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USS Liberty - Pictorial Story (PDF 4.7mb)


The Loss of Liberty - Documentary on the israeli attack on and attempted sinking of the USS Liberty in 1967


Ken O’Keefe on RT states truth and names kikes for USS Liberty, Lavon Affair, 911 (2min, 3.5mb)


"Remembering the USS Liberty" - Full RT CrossTalk (2017) (28min, 232mb)


Ron Grantski, survivor of kike attack on USS Liberty, recounts the attack on Memorial Day (3min, 8.5mb)


USS Liberty survivor Sergeant Bryce Lockwood reveals the truth about the jewish false flag attack (19min, 35mb)


"The Day Liberty Died" (Devon Stack/Blackpilled) (12min, 41mb)

I often talk about government schools and the deep state media rewriting history so that the American public doesn’t understand where the true power lies. For if you can identify that power you will also be able to study it and confront it. It’s also no secret that history is written by the winners. So armed with that knowledge I’d like you to examine a moment in history that when written at first in the mockingbird media New York times on the day it happened, was a complete fabrication. lies that would be regurgitated and retold in books and television programs for decades. Lies written by the winners in an unprovoked armed conflict involving the united states and a country in the middle east. Not Iraq, not Iran or even Saudi Arabia but attack perpetrated by israel unprovoked on an unarmed naval ship in international waters that claimed the lives of 34 American citizens and wounded another 171.

The attack on the USS Liberty, on June 8th 1967. The USS Liberty was a naval intelligence ship monitoring the war brewing between israel and Egypt. Surviving crew members who would be threatened into silence for decades now recall a clear sunny day with anger and confusion. at 10:30 am that morning an israeli recon plane, that had made visual contact and circled the vessel earlier in the day along with several others beginning around 8:00 am. made visual contact again. the pilot circled so close that Crew Member Larry Weaver was able to wave and recalls the pilot waving back and smiling. And despite the lies of both israelis and Americans for the decades that followed, we now know positively thanks to recordings released that the israelis had identified the USS Liberty as American.

The crew felt comfortable in the knowledge that israelis were aware of their location in the dangerous region and able to identify them. Which is probably why they were so bewildered when on that sunny day they saw the unexplainable. 3 hours later As the sailors sunbathed on the deck of the USS Liberty, 2 unmarked israel fighters launched missiles directly at them without warning. But that wouldn’t be the end of the attack. The israelis jets began strafing the deck with machine-guns as the crew of the Liberty ran for cover.

The Liberty quickly attempted to radio for help but found that in addition to the damage done to their antenna that their radio transmissions had been jammed.

This was no mistaken identity. The israelis knew exactly who they were attacking and declassified documents now show that the order came from top. After the initial assault the pilots ask permission to unleash a new weapon on the Liberty.

Already in flames from exploded fuel drums, the deck covered in blood, the liberty with its communications jammed and distress channels jammed in violation of international law, the israeli pilots radioed back to the tower.

Incredibly, the order to napalm the ship was given. Remember, at this time, and ever since, israel was considered our ally. While the Liberty burned with napalm, 2 israeli war boats approached and discussed with the pilots who should finish her off.

Several torpedoes were launched, one found it’s mark instantly killing 25 American crew members in an instant. The ship was severely disabled but the crew was trapped. When the Americans attempted to abandon ship the israeli naval ships opened fire on the lifeboats with 50 caliber machine guns.

With body parts strewn all over the deck and blood streaming down the bulkheads of the wounded Liberty, The israeli torpedo boats circled its prey firing armor piercing projectiles into her hull killing and wounding nearly 2 thirds of the Americans onboard.

During the assault One of the surviving marines was able to wire a makeshift antenna and get a mayday message out to a nearby American fleet. The israelis, having intercepted the message and fearing Americans were sending out fighters to respond, summoned the American naval attaché and claimed they had made a mistake. Word traveled fast as President Johnson himself personally demanded that the fighters be recalled.

