| Author | Message | | Alpha | | Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:20 am Post subject: EVIDENCE JUSTIFIES REOPENING USS LIBERTY CASE |
| THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
Union-Tribune editorial
UNDOING A COVER-UP
EVIDENCE JUSTIFIES REOPENING USS LIBERTY CASE
April 1, 2004
The bitter debate over Israel's attack on the U.S. Navy
intelligence ship Liberty on June 8, 1967, seems no closer to
resolution today than it was 36 years ago. Surely it's time, a
generation and a half later, for the U.S. government to release
everything it knows about an attack that killed 34 American
sailors and intelligence analysts, wounded 171 others and has
never been satisfactorily explained.
The Liberty's survivors, the families of those killed and
wounded, the American people and history deserve better than a
permanently unresolved controversy of this magnitude.
Israel insists that the deadly attack, which occured in
international waters off the Sinai coast while the Liberty
eavesdropped on combatants' communications during the
Arab-Israeli Six Day War, was a tragic case of mistaken
identity. Surviving members of the Liberty's crew, which
suffered 70 percent casualties, are convinced that the prolonged
air and sea attack was deliberate. The U.S. government, in what
many charged was a transparent cover-up, officially accepted
Israel's explanation of mistaken identity.
Yet, the acrimonious controversy lived on, waxing and waning
through the years as each side put forth new information and
conflicting interpretations.
Over the past year, those who believe that Israel's assault on
the Liberty was deliberate have collected important
corroborating evidence. As noted in David Walsh's essay in
Sunday's Insight section, several former U.S. intelligence
officials and analysts, breaking their long silence, say that
electronic intercepts of the attacking pilots' radio
communications that day prove that the Israelis knew they were
attacking an American ship.
Oliver Kirby, a former operations director for the super-secret
National Security Agency (for which the Liberty was collecting
intelligence), was assigned by NSA in 1967 to review classified
information on the attack. In a recent telephone interview with
Jim Ennes, a retired naval officer and Liberty survivor, Kirby's
first words were, "I can tell you for an absolute certainty that
they (the Israelis) knew they were attacking an American ship."
Ward Boston, a retired Navy captain who served as chief legal
officer to a Navy court of inquiry on the Liberty attack, says
the court's finding of "mistaken identity" was dictated by
then-President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert
McNamara. Boston cites "overwhelming evidence" to the contrary
that the naval court was ordered to ignore.
These recent revelations, among others, argue persuasively for
reopening the Liberty case if the truth is ever to be
discovered. Clearly, the U.S. government, not to mention
Israel's government, continues to conceal vital information
about the Liberty attack. Claims to the contrary
notwithstanding, Israel's attack on the Liberty has never been
properly investigated.
Almost 37 years after the fact, it's time it was.
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Another SD Union Tribune article on USS Liberty:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2004/03/30/another-sd-union-article-on-uss-liberty.php
Iraq War to Protect Israel:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2004/03/29/iraq-war-launched-to-protect-israel.php | |  | | Alpha | | Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 11:42 pm Post subject: Why Americans are sending billions to Israel? |
| Subject: Why Americans are sending billions to Israel? - By Paul J. Balles
Why Americans are sending billions to Israel
By Paul J. Balles
Al-Jazeerah, March 30, 2004
Redress, 29 March 2004
You asked why the US gives billions of dollars to Israel, despite the fact that the Israelis attacked the USS Liberty. You apparently learned only recently of how the Israelis got away with that attack. You seem completely unaware of how Israel and its American Zionists control America.
You should know that Zionists control the US government and the media. If you have a significant position in the government or are a significant voice in public, the Zionists will destroy you! If you object to blind support of Israel, they will label you anti-Semitic and threaten you and cost you your job.
Do you know that if you complain about Zionist influence, you will receive hate mail and threats of violence? If you object to the billions of dollars of your taxpayer money going to Israel, the Zionists will label you a Jew-hating Aryan, and they will pretend that you don't care that "6 million Jews were exterminated in the holocaust".
They will use that "history" to play on yours and everyone else's collective guilt. They will also use it to distract attention from slaughterers like Sharon who kill and maim and destroy everything Palestinian.
Zionist Israel and its American supporters will continue the blatant murders of Palestinians - old men, women, children and cripples - until the Zionist genocide of Palestinians is complete. They truly learned much from the Nazis!
And, yes, America and Americans' billions supports it all - the killing, the maiming, the destruction of property, the deprivation, the imposed poverty, the theft of water rights, the Bantustans, the Apartheid Wall and the suicide bombers.
