| Author | Message | | sharkman | | Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2002 3:34 am Post subject: cut us aid to israel to reduce risk of posible nuke terror |
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and what do you think contributes to our domestic terrorism? it is obviously our biased support of israel's continued oppression of the palestinian people which billions and billions of us taxpayer dollars facilitate... cut the aid to israel, and we will reduce our domestic terrorism risk.. especially nuke terrorism.. get a clue and read the following article:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0523/p07s02-wome.html
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=298681
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=285777
and what did the first israelis do to the british before palestine became
israel as the terrorism of begin became the party of likud?:
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v03/v03p-88_Clarke.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=301468
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/
Exactly, let's talk about the USS Liberty and the 34 american sailors that
Israel intentionally and brutally murdered (with 171 more injured) in order to steal more land:
http://home.cfl.rr.com/gidusko/liberty/
http://www.ussliberty.org
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
THE INFAMOUS ISRAELI ATTACK ON THE USS LIBERTY
THE UNDISPUTABLE EVENTS OF 8 JUNE, 1967
By Dr. E.A. Richards, P.E.
At 11:32 am the USS Liberty, a sophisticated intelligence gathering
vessel, commanded by Captain William L. McGonagle, was 15.5
miles north of the Sinai, and east of El Arish, Egypt, adjacent to the
12 mile limit off Egyptian waters, cruising in an easterly direction.
Just before 2:00 pm, the Liberty was north of the Bardawil
Peninsula, still outside Egyptian territorial waters. In morning hours,
Israeli reconnaissance planes had circled the Liberty several times,
ostensibly taking photographs, and other surveillance Israeli aircraft,
including one slow-moving propeller-driven craft, were in the area at
that time.
Without any warning, the Liberty was attacked by Israeli fighter
planes and torpedo boats while she lay in quiet waters off Bardawil.
The United States naval vessel was machine-gunned repeatedly,
and took 81 hits from aircraft rocket and cannon fire and a direct hit
midships from a torpedo fired by one of the Israeli torpedo boat
attack squadron.
Thirty four American sailors were killed in the dastardly attack, and
more than 150 were wounded.
II. REPORTS FROM LIBERTY PERSONNEL.
Lt. Richard F. Kiepher, a USS Liberty medical officer, wrote this to
his mother: "We were cruising along, and it was a beautiful day
under clear skies and the men were commenting about the
Mediterranean pleasure cruise and what fine day it was for
swimming. I heard the first explosion and then the jets were raking
the decks with machine gun and rocket fire.
"Our .50 caliber machine guns, which are our only armament, had a
chance to return some small fire before another wave of jets
knocked out the gun mounts and destroyed all the lifeboats and life-
rafts."
Kiepher wrote that when fires broke out, and crews attempted to put
them out, the men were cut down by the strafing Israeli aircraft.
Keipher himself was shot in the leg, his kneecap shattered, but in
spite of the wound he set up an emergency hospital in the mess
hall, as the sick bay was knocked out by four direct hits. He treated
wounded sailors there for 18 hours straight.
He told his mother of an extraordinary act of heroism by Lt. Jim
Pierce, who secured a flood-hold hatch so as to keep the ship from
sinking; Lt. Pierce had to secure the hatch from inside the hold, thus
staying inside the flooding compartment.
Joseph C. Lentini said this: "There was no way the Israelis could
have mistaken the Liberty for an Egyptian ship. The hull was
distinctively American, the lettering on the ship was English and not
Arabic." He said the US flag was flying when the Israeli planes
made their advance surveillance, and it flew during the attack.
"The firing was too precise to be a spontaneous target-of-
opportunity attack," Lentini went on, "The Israelis shot out the black
boxes controlling the guns," noting, "precise fire such as that could
only have come after the aerial photos taken by the Israelis had
been carefully studied.
