Comments by "Jayjay" (@Jayjay-qe6um) on "Operation Thunderbolt: The Raid on Entebbe | Free Documentary History" video.

  1. In the ensuing years, Betser and the Netanyahu brothers - Iddo and Benjamin, all Matkal veterans - argued in increasingly public forums about who was to blame for the unexpected early firefight that Yonatan's death and partial loss of tactical surprise. As a result of the operation, the Unite 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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