When for decades, some have gone their entire life, you were told or led to believe that there only existed a brief, summed up in one sentence, 'as an alternative to Palestine, Uganda was considered as the location for Israel', the study here, whether you use mine, yours, someone elses, or a combination, might be somewhat of a far cry from that simple statement.
The way it was made to sound, when it made its way around education circles in the US several decades ago, is a few individuals sat around a table, and for a few minutes, pondered the idea of Uganda for a home for what would be a homeland to fulfill a vision. Perhaps moreover, it sounded like nothing was happening in Uganda in regard to Israeli cultivation of a presence there, perhaps wth the exception of a few hour long wanderings by explorers in the region of Uganda, to check and see if the climate and conditions would be suitable for an Israel to get established there.
Unless one was PhD holder or student of the region and with respect to Israeli developments, most folks in the US did not seem to know much about the whole thing; the relatively few that did, if they heard of such a topic, may have been considered as holding special knowledge, and individuals of higher echelon.
This keeps in mind that for a long time, realities about Africa as a larger geographic, was suprressed, and made opaque in certain aspects. For an 'average American', back in the mid 1970s, early 1980s, to know off-hand a thing or two and the location of Uganda, within Africa, might have been almost strange.
The Entebbe incident at the airport, 1976, once it hit the news, might have increased popularity for a little while, but then died back down. Even today in 2024, day-to-day news about Uganda is rarely, perhaps once or twice in the same number of years, at the most, in the front page news, nevermind a headline newspaper story, in American newspapers and websites.
What happened at the airport in Entebbe in 1976, and what happened before and after, deserves further study.
What 'before' refers to here, is much larger than what might first be thought of, especially if one is unfamiliar with the airport incident.
Before, can refer to years of developments in Uganda, not just the 24 hours before the flight landed in Entebbe.
The video has some information that daubs at that there were a number of developments in Uganda, some information on the hijacking of the referent plane, rescue operation, and some of the subsequent ripples.
Entebbe Raid : The Israeli Raid that humiliated Idi Amin of Uganda https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=UTrfYgMxYq0
There may be more content to come, in this post; there is much more that can be brought up and expounded on.