"Moshe Dayan lied when he said the Israelis realized it was a
mistake when they saw a life raft with "U.S. Navy" on it, and that is
when the attack stopped. It stopped a few seconds after a United
States aircraft carrier finally received instructions from Washington
to send American aircraft to the rescue of the Liberty."
Captain McGonagle was awarded the Congressional Medal of
Honor for his command of the Liberty during the attack; Lt. George
Golden, the ship's engineering officer, was given the Silver Star for
his efforts to keep the crippled ship afloat and under power.
III. ISRAELI STATEMENTS.
After US jet fighters had been launched from the air craft carrier,
and the unmarked Israeli planes had fled, the Israeli government
called the US naval attache from the US Embassy to notify him that
the Israeli air force had attacked the USS Liberty "by accident"
thinking it was an Arab ship, and offering its abject apologies.
United Press International Reporter Bill Small said that Menachim
Begin stated, "Anyway we can defy the American Congress and it
will go along."
IV. OFFICIAL INQUIRIES INTO THE ATTACK
Lyndon Johnson was president when the Naval Board on Inquiry
investigated the attack on the Liberty, and appeared to have made
certain that the hearings were highly classified. The only public
information concerning the hearings came out in a summary which
made the statement that the attack was "unprovoked."
When Adlai Stevenson was chairman of the Senate Select
Subcommittee on the Collection and Production of Intelligence in
1980, he wanted to conduct hearings dealing with the Israeli attack
on the Liberty, even though that same subcommittee had voted in
secret not to investigate. Barry Goldwater also requested the same
hearings, but the request was "shot down" by a majority of his
senate committee members. Neither Stevenson nor Goldwater
believed that the Liberty attack was accidental.
V. STIFLING THE CREW MEMBERS.
Members of the Liberty crew were transferred to stations far apart
from one another after the incident. Investigative reporters
attempted to interview some of the crew, but the crewmen located
said they had been ordered not to breathe a word about the attack
to anyone, that they were afraid to talk even if their names were not
used, especially those still in service as of 1976. They said they
feared for their jobs, their families, and some, their lives.
VI. QUESTIONS STILL UNANSWERED.
A number of questions still have not been answered concerning the
incident, for example:
1. Why did the government of the United States order the officers
and crew of the USS Liberty to remain silent about the incident
under implied penalty? If the attack had come from an Arabian
state the hearings would have come thick and fast.
2. Why did one member of the crew consent to a an interview with
expenses fully paid, then back out? His mother said she "didn't
want him to end up with a bullet in his back."
3. In 1976 it was reported that the secret findings of the Naval
Board of Inquiry included the comment that the Israeli attack was
deliberate. Why are certain elements of the report, and their
conclusions still suppressed by the government and almost all of
the media?
4. Why were 6th Fleet Phantom jets ordered by McNamara,
Rostow, and the White House to halt a planned retaliatory strike on
the Haifa torpedo base from where the attackers came?
5. Israeli officials admitted later that they knew an American naval
vessel was operating off the Sinai coast; why didn't they pass on
that information to the planes and PT boats that attacked the
Liberty, unless the attack was planned?
6. Why did Senators Javits, Kennedy, and Ribicoff come out with
alibis for Israel within hours of the attack? Javits said the attack
was a "tragic fall-out of war and that the incident would have been a
lot more dangerous in its implications if it had been caused by the
Soviet or Arab forces. With Israel, we know it was a mistake."
7. Why wasn't the Israeli attack met by US aircraft immediately?
When Captain Joe Tully of the Saratoga was informed of the attack
by a Liberty radioman, he sent four A-1 aircraft to the rescue. Tully
notified Admiral Martin of the attack and Martin ordered both the
Saratoga and the America to help out.
Within a few minutes, Rear Admiral Lawrence R. Geis, commander
of Carrier Task Force 60, ordered the immediate withdrawal of the
Saratoga's planes. For the next 90 minutes, the White House and
the Defense Department "discussed" options, finally ordering
another rescue attempt, at which time the Israelis withdrew and
"apologized."
