Folke Bernadotte secured the release of over 30,000 Nazi concentration camp inmates during World War 2. He was famed for his ability to negotiate, and so he was seen as the obvious choice to mediate Israeli statehood in 1948. The Israeli militants did not want mediation, and they did not want Bernadotte to play any part in the conflict. And so, in a supreme act of irony, the “Stern Gang” of Israeli terrorists murdered a man responsible for saving the lives of tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis.
Israel is probably the most ironic nation to have ever existed. Born out of a global outpouring of compassion for their treatment at the hands of Nazi butchers, they became a mirror-image version of their oppressors. It is downright Freudian. They became butchers and concentration camp overseers, in the same way a child who was abused grows up and becomes an abuser.
