50th Anniversary of Israel’s Infamous USS Liberty Attack

[fanger]

On June 8, during Israel’s preemptive Six-Day War, an act of aggression, not self-defense against regional Arab states, the IDF did the unthinkable.

It provocatively attacked its main ally, striking the USS Liberty intelligence gathering ship, in international waters about 25.5 nautical miles northwest of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in international waters.

The incident took 34 US lives, another 171 wounded, the vessel severely damaged, lucky to stay afloat.

It was deployed to monitor belligerents’ communications in response to Israeli aggression on Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq – not the other way around.
Israel knew the ship’s identity, its US flag clearly visible. Good weather conditions made it easy to spot.

Israeli warplanes circled overhead before attacking, at times low enough for US sailors to wave to its pilots. They waved back before opening fire with rockets and machine guns against the lightly armed vessel.

A second wave of planes used napalm, setting parts of the deck ablaze. Israeli attack boats struck the vessel with torpedoes, causing a 40-foot-wide hole in its hull, flooding lower compartments, causing the ship to list 10 degrees, a defenseless smoking hulk, lucky to avoid sinking.

Four other Israeli torpedoes missed their target. Its warplanes strafed the Liberty at close range.

The ship’s radio frequencies were jammed to prevent a distress call for help. When finally able to communicate, it was too late. The damage was done, the human toll testimony to Israeli viciousness.

When attack began, the Liberty was following its signal-intercept mission off Sinai’s coast in international waters at a speed of about five knots.

Israeli forces were ordered to fire on any unidentified vessels proceeding at over 20 knots – at the time, a speed only warships could attain.

The Liberty was clearly identified. Israeli claims otherwise were lies.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/50th-anniversary-of-israels-infamous-uss-liberty-attack/5593223

Remember The USS Liberty, attacked by Israel June 8th 1967

 

[aris2chat]

Unfortunately a number of error by the navy and the crew of the Liberty contributed to what happened.
Israel tried to get confirmation of a US ship in the area and the navy said there were none.
Disobeying the Captain orders, crew fired on Torpedo ships first.

Long list of mistakes, but this was not something that is only to blame on Israel.

Planes kept asking for confirmation to fire on the ship in question. Israel had been attacked and could not let a suspect ship get away to attack again.

This was a tragic case of misinformation and friendly fire. Both sides share responsibility.

This topic has been discussed many times before. Several US inquires found it was a mistake of identity.

Hopefully both side have learned from this.

 

[fanger]

"Planes kept asking for confirmation to fire on the ship in question." even as they sighted the US Flag

 

[aris2chat]

"Planes kept asking for confirmation to fire on the ship in question." even as they sighted the US Flag

When the navy insisted they had no ships in the area............

This was in a war not peace time where Israel could take the time to stop and board the ship and check documents and wait for hours or days for US confirmation.

Crew was also responsible for their actions when they might have avoided the Israeli response.

 

[Sunni Man]

Israel wanted to sink the USS Liberty with all sailors aboard and then blame it on Egypt, as a way to drag America into the conflict.

But the ship refused to sink, and Israel had to cease the attack, and invent a cover story to hide the truth.

Basically, the incident was a Zionist false flag mission gone wrong. ....

 

[Hollie]

Israel wanted to sink the USS Liberty with all sailors aboard and then blame it on Egypt, as a way to drag America into the conflict.

But the ship refused to sink, and Israel had to cease the attack, and invent a cover story to hide the truth.

Basically, the incident was a Zionist false flag mission gone wrong. ....

You goofy converts do like your conspiracy theories.

True story.

 

[fanger]

Beginning before dawn on June 8, Israeli aircraft regularly appeared on the horizon and circled the Liberty.

The Israeli Air Force had gained control of the skies on the first day of the war by destroying the Egyptian air force on the ground. America was Israel's ally, and the Israelis knew the Americans were there. The ship's mission was to monitor the communications of Israel's Arab enemies and their Soviet advisers, but not Israeli communications. The Liberty felt safe.

Then the jets started shooting at the officers and enlisted men stretched out on the deck for a lunch-hour sun bath. Theodore Arfsten, a quartermaster, remembered watching a Jewish officer cry when he saw the blue Star of David on the planes' fuselages. At first, crew members below decks had no idea whose planes were shooting at their ship.
New revelations in attack on American spy ship

 

[aris2chat]

Israel wanted to sink the USS Liberty with all sailors aboard and then blame it on Egypt, as a way to drag America into the conflict.

