United Nations, travelled to Israel in 1958 in the role of a mediator in the Suez crisis between [David Ben-Gurion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion) and [Gamal Abdel Nasser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser), and visited Ben-Gurion at his Negev home.

   Ben-Gurion’s decision to seat Cohen at the diner table —a man implicated in the murder of a Folke Bernadotte —next to Hammarskjöld was not only perceived as a deliberate affront by the UN secretary, it was also an open threat to the latter, which was well understood and clearly acknowledged when Hammarskjöld loudly stated: “I will never come here again.”.

7. Israel is like that “and I’ll fucking do it again meme” at some point very soon even Trump is going to get tired of them continually overstepping

8. The scale of the trials that will be needed if these psychopaths are ever held accountable will be quite unprecedented. Holding only the leaders accountable is insufficient when so many of the front-lines level people are so actively and gleefully participating in this. The IDF is a terrorist organization and Israel is a terrorist state.

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