USS Liberty Dead in the Water
On June 8, 1967, US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was suddenly and brutally attacked on the high seas in international waters by the air and naval forces of Israel. The Israeli forces attacked with full knowledge that this was an American ship and lied about it. Survivors have been forbidden for 40 years to tell their story under oath to the American public. This USS Liberty Memorial web site tells their story and is dedicated to the memory of the 34 brave men who died.
After surveilling USS Liberty for more than nine hours with almost hourly aircraft over flights and radar tracking, the air and naval forces of Israel attacked our ship in international waters without warning. USS Liberty was identified as a US naval ship nine hours before the attack by Israeli reconnaissance aircraft and continuously tracked by Israeli radar and aircraft thereafter. Sailing in international waters at less than five knots, with no offensive armament, our ship was not a military threat to anyone.
The Israeli forces attacked without warning and without attempting to contact us. Thirty four Americans were killed in the attack and another 174 were wounded. The ship, a $40 Million Dollar state of the art signals intelligence platform, was later declared unsalvageable and sold for scrap. (Excerpt from gtr5.com)
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I always heard of the USS Liberty incident, but never heard any convicing evidence. This is a great documentary giving personal acounts from people who were there before, during and after the attack took place. This only shows the extent Israel would go to even ******** up its main ally in order to achieve its objectives.
I was never a fan of conspiracy theories for the 9/11 attacks, but if Israel can carry out the USS Liberty attack and keep so many people in high positions within the US so silent about it, it makes me wonder whether suspecting them with the 9/11 attacks would be so inconceivable afterall!
Now the Palestinians are still suffering because of all this deceit. Let’s see what Obama will do…..
very interesting story…..there are holes in the story, but, definately worth watching. knowledge is power.
Here is the real story. Please check it out.
The main reason why the US has betrayed the Jews nuerous times throughout history is because of oil. Keep in mind, that at the beginning of the Holocaust, the Allies had a plan to partition British Palestine and to send the Jews there instead of getting slaughtered. But the Arabs (mainly Saudis) said no. If there was going to be any more Jews on the land, then there would be no oil for the allies. So here we are, 6 million Jews later, I guess we were expendable. Also keep in mind that the Allies never said that if they can’t go to British Palestine, then let them come here (US, Canada).
The US informed the Arabs that Israel would not have a nuclear defense shield finished in 1967, thus leaving a window of opportunity to attack. US intelligence attampted to curry favor with the Arab oil producers by giving the precise details of Israels military positions and details of battle to the arabs during the war. Israeli intelligence discovered the American betrayal and attacked the Liberty, which was gathering electronic information on Israeli troop movements and sending it to British intelligence, which in turn relayed it to the Arabs. Both the American and Israeli governments agreed to suppress the truth about the Liberty from the public. It was too embarassing for the Americns to have been caught re-handed betraying their “Israeli brothers” in the interest of oil, and the Israelis used it to blackmail President Johnson (an oil man)to get the Israelis new weapons and armor.
There wre 293 crewmen onboard. 34 died, not 200 as you think, but 34!!! The crew thought it was a miracle that so many survived. It was no miracle, the Israelis were not there to kill Americans. They were there for survival. They had to take out their enemy, and that ship was theri enemy. It was an act of self-defense. Once the attack was under way, a senior official of Israeli intelligence called his CIA counterpart and told him what they were doing to the Liberty at that moment, knowing the US could not and would not retaliate. The Israelis had proof that the US government had commited an act of war against Israel by betraying its military secrets to the enemy in the middle of a war in which Israel’s very survival was at stake.
America has betrayed Israel in EVERY war Israel has had to fight. On the surface, the US and Israel are allies. The truth is, mainly because of oil, that America has betrayed Israel and will continue to betray them whenever it is in her best interests. It’s simple, the Arabs have the oil, the Arabs hate Jews, so the US, who wants Arab oil must go against the Jews. 2+2=4. It’s not hard to understand. There is a secret war against the Jews. And you are helping to perpetuate it. Get yourself an education.
That is not the “real story” Richard, what really happened is that Israel was busy murdering thousands of Egyptian POWs at a coastal town adjacent to where the Liberty was patrolling in international waters and concerned that the most sophisticated communications intercept vessel in the world would certainly overhear radio traffic about the mass murder and subsequent disposal of evidence a decision was made to destroy the Liberty.The mass murder of POWs was witnessed by an Israeli journalist and reported in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronoth.
Richard, your account of the ‘real story’ is very interesting, however all the facts in it except that Israel attacked the USS Liberty are false. I have to admit that I admire the Israely PR machine which is constantly turning any war crime the IDF commits into an act of ‘self-defence’… and the Israelis are brain washed into believing them by having their politicians constantly repeating them on and on and on….poor Israelis
Richard! What is your Jewish name?
Sorry about my style, but i couldn’t resist :)
No need to talk much about conspiracies.
Look to the world.
It is all clear.
Richard I am so disappointed with you after all that we(U S) have done for you and Israel this is what you still think of us. Don’t forget Israel is existing only because we are supporting you with money and protection we are providing you, if it wasn’t for us the Arabs would have and chewed and spitted you out long time ago, so bend down and apologize to Americans.
don’t be a typical jew who are always untrustworthy and mean.
