The son of the UN's first Middle East mediator has shared his memories of his father's assassination by Jewish extremists. Count Folke Bernadotte, a member of the Swedish royal family, was shot dead ...

September is a month of memorials. Back in 1982 from September 15th to 18th Lebanese fascists militia supported by Israel massacred at least 1,300 people in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and ...

As we prepare to join the global Palestinian diaspora in remembering the ethnic cleansing of 1948 (and 1867) a personal story illuminates Zionism in action. Zionist forces launched the Nakba ...

Imagine if Folke Bernadotte had been allowed to live. Already during the Second World War, the Swedish count and humanitarian had achieved near-miracles getting tens of thousands of concentration camp ...

Over the past two days, two Swedish international civil servants who died in service to the United Nations were honoured in New York: Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and mediator Count Folke ...

Folke Bernadotte with his future wife Estelle Mansville in 1928 In naming Sweden's newest princess Estelle, the Royal Family is trying to revive the legacy of Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish royal and ...

In Paris, the nations listened to the earnest, urgent words of Count Folke Bernadotte. The U.N. General-Assembly considered his proposals for a Palestine settlement which he had completed just before ...

On April 11 a delegation from the Swedish Folke Bernadotte Academy met with Head of Mission Dr. Firas Raad and Deputy Head of Mission Mark Singleton at the Office of the Quartet Representative. The ...