Israel Attacked America ?

Question

Can someone tell me why the USS Liberty was attacked by Israel when they clearly had american flags .

But in the report filed by Israelies they placed blame on the egyptians, who we almost went to war with because of the incident .

Visibility of ensign: The most vehemently debated point is the visibility of the large American flags that the ship was flying; Americans claimed the flags were clearly visible in the wind. The Israeli pilots claimed they were either unable to notice it altogether (possibly due to there being no wind, or because Liberty was steaming with the wind at the same speed that the wind was blowing), or considered it an Egyptian diversion aimed to mislead them. One point is beyond dispute: USS Liberty bore an eight-foot-high "5" and a four-foot-high "GTR" along either bow, clearly indicating her hull (or "pendant") number (AGTR-5), and had 18-inch-high letters spelling the vessel's name across the stern. These marking were not cursive Arabic script but in English.

Answer 1

Because, Israelis convinced the Americans that they DIDN'T even sink the ship when they did. It is OK, friendly fire happens. But Israel said, 'It never happened". ONLY naive people like most Americans will think "it never happened"

Answer 2

It happened "a long time ago" in 1967. This is what Wikipedia-You-Can't-Trust-That has to say about it:

"Both the Israeli and American governments have conducted multiple inquiries into the incident, and have issued reports concluding that the attack was a tragic mistake, caused by confusion about the identity of the USS Liberty. These conclusions have been challenged from several fronts, most notably by an organization of Liberty survivors, as well as by some former high-ranking officials in the United States government. The matter is considered closed for purposes of Israeli-American relations, but remains controversial in the public debate."

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IN OTHER NEWS TODAY: Israeli Bombs Kills 4 UN Observers" --UN secretary-general Kofi Annan is calling on Israel to investigate the "apparently deliberate targeting" of the base. ///

Answer 3

I must greet you for being open-minded and unbiased at a time in which any one who doesn't support Israel is considered a racist or an insane persron. And my answer is: Because Israel wanted to entrap the USA directly into the war against Egypt. It didn't fully work, anyway, and my country (Egypt) taught Israel a very tough lesson a few years later in the 1973 war. If the USA hadn't rescued Israel in that war's latter days, Israel was going to either use its WMD or was going to be something from the past.

Answer 4

1967 right? Two years before I was born but sad that our policy hasn't changed in forty years. I wonder what they could do now and still get away with it. If we provide aid to Lebanon and our US marines who are distributing it get mowed down, what do you think will happen? That's Right not a God Da** thing. Why? just like most of the idiots on yahoo they will forget about it as soon as the new season of "Survivor" starts.

Answer 5

Was this in a movie? or is it a big secret scandal that you just uncovered? How clear were the flags? Clear to who? Tell me the whole story if there is one.

If it was true you should be asking Israel why.
How the hell would we know their reason. I'm sitting at the computer so I wasn't consulted before the alleged attack.

Answer 6

Happened a long time ago. England, Japan, Mexico, and American Indians (among others) also attacked the U.S.A if you want to carry a grudge you might as well be mad at these nations also.

Answer 7

The USS Liberty (AGTR-5) was a Belmont-class technical research ship that was attacked and damaged by Israeli forces on June 8, 1967 (see the USS Liberty incident).

The Assault on the USS Liberty Still Covered Up After 26 Years

By James M. Ennes Jr.
Twenty-six years have passed since that clear day on June 8, 1967 when Israel attacked the USS Liberty with aircraft and torpedo boats, killing 34 young men and wounding 171. The attack in international waters followed over nine hours of close surveillance. Israeli pilots circled the ship at low level 13 times on eight different occasions before attacking. Radio operators in Spain, Lebanon, Germany and aboard the ship itself all heard the pilots reporting to their headquarters that this was an American ship. They attacked anyway. And when the ship failed to sink, the Israeli government concocted an elaborate story to cover the crime.

There is no question that this attack on a U.S. Navy ship was deliberate. This was a coordinated effort involving air, sea, headquarters and commando forces attacking over a long period. It was not the "few rounds of misdirected fire" that Israel would have the world believe. Worse, the Israeli excuse is a gross and detailed fabrication that disagrees entirely with the eyewitness recollections of survivors. Key American leaders call the attack deliberate. More important, eyewitness participants from the Israeli side have told survivors that they knew they were attacking an American ship.


Israeli Pilot Speaks Up
Fifteen years after the attack, an Israeli pilot approached Liberty survivors and then held extensive interviews with former Congressman Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey about his role. According to this senior Israeli lead pilot, he 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.

Later, a dual-citizen Israeli major told survivors that he was in an Israeli war room where he heard that pilot's radio report. The attacking pilots and everyone in the Israeli war room knew that they were attacking an American ship, the major said. He recanted the statement only after he received threatening phone calls from Israel.

The pilot's protests also were heard by radio monitors in the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. Then-U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dwight Porter has confirmed this. Porter told his story to syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak and offered to submit to further questioning by authorities. Unfortunately, no one in the U.S. government has any interest in hearing these first-person accounts of Israeli treachery.

Key members of the Lyndon Johnson administration have long agreed that this attack was no accident. Perhaps most outspoken is former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Thomas Moorer. "I can never accept the claim that this was a mistaken attack," he insists.

Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk is equally outspoken, calling the attack deliberate in press and radio interviews. Similarly strong language comes from top leaders of the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency (some of whose personnel were among the victims), National Security Council, and from presidential advisers such as Clark Clifford, Joseph Califano and Lucius Battle.

A top-secret analysis of Israel's excuse conducted by the Department of State found Israel's story to be untrue. Yet Israel and its defenders continue to stand by their claim that the attack was a "tragic accident" in which Israel mistook the most modern electronic surveillance vessel in the world for a rusted-out 40-year-old Egyptian horse transport.

Despite the evidence, no U.S. administration has ever found the courage to ever found the courage to defy the Israeli lobby by publicly demanding a proper accounting from Israel.


How Does Congress React to These Complaints?
Most members of Congress respond to inquiries about the Liberty with seemingly sympathetic promises to "investigate." Weeks or months later they write again to report their "findings": "The Navy investigated in 1967 and found no evidence that the attack was deliberate," they say." Israel apologized, calling the attack a tragic case of misidentification, and paid damages for loss of life, injuries and property damage. The matter is closed.

The fact is, however, that the Navy's "investigation" examined only the quality of the crew's training, the adequacy of communications and the performance of the crew under fire. The Navy was forbidden to examine Israeli culpability and Navy investigators refused to allow testimony showing that the attack was deliberate or that Israel's excuse was untrue.


The Navy blocked all testimony about Israeli actions.
Instead of determining whether the attack was deliberate, the Navy blocked all testimony about Israeli actions. No survivor was permitted to describe the close in machine-gun fire that continued for 40 minutes after Israel claims all firing stopped. No survivor was allowed to talk about the life rafts the Israeli torpedo men machine-gunned in the water. No survivor was permitted to challenge defects and fabrications in Israel's story. Even my eyewitness testimony as officer-of-the deck was withheld from the official record. No evidence of Israeli culpability was "found" because no such testimony was allowed. To survivors, this was not an investigation. It was a cover-up.

Answer 8

I did not hear that either, but if so probably for the same reason they just killed four UN peacekeepers.. They're O.C. man!!

Or, maybe Hezbollah was using it as a shield.. Seems like the excuse for the civilians they kill...

Thought it was recent,, geez excuuuuusee me...

Answer 9

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Our Government wants us to forget that that ever happened!

Answer 10

That's news to me. Probably didn't happen.