Day Israel attacked USA and Egypt (doc)

Al Jazeera English, 11/3/14; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The day Israel attacked America | Special Series

(Al Jazeera English) Al Jazeera investigates the shocking truth behind a deadly Israeli attack on a U.S. naval vessel.

We were the best of friends, stabbed in the back.

In 1967, at the height of the Israeli-Arab Six Day War, the Israeli Air Force launched an unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty, a U.S. Navy spy ship that was monitoring Israel secret attack on Egypt -- without the U.S.'s consent or knowledge -- from the safety of international waters in the Mediterranean.

Israeli jet fighters intentionally hit the U.S. flying a large vessel under a U.S. flag and making eye contact and waving at American sailors before killing them with rockets, missiles, machinegun fire, cannon fire, and napalm, before three Israeli torpedo boats moved in to launch a second more devastating attack with a massive torpedo.

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Though she did not sink, the Liberty was badly damaged, and the U.S. considered sinking it so it could not be photographed by journalists and get Israel in trouble, since U.S. Pres. Lyndon Johnson was the most pro-Israeli of all presidents. The NSA [poo-pooed] that idea.

Thirty-four US servicemen and civilian analysts were slaughtered, another 171 were wounded. Later, Israel pretended to apologize for a "mistake" as if it had all been an accident. It tried to claim it was all a tragic case of "mistaken identity."

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It said, implausibly, that it had thought the ship, which was peacefully monitoring the situation, was a hostile Egyptian naval vessel.

U.S. Pres. Johnson was privately furious but publicly the White House was blackmailed by Israel, threatening to withhold Jewish-American funding of his upcoming presidential campaign and the careers of those in Congress.

Pres. Johnson folded and not to challenge the word of its closest Middle East ally; he was paid off to accept that the attack had been a catastrophic accident. The president was surrounded by Jewish spies, crawling all over the White House and Washington, D.C.

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However, as this exclusive Al Jazeera investigation reveals, fresh evidence -- as well as evidence known and suppressed at the time -- throws new light on exactly what happened that fateful day and the remarkable cover up that followed. A massive coverup then ensued, hiding what had happened. The press, waiting at the dock, saw nothing, and the American body parts were incinerated.

ISRAEL'S CONCLUSION

Current US Secretary of Sate Blinken agrees.

"At the time, U.S. Undersecretary of State George Ball noted that 'it seemed to the Israelis that as American leaders did not have the courage to punish them for the blatant murder of American servicemen, they'll let us [Israel] get away with anything.'"

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