Why was RFK killed?
Blowback.
June 6, 2021 marks the 53rd anniversary of the death of Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), a day after he was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He had just won the California primary and was the favorite to win the 1968 Democratic Presidential nomination.
There is some mystery surrounding his assassination. Sirhan Sirhan, who was convicted of the crime, may have been the victim of hypnotic mind control. Many believe there was another shooter. I don't know what's true about anything, and see no reason why I have to believe any particular version of events.
But let's take the Official Story at its word. Why did Sirhan kill RFK? Because he felt betrayed by RFK, whom he had admired, when RFK promised to send 50 fighter jets to Israel.
Sirhan Sirhan was born in Jerusalem but as a toddler was forced to flee with his family to East Jerusalem during Israel's War for Independence. Sirhan was a Jordanian citizen. RFK was shot on the one-year anniversary of the day Israel launched the Six-Day War and, among other things, seized Jordan's West Bank which includes East Jerusalem.
If RFK refused to take sides in Israel's endless conflicts with its Arab neighbors, he wouldn't have been shot that day. As an American citizen myself, I've never understood why the U.S. hadn't remained neutral in Israel-Arab conflicts from the beginning. I've seen no benefit to U.S. interests from entanglements in that part of the Middle East. Any real or perceived atrocity committed by Israel redounds back to the U.S. The victims, and the rest of the world, would rightfully believe the U.S. is partly responsible.
RFK's promise of aid to Israel was wrong. One could say it was evil; strengthening Israel's hand would make it less likely to sign up for peace talks. And when evil is sent out, evil is returned. We just never know when or how.
Sirhan was also wrong, very wrong, to have shot RFK, but it was a reaction to RFK's promise to become an accessory to Israel's future crimes. RFK's death was blowback from his own words.
When you support one side of a conflict that has nothing to do with you, you become part of the conflict. Even when you're running for President.
Morality and prudence say it's better to just stay out of it.
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TY for the information . . .much of which I had never known. I would think that someone in the legal field would have better sense than to make promises about what he can make his country do for another country. He did not have the "right" to promise that. That was when he stepped out of the role of being an Attorney General and became a politician. In this country, politicians can make absurd promises to the public and the majority of people with an IQ of over 100 who grew up here, know that's just hot air. For everyone else, it seems like heresy, especially if you came from another world where people were shot for saying against the government.