But the ship refused to sink, and Israel had to cease the attack, and invent a cover story to hide the truth.

Basically, the incident was a Zionist false flag mission gone wrong. ....

sink the Liberty????

The ship did not even need help from Israel to keep afloat and travel home. Sink? Not even close. Damage was not that bad. Israel offered help, none was needed.

If they had intended to sink the Liberty they would have fired lower in the hull.

Torpedo ship responded to Liberty fire at them, against Captains orders.

It was a mistake by both sides, not intentional against the US

 

[Sunni Man]

sink the Liberty????

The ship did not even need help from Israel to keep afloat and travel home. Sink? Not even close. Damage was not that bad. Israel offered help, none was needed.
If they had intended to sink the Liberty they would have fired lower in the hull.
Torpedo ship responded to Liberty fire at them, against Captains orders.
It was a mistake by both sides, not intentional against the US

You're retarded ....

 

[fanger]

Israel wanted to sink the USS Liberty with all sailors aboard and then blame it on Egypt, as a way to drag America into the conflict.

But the ship refused to sink, and Israel had to cease the attack, and invent a cover story to hide the truth.

Basically, the incident was a Zionist false flag mission gone wrong. ....

You goofy converts do like your conspiracy theories.

True story.

You israeli firsters love a foreign country more than the land of your birth,

 

[fanger]

Israel wanted to sink the USS Liberty with all sailors aboard and then blame it on Egypt, as a way to drag America into the conflict.

But the ship refused to sink, and Israel had to cease the attack, and invent a cover story to hide the truth.

Basically, the incident was a Zionist false flag mission gone wrong. ....

sink the Liberty????

The ship did not even need help from Israel to keep afloat and travel home. Sink? Not even close. Damage was not that bad. Israel offered help, none was needed.

If they had intended to sink the Liberty they would have fired lower in the hull.

Torpedo ship responded to Liberty fire at them, against Captains orders.

It was a mistake by both sides, not intentional against the US

An Israeli military court of inquiry later acknowledged that their naval headquarters knew at least three hours before the attack that the odd-looking ship 13 miles off the Sinai Peninsula, sprouting more than 40 antennas capable of receiving every kind of radio transmission, was "an electromagnetic audio-surveillance ship of the U.S. Navy," a floating electronic vacuum cleaner.

The Israeli inquiry later concluded that that information had simply gotten lost, never passed along to the ground controllers who directed the air attack nor to the crews of the three Israeli torpedo boats who picked up where the air force left off, strafing the Liberty's decks with their machine guns and launching a torpedo that blew a 39-foot hole in its starboard side.

To a man, the survivors interviewed by the Tribune rejected Israel's explanation.

Nor, the survivors said, did they understand why the American 6th Fleet, which included the aircraft carriers America and Saratoga, patrolling 400 miles west of the Liberty, launched and then recalled at least two squadrons of Navy fighter-bombers that might have arrived in time to prevent the torpedo attack -- and save 26 American lives.

J.Q. "Tony" Hart, then a chief petty officer assigned to a U.S. Navy relay station in Morocco that handled communications between Washington and the 6th Fleet, remembered listening as Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, in Washington, ordered Rear Adm. Lawrence Geis, commander of the America's carrier battle group, to bring the jets home.

When Geis protested that the Liberty was under attack and needed help, Hart said, McNamara retorted that "President [Lyndon] Johnson is not going to go to war or embarrass an American ally over a few sailors."
New revelations in attack on American spy ship

 

[louie888]

Israel wanted to sink the USS Liberty with all sailors aboard and then blame it on Egypt, as a way to drag America into the conflict.

But the ship refused to sink, and Israel had to cease the attack, and invent a cover story to hide the truth.

Basically, the incident was a Zionist false flag mission gone wrong. ....

sink the Liberty????

The ship did not even need help from Israel to keep afloat and travel home. Sink? Not even close. Damage was not that bad. Israel offered help, none was needed.

If they had intended to sink the Liberty they would have fired lower in the hull.

Torpedo ship responded to Liberty fire at them, against Captains orders.

