Yosef Alon: Difference between revisions

Alon's family accepted President [[Richard Nixon]]’s offer to repatriate Alon’sAlon's body to Israel, throughonboard an [[USAF]] [[C-137 Stratoliner]]. The aircraft left the U.S. from [[Andrews Air Force Base]] in [[Maryland]], arriving at [[Lod Airport]] in [[Tel Aviv]], with his family onboard.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

The documentary film ''Who Shot My Father? The Story of Joe Alon'' by Liora Amir Barmatz aired on the [[Channel 1 (Israel)|firstFirst Channel]] in Israel in April 2011. The historian [[Uri Milstein]] and Colonel [[Yakov Agassi]] presented a theory which said that Alon had been assassinated because he unwillingly learned about the conspiracy theory (the ''Kissinger plan'') for the [[Yom Kippur War]], which involved collusion between the US, Israel, and Egypt and was designed to allow entry for the US into the region as a "savior" (and future power broker) for both Israel and Egypt by stopping the fighting after previously agreed-upon objectives had been achieved.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} [[Ezer Weizman]] claimed that "Jo was killed because he knew something he should not know about." The film also claimed that [[Shmuel Gonen]] had said to [[Adam Baruch]], whichwho wrote in his book that he was killed "by one of our own" because he knew something he should not know about. [[Uri Bar-Joseph|Uri Bar Joseph]] has rejected the theory and the findings.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/1.1170857 |date= April 12, 2011 |title= מה שאסור לערוץ ממלכתי |lang=he |newspaper= Haaretz |url= https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/1.1170857|access-date= July 15, 2019|language=he}}</ref>

Due to a lead developed years earlier by journalist [[Adam Goldman]], the FBI reopened the case in January 2017.<ref>{{Cite news |last= Aderet |first= Ofer |title= FBI Reopens Israeli Military Attaché Assassination Case, NYT Reports |date= January 9, 2017 |work= Haaretz |lang=en |url= https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/MAGAZINE-nyt-fbi-reopens-israeli-military-attach-assassination-case-1.5483574|title=FBI Reopens Israeli Military Attaché Assassination Case, NYT Reports|date=January 9, 2017|work=Haaretz|access-date= July 15, 2019|last=Aderet|first=Ofer|language=en}}</ref> The new investigation involves information recently given to an agent by Venezuelan terrorist [[Carlos the Jackal]], that sometime after 1970 three American veterans sympathetic to the Palestinian cause,<ref name=GoldmanCaseRevived>{{cite news |last1last= Goldman |first1first= Adam |title=I Wrote to Carlos the Jackal, and an Israeli's Assassination Case Was Revived |work= New York Times |date= 8 January 2017 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/08/us/politics/carlos-the-jackal-yosef-alon-assassination-israel.html?_r=0 |access-date=10 January 2017|work=New York Times|date=810 January 2017}}</ref> one of them a "prominent former [[Black Panther Party|Black Panther]]," approached Mahmoud Ould Saleh, a [[Mauritania]]-born manager of the Arabic Bookshop on the Rue Saint Victor in the [[Latin Quarter]] of Paris and member of the extremist Palestinian "rejection front" (killed in 1977.)<ref name="PalestinianMilitant">{{cite news |title= PLO Accuses 'zionistZionist Agents' of Killing Palestinian Militant |publisher= JTA |date= 5 January 1977 |url= http://www.jta.org/1977/01/05/archive/plo-accuses-zionist-agents-of-killing-palestinian-militant |access-date= 10 January 2017|publisher=JTA|date=5 January 1977}}</ref><ref name="Bookstore">{{cite news|title=Former PLO Aide Killed Leaving Bookstore|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/04/archives/former-plo-aide-in-paris-killed-leaving-bookstore.html|access-date=10 January 2017|publisher=NewYorkTimes|date=4 January 1977}}</ref> Saleh put them in touch with suspected [[Black September Organization|Black September]] militant Kamal Kheir Beik (later killed), known to have managed terror attacks including the 1975 [[OPEC siege]].<ref name=GoldmanCaseRevived/> Every sale of the gun identified as the murder weapon, a .38-caliber revolver, that was sold east of the [[Mississippi]], has previously been identified by the FBI, which is now tracing the purchasers of those guns.<ref name=GoldmanCaseRevived/>{{clarify |reason=And? It's 8 yrs since. |date= December 2023}}