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A death in Jerusalem

Title: A death in Jerusalem / Kati Marton.
Author: Marton, Kati.
Publication: New York : Pantheon Books, ©1994.

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Description

xiii, 321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

On the evening of September 17, 1948, a car carrying Count Folke Bernadotte, the first United Nations-appointed mediator in the Middle East, traveled up a narrow Jerusalem street. As the car shifted gears for the climb toward the New City, an Israeli Army jeep nosed into the road, forcing Bernadotte's car and the two following him to come to a full stop. From the jeep sprang three uniformed men clutching automatic weapons. In a moment that set the stage for a legacy of violence that has since characterized Arab-Israeli negotiations, Count Bernadotte was shot six times and killed. The assassins were never brought to justice. A Death in Jerusalem reveals the forces behind this assassination, the passions that first dictated the tactics of terrorism in Israel and that continue to shape the thinking and actions of those even now determined to block accommodations with the Palestinians.

Alternative Title

A death in Jerusalem : the assassination by Jewish extremists of the first Arab/Israeli peacemaker

Subject

Note

1948 map of Jerusalem on endpapers.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-301) and index.

ISBN

0679420835
9780679420835

LCCN

94014645

OCLC

ocm30110556
30110556
SCSB-9191862

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library