| Author | Message | | sharkman | | Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 12:01 am Post subject: author won't do talk show with uss liberty attack survivor |
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> Subject: [AL-AWDA-News] Book alert
> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:27:32 -0700
> From: "Don Bustany"
> To: Al-Awda-News@yahoogroups.com
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> There's a new book on the market that should alarm all who are concerned with promoting honest accounts of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
>
> A few weeks ago, I received a copy of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren (Oxford Univ. Press). It was followed by a call from the Oxford publicity dept offering Dr. Oren (whose doctorate from Princeton is in Middle East history) for interview on my KPFK (Los Angeles) radio program, "Middle East In Focus."
> I read parts of the book and invited the author, thru the publicist, to be on the show June 5th. I told the publicist that I'd be inviting a survivor of the USS Liberty to join Dr. Oren and would notify them who it would be before the show. The morning of the program, I told the publicist that James Ennes, a former ship's officer and author of Assault on the Liberty, had agreed to join us. Mr.Ennes and his book are cited in Six Days of War. About an hour before airtime, the publicist called to say that Dr. Oren would not go on with Mr. Ennes. In that case, I replied, Dr. Oren will not be on.
> I had read the section covering Israel's attack on the U.S. Navy intelligence gathering ship, the USS Liberty, in which 34 American sailors were killed and 171 wounded. He concludes that Israel erred in misidentifying the Liberty as an Egyptian ship---a totally disingenuous position considering the overwhelming evidence that Israel had positively identified the Liberty as American. Dr. Oren omits what is now common knowledge to all who are familiar with the attack on the Liberty.
> Surviving crew members described the long surveilance of their ship by low-flying Israeli aircraft before the attack and are dead certain that the pilots could not have missed the American flag flying in the breeze or the ten-foot lettering on the ship's bow. Radio communications between the Israeli pilots and their base were heard by both the U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon in Beirut and by the National Security Agency's intelligence-gathering aircraft reported in James Bamford's Body of Secrets. The pilots were heard to identify the Liberty as American. They were ordered to attack anyway. One pilot refused to attack an American ship and was ordered back to base. (He was later quietly court martialed.) Six Days of War does not discount or argue against the foregoing; it totally omits it---not a sign of an attempt at honest history.
> I emphasize that this isn't a review of the book as a whole. But Dr. Oren's account of Day 4 of the Six Day War is so dishonest that I wanted to warn you and others in the event you hear of the book without having an opportunity to evaluate it.
>
> Don Bustany 10 June 2002
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