Robert Kennedy’s Daughter: My Father Was Killed for Supporting Israel

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By R. Blum

The daughter of the late US Senator Robert F. (Bobby) Kennedy — assassinated in June 1968 during his run for president by a Palestinian — waxed poetic about the Jewish state in an interview with Israel’s Channel 1, saying that she came by her awe with the country honestly, from her family.

Speaking in-studio during a recent trip to Israel, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend — attorney, politician, long-time Democratic Party activist and niece of President John F. Kennedy, Jr. — said that she feels a “special bond” with Israel, inherited from her father.

“Everywhere around the world could look to Israel as an example of people who are determined to make something work,” she said. “It’s fabulous.”

She recounted her father’s stint as a journalist at the age of 22 — for the defunct Boston Post — when he covered Israel’s War of Independence in 1948.

“[H]e wrote about the courage of the Israelis, and how they were determined to build a new country,” she told interviewer Ya’akov Ahimeir — whose own father,  Zionist revisionist Abba Ahimeir — was a well-known figure in Palestine when RFK arrived. “After seeing such horror in Europe…they were going to build a country of courage and of democracy and of values. And…he realized, when he saw the Israelis, that the United States had a special relationship to this country, and needed to make sure that that relationship stayed firm.”

She then added, “And, as you know, in 1968, he was fighting for the 50 jets that would be given to the Israeli army, and he was killed because of his support [for Israel].”

Townsend was referring to her father’s murder at the hands of 24-year-old Sirhan Sirhan, who — after RFK’s address to supporters at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles when he won the California primary — opened fire with a revolver, hitting the candidate three times and wounding five other people. RFK was rushed to the hospital and died the following day. Sirhan Sirhan told his interrogators that he had set out to kill RFK for his vocal support for Israel.

According to a report released by the think tank the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in 2008, RFK’s dispatches from Palestine during the war included descriptions such as:

The Jewish people in Palestine who believe in and have been working toward this national state have become an immensely proud and determined people. It is already a truly great modern example of the birth of a nation with the primary ingredients of dignity and self-respect.

Another item he wrote was headlined: “Make Up for Lack of Arms with Undying Spirit, Unparalleled Courage.”

The JCPA report stated that RFK

was critical of a temporary slippage of the American government’s support for Jewish statehood. He feared that the US was shifting towards Britain’s negative policies and its aim “to crush” the Zionist cause. “If the American people knew the true facts,” Kennedy wrote, “I am certain a more honest and forthright policy would be substituted for the benefit of all.”

RFK’s assassin, a Jordanian citizen born to a Christian family in Jerusalem in Mandatory Palestine, is serving a life sentence at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. In a 1989 interview from prison, he said, “My only connection with Robert Kennedy was his sole support of Israel and his deliberate attempt to send those 50 bombers to Israel to obviously do harm to the Palestinians.”

Asked by Ahimeir whether she is able to forgive her father’s murderer, Townsend responded: “To tell you the truth, that’s a little difficult.”

Watch Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s interview below:

(c) 2017 The Algemeiner Journal

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6 COMMENTS

  1. Got to love the Arabs, even the non-Muslim ones. Got to appreciate Muslims, even the non-Arabs.
    Without them, the world would be so quiet and calm, and the newspapers would need to print stories about speeding tickets and yard sales.

    • WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT????????

      The write-up here shows that Mrs. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is — like her late father was — extremely supportive of Israel!!

  2. Let Us Look At The Facts

    What is the other poster talking about?
    He is a self-proclaimed Conspiracy expert. Therefore, whatever the article stated must be taken at the opposite angle. JFK himself, as those people know too well, was never killed, but secretly moved to Cuba, where he and the late Castro enjoyed cigars, while discussing global warming, the second coming of Elvis, and Roswell, yea, that Roswell…

    • How did you know that about me?
      I still challenge anyone to produce any video or footage of any plane going into the Pentagon. The Twin Towers, I’ll accept. There were videos clearly showing what happened. But the corrupt DNC controlled Pentagon, there is NOTHING. Why is that? Why did the explosion happen from the inside and not the outside? Who actually works in the Pentagon? Can you name one neighbor of yours? What are they trying to cover up? Answer me.

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