(It was later found that Robert McNamara had personally recalled
the planes that had been sent to help the Liberty)
8. After the attack ceased, why did the Liberty have to wait 16 hours
before another American ship arrived? There was a Soviet ship
hove to that offered assistance, but her help was refused.
9. A crewman on an American submarine in the battle area during
the attack stated that sub personnel took motion pictures of the
attack on the Liberty, through the periscope. Why didn't the sub
radio the 6th fleet for help. If the story is true, and the evidence is
that the reporting sub crewman had no reason to lie about the
incident, where then are the motion pictures?
VII. POSSIBLE REASONS FOR THE ISRAELI ATTACK.
1. One view has it that the Israelis did not want the US to know they
were massing troops along the Golan Heights and the West Bank
for fear the US would bring pressure on them to halt the operation.
2. Another view states that there was a high-jacked freighter nearby
which was filled with uranium stolen from the US, which would
subsequently be used to make the Israeli nuclear weapons. And if
the uranium report was untrue, where DID Israel get the nuclear
material for their atomic weapons?
III. REPARATIONS.
Some angry members of Congress called for an inquiry and
reparations from Israel in the amount of $26 million, far short of the
$40 million it had taken to build the Liberty, which was so badly
damaged it had to be scrapped. Just after Reagan had beaten
Carter in the 1980 elections, the Israeli ambassador met with Walter
Mondale, then V.P., and the two concluded an agreement to reduce
the US damage claim for $26 million to $6 million, with the
understanding that it could be "paid later," after arrangements had
been made to give Israel the money to do so.
Carter announced his approval of the settlement in a press release
on December 18th, 1980, just 32 days before Reagan became
president. The title of the release was, "The Book is Now Closed
on the USS Liberty Affair."
But was it closed? In September, 1980, the Atlantic magazine
contained an 8000 word article which completely white-washed the
criminally overt Israeli attack and subsequent cover-up actions. It
was produced by Zeev Schiff, a senior associate of the "Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace," a group once headed by
Soviet agent Alger Hiss, along with Hirsh Goodman, a
correspondent of the Jerusalem Post, which is owned and
controlled by the family of unionist Lane Kirkland, who is a trustee of
the Rockefeller Foundation and who was one of Walter Mondale's
closest friends and sponsors.
The authors began by saying that the Israel government gave them
full access to the secret "naval and air-defense archives and
transcripts of two internal Defense force investigations which remain
classified."
In the two paragraphs concluding the article, the authors state that
originally Israel refused a demand of the United States for
compensation for damages to the "Liberty" because "it did not
accept the contention that it alone was responsible for the
circumstances leading to the attack."
The article goes on: "The question of damages has bounced back
and forth over the (past twenty) years with no results. Finally, in
January of 1980, Israel agreed to negotiate a settlement, but none
has been negotiated to this day." This was in mid-1984.
IX. ISOLATED INCIDENT?
In 1976, an American reconnaissance spy plane was flying a sweep
over middle east territory; whether it was over Israeli-claimed land is
unknown, but the mission did confirm that Israel did have at least 13
nuclear weapons of 20 kiloton intensity.
Tape recordings made by US Government listening posts reported
the following conversations:
Israeli Pilot: "I have it on my radar, it is an SR-71 American
Blackbird.
Isreali Air Force Commander: "Down it."
But the American craft easily out climbed and outdistanced the
Israeli pursuers, unlike the two civilian transports, with passengers,
that the Israelis shot down long before the Soviet kill of flight 007.
X. ANTHONY PEARSON.
Anthony Pearson is a British journalist who made an in-depth study
of the events of the 1967 war, including tracking down and
interviewing many of the survivors. Here are some of his
conclusions:
1. The United States had prior knowledge of and approved the
Pearl Harbor-like attack of Egypt in June of 1967. It, too, wanted to
get rid of President Gamel Nasser and also minimize Russian
influence in the Middle East.
