Research Paper On Operation Entebbes
Operation Entebbe
Operation Entebbe is popularly known as Operation Thunderbolt; the successful operation was carried out by the Israel Defense Force (IDF) Commandos. The mission was planned in Tel Aviv but the actual rescue mission took place at the Entebbe Airport in Uganda. Notably, the operation took place on July 4, 1976, approximately 2500 miles from Israel (Dunstan, 2012). Fundamentally, what instigated the attack was the hijacking of Air France Flight 139, headed to Paris from Tel Aviv. Within minutes after take-off from a layover in Athens, the aircraft was seized by a terrorist team comprised of two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and two Germans from the Baader-Meinhof gang. Consequently, what …show more content…
The information gathered from the hostage interviews was crucial to knowing the important details about the changes that had been made to the airport construction since the original building was built. These interviews also provided detailed information in order to help the commandos quickly identify and neutralize the terrorist team that was holding the Jewish passengers and Flight 139’s crew. Data obtained from the interviews also provided insight to the Ugandan Government and military’s involvement at …show more content…
The first is that the Israeli Government would not have approved the mission. Even with all the information that they had, the people that needed to make the decision had a hard time believing that the mission would end successfully. The Israeli Government did not want a replay of the botched hostage rescue of the Israeli athletes in Munich at the 1972 Olympics, which resulted in the death of six Israeli coaches and five athletes. The lack of information from the freed hostages could have forced the Israeli Government to actually comply with the Palestinian terrorist’s demands. The release the fifty-three incarcerated Palestinians would have eventually resulted in the death of dozens, even hundreds of innocent civilian lives across the world. Also, the world would never know if the Palestinian terrorists would have complied with their own offer to release the Jewish hostages afterward. This could have been devastating to the State of
Operation Entebbe is popularly known as Operation Thunderbolt; the successful operation was carried out by the Israel Defense Force (IDF) Commandos. The mission was planned in Tel Aviv but the actual rescue mission took place at the Entebbe Airport in Uganda. Notably, the operation took place on July 4, 1976, approximately 2500 miles from Israel (Dunstan, 2012). Fundamentally, what instigated the attack was the hijacking of Air France Flight 139, headed to Paris from Tel Aviv. Within minutes after take-off from a layover in Athens, the aircraft was seized by a terrorist team comprised of two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and two Germans from the Baader-Meinhof gang. Consequently, what …show more content…
The information gathered from the hostage interviews was crucial to knowing the important details about the changes that had been made to the airport construction since the original building was built. These interviews also provided detailed information in order to help the commandos quickly identify and neutralize the terrorist team that was holding the Jewish passengers and Flight 139’s crew. Data obtained from the interviews also provided insight to the Ugandan Government and military’s involvement at …show more content…
The first is that the Israeli Government would not have approved the mission. Even with all the information that they had, the people that needed to make the decision had a hard time believing that the mission would end successfully. The Israeli Government did not want a replay of the botched hostage rescue of the Israeli athletes in Munich at the 1972 Olympics, which resulted in the death of six Israeli coaches and five athletes. The lack of information from the freed hostages could have forced the Israeli Government to actually comply with the Palestinian terrorist’s demands. The release the fifty-three incarcerated Palestinians would have eventually resulted in the death of dozens, even hundreds of innocent civilian lives across the world. Also, the world would never know if the Palestinian terrorists would have complied with their own offer to release the Jewish hostages afterward. This could have been devastating to the State of