Talk:Entebbe raid

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Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 27 July 2024

• Change from: Opening paragraph of lead with no mention, in summary fashion, of the outcome of the operation.

• Change to: An opening paragraph that, per guidance in WP:INTRO, contains a proper summary both of the lead, and of the article as a whole.

[At registered editor's discretion, the call is for an additional 1-2 sentences to be added to the opening lead paragraph, stating (something to the effect) that

"The operation was widely considered... [summarise article]] as its result was the loss of only 3 of 105 passengers, and only 1 of 100 Isreali commandos sent on the mission, with some limited casualties, while having broader [summarise article] repercussions within Uganda, and in the history of anti-terror responses."]

Justification: In any article with a lead as long as this one, the opening paragraph of the lead, per WP:INTRO, serves both as a starting point for the overall lead summary, but also as an overarching summary of the main elements of the lead itself. In short, the reader should not have to wait until the end of a long lead to simply have a grasp of the meaning of the title given for the article. In this regard, the current Entebbe lead properly covers the precipitating historic event, and anchors it geographically, but fails to communicate anything in summary regarding the outcome—rather, forcing the reader to read the entire lead to understand what the article is about. This is not good abstract/lead writing, nor encyclopedic introduction writing more generally.

98.206.30.195 (talk) 00:37, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. If you wish to submit a new lead proposal below, feel free. However, editors responding to edit requests cannot write additonal content on your behalf, as most know nothing about the topic. – Isochrone (talk) 13:34, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Adding Brigitte Kuhlmann

So if you see the page of Brigitte Kuhlmann/Brigitte Kuhlmann then it’s not classified in the “Commanders and leaders” with the KIA symbol so should I add it? yes or no Noam Elyada (talk) 08:21, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 7 July 2025

You need to alter your language on this. The terorism comes from “israel”. 67.146.27.254 (talk) 14:46, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. LizardJr8 (talk) 16:53, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

Edit request 16 August 2025

Description of suggested change: Consolidated organization of the "Western Bloc" sections by combining the disjointed information about the U.S. reaction into its own paragraph, creating a separate paragraph for West Germany, and adding additional detail to both:

• The Entebbe Raid's role in West German efforts to bring about a multilateral U.N. Convention against Hostage-taking.
• The U.S.'s public support for the raid, including the cultural "Entebbe Derby" in the U.S.
• The extensive public praise of the operation by U.S. officials.
• The initialization of U.S. efforts to create Delta Force after the raid. I suggest removing the later sentence about how the U.S. "military developed rescue teams modelled on the unit employed in the Entebbe rescue," to avoid redundancy, and the portion about Operation Eagle Claw, as the operation is relevant to Delta Force history, but not to the Entebbe Raid. Although the previous draft of this page didn't specify, to be safe, I checked the previous sourcing to check for relevance to Operation Eagle Claw. The source explicitly stated that the Entebbe Raid was mostly irrelevant to the planning behind Operation Eagle Claw (Patrick, "U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis," pp. 16), meaning there is no need to include the operation here.

Also noteworthy: the cited sources for Swiss and French support do not provide clear evidence of such statements and should therefore be removed. I suggest adding a "citation needed" mark.

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Western nations spoke in support of the raid. West Germany called the raid "an act of self-defence". Switzerland and France praised the operation. Representatives of the United Kingdom and United States offered significant praise, calling the Entebbe raid "an impossible operation". Some in the United States noted that the hostages were freed on 4 July 1976, 200 years after the signing of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]]. In private conversation with Israeli Ambassador Dinitz, [[Henry Kissinger]] sounded criticism for Israeli use of US equipment during the operation, but that criticism was not made public at the time. In mid-July 1976, the supercarrier [[USS Ranger (CV-61)|USS ''Ranger'']] and her escorts entered the Indian Ocean and operated off the Kenyan coast in response to a threat of military action by forces from Uganda. The hijacked aircraft's pilot, Captain [[Michel Bacos]], was awarded the [[Legion of Honour]], and the other crew members were awarded the [[National Order of Merit (France)|French Order of Merit]]. In the ensuing years, Betser and the Netanyahu brothers – [[Iddo Netanyahu|Iddo]] and [[Benjamin Netanyahu|Benjamin]], all Sayeret Matkal veterans – argued in increasingly public forums about who was to blame for the unexpected early firefight that caused Yonatan's death and partial loss of tactical surprise.As a result of the operation, the United States military developed rescue teams modelled on the unit employed in the Entebbe rescue. One notable attempt was [[Operation Eagle Claw]], a failed 1980 rescue of 53 American embassy personnel held hostage in Tehran during the [[Iran hostage crisis]].

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=== Western Bloc ===Western nations spoke in support of the raid. Switzerland and France publicly praised the operation.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i>[[Wikipedia:Citation needed|<span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2025)">citation needed</span>]]</i>]</sup>West Germany praised the raid and used it to advance its push for a multilateral U.N. convention against hostage-taking. Although the United States strongly backed the initiative, its support alienated many developing nations, which feared the convention could give great powers cover to infringe on weaker states’ sovereignty. Despite the setback, West Germany persisted in its efforts, later leading the 1979 [[International Convention against the Taking of Hostages]].In the United States, the raid’s coincidence with the [[American bicentennial]] sparked the "Entebbe Derby," a dramatic surge in media attention, books, films, and television portrayals. President Gerald Ford publicly congratulated Israel, while members of Congress introduced 12 separate resolutions praising the operation and urging an international conference on terrorism. Under [[Charles Alvin Beckwith|Colonel Charles Beckwith's]] leadership, the Army began laying the groundwork for the [[Delta Force]], though it only received full authorization after the [[GSG 9]] antiterrorist raid on [[Lufthansa Flight 181]] in 1977. Despite blanket public support for the raid, [[Henry Kissinger]] privately criticized Israeli use of U.S. equipment during the operation during a conversation with Israeli Ambassador [[Simcha Dinitz]]. In mid-July 1976, the supercarrier [[USS Ranger (CV-61)|USS ''Ranger'']] and her escorts entered the Indian Ocean and operated off the Kenyan coast in response to a threat of military action by forces from Uganda. The hijacked aircraft's pilot, Captain [[Michel Bacos]], was awarded the [[Legion of Honour]], and the other crew members were awarded the [[National Order of Merit (France)|French Order of Merit]]. In the ensuing years, Betser and the Netanyahu brothers – [[Iddo Netanyahu|Iddo]] and [[Benjamin Netanyahu|Benjamin]], all Sayeret Matkal veterans – argued in increasingly public forums about who was to blame for the unexpected early firefight that caused Yonatan's death and partial loss of tactical surprise.

ObscureHistoryEnthusiast (talk) 21:36, 16 August 2025 (UTC)

 Done Thank you for this quality contribution! Day Creature (talk) 02:14, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

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Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 25 August 2025

Add to commemoration section:

In 2016, the United States Commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Operation Entebbe was held at Temple Mikvah Israel, in Philadelphia, PA where a memorial to Yonatan Netanayahu who was killed in the operation was built in 1982. The event was chaired by Steven Friedman, former CIA Director James Woolsey, Lou Balcher, and Steven R Schimmel 9StarGeneral (talk) 16:08, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

 Done Lova Falk (talk) 16:20, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

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