It was a mistake by both sides, not intentional against the US

An Israeli military court of inquiry later acknowledged that their naval headquarters knew at least three hours before the attack that the odd-looking ship 13 miles off the Sinai Peninsula, sprouting more than 40 antennas capable of receiving every kind of radio transmission, was "an electromagnetic audio-surveillance ship of the U.S. Navy," a floating electronic vacuum cleaner.

The Israeli inquiry later concluded that that information had simply gotten lost, never passed along to the ground controllers who directed the air attack nor to the crews of the three Israeli torpedo boats who picked up where the air force left off, strafing the Liberty's decks with their machine guns and launching a torpedo that blew a 39-foot hole in its starboard side.

To a man, the survivors interviewed by the Tribune rejected Israel's explanation.

Nor, the survivors said, did they understand why the American 6th Fleet, which included the aircraft carriers America and Saratoga, patrolling 400 miles west of the Liberty, launched and then recalled at least two squadrons of Navy fighter-bombers that might have arrived in time to prevent the torpedo attack -- and save 26 American lives.

J.Q. "Tony" Hart, then a chief petty officer assigned to a U.S. Navy relay station in Morocco that handled communications between Washington and the 6th Fleet, remembered listening as Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, in Washington, ordered Rear Adm. Lawrence Geis, commander of the America's carrier battle group, to bring the jets home.

When Geis protested that the Liberty was under attack and needed help, Hart said, McNamara retorted that "President [Lyndon] Johnson is not going to go to war or embarrass an American ally over a few sailors."
New revelations in attack on American spy ship

Any American, regardless of religion, who support these maniacs, deserve what they get.

Harsh, but true.

Fuck these animals; let's turn our troops on tel aviv and end this shit!

 

[ForeverYoung436]

Israel wanted to sink the USS Liberty with all sailors aboard and then blame it on Egypt, as a way to drag America into the conflict.

But the ship refused to sink, and Israel had to cease the attack, and invent a cover story to hide the truth.

Basically, the incident was a Zionist false flag mission gone wrong. ....

sink the Liberty????

The ship did not even need help from Israel to keep afloat and travel home. Sink? Not even close. Damage was not that bad. Israel offered help, none was needed.

If they had intended to sink the Liberty they would have fired lower in the hull.

Torpedo ship responded to Liberty fire at them, against Captains orders.

It was a mistake by both sides, not intentional against the US

An Israeli military court of inquiry later acknowledged that their naval headquarters knew at least three hours before the attack that the odd-looking ship 13 miles off the Sinai Peninsula, sprouting more than 40 antennas capable of receiving every kind of radio transmission, was "an electromagnetic audio-surveillance ship of the U.S. Navy," a floating electronic vacuum cleaner.

The Israeli inquiry later concluded that that information had simply gotten lost, never passed along to the ground controllers who directed the air attack nor to the crews of the three Israeli torpedo boats who picked up where the air force left off, strafing the Liberty's decks with their machine guns and launching a torpedo that blew a 39-foot hole in its starboard side.

To a man, the survivors interviewed by the Tribune rejected Israel's explanation.

Nor, the survivors said, did they understand why the American 6th Fleet, which included the aircraft carriers America and Saratoga, patrolling 400 miles west of the Liberty, launched and then recalled at least two squadrons of Navy fighter-bombers that might have arrived in time to prevent the torpedo attack -- and save 26 American lives.

J.Q. "Tony" Hart, then a chief petty officer assigned to a U.S. Navy relay station in Morocco that handled communications between Washington and the 6th Fleet, remembered listening as Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, in Washington, ordered Rear Adm. Lawrence Geis, commander of the America's carrier battle group, to bring the jets home.

When Geis protested that the Liberty was under attack and needed help, Hart said, McNamara retorted that "President [Lyndon] Johnson is not going to go to war or embarrass an American ally over a few sailors."
New revelations in attack on American spy ship

Any American, regardless of religion, who support these maniacs, deserve what they get.

Harsh, but true.

Fuck these animals; let's turn our troops on tel aviv and end this shit!

So America should attack Israel for something that happened 50 years ago?

 

[Indeependent]

Israel wanted to sink the USS Liberty with all sailors aboard and then blame it on Egypt, as a way to drag America into the conflict.

