Israel’s Attack on the USS Liberty: A Half Century Later, Still No Justice
>After the Israeli fighter jets had emptied their arsenal of rockets, three Israeli attack boats approached the Liberty. Two torpedoes were launched at the crippled ship, one tore a 40-foot wide hole in the hull, flooding the lower compartments, and killing more than a dozen American sailors. >After more than two hours of unremitting assault, the Israelis finally halted their attack. One of the torpedo boats approached the Liberty. An officer asked in English over a bullhorn: “Do you need any help?” >The wounded commander of the Liberty, Lt. William McGonagle, instructed the quartermaster to respond emphatically: “Fuck you.” >A Soviet destroyer responded before the US Navy, even though a US submarine, on a covert mission, was apparently in the area and had monitored the attack. The Soviet ship reached the Liberty six hours before the USS Davis. The captain of the Soviet ship offered his aid, but the Liberty’s conning officer refused.
Finally, 16 hours after the attack two US destroyers reached the Liberty. By that time, 34 US sailors were dead and 174 injured, many seriously. As the wounded were being evacuated, an officer with the Office of Naval Intelligence instructed the men not to talk about their ordeal with the press.
The following morning Israel launched a surprise invasion of Syria, breaching the new cease-fire agreement and seizing control of the Golan Heights.
Within three weeks, the Navy put out a 700-page report, exonerating the Israelis, claiming the attack had been accidental and that the Israelis had pulled back as soon as they realized their mistake. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara suggested the whole affair should be forgotten. “These errors do occur,” McNamara concluded.
Jose Nelson
It's a disgrace. We should have immediately declared war on Israel, leveled their capital, and executed all members of their government.
>be Jews >deliberately attack and murder Americans >OOOOPSIE SOO SORRY here are 0.0003% of the American taxes you hand over to Jewish State terrorists every year for free as "compensation for the victims" now shut up and get over it :^)
Jason Gutierrez
So the attack was a message saying stay out of our invasion of the Golan Heights? Or why did they attack if not for an accident?
Parker Brown
They wanted us to be their golem goyim army to conquer Egypt. They were caught red handed. In an honest world, this would be the most common knowledge historical fact associated with Israel. I would guess less than 5 percent of Americans know this. Muh greatest Ally. Retards.
Brody Cooper
So why then did the Israelis attack the Liberty?
A few days before the Six Days War, Israel’s Foreign Minister Abba Eban visited Washington to inform LBJ about the forthcoming invasion. Johnson cautioned Eban that the US could not support such an attack.
It’s possible, then, that the IDF assumed that the Liberty was spying on the Israeli war plans. Possible, but not likely. Despite the official denials, as Andrew and Leslie Cockburn demonstrate in Dangerous Liaison, at the time of the Six Days War the US and Israel had developed a warm covert relationship. So closely were the two sides working that US intelligence aid certainly helped secure Israel’s devastating and swift victory. In fact, it’s possible that the Liberty had been sent to the region to spy for the IDF.
A somewhat more likely scenario holds that Moshe Dayan wanted to keep the lid on Israel’s plan to breach the new cease-fire and invade into Syria to seize the Golan.
It has also been suggested that Dayan ordered the attack on the Liberty with the intent of pinning the blame on the Egyptians and thus swinging public and political opinion in the United States solidly behind the Israelis. Of course, for this plan to work, the Liberty had to be destroyed and its crew killed.
Alexander Reed
>. Muh greatest Ally. Retards. Dude, it was more than 50 years ago - get over it. Japs bombed Pearl Harbor around then too - we've gotten over that.
Jacob Sullivan
That seems unlikely considering they could send radio transmissions saying it was Israel attacking them.
Samuel Ortiz
The last paragraph isn't a suggestion. That is what happened and that is why.
Jeremiah Ramirez
Sometimes you can't really blame the kikes for treating us like animals when you see how fucking stupid Americans are.
Tyler Hughes
What do you mean? We've sent thousands of young white men to the middle east to die for Greater Israel since then. If dead goys are not justice, I don't know what it
Jose Rivera
Yea and we nuked them for it. Twice. You still owe a blood debt, Moishe.
Jacob Smith
>The Liberty’s radio team tried to issue a distress call, but discovered the frequencies had been jammed by the Israeli planes with what one communications specialist called “a buzzsaw sound.” Finally, an open channel was found and the Liberty got out a message it was under attack to the USS America, the Sixth Fleet’s large aircraft carrier. Read the link I posted in the OP. They explained everything there and it's a really interesting article.
Xavier Kelly
So for that plan to work they had to sink the ship, kill all crew members that abandoned ship, and stop all communication and they did neither.
Levi Moore
Jews have betrayed America over and over again. They have betrayed every host nation where they have ever lived and Israel is a rogue hostile nation. You're blind.
Isaac Fisher
No one claims they succeeded.
Jace Rodriguez
>when the fucking soviets you fear so much are coming to rescue you >the only thing you say to them is "F-fuck you commies come and take a load of .50 w-we will defend israel"
Spy ship got shot. Justice. Should have been done worse considering the bastards named it Liberty.
Gabriel Reyes
IDF is not nor has it ever been a quality fighting force, despite its track record of defeating the shittiest armies in history. The fact that the Jews threw everything they had at the liberty and still failed to sink it attests to that. It wasn't from lack of trying, it was lack of skill.
But they tried and they had people inside the American government helping them:
>A particularly damning report compiled by a CIA informant suggests that Israeli Defense minister Moshe Dayan personally ordered the attack and wanted it to proceed until the Liberty was sunk and all on board killed.
>wo F-4s left the carrier to come to the Liberty’s aid. Apparently, the jets were armed only with nuclear weapons. When word reached the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara became irate and ordered the jets to return. “Tell the Sixth Fleet to get those aircraft back immediately,” he barked. McNamara’s injunction was reiterated in saltier terms by Admiral David L. McDonald, the chief of Naval Operations: “You get those fucking airplanes back on deck, and you get them back down.” The planes turned around. And the attack on the Liberty continued.
Joseph Bailey
>still no justice
Israel paid the US roughly 65 million dollars for the incident
Sebastian Torres
"One million Goyim are not worth a Jewish fingernail" Rabbi Yaacov Perrin
Levi Phillips
>they were going to nuke israel over a ship
Sounds believable.
Owen Cook
>Only active military asset in range armed with nukes.
Should have nuked them. And then nuked tell Aviv.
Asher Sullivan
It's not about money, dumbass. We give them billions per year. They paid us with our own money.
Luke Martin
You don't need to nuke Israel because of a ship, just the threat is enough to make them cease the attack. And that is what nuclear weapons are for: Deterrence.
Ryder Torres
Who cares mutts are beyond repair they unironically believe they must suck jewish cock because theyre gods choosen people They die in wars for them They give free money to them Their politic is openly influenced by israel and even love it Theirs dicks get cut because jews told them to do it I don't think this will ever change they're lost and should die already
It wasn't to punish us. It was to frame Egypt and activate the golem. If they succeeded in their mission, we would have attacked Egypt and fully backed Israel's play in Syria.
Jayden Sullivan
Oh what a good idea we are having captain sir, why didn't the brass think about sending a ship in here unannounced before. Positively wizard. Oh look it's a bird.
Camden Rivera
Israel apologized, called it friendly fire, and then gave a couple million.
What else do you want?
Jaxon Scott
Justice. At the very least for retarded Americans to stop unironically believing Israel is our greatest ally.
