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…