Teller From Jerusalem
TFJ Season 4 Episode 19 Israel was Promised the Negev, yet the UN Envoy Wished to Amputate it and Transplant it to Jordan
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After the first truce was called in Israel's War of Independence, the United States and Britain, acting through the United Nations, wished to secure a lasting peace in the region. The United Nations mediator was Count Foke Bernadotte, who unabashedly viewed himself as a soon-to-be Nobel Prize laureate and assumed many liberties that succeeded in making himself extremely unpopular to both sides…