Israel’s Infamous USS Liberty Attack
By Stephen Lendman | August 27, 2019
Throughout Israel’s history, its ruling authorities have been responsible for virtually every form of indignity, degradation, barbarity, and other high crimes of war and against humanity imaginable.
Palestinians suffered most from the theft of 78% of their historic homeland in 1948, the remainder in June 1967 — living under brutalizing military occupation since that time, their fundamental rights lost under apartheid ruthlessness.
Supporters of peace, equity, and justice accused Israel of daily high crimes against the Palestinian people, including cold-blooded murder and other forms of state terror.
Israel gets away with mass murder and much more because the world community fails to hold it accountable, the US most of all — both countries partnering in each other’s high crimes.
Last week, Alison Weir’s If Americans Knew blog explained that surviving veterans of the USS Liberty June 1967 attack by Israel are banned from attending an American Legion National Convention.
Its website claims it’s committed “to helping our fellow veterans, service members and their families.”
No mention was made of blackballed USS Liberty vets — “the most decorated (ones) since World War II, (because of their) extraordinary record of heroism, Weir explained, adding:
“Legion personnel have repeatedly treated Liberty veterans, their families, and their friends with arrogance, disrespect, and even disdain that many feel demeans these American servicemen, their ship, their service to their country, and the memory of their 34 fellow crewmembers who never returned.”
On June 8, 1967, during Israel’s preemptive Six-Day War, an act of aggression, against regional Arab states planned years in advance, IDF pilots and navy attack boats provocatively struck the USS Liberty intelligence gathering ship, about 25.5 nautical miles northwest of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in international waters.
The incident took 34 US lives, another 171 wounded, the vessel severely damaged, lucky to stay afloat.
It was deployed to monitor belligerents’ communications in response to Israeli aggression on Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq – not the other way around.
Israeli leaders and generals explained long after the fact that the Jewish state was unthreatened at the time.
In 1972, IDF chief General Haim Barlev said:
“We were not threatened with genocide on the eve of the six-day war, and we had never thought of such a possibility.”
In 1978, IDF air force General Mordechai Hod said:
“Sixteen years of planning had gone into those initial eighty minutes. We lived with the plan. We slept on the plan. We ate the plan. Constantly we perfected it.”
Knowing it faced no regional threats, Israel preemptively and aggressively attacked four nonbelligerent Arab states and its key US ally without just cause.
It was no accidental IDF attack on the USS Liberty. Israel knew the ship’s identity, its US flag clearly visible. Good weather conditions made it easy to spot.
Israeli warplanes circled overhead before attacking, at times low enough for US sailors to wave to its pilots.
They waved back before opening fire with rockets, machine guns, and napalm terror-bombs against the lightly armed vessel.
Parts of the deck were set ablaze. Torpedoes launched from IDF boats caused a 40-foot-wide hole in its hull, flooding lower compartments, causing the ship to list 10 degrees, a defenseless smoking hulk, lucky to avoid sinking.
The ship’s radio frequencies were jammed to prevent a distress call for help. When finally able to communicate, it was too late. The damage was done, the human toll testimony to Israeli viciousness.
Israel willfully attacked the US with impunity to this day, the incident officially buried down what Orwell called the “Memory Hole.”
USS Liberty survivors are treated like nonperson enemies of state by the American Legion and US war department. They were supposed to die, not live, to silence them.
Former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Thomas Moorer minced no words, saying:
“Those men were… betrayed and left to die by our own government.”
US navy signalman on the vessel Joe Meadors posted the following on the USS Liberty Veterans’ Association blog on what its survivors were told, saying:
“You will not discuss the attack with anyone. Once the Court of Inquiry findings are released you will not contradict them.”
“This order will remain in effect after you are discharged from the Navy. If you violate this order you will be prosecuted and will spend a considerable amount of time in a Federal Prison.”
“This order was repeated every day at quarters while we were in drydock in Malta.”
“If anyone tells of witnessing the deliberate machine gunning of our life rafts in the water, he runs the risk of doing time in a Federal prison.”
“If anyone tells of witnessing the use of unmarked aircraft or of the jamming of our radios on both US Navy tactical and international maritime distress frequencies, he runs the risk of doing time in a Federal prison.”
“We cannot talk about this among ourselves. We cannot talk about this with our family. We cannot talk about this with any counselor. We cannot talk about this at a meeting of any veterans group we may become involved with.”
“We cannot talk about this with our Congressional Delegation. We cannot talk about this at The American Legion National Convention.”
“We cannot talk about this with anyone. If we do, we risk Federal prison.”
“But we defy the Federal Government and speak about the attack anywhere we can.”
“But now we cannot talk about it at The American Legion National Convention.”
The organization “has a long record of trying to stifle USS Liberty survivors in our effort to tell the story of what happened on a US Navy ship.”
Alison Weir’s If Americans Knew and others on the right side of history won’t let this story die.
Award-winning author Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG)
His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”
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Outrageous treatment of American Servicemen by the USA Government. Israel has such a hold over the American Government, that even American Veterans have become the enemy of THE USA.
And, you can add to the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967, the False Flag attack on New York City, in 2001 when Israeli filmmakers were sent to NYC to film the destruction, and then were sent home without punishment.
Don’t worry about moving the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem……Move the American Congress to Jerusalem as well
When is this madness going to stop???
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See my (Amazon & B&N) ebook: “On the Brink of Armageddon: LBJ, the Six-Day War, and the Attack on the U.S.S. Liberty.” Turns out the Israelis were suborned to attack and sink the Liberty as the price they had to pay for US and UK assistance to mount the Six Day War. LBJ hoped to used the sinking of the Liberty as a pretext to join Israel’s war –he hoped on the first day, but circumstances created a delay till the fourth — to gain Zionist support while his popularity was tanking because of Vietnam.
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Yes — move the congress to Jerusalem so the Israeli govt will find it efficient giving you orders.
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How could the United States government officials ‘in charge’ of overseeing this crime, how could they do this to the dead, the survivors, the relatives of both?
That question should be, must be answered. As well as it can be answered.
What the answer would reveal would be an indictment of treason. And a revelation of the subservience to a foreign state, a foreign state which carried out an act of war upon America.
As such, that should be a warning of what Israel did… and is doing… and will do.
Israel is not an ally. It is the opposite.
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The latest made four episode docuseries told by the veterans of the USS Liberty:
https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/
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Sacrificing Liberty – The full trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XFTn70Rdso
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