There is still a great deal of controversy surrounding the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967. While the accepted narrative states that this was a tragic accident, there are many who refuse to accept it, particularly the surviving victims.
Former captain of the Liberty, Ward Boston, signed an affidavit stating unequivocally:
“The evidence was clear. Both Admiral [Isaac C.] Kidd and I believed with certainty that this attack … was a deliberate effort to sink an American ship and murder its entire crew. It was our shared belief, based on the documentary evidence and testimony we received firsthand, that the Israeli attack was planned and deliberate.”
Tim Fischer put it this way:
“If Israel did deliberately attack the most powerful nation on Earth, it knows it can do so and get away with murder. Worse still, U.S. military personnel now know that if the truth is politically inconvenient, they and their legacy are expendable.”
Justin Raimondo suggests that the Lobby had a role to play, but this theory is flawed. At the time, Israel’s lobby did not wield anywhere near the same influence that we are witnessing today. Nonetheless he does raise a valid argument:
Critics may aver that this is all ancient history, that there is no reason to bring up the attack on the Liberty, and even if it wasn’t an accident, it’s time to let bygones be bygones. The Lobby constantly asserts that anyone who even mentions this “incident” is nothing but an anti-Semite, because, after all, why talk about it now?
If indeed the attack was deliberate, then it begs the question as to what Lyndon Johnson’s reasons were for covering it up?
There are two theories that may explain this.
The Israelis attacked the Liberty, according to several books and a BBC documentary on the subject, in order to prevent the U.S. government from learning of Israeli plans to occupy the Golan Heights belongs to Syria, and which is still causing a great many problems for U.S. interests in the region.
Another more recent theory has surfaced
It has long been assumed that Israel’s deliberate attack on the USS Liberty was just another of her made-to-order false flag operations done simply for the purpose of dragging an unwilling America into a Middle East war on the side of the Jewish state. However, new information uncovered by former BBC investigative journalist Peter Hounam reveals that America–and more specifically the administration of Lyndon Johnson–was not as much the unsuspecting victim in all of this that she has claimed these last 40 years. Based on relatively new evidence, the attack on the Liberty was actually part of a much larger plan and that the Liberty incident was just one domino in a series of them that had as the ultimate goal a real-live shooting war between the US and the USSR. Had the Liberty been sunk with no witnesses as planned, the world would be a much different place now as a result, and certainly not for the better.
In short, what was planned for that awful day in American history was that the a defenseless, unarmed American ship sailing in international waters off the coast of Egypt be sunk to the bottom of the Mediterranean and that the Soviets and their Arab allies (in particular Egypt) would be blamed for the event.
Without a comprehensive investigation, these theories will remain pure speculation, however, they will continue to linger so long as the veil of secrecy surrounding this event is maintained.
Very interesting, very sad. It’s hard to know what to believe these days…whether it was attacked due to mistaken identity…or the Johnson Govt. used the Israelis…or the Israelis had devious plans of their own…but I will admit the BBC doco is quite compelling.
Don’t whether you’ve seen this:
http://opposingdigits.com/vlog/?p=535
So many BAD people out there…so many innocent Jews, Islamics, Christians, Atheists caught in the crossfire. The greed, paranoia & insanity of it all.
Very depressing & tragic.
There are also “many who refuse to accept” the “accepted narrative” of 9/11, Andre. No amount of evidence will change their mind, and in their minds, all such evidence is merely further evidence of a grand cover-up. Their arguments are thus non-falsifiable.
We have a lot of names for these people. Perhaps it’s no conicidence that most of them are also sub-literate.
It must thrill Antony to know that your posts actually make his look credible. Surrounding such theories with any argument other than “this is crap” casts serious questions on your sensibility.
Another interesting choice of source blogs, Andre - the “If Americans Knew” site no doubt fits righnt in with your nutty world view and attitudes towards Israel.
A typical over reaction BenZ,
Those who happen to reject were the victims, but what would they know right BenZ? The only feasible explanation being that they must all be anti-Semites.
Unable to effectively debate the issue at hand, your only avenue is to try to attack the links I provided, oblivious it seems, to the fact of the three links I provided, two of them cite the BBC and the third happens to be a mainstream Australian Newspaper.
And you have the chutzpah to call me sub-literate? Again, you have turned on a fine display of soiling yourself in public. Way to go.
Debate what issue, Andre? Stuff you pull out of your backside and use spurious sources to vindicate? There will never be “Debate” on this site as long as Antony “Let the debate continue” Loewenstein censors his opponents. I always wonder what other comments would appear besides mine if Antony wasn’t such a hypocrite. Then again, he only gets a handful of hits to the site anyway…
As for the Liberty:
Rather sums you up.