But the ship refused to sink, and Israel had to cease the attack, and invent a cover story to hide the truth.

Basically, the incident was a Zionist false flag mission gone wrong. ....

sink the Liberty????

The ship did not even need help from Israel to keep afloat and travel home. Sink? Not even close. Damage was not that bad. Israel offered help, none was needed.

If they had intended to sink the Liberty they would have fired lower in the hull.

Torpedo ship responded to Liberty fire at them, against Captains orders.

It was a mistake by both sides, not intentional against the US

An Israeli military court of inquiry later acknowledged that their naval headquarters knew at least three hours before the attack that the odd-looking ship 13 miles off the Sinai Peninsula, sprouting more than 40 antennas capable of receiving every kind of radio transmission, was "an electromagnetic audio-surveillance ship of the U.S. Navy," a floating electronic vacuum cleaner.

The Israeli inquiry later concluded that that information had simply gotten lost, never passed along to the ground controllers who directed the air attack nor to the crews of the three Israeli torpedo boats who picked up where the air force left off, strafing the Liberty's decks with their machine guns and launching a torpedo that blew a 39-foot hole in its starboard side.

To a man, the survivors interviewed by the Tribune rejected Israel's explanation.

Nor, the survivors said, did they understand why the American 6th Fleet, which included the aircraft carriers America and Saratoga, patrolling 400 miles west of the Liberty, launched and then recalled at least two squadrons of Navy fighter-bombers that might have arrived in time to prevent the torpedo attack -- and save 26 American lives.

J.Q. "Tony" Hart, then a chief petty officer assigned to a U.S. Navy relay station in Morocco that handled communications between Washington and the 6th Fleet, remembered listening as Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, in Washington, ordered Rear Adm. Lawrence Geis, commander of the America's carrier battle group, to bring the jets home.

When Geis protested that the Liberty was under attack and needed help, Hart said, McNamara retorted that "President [Lyndon] Johnson is not going to go to war or embarrass an American ally over a few sailors."
New revelations in attack on American spy ship

Any American, regardless of religion, who support these maniacs, deserve what they get.

Harsh, but true.

Fuck these animals; let's turn our troops on tel aviv and end this shit!

So America should attack Israel for something that happened 50 years ago?

No problem if we attack Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq at the same time.

 

[louie888]

Not just for their mass murderers of Americans. But a great start.

 

[Indeependent]

Not just for their mass murderers of Americans. But a great start.

Yep, those Muslims are indeed mass murderers.

 

[louie888]

Not just for their mass murderers of Americans. But a great start.

Yep, those Muslims are indeed mass murderers.

This thread is on their mass murder of AMERICANS!

50th Anniversary of Israel’s Infamous USS Liberty Attack, REMEMBER?

ARE YOU HERE TO MAKE TEDDYDERP AND HOLLOW HOLLIE LOOK GOOD?

 

[Indeependent]

Not just for their mass murderers of Americans. But a great start.

Yep, those Muslims are indeed mass murderers.

This thread is on their mass murder of AMERICANS!

50th Anniversary of Israel’s Infamous USS Liberty Attack, REMEMBER?

ARE YOU HERE TO MAKE TEDDYDERP AND HOLLOW HOLLIE LOOK GOOD?

Muslims have murdered more people across the globe than Israel ever will.

As an honest aside, there probably is a reason why the US government doesn't want to bother with the USS Liberty.
Probably because Israel exposed some wrong doing on the part of the US and the US doesn't want it exposed.
The US was no friend of the US in '67.

 

[ForeverYoung436]

Not just for their mass murderers of Americans. But a great start.

Yep, those Muslims are indeed mass murderers.

This thread is on their mass murder of AMERICANS!

50th Anniversary of Israel’s Infamous USS Liberty Attack, REMEMBER?

ARE YOU HERE TO MAKE TEDDYDERP AND HOLLOW HOLLIE LOOK GOOD?

Muslims have murdered more people across the globe than Israel ever will.

As an honest aside, there probably is a reason why the US government doesn't want to bother with the USS Liberty.
Probably because Israel exposed some wrong doing on the part of the US and the US doesn't want it exposed.
The US was no friend of the US in '67.

The U.S. was no friend of itself?

 

[fanger]

Israel wanted to Play the game "Lets, You and Him fight"