2. It was made very clear to the Israelis before the attack that they
should only fight Syria, if it was impossible to do otherwise, and for
no reason could they attack Jordan. The US knew of the emotional
aftermath that would engulf the Arab world after such a defeat and
did not want to lose Jordan as an ally.
3. After Israel became aware of the scope of its sneak victory -
destroying 80% of the Egyptian Air Force on the ground - it became
greedy and decided it could take Jerusalem, the West Bank, and
Golan with little resistance if the opportunity arose. That
opportunity presented itself quickly.
4. President Nassar radioed King Hussein in Jordan to advise him
to stay out of the battle since all was lost because of his shattered
Air Force. The Israelis intercepted this message and scrambled it
so it would not reach Hussein. At the same time it sent a faked
message in a Nassar-like voice telling Hussein "the moment of the
Arab triumph had arrived, that the Egyptian forces were routing
Israeli forces in the Sinai and that Jordan should attack Israel
immediately to share in this glorious triumph."
5. The Israeli plan was brilliant and worked like a charm. Jordan did
attack, but history shows Israel was prepared and finished them off
easily.
6. The only fly in the ointment was the USS Liberty. It had such
sophisticated electronic surveillance equipment aboard that it could
beam 600 miles inland and even pick up individual tank
commanders on either side. The "Liberty" would know that the
Israelis had used a trick not only to bait Jordan and get Jerusalem,
but purposely go against a policy of a country which had made its
victory over Egypt possible. It was necessary in Israeli thinking to
get rid of that annoying "fly." So they tried to swat it.
7. The USS Liberty and the 285 Americans aboard were ordered
expendable. A coordinated attack by the Israeli Air Force and Navy
was ordered, with the command decision deeming it absolutely
necessary to kill all personnel and then to blame the attack on
Egypt.
End of comments by Anthony Pearson.
XI. Stephen Green.
In his book, "Taking Sides: America's Secret Relations with a
Militant Israel," Stephen Green reported the following:
1. Israel had the arrogance to order the US ship to leave the
international waters and warned, several times, that it would attack
the ship if she remained. (The question is, whom did Israel warn?)
2. The attack was with unmarked aircraft. Israel expected to sink
the ship after killing her communications system. Israel could then
blame the attack on Egypt. (The warnings could then be denied as
"unauthorized" and "something we would never really do.")
3. One of the six shore circuits survived the Israeli attack long
enough for the Liberty to communicate its distress. But the defense
department (Robert Strange McNamara) ordered American vessels
not to come to the aid of the Liberty.
4. The night before the attack, Israel had ordered the US
government to remove the ship or it would be attacked. The DOD
then told the Liberty to change course, but the messages never
reached the ship.
5. Within 15 minutes US planes from the Saratoga were en route to
the Liberty. Their presence would have cut off the attack by the
Israelis, limited the damages, and save many American lives. They
were recalled.
6. Evidence of the Israeli plan to leave no survivors was compelling.
The lifeboats were shot out of the water and the lifeboats still on the
vessel were shot full of holes.
7. Green said after a discussion of his book at the National Press
Club, and repeated it in a subsequent telephone interview, that
"Official Washington had immediate knowledge that the attack was
deliberate, even while pronouncing it a tragic mistake, and the
amazing uninterest of the establishment press was part of the
biggest cover-up in history.
End of quotes from Stephen Green.
XII. JIM ENNES.
Lt. James Ennes' book, Assault on the Liberty, is the more well-
known of the Liberty incident publications and has already been
quoted extensively. Most of his book corroborates Green and
Pearson in his description of weather conditions, circumstances of
the attack, and the media cover-up after the fact.
