Commander Elmo Hutchison was the author of "Violent Truce: A Military Observer Looks At the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1951-1955"
Elmo Hutchison was an Officer in the US Navy starting 1942 and served in the Pacific theater of WWII.
After the war he was assigned as an observer in United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) in 1951, and a year later he was made chairman of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission (HJK-I-MAC).
Having gone into the Middle East pro-Israeli, he quickly changed his tune in observing what he considered flagrant Israeli aggression and violations of international law, particularly in what he dubbed the "Barrel Incident" which took place between June 4th and July 10th, 1952, as well as the Qibya and Nahalin massacres.
His most famous, or infamous, decision was to not condemn the Jordanian government for the Scorpion Pass Incident where 12 Israelis in a bus were gunned down by unknown assailants. Given Jordan's openness to assist in the in the investigation and no evidence that their government was involved, his decision made sense but sparked massive anti-UN backlash in Israel.
Elmo Hutchison tragically drowned while swimming in an inlet of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia at age 54. He was survived by his wife Thelma and son Guy.
Elmo Hutchison was an Officer in the US Navy starting 1942 and served in the Pacific theater of WWII.
After the war he was assigned as an observer in United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) in 1951, and a year later he was made chairman of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission (HJK-I-MAC).
Having gone into the Middle East pro-Israeli, he quickly changed his tune in observing what he considered flagrant Israeli aggression and violations of international law, particularly in what he dubbed the "Barrel Incident" which took place between June 4th and July 10th, 1952, as well as the Qibya and Nahalin massacres.
His most famous, or infamous, decision was to not condemn the Jordanian government for the Scorpion Pass Incident where 12 Israelis in a bus were gunned down by unknown assailants. Given Jordan's openness to assist in the in the investigation and no evidence that their government was involved, his decision made sense but sparked massive anti-UN backlash in Israel.
Elmo Hutchison tragically drowned while swimming in an inlet of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia at age 54. He was survived by his wife Thelma and son Guy.
Commander Elmo Hutchison was the author of "Violent Truce: A Military Observer Looks At the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1951-1955"
Elmo Hutchison was an Officer in the US Navy starting 1942 and served in the Pacific theater of WWII.
After the war he was assigned as an observer in United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) in 1951, and a year later he was made chairman of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission (HJK-I-MAC).
Having gone into the Middle East pro-Israeli, he quickly changed his tune in observing what he considered flagrant Israeli aggression and violations of international law, particularly in what he dubbed the "Barrel Incident" which took place between June 4th and July 10th, 1952, as well as the Qibya and Nahalin massacres.
His most famous, or infamous, decision was to not condemn the Jordanian government for the Scorpion Pass Incident where 12 Israelis in a bus were gunned down by unknown assailants. Given Jordan's openness to assist in the in the investigation and no evidence that their government was involved, his decision made sense but sparked massive anti-UN backlash in Israel.
Elmo Hutchison tragically drowned while swimming in an inlet of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia at age 54. He was survived by his wife Thelma and son Guy.
Elmo Hutchison was an Officer in the US Navy starting 1942 and served in the Pacific theater of WWII.
After the war he was assigned as an observer in United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) in 1951, and a year later he was made chairman of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission (HJK-I-MAC).
Having gone into the Middle East pro-Israeli, he quickly changed his tune in observing what he considered flagrant Israeli aggression and violations of international law, particularly in what he dubbed the "Barrel Incident" which took place between June 4th and July 10th, 1952, as well as the Qibya and Nahalin massacres.
His most famous, or infamous, decision was to not condemn the Jordanian government for the Scorpion Pass Incident where 12 Israelis in a bus were gunned down by unknown assailants. Given Jordan's openness to assist in the in the investigation and no evidence that their government was involved, his decision made sense but sparked massive anti-UN backlash in Israel.
Elmo Hutchison tragically drowned while swimming in an inlet of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia at age 54. He was survived by his wife Thelma and son Guy.
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