God Bless America.
they are waiting for the old chaps to die, and their story with it.
i don't know much about conspiracies. but as a human being i can see that all of the Israelis in the documentary are lying through their teeth.
they definitely are people you cannot trust, why they cause everyone to hate them. what is the problem with the Israelis???
no even an appology. oh yea those poor sailors were supposed to be dead to their last.
what type of hypocrites firing on life boats and also an american one.
every american soldiers should desist from fighting a war for israel because they should know that the israelis would readily despatch them … they are the dispensable gunea pigs…
it is astonishing to notice how the useful ***** theory still works. the soldiers still believes they are fighting for america. a very low hat for the israelis PR indeed…. lol it is an other way to say that they are great liars, people you just cannot believe, you just cannot trust, they would readily sell you once they don't need you or if you become cumbersome.
i sure that when the israelis won't need america, guess who they will dagger in the back first…. evidence are clear as the american supremacy will start to become challenged by the monster they created. don't expect any gratefulness from the israelis… richard view is just a good sample.
America WAKE UP the Israelis have hijacked the US.
events as the uss liberty has been uncovered, how many other people have the israeli caused to suffer. i won't be suprised that the israeli have claimed more american lives and tried to blame it on others, i'm sure the families of the 3000 americans who died in the planned demolition of the twin towers would like to know.!!!!
[ask yourself why so many israelis were arrested in the wake of the 9/11]
Good Doc – all Americans should watch it. As for Richard’s comments about the Israeli’s just going for the ship – that doesn’t quite explain the machine gunning of sailors attempting to escape the attack by swimming away.
Why is it the the state of Israel acts with absolute impunity in everything it does? (Rhetorical)
typical zionist , typical yank
Right….a Ship withour weapons beeing attacked by israeli forces…and thru devine intervention only a small portion of the soldiers onboard the ship die? i don’t want to speculate about the reasons for the attack, but the high rate of survivors indicates the israelis indeed did not want them all dead, afterall it’s pretty easy to blow up an unarmed ship that has no support whatsoever.
By the way: there was a US Fleet pretty close but thei where forbidden to intervene (sending fighter and whatnot) by the US goverment. There is clearly something fishy about the whole thing but…no clear evidence means we will probably never really know the truth.
Its ok they died for Israel
I was at one time a huge supporter of Israel, but watch “Rachel: An American with a Conscious”. And the USS Liberty is just one(of many) indications of what the sleazy Zionists will do to promote their criminal policies. Is there conspiracy? Well sort of… the Israelis admit to doing the deed but insist it was a mistake. And that is hard to believe unless you expect that Israel has the most incompetent Air Force on earth. Is that possible? Highly doubtful … IMO, their story is a lie. RE- Richard you’re trying to spin the story with reprehensible tear jerking PR techniques. The USA gives over 3 billion in aid to Israel per year. Your story is just a wet dream, a fantasy that is more propaganda used to support Israeli crimes. I am done with Israel, my conscious will not allow any support to cold blooded killers.
And to top it all off, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, FOX or CNN didn’t produce this film … the BBC did. This blind support of Israel is a deadly mistake for Americans and the cowardly American media is to busy distracting our attention. Who are America’s real friends? Have British and western European spies been caught in America? No, but Israelis spies have been caught and prosecuted.
Re the Russian ;spies’-sleepers who never got woken up to export a single ‘secret’-yet were deorted from America.What about all the Zionist Jews, who HAVE sent info-and secrets about their adopted country the United States.Should not THEY be charged with treason and deported to,Back to Israel, where they belong.America does not need these traitors living freely in its country.Yet doing all they can to stufrf it up.They behave like Hitler’s Nazis.Its no wonder they were the original terrorists.They are an illegally founded state, that has disrupted the entire middle east.And stolen many of America’s secrets. J.B.
.Why would the USA send an unarmed ship to a combat zone,equipped with electronic spying capabilities to monitor a friendly country?The israelis didn’t ask for their help in the war and they were not spying the egiptian military activity.In consequence the israeli response was totally justified.The only assumption that should be made was that they were spying the israeli movements.Too bad that the american government decided to put the lives of american sailors at risk.You don”t spy on friendly countries.The fact that the americans did not pursue the incident more vigorously proves that they had a lot to hide.
.If anyone is guilty of this tragedy is Pres.Lindon Johnson,who authorized this operation.No wonder,considering that he also escalated the Vietnam war based on lies,the real motive being that the military industrial complex wanted to prolong the war.Nowadays,Bush also lied to the american people and put the country in an unwinable war against a country that never was a threat to the USA.It seems that United States is led by a bunch of criminals.
Gulf of Tonkin incident that spawned the Vietnam war was a ball compared to this naval incident. The fact is, doesn’t matter what happens, it won’t be responded to in an honorable way. It will be manipulated as political currency to advance the top secret interests of the president and his cronies. 9/11 and the war on terror is just the same. Afghanistan was used as a stepping stone to the Iraq war. It’s a disgrace that these navy men never received justice. Victims of 9/11 were even used as tools. Just like Pat Tilman. Don’t expect fairness or justice from these machiavellian types. Where their loyalties lie, nobody knows.
I think Rob has put forth the most plausible explanation. I question if the Israelis might have expected the US to retaliate in the fashion they did (nuke armed planes headed for Cairo).
Conspiracy and coverup involving USA an Israel … well, I´m surprised and shocked :D