Do you wonder how America supports the suicide bombers? When an entire people are overpowered, tortured, repressed, subjugated and subdued beyond hope, with America standing on the sidelines applauding and paying for it while Europe turns its head away, what do you expect the people to do?
They can't cry. They have no tears left. They can't fight tanks and Apache helicopters and F-16s with stones! If they fire a rocket that hits no one, the source of the rocket will be destroyed anyway. Firing rockets against Israelis with the latest American military detection equipment amounts to suicide with no results.
The suicide bombers who sacrifice themselves in a weak attempt at resistance are actually creations of Israel and America. Thanks again to the billions of dollars Americans cough up each year for their endowment.
Don't ever again ask why. Ask fellow Americans when you're going to put a stop to the long distance support for a Mafioso of Zionist hit men.
When are you going to insist that the president and his men - Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, Wurmser, Feith, Cohen - all closer to Israel than they are to America - get prosecuted as members of an organized crime syndicate? Make no mistake: Zionism in America is organized crime!
When will you stop electing Senators and Representatives to Congress who can't resist the lure of Zionist support? They're nothing more than legislators who embrace the same organized crime syndicate.
When will you stop reading the crap written and published by the New York Times, the Washington Post and US News? When will you stop being influenced by the broadcasts of the Murdoch empire and Fox News?
When will you stop supporting organized Zionist crime and take America back from Israel for Americans?
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*Paul Balles is a retired American university professor and freelance writer who has lived in the Middle East for 34 years. For more information, see http://www.writerfreelance.com and http://www.pballes.com. | | | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:56 am Post subject: |
| | Still not going away | | | | Cowboy | | Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:59 am Post subject: |
| | Jefferson Davis wrote: | | Still not going away |
And exactly who gives a shit? | | | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:05 am Post subject: |
| | Cowboy wrote: | | Jefferson Davis wrote: | | Still not going away |
And exactly who gives a shit? |
You do.
Why do you respond and post at every USS Liberty thread like a trained seal?
Your conscience bothering you. | | | | Neville Chamberlain | | Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:51 am Post subject: |
| Why would Americans care about this? Israel apologised and paid reparations. Get over it already and stop whining, it happened in 1967.
America seems much more interest in the threat of Islam than the threat of Zionism. | | | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:57 am Post subject: |
| | Neville Chamberlain wrote: | Why would Americans care about this? Israel apologised and paid reparations. Get over it already and stop whining, it happened in 1967.
America seems much more interest in the threat of Islam than the threat of Zionism. |
Why don't you educate yourself instead of taking up the party line.
Read the crew's issues, develop a little justice and humanity.
Go tell a Jew to get over the Holocaust, Inc. You need a boogey man...fine. You fight them, you pay for it , leave my country out of it.
Mention the USS Liberty, like deer stuck staring at the headlights in the middle of the road with no place to go. | | | | Cowboy | | Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:10 am Post subject: |
| | Jefferson Davis wrote: | | Neville Chamberlain wrote: | Why would Americans care about this? Israel apologised and paid reparations. Get over it already and stop whining, it happened in 1967.
America seems much more interest in the threat of Islam than the threat of Zionism. |
Why don't you educate yourself instead of taking up the party line.
Read the crew's issues, develop a little justice and humanity.
Go tell a Jew to get over the Holocaust, Inc. You need a boogey man...fine. You fight them, you pay for it , leave my country out of it.
Mention the USS Liberty, like deer stuck staring at the headlights in the middle of the road with no place to go. |
How many Americans did Germany kill, but you have no problems supporting them.
How many Americans did the French kill the first day the US was engaged in WWII in Europe? And you have no problems with them, do you?
How many Americans did Saddam's forces kill, but left to you he would still be in power. | | | | harrietbuster | | Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:54 am Post subject: |
| It's all they have
When they run out of material they recycle the Liberty, follwed by Rachel Corrie.
Ever notice how Liberty posters never have any of this outrage when it comes to the thousands of Americans killed by arabs and muslims in premeditated terror attacks? | | | | Cowboy | | Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:56 am Post subject: |
| | harrietbuster wrote: | It's all they have
When they run out of material they recycle the Liberty, follwed by Rachel Corrie.
Ever notice how Liberty posters never have any of this outrage when it comes to the thousands of Americans killed by arabs and muslims in premeditated terror attacks? |
And the French killed more Americans on the opening day of the US in WWII Europe, yet... that's just fine with them. Apologies for the frogs. | | | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