To this day this was the worst attack on a US naval vessel since world war 2 and the response from the Americans was to cover it up. The mockingbird bird media barely mentioned the attack, calling it a friendly fire incident. Documents recently acquired through the freedom of information act show that the Johnson administration discussed sinking the liberty so it couldn’t be photographed. Survivors and the families were threatened. NSA agents and guards camped out at their homes to ensure the press blackout. israel hired journalists to plant pro israel stories in the media and threatened to accuse anyone who leaked the story of the Liberty with cries of anti-semitism and blood libel.

Inquiry was shut down, testimony erased. For decades those involved in the Johnson administration and the israelis lied about the incident. Nobody ever asked why israel would attack an American ship with unmarked jets and jam it’s communications. They never asked why they went to extreme measures to make sure there were no survivors on a ship they knew with certainty belonged to an ally. Something that only seems to make sense if israel intended to blame the attack on someone else. Had the liberty not been able to get its transmission successfully out to the American fleet would the attack have been blamed on the Egyptians? Would the Americans have been dragged into another war to fight at the side of those who attacked us?

Once again now that enough time has passed to ensure that nobody will pay for their crimes the truth finally comes out and the guilty parties are all pleased at the complete absence of a reaction from the American people.

Because after all, History is written by the victors, and if there’s anything that’s as clear as that morning in 1967, Liberty never had a chance.


The cover-up of the USS Liberty

George C. Ball quote (noted on page, I cannot verify source) Undersecretary of State George C. Ball: "The ultimate lesson of the Liberty attack was to have far more effect on policy in israel than in America - If America’s leaders did not have the courage to punish israel for the blatant murder of American citizens it seemed clear that their American friends would let them get away with almost anything."


U.S. Government Withholding Hundreds of Pages About Deadly 1967 Israeli Attack on U.S. Navy Ship


What Really Happened

"In the middle of the "6 Day War" in 1967, israel attempted a false flag attack upon an American NAVY ship called the USS Liberty. They planned on sinking the ship and killing all crew members so that no survivors could tell who attacked them. If successful, the attack would be blamed on Egypt. This would have caused the U.S. to enter the war on the side of israel. Unfortunately for israel, the USS Liberty didn't sink and their false flag plan failed."


Israel’s Attack on USS Liberty - The Full Story


Wiki


A new look at Israel’s bombing of the USS Liberty (live page no longer exists, must use archives)

Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun, April 29, 2001

“On the fourth day of the 1967 Arab-israeli War, the intelligence ship USS Liberty was steaming slowly in international waters, 14 miles off the Sinai Peninsula. israeli armored forces were racing deep into the Sinai in hot pursuit of the retreating Egyptian Army.

Liberty, a World War II freighter, had been converted into an intelligence vessel by the top-secret U.S. National Security Agency, and packed with the latest signals and electronic interception equipment.

The ship bristled with antennae and electronic “ears” including TRSSCOMM, which delivered real-time intercepts to Washington.

It was to monitor communications of the belligerents in the third Arab-israeli war: israel and her foes, Egypt, Syria and Jordan.

At 0800 hrs, 8 June, 1967, eight israeli recon flights flew over Liberty, which was flying a large American flag. At 1400, waves of israeli Mystere and Mirage-III fighter-bombers attacked with rockets, napalm, and cannon, concentrating on the ship’s antennae and electronic dishes. Liberty was left afire, listing. Eight of her crew lay dead, 100 wounded, including Commander William McGonagle.

At 1424, israeli torpedo boats attacked, raking the burning Liberty with 20 and 40 mm shells. At 1431 a torpedo hit the Liberty amidships, where the signals intelligence systems were located. Twenty-five more Americans died.

At 1515, the crew were ordered to abandon ship. israeli warships poured machine-gun fire into the life rafts, sinking two. As American sailors were being massacred, a rescue mission by U.S. Sixth Fleet carrier aircraft was aborted on orders from the White House.

An hour after the attack, israeli warships and planes returned. Commander McGonagle gave the order to repel boarders, but the israelis, probably fearing intervention by the Sixth Fleet, departed.

Liberty was shattered but defiant, her flag still flying. israeli attacks killed 34 U.S. seamen and wounded 171 out of a crew of 297, the worst loss of U.S. naval personnel from hostile action since World War II.