XIII. Summary.
1. Much of the information on the cowardly attack on the USS
Liberty by the forces of Israel has been garnered through the
Freedom of Information Act; however, one of the researchers of the
attack, E. H. Sharp, who has collected huge files of data on the
incident, was denied access to nine key documents, about 48
pages of critical material.
2. Sharp stated that, no full official record of the attack, none of the
alleged failures of communication before and after the attack, none
of the data describing the heroic defense of the Liberty by its
personnel, or of the rescue attempt, has ever been given or even
made available to the American people.
3. Sharp said in 1981, "Attempts to piece the full story together
through the Freedom of Information Act have been frustrated by the
government."
4. One line in a Newsweek article said, "Some high Washington
officials suspect that the attack might not have been accidental."
5. A CIA observer in the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, reported that on
the afternoon of 7 June 1967 the Israeli leaders had decided to sink
the USS Liberty if it came near what they considered the "war
zone."
XIV. Aftermath.
1. William McGonagle, captain of the USS Liberty, was awarded
the Congressional Medal of Honor in an almost secret White House
ceremony, hidden so it would not offend the Israelis.
The brave American Naval Officer, Lt. George Golden, the Silver
Star recipient, who also happens to be of Jewish faith, has become
the unofficial leader of the USS Liberty survivors group. All of the
group steadfastly agree on one fact, the attack by Israel was a
deliberate attempt to sink the Liberty and kill all those aboard, and
that the attack was halted only with the approach of American
planes.
George Golden has been working with a California businessman,
Norman E. Wallen, who has formed a limited partnership in order to
provide pre-production effort on a feature motion picture presently
titled "The Violation of the Liberty."
Wallen said, "We have a working agreement with Japanese film
producer Maru Okuda, who wrote 'None but the Brave,' coproduced
'You Only Live Twice' with Sean Connery as James Bond; produced
'Marco Polo" for ABC-TV in 1971, and coproduced 'The Sailor Who
Fell from Grace with the Sea.'"
"The real purpose for making the film," said Wallen, "is to allow
these men and the families of the dead men to have their story told
- the part about living, breathing people whose lives were twisted
and destroyed by an international injustice of immense proportions
that has been successfully covered up so far."
2. Reunion.
The survivors of the USS Liberty attack had a reunion which was
held in 1982, not a media event, but a reunion wherein they were to
do all in their power to help bring about a motion picture which will
dare to relate everything they have been forced to keep inside them
for these many years.
3. Note: As of this date, mid-1986, there have been no reports that
the motion picture describing the Liberty attack has been finished or
distributed for public viewing, but a British group has recently
produced a version for television.
XV. Concluding Questions.
1. When is a 'war crime' not a war crime?
Answer: When the propaganda apparatus of the guilty party is able
to convince the world that the act in question was an "accident."
2. When is an individual anti-Semitic?
Answer: When he dares to question the official Israeli position as to
what really happened to the USS Liberty.
Bibliography:
Time Magazine
Newsweek
National Review
The Spotlight
NY Times
Washington Post
Books by:
Ennes: Assault on the Liberty
Green: Taking Sides
Pearson: USS Liberty
The Atlantic
Funk & Wagnalls
Britannica
Janes
Various other periodicals and newspapers discussing the subject.
Note: Contrary to what has been implied elsewhere, the Six Days
War began militarily when Israel attacked the planes of the Egyptian
Air Force while the Egyptian planes were parked next to the
runways. Nasser had made no overt or covert military attack on
the Israelis; he had said Egypt would close a main waterway to
Israeli shipping, which was the excuse Israel was looking for to
attack Egypt, Syria, and Jordan in order to take over Jerusalem, the
West Bank, and the Golan Heights.
This paper was written ca 1985, but the information is as horribly
true today as it was then.
EAR
Memorial Day - 2002
http://www.salon.com/news/letters/2002/05/10/ketcham/
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/articles.asp?ID=17769
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/articles.asp?ID=19042
http://liamhughes.home.mindspring.com/lieberman.html
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