For decades, the US government threatened the survivors with jail if they spoke about it and kept the truth from the public.
Although Israel apologized for the devastating attacks and maintained that a simple misidentification caused the strikes, startlingly new evidence has surfaced that refutes Israeli claims that this attack was done in error and that the Israelis were unaware they were attacking an American Navy vessel.
The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a U.S. Navy intelligence ship in international waters about 12.5 nautical miles from the coast of the Sinai Peninsula, north of El Arish, by Israeli fighter planes and torpedo boats.
It occurred during the Six-Day War, a conflict between Israel and the Arab states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. The Israeli attack killed 34 U.S. servicemen and wounded at least 173. The attack was the second deadliest against a U.S. Naval vessel since the end of World War II and marked the single greatest loss of life by the U.S. Intelligence Community.
The new evidence exposed in a documentary called "The Day Israel Attacked America," by award-winning British filmmaker Richard Belfield, includes audio that proves the Israelis knew they were attacking a U.S. ship. Survivors of the attack have long maintained that Israel intended to kill the entire crew and sink the USS Liberty as a means of scapegoating blame for the incident onto Egypt.
"Earlier this year, I acquired a copy of the audiotape of the attack as it had unfolded, the real time conversations between Israeli Air Force pilots and their controllers back at base. It had never been broadcast before. I went to talk to Al Jazeera and after careful consideration, the network commissioned the film." - Richard Belfield
But why would Israel want the U.S. to believe that Egypt was responsible you ask?
The answer would be found in what is know as a 'false flag' attack, which was meant to shift the blame for an incident as a means of drawing President Lyndon Johnson and the U.S. public into declaring war on Egypt.
The attack on the USS Liberty lasted for over two hours, but just sixteen minutes after the attacks had begun audio evidence confirms that the Israelis knew the identity as that of an American vessel.
These recordings can be heard in the documentary, which aired on Al Jazeera.
"To what state does she belong?" (Answer): "American"
Yet the attacks continued for another hour and forty-five minutes!
Five minutes prior to the commencing of the attack, Israeli Air Force pilots can be heard questioning whether the ship was an American vessel.
"Is it an American ship?" "What do you mean American?" "No comment."
The first torpedo hit the USS Liberty twenty minutes after a ground controller confirmed to Israeli Air Force pilots that the ship was indeed part of the U.S. Navy. Incredibly, even after the confirmation that it was an American ship, a voice can be heard clearly confirming that the ship is to be destroyed - remember this is after the ship has been identified as American craft.
"The torpedo is taking care of the ship now."
After the initial torpedo struck the Liberty, torpedo boats circled and strafed the vessel with machinegun fire, gunning down American sailors attempting to flee the damaged vessel in lifeboats โ a war crime according to the Geneva convention.
Over a decade ago, a journalist named Arieh O'Sullivan from the Jerusalem Post was given access to these same audio recordings and published a transcript of the Israeli military transmissions that could be heard directing the ongoing attack. His analysis of the recording was almost exactly the same as that of the documentary, as sixteen minutes after the attack started, just as in the recording obtained by Al Jazeera, O'Sullivan's transcript reveals the same exchange.
"Kislev, what country?" (Answer): "Apparently American."
Oddly, the O'Sullivan's transcript ends here even though the attack continued for another hour and a half.
An independent commission tasked with investigating the incident, and headed by Navy Admiral Thomas Moorer, who served this country as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chief of Naval Operations, publicly released the commissions shocking findings in 2003.
-The attack, by a U.S. ally, was a deliberate attempt to destroy an American ship and kill its entire crew.In what CIA analyst Ray McGovern called the 'most detailed and accurate account of the Israeli attack,' John Crewsdon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, published his in-depth analysis for the Chicago Tribune only to be fired a year later - after being employed there for 24 years.
-The attack included the machine-gunning of stretcher-bearers and life-rafts .
-The White House deliberately prevented the U.S. Navy from coming to the defense of the USS Liberty.
-This was the first time in naval history a rescue mission had been cancelled while an American ship was under attack.
-Surviving crew-members were later threatened with court-martial, imprisonment, or worse if they talked to anyone about what had happened to them; and were "abandoned by their own government."
"Israeli messages intercepted on June 8, 1967, leave no doubt that sinking the USS Liberty was the mission assigned to the attacking Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats as the Six-Day War raged in the Middle East. Let me repeat: there is no doubt - none - that the mission of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) was to destroy the USS Liberty and kill its entire crew." - former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
The Free Thought Project recently attended a speaking event by Jack Beattie and Bryce Lockwood, a Naval seaman and a Marine who were on the USS Liberty when it was attacked.
In the video below, Beattie gives his description of events that occurred that day. He confirms that the ship was clearly labeled as American and the flag was flying. He also recalls how the fighter jets were firing on people in life rafts and how the ship was almost completely defenseless.
At the end of his talk, Beattie then explains how everyone on the ship was told that if they talk about what happened, they will be thrown in prison. Here is the real story of the USS Liberty.
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The picture of the day says it all [Link]
Perhaps it is time for a global natural disaster, because just like a forest fire clears out all the tangled underbrush and promotes new growth, an all encompassing natural disaster will supress the evil and allow time for a more grounded, truthful civilization to emerge again.
"I will never understand how this evil is able to control western governments to such an extent"
Its money plain and simple - if you can use that money to promote people withe skeletons in the cupboard into positions of power you can control governments, military etc...... For the love of money is the root of all evil
"Perhaps it is time for a global natural disaster, because just like a forest fire clears out all the tangled underbrush and promotes new growth, an all encompassing natural disaster will suppress the evil and allow time for a more grounded, truthful civilization to emerge again"
It would have to be a meteor with a Zionist seeking guidance system and multiple meteorlets to guarantee that they and that evil ideology is wiped out otherwise it will grow back like Japanese knotweed and we will be back to square one.
