Otro aniversario, otro rescate

A tono con el espíritu de alegría que hay en estos días por el rescate de los rehenes en la selva colombiana, hoy es el 32 aniversario del rescate en Entebbe.

Uno lee el artículo de wikipedia y ve que algunas cosas nunca cambian :

In June 2007, a UK government file on the crisis, released from the National Archives, contained a claim that Israel was behind the hijacking. According to press accounts, an unnamed informant from the Euro-Arab Parliamentary Association told a British diplomat in Paris that the Israeli Secret Services and a Palestinian terrorist group, the PFLP, acted together to seize the plane. The context of this conspiracy theory was that the Israeli domestic security agency, Shin Bet, helped design the operation to undermine the PLO's standing in France and its rapprochement with the USA. [...]

Another released document discusses British reticence to congratulate the Israelis based on a question of the operation's legality, which would be contingent on Ugandan collusion, and the public criticism that ensued. [...]

Pero esto si que hubiera terminado distinto :

The government of Uganda later convened a session of the United Nations Security Council to seek official condemnation of the Israeli raid, as a violation of Ugandan sovereignty. The Security Council ultimately declined to pass any resolution on the matter.

Los secuestradores eran "idealistas"... de donde me suena eso ? :

The hijackers deliberately sorted the hostages into Jew and Gentiles. As they did so a Holocaust survivor showed Böse a camp registration number tattooed on his arm, Böse protested "I'm no Nazi! ... I am an idealist." [...]

Del discurso de Chaim Herzog, entonces embajador de Usrael en U.N.:

"We come with a simple message to the Council: we are proud of what we have done because we have demonstrated to the world that a small country, in Israel's circumstances, with which the members of this Council are by now all too familiar, the dignity of man, human life and human freedom constitute the highest values. We are proud not only because we have saved the lives of over a hundred innocent people—men, women and children—but because of the significance of our act for the cause of human freedom."

Mi saludo a estos héroes de ayer, que tienen sus dignos herederos en los colombianos de hoy.