Less than an hour after the attack, israel told Washington its forces had committed a “tragic error.” Later, israel said it had mistaken Liberty for an ancient Egyptian horse transport.

U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, and Joint Chiefs of Staff head, Adm. Thomas Moorer, insisted the israeli attack was deliberate.

So did three CIA reports. One asserted israel’s defense minister, Gen. Moshe Dayan, had ordered the attack. Reports that the savaging of Liberty was deliberate were hushed up by President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. The White House and Congress accepted israel’s explanation. israel later paid a token reparation of US$6 million.

But surviving Liberty crew members would not be silenced. They kept demanding an inquiry and tried to tell their story of a deliberate attack to the media.

israel’s government worked behind the scenes to thwart these efforts, going so far as having pro-israeli groups accuse Liberty’s survivors of being “anti-Semites” and “israel-haters.”

Major TV networks cancelled interviews with the crew. A book about Liberty by James Ennes was dropped from distribution.

The attack on Liberty faded into obscurity until last week, when intelligence expert James Bamford came out with Body of Secrets, his latest book about the National Security Agency. In a stunning revelation, Bamford writes that unknown to israel, a U.S. Navy EC-121 intelligence aircraft, flying overhead, electronically recorded the attack. The U.S. aircraft crew provides evidence israeli pilots knew they were attacking a U.S. Navy ship flying the American flag.

Why try to sink a vessel of a benefactor and ally? Most likely because Liberty’s intercepts contradicted israel’s claim, made at the war’s start on June 5, that Egypt had attacked israel,and that israel’s air assault on three Arab nations was in retaliation. In fact, israel began the war by a devastating, Pearl Harbor-style attack that caught the Arabs in bed and destroyed their air forces.

Washington had warned israel not to invade Syria, which had remained inactive while israel fought Egypt. Bamford says israel’s planned offensive against Syria was abruptly postponed when Liberty appeared off Sinai, then launched once it was knocked out of action. israel’s claim Syria had attacked first could have been disproved by Liberty.

Liberty’s intercepts also may have shown israel seized upon rising Arab-israeli tensions in May-June, 1967 to launch a long-planned war to invade and annex the West Bank, Jerusalem, Golan and Sinai.

Far more shocking was Washington’s response.

Writes Bamford: “Despite the overwhelming evidence that israel attacked the ship and killed American servicemen deliberately, the Johnson administration and Congress covered up the entire incident.”

Why? Domestic politics. Johnson preferred to cover up the attack rather than anger a key constituency and fiscal backer of the Democrats. Congress was even less eager to touch this “third rail” issue. Commander McGonagle was quietly awarded the Medal of Honor for his and his men’s heroism — not in the White House, but in an obscure ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard. Crew members’ graves were inscribed, “Died in the Eastern Mediterranean.”

A member of President Johnson’s staff believed that Johnson offered jewish liberals unconditional backing of israel, and a cover up of the Liberty attack, in exchange for liberals toning down their criticism of his policies in Vietnam.

israel, which claims it fought a war of self-defense in 1967, will be displeased by Bamford’s revelations. Those who believe israel illegally occupies the West Bank and Golan will be emboldened.

More important, the U.S. government’s cover up of the premeditated attack on Liberty has now burst into the open and demands an investigation. After 34 years, the voices of Liberty’s dead and wounded seamen must finally be heard.”