I will pray that the incoming missile has just such a guidance system
"The original manuscript of this book went into the furnace minutes before a secret police raid in Communist Poland. The second copy, painfully reassembled by scientists working under impossible conditions of violence and repression, was sent via courier to the Vatican. Its receipt was never acknowledged - the manuscript and all valuable data lost. In 1984, the third and final copy was written from memory by the last survivor of the original researchers: Andrew Lobaczewski"
This sounds like the story of the Kolbrin Bible...but I enjoy reading the Kolbrin so I will give Ponerology a shot.
Money yes, but WHOSE money? The Rothschild's OWN the Federal Reserve of the US - not the government, nor the people. It's their private piggy bank. The IRS is the collection arm of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve is the collection arm of the Rothschild's. Got it? Now, Israel was a CREATION of the Rothschilds. It exists at their behest and at their pleasure. The Rothschild's own the majority of central banks in the world. They are ALL run by the same scam fiat currency. NO ONE dares go against the Rothschilds' pet Israel without the fear of their economy collapsing by the Rothschilds pulling the rug out from them. Israel is free to commit all the terrorism is wants because it is protected by the Rothschild's and their financial skullduggery.
Oh, and 15 years ago, Israel committed a false flag attack on the US that killed over 3000 civilians. Who benefited? The world knows, but the US is still living in disneyland thanks to its Department of propaganda - NBCABCCBSBBCCNNFOX.
I admire the French and any population who will stand up against this wave of 'evil' that is being poured out across the world and I fear that the north american population is not among them.
Baybars,
I agree with everything you say. However, the mental disease is not just in a race willingly enslaved to a small psychopathic elite of that race - willingly because they have been promised dominion over the rest of mankind - but the ponerology that seems to be inherent in humanity as a whole. Yes, that race may instigate wars between other races and nations, but those others have to be willing to fight them, and to kill each other. Humanity as a whole has a lot of evolving to do.
As for the USS Liberty, it is a shameful thing that the victims have never been told - and never will be - the reasons for their abandonment by Lyndon Johnson who recalled the planes launched to aid the Liberty - twice. Wikipedia gives a very detailed timeline of the attack: [Link]
From the Wikipedia article:
Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State at the time of the incident, wrote:
"I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation. Their sustained attack to disable and sink Liberty precluded an assault by accident or some trigger-happy local commander. Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. I didn't believe them then, and I don't believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous."
It is likely that, as the present article suggests, that it was a false flag attack designed to get the US to join the 6-day War against Egypt. The big question is, why did Lyndon Johnson recall the US planes? Wikipedia suggests that he thought the Liberty might have been attacked by the USSR, which is ridiculous and inane and beyond belief. The reason has to do with the assassination of JFK less than four years before. So much has been written about that, and why JFK was assassinated, that it is not possible to list here all the reasons, and all the people who wanted JFK dead.
But the kill was organized by the CIA, with active assistance from the Mossad and the Mafia, and with the foreknowledge of groups of plotters within the FBI, the Secret Service, the Fed, the international bankers, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Texas oil barons, and Lyndon Johnson himself. If anyone wants to challenge that list, I can give you the motives of each set of plotters.
All of this was known to Israel, which had the proof then, and still to this day (!) has the proof, of the involvement of half of the US Government, (as far as I know the Department of Agriculture was not involved,) in the murder of its own President. They got away with it, and to this day anyone in the White House who thinks he is an independent agent is reminded of this fact. (Obama is alleged to have replied to this effect to someone who asked him why he did not do such-and-such, that one has to remember what they did to JFK, but this is merely hearsay and whether Obama did say that is unprovable.)
This explains why the US is still so subservient to Israel, apart from Zionist control of the media which can make or break any political career, and control of the monetary system which can fund any political campaign with unlimited money conjured into existence by a computer keystroke. Any time Israel wants, it can arrange for an expose in the media of the proofs of the JFK conspiracy, which would destroy civic obedience and all trust in their government by 310 million Americans.
And this explains why Lyndon Johnson recalled the planes sent to aid the Liberty. He was, in legal terms, an accomplice before the fact to high treason and murder. And so were dozens, if not hundreds, of the most powerful and wealthiest men in this country. With that kind of blackmail leverage, there was nothing anyone could do to stop Israel then, on June 8, 1967, or today.
As I said, it's a pity the victims of the Liberty cannot know these things. Knowing why their comrades died and why their country betrayed them would at least help them to put it to rest.
- LG
Just as a century ago, millions of Englishmen were quite content to enjoy the benefits they enjoyed by the subjugation and genocide of peoples around the world, such as the Irish in the 1850's. Had there been an outcry in England at the deliberate starvation of millions of Irish Catholics, the British Government would have put a stop to it, as they easily could have. But there was no outcry.
And just as, in earlier centuries, the Spanish people enjoyed the fruits of genocide and plunder of an entire continent. There was no outcry there either.
It's very pleasant to be a Chosen People. Pax Judaica, Pax Americana, or Pax Britannica. It's nice to be a Child of Empire, a Son of Privilege. It is only rare individuals who see humanity as their brothers, and protest at the injustice of purchasing our own comforts at the expense of others. The Jews are no exception. They have their dissidents, just as we do. But the vast majority are quite content, just as we are. The only difference is that their Empire is based on racism, while ours are based on nationalism. But otherwise, the effects are much the same.
- LG