Go Figure It Out

One the one hand:

Ilan Hartuv, who was one of the [Entebber] hostages, is taking this opportunity to shatter a widely accepted myth regarding an event related to the hijacking: the claim that the terrorists separated Jews from non-Jews, in a way reminiscent of Nazi selections in the extermination camps.

"There was no selection applied to Jews: Entebbe was not Auschwitz," says Hartuv in an interview with Haaretz.

Hartuv, 83, a retired Foreign Ministry employee, was on the flight accompanying his mother, Dora Bloch, to a family gathering in Paris. Bloch, who was 73 at the time, took ill during the hijacking and was hospitalized in Entebbe when the IDF operation took place. She was then murdered by agents of Ugandan ruler Idi Amin in retaliation for the mission.

But on the other hand:

"The terrorists separated the Israelis from the non-Israelis," says Hartuv, one of the unofficial leaders of the hostages, and the official translator from English to Hebrew in talks with Amin, who visited the hostages a number of times. "The separation was done based on passports and ID cards. There was no selection of Jews versus non-Jews."

On the third day of the hijacking, the hijackers demanded that all the Israelis, including those with dual citizenship (Israeli and foreign ), assemble in the transit hall of Entebbe airport. They were joined by the plane's crew members, led by the French captain, Michel Bacos. The rest of the passengers, carrying non-Israeli passports, were transferred to another hall. Later they were freed and flown to Paris.

"Many of the freed hostages were Jewish," Hartuv explains. "In the talks my friends and I conducted with some of the terrorists, they told us explicitly: We're not against the Jews, only against Israel. It is true that the female German terrorist acted like a Nazi. She yelled and threatened to kill us all the time. But some of her friends acted differently toward us

I wonder why the killed his mother?



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