>AOC meme: https://pic8.co/sh/vUSFJ6.jpg >Only one country can get away with it, then get paid: https://pic8.co/sh/JEzLJt.jpg --- >**USS Liberty - Pictorial Story** (PDF 4.7mb) > >- https://web.archive.org/web/20201103172047/http://www.coldwar.org/pictures/ussliberty.pdf >- https://web.archive.org/web/20230608112702/https://files.catbox.moe/khgmgo.pdf --- >**The Loss of Liberty - Documentary on the israeli attack on and attempted sinking of the USS Liberty in 1967** > >- (52min) https://www.bitchute.com/video/BVcPqmFQywLs/ >- (52min, 105mb) https://web.archive.org/web/20230608113403if_/https://files.catbox.moe/q6qqnv.mp4 Slightly different intro/editing >- (52min, 89mb) https://web.archive.org/web/20230608114451if_/https://files.catbox.moe/lvg1ts.mp4 >- (52min, 89mb) https://vid8.poal.co/user/Khro_/UWJNoDt --- >**Ken O’Keefe on RT states truth and names kikes for USS Liberty, Lavon Affair, 911** (2min, 3.5mb) > >- https://web.archive.org/web/20230608114040if_/https://files.catbox.moe/rgz7wg.mp4 >- https://vid8.poal.co/user/Khro_/ncls1ei --- >**"Remembering the USS Liberty" - Full RT CrossTalk (2017)** (28min, 232mb) > >- https://vid8.poal.co/user/terrible_writer/y1zw08N | https://poal.co/s/Videos/641776 --- >**Ron Grantski, survivor of kike attack on USS Liberty, recounts the attack on Memorial Day** (3min, 8.5mb) > >- https://vid8.poal.co/user/Khro_/dEmPoFn --- >**USS Liberty survivor Sergeant Bryce Lockwood reveals the truth about the jewish false flag attack** (19min, 35mb) > >- https://vid8.poal.co/user/StabEm/jUe4jCv | https://poal.co/s/Truthhurts/642188 --- >**"The Day Liberty Died" (Devon Stack/Blackpilled)** (12min, 41mb) > >- https://blackpilled.com/2018/03/the-day-liberty-died/ >- https://www.bitchute.com/video/YZYjRREqUF0/ >- https://web.archive.org/web/20230608112913if_/https://files.catbox.moe/dipkg3.mp4 >- https://vid8.poal.co/user/Khro_/fDbmNjP > >*I often talk about government schools and the deep state media rewriting history so that the American public doesn’t understand where the true power lies. For if you can identify that power you will also be able to study it and confront it. It’s also no secret that history is written by the winners. So armed with that knowledge I’d like you to examine a moment in history that when written at first in the mockingbird media New York times on the day it happened, was a complete fabrication. lies that would be regurgitated and retold in books and television programs for decades. Lies written by the winners in an unprovoked armed conflict involving the united states and a country in the middle east. Not Iraq, not Iran or even Saudi Arabia but attack perpetrated by israel unprovoked on an unarmed naval ship in international waters that claimed the lives of 34 American citizens and wounded another 171.* > >*The attack on the USS Liberty, on June 8th 1967. The USS Liberty was a naval intelligence ship monitoring the war brewing between israel and Egypt. Surviving crew members who would be threatened into silence for decades now recall a clear sunny day with anger and confusion. at 10:30 am that morning an israeli recon plane, that had made visual contact and circled the vessel earlier in the day along with several others beginning around 8:00 am. made visual contact again. the pilot circled so close that Crew Member Larry Weaver was able to wave and recalls the pilot waving back and smiling. And despite the lies of both israelis and Americans for the decades that followed, we now know positively thanks to recordings released that the israelis had identified the USS Liberty as American.* > >*The crew felt comfortable in the knowledge that israelis were aware of their location in the dangerous region and able to identify them. Which is probably why they were so bewildered when on that sunny day they saw the unexplainable. 3 hours later As the sailors sunbathed on the deck of the USS Liberty, 2 unmarked israel fighters launched missiles directly at them without warning. But that wouldn’t be the end of the attack. The israelis jets began strafing the deck with machine-guns as the crew of the Liberty ran for cover.* > >*The Liberty quickly attempted to radio for help but found that in addition to the damage done to their antenna that their radio transmissions had been jammed.* > >*This was no mistaken identity. The israelis knew exactly who they were attacking and declassified documents now show that the order came from top. After the initial assault the pilots ask permission to unleash a new weapon on the Liberty.* > >*Already in flames from exploded fuel drums, the deck covered in blood, the liberty with its communications jammed and distress channels jammed in violation of international law, the israeli pilots radioed back to the tower.