Investigation launched into Israel's murder of USS Liberty seamen.

[moon]

The Day Israel Attacked America

Al Jazeera investigates the shocking truth behind a deadly Israeli attack on a US naval vessel.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes...el-attacked-america-20141028144946266462.html


In 1967, at the height of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, the Israeli Air Force launched an unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty, a US Navy spy ship that was monitoring the conflict from the safety of international waters in the Mediterranean.

Israeli jet fighters hit the vessel with rockets, cannon fire and napalm, before three Israeli torpedo boats moved in to launch a second more devastating attack. Though she did not sink, the Liberty was badly damaged. Thirty-four US servicemen and civilian analysts were killed, another 171 were wounded.

Every decent American should oppose giving the planned 50 billion dollars to the cause of ' Israel's security '. They are liars, murderers and fascists and they are milking the US taxpayer through the Congressmen and Senators that they own.

 

[mogur]

Thank you, moon, for remembering the brave occupants of the USS Liberty. The Israelis did not mis-identify the US Navy technical research ship. They slaughtered 34 American servicemen and civilians, and wounded 171. When their planes failed to sink the vessel, they then sent torpedo boats to finish the job. During the air attack, one pilot recognized the Liberty as American immediately, so informed his headquarters, and was told to ignore the American flag and continue his attack. He refused to do so and returned to base, where he was arrested.

Whether the research vessel was a 'spy ship', or not, obviously, during the six day war, General Moshe Dayan didn't want their communications intercepted, and he ordered his air force, and then his navy, to sink the ship with 294 Americans aboard. They failed. The Liberty survived. LBJ might not have been complicit, as some suggest, but at the very least, he was willing to accept $6 million in Israel compensation for the "misidentification", even though the USS Liberty did not even resemble a rusted out old horse transport vessel.

On June 8, 1967, 49 years ago to this day, Israel bombed, torpedoed, napalmed and even machine gunned the life boats of the USS Liberty. They did not want survivors. Yet, miraculously, the ship did survive, and here we are today, supplying Israel with by far the most foreign aid of any nation on this planet.

I guess the Muslim haters in this country out-number the patriots that were sacrificed on June 8, 1967. Any attack on our countrymen should be defended. By either Al Qaeda, ISIS, or even our closest allies. A measly $6 million, and "sorry, we thought you were an Arab horse transporting vessel" doesn't make it right. To this day, Israel honors Motor Torpedo Boat 203, which fired the deadly torpedo at the USS Liberty. The ship's wheel and bell were placed on prominent display at the naval museum, among the maritime artifacts of which the Israeli navy was most proud. [By proud, I mean they were proud of killing innocent Americans. The USS Liberty was neutral in the six day war. We were sympathetic to the new nation of Israel.

But after bombing, torpedoing, napalming and even machine gunning the life boats of the USS Liberty, maybe we are not so enthusiastic.

 

[moon]

Thank you for putting another foot in the door of ' closure ' on this affront, mogur. Too many Americans support Israel by default without ever realizing that they have been lied to for decades.