two in a row about the perfidious joos attacking an american ship and being enabled in the process by 'our' government. this one by pcr;
52nd Anniversary of Israel’s Attack on the USS Liberty
Israel Is a Dictatorship, Not a Democracy
Paul Craig Roberts
Two days ago the US celebrated the 75th anniversary of D-Day with
accolades to the armed forces and thanks to surviving veterans. The country stood strongly with the military. But today two days later is the 52nd anniversary of a day of shame when Washington turned its back on the US Navy. It
was June 8, 1967 when the USS Liberty, a surveillance ship stationed
off the coast of Egypt was attacked by Israeli fighter aircraft and
torpedo boats. The Israelis
were unable to sink the Liberty, but managed to kill 34 American sailors
and wound 174. Seventy percent of the crew were casualties of the
Israeli attack.
The White House, fearing the Israel Lobby, prevented the US Navy from
going to the defense of the Liberty, thus sacrificing American lives,
and further dishonored the US Navy by ordering Admiral McCain, father of
the former US Senator John McCain, to orchestrate a cover-up. The surviving crew were threatened with court-martial and imprisonment if they spoke about the event. It
was 20 years before one of the surviving officers wrote a book about
the greatest act of shame the US government ever inflicted on the US
military.
In 2003, 36 years after the Israeli attack on the Liberty, Admiral
Tom Moorer, former Chief of Naval Operations and Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, convened the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the
Israeli Attack on USS Liberty, the Recall of Military Rescue Support
Aircraft while the Liberty was Under Attack, and the Subsequent Cover-up
by the United States Government. The Commission consisted of Adm.
Moorer, Gen. Raymond Davis, former Assistant Commandant of the US Marine
Corps, Rear Adm. Merlin Staring, former Judge Advocate General of the
US Navy, and Amb. James Akins, former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
You can read the report online, here for example: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Moorer_Report
The report is devastating. Among the report’s conclusions, these stand out:
“That due to the influence of Israel’s powerful supporters in the
United States, the White House deliberately covered up the facts of this
attack from the American people;.............https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/06/08/an-israeli-double-feature/
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