* > >*Incredibly, the order to napalm the ship was given. Remember, at this time, and ever since, israel was considered our ally. While the Liberty burned with napalm, 2 israeli war boats approached and discussed with the pilots who should finish her off.* > >*Several torpedoes were launched, one found it’s mark instantly killing 25 American crew members in an instant. The ship was severely disabled but the crew was trapped. When the Americans attempted to abandon ship the israeli naval ships opened fire on the lifeboats with 50 caliber machine guns.* > >*With body parts strewn all over the deck and blood streaming down the bulkheads of the wounded Liberty, The israeli torpedo boats circled its prey firing armor piercing projectiles into her hull killing and wounding nearly 2 thirds of the Americans onboard.* > >*During the assault One of the surviving marines was able to wire a makeshift antenna and get a mayday message out to a nearby American fleet. The israelis, having intercepted the message and fearing Americans were sending out fighters to respond, summoned the American naval attaché and claimed they had made a mistake. Word traveled fast as President Johnson himself personally demanded that the fighters be recalled.* > >*To this day this was the worst attack on a US naval vessel since world war 2 and the response from the Americans was to cover it up. The mockingbird bird media barely mentioned the attack, calling it a friendly fire incident. Documents recently acquired through the freedom of information act show that the Johnson administration discussed sinking the liberty so it couldn’t be photographed. Survivors and the families were threatened. NSA agents and guards camped out at their homes to ensure the press blackout. israel hired journalists to plant pro israel stories in the media and threatened to accuse anyone who leaked the story of the Liberty with cries of anti-semitism and blood libel.* > >*Inquiry was shut down, testimony erased. For decades those involved in the Johnson administration and the israelis lied about the incident. Nobody ever asked why israel would attack an American ship with unmarked jets and jam it’s communications. They never asked why they went to extreme measures to make sure there were no survivors on a ship they knew with certainty belonged to an ally. Something that only seems to make sense if israel intended to blame the attack on someone else. Had the liberty not been able to get its transmission successfully out to the American fleet would the attack have been blamed on the Egyptians? Would the Americans have been dragged into another war to fight at the side of those who attacked us?* > >*Once again now that enough time has passed to ensure that nobody will pay for their crimes the truth finally comes out and the guilty parties are all pleased at the complete absence of a reaction from the American people.* > >*Because after all, History is written by the victors, and if there’s anything that’s as clear as that morning in 1967, Liberty never had a chance.* --- >**The cover-up of the USS Liberty** > >- https://www.juneauempire.com/opinion/the-cover-up-of-the-uss-liberty/ >- https://web.archive.org/web/20211029014726/https://www.juneauempire.com/opinion/the-cover-up-of-the-uss-liberty/ >- https://web.archive.org/web/20220326001133/https://www.juneauempire.com/opinion/the-cover-up-of-the-uss-liberty/ >- https://archive.ph/scHw5 > >George C. Ball quote (noted on page, I cannot verify source) >Undersecretary of State George C. Ball: >"*The ultimate lesson of the Liberty attack was to have far more effect on policy in israel than in America - If America’s leaders did not have the courage to punish israel for the blatant murder of American citizens it seemed clear that their American friends would let them get away with almost anything.*" --- >**U.S. Government Withholding Hundreds of Pages About Deadly 1967 Israeli Attack on U.S. Navy Ship** > >- https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/08/16/u-s-government-withholding-hundreds-of-pages-about-deadly-1967-israeli-attack-on-u-s-navy-ship/ >- https://archive.ph/StIcW --- >**What Really Happened** > >- https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/ussliberty.html >- https://web.archive.org/web/20230608231905/https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/ussliberty.html >- https://archive.ph/clNJe > >"*In the middle of the "6 Day War" in 1967, israel attempted a false flag attack upon an American NAVY ship called the USS Liberty. They planned on sinking the ship and killing all crew members so that no survivors could tell who attacked them. If successful, the attack would be blamed on Egypt. This would have caused the U.S. to enter the war on the side of israel. Unfortunately for israel, the USS Liberty didn't sink and their false flag plan failed.*" --- >**Israel’s Attack on USS Liberty - The Full Story** > >- https://www.veteranstoday.com/2021/05/04/israels-attack-on-uss-liberty-the-full-story/ >- https://web.archive.org/web/20210504205447/https://www.veteranstoday.com/2021/05/04/israels-attack-on-uss-liberty-the-full-story/ >- https://archive.ph/1iJ3p --- >**Wiki** > >- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident >- https://infogalactic.com/info/USS_Liberty_incident --- >**A new look at Israel’s bombing of the USS Liberty** >(live page no longer exists, must use archives) > >- https://archive.ph/9JMRF >- https://web.archive.org/web/20201103172047/http://www.coldwar.org/articles/60s/uss_liberty.asp > >**Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun, April 29, 2001** > >*“On the fourth day of the 1967 Arab-israeli War, the intelligence ship USS Liberty was steaming slowly in international waters, 14 miles off the Sinai Peninsula. israeli armored forces were racing deep into the Sinai in hot pursuit of the retreating Egyptian Army.* > >*Liberty, a World War II freighter, had been converted into an intelligence vessel by the top-secret U.S. National Security Agency, and packed with the latest signals and electronic interception equipment.* > >*The ship bristled with antennae and electronic “ears” including TRSSCOMM, which delivered real-time intercepts to Washington.* > >*It was to monitor communications of the belligerents in the third Arab-israeli war: israel and her foes, Egypt, Syria and Jordan.* > >*At 0800 hrs, 8 June, 1967, eight israeli recon flights flew over Liberty, which was flying a large American flag. At 1400, waves of israeli Mystere and Mirage-III fighter-bombers attacked with rockets, napalm, and cannon, concentrating on the ship’s antennae and electronic dishes. Liberty was left afire, listing. Eight of her crew lay dead, 100 wounded, including Commander William McGonagle.* > >*At 1424, israeli torpedo boats attacked, raking the burning Liberty with 20 and 40 mm shells. At 1431 a torpedo hit the Liberty amidships, where the signals intelligence systems were located. Twenty-five more Americans died.* > >*At 1515, the crew were ordered to abandon ship. israeli warships poured machine-gun fire into the life rafts, sinking two. As American sailors were being massacred, a rescue mission by U.S. Sixth Fleet carrier aircraft was aborted on orders from the White House.* > >*An hour after the attack, israeli warships and planes returned. Commander McGonagle gave the order to repel boarders, but the israelis, probably fearing intervention by the Sixth Fleet, departed.* > >*Liberty was shattered but defiant, her flag still flying. israeli attacks killed 34 U.S. seamen and wounded 171 out of a crew of 297, the worst loss of U.S. naval personnel from hostile action since World War II.* > >*Less than an hour after the attack, israel told Washington its forces had committed a “tragic error.” Later, israel said it had mistaken Liberty for an ancient Egyptian horse transport.* > >*U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, and Joint Chiefs of Staff head, Adm. Thomas Moorer, insisted the israeli attack was deliberate.* > >*So did three CIA reports. One asserted israel’s defense minister, Gen. Moshe Dayan, had ordered the attack. Reports that the savaging of Liberty was deliberate were hushed up by President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. The White House and Congress accepted israel’s explanation. israel later paid a token reparation of US$6 million.* > >*But surviving Liberty crew members would not be silenced. They kept demanding an inquiry and tried to tell their story of a deliberate attack to the media.* > >*israel’s government worked behind the scenes to thwart these efforts, going so far as having pro-israeli groups accuse Liberty’s survivors of being “anti-Semites” and “israel-haters.”* > >*Major TV networks cancelled interviews with the crew. A book about Liberty by James Ennes was dropped from distribution.* > >*The attack on Liberty faded into obscurity until last week, when intelligence expert James Bamford came out with Body of Secrets, his latest book about the National Security Agency. In a stunning revelation, Bamford writes that unknown to israel, a U.S. Navy EC-121 intelligence aircraft, flying overhead, electronically recorded the attack. The U.S. aircraft crew provides evidence israeli pilots knew they were attacking a U.S. Navy ship flying the American flag.* > >*Why try to sink a vessel of a benefactor and ally? Most likely because Liberty’s intercepts contradicted israel’s claim, made at the war’s start on June 5, that Egypt had attacked israel,and that israel’s air assault on three Arab nations was in retaliation. In fact, israel began the war by a devastating, Pearl Harbor-style attack that caught the Arabs in bed and destroyed their air forces.* > >*Washington had warned israel not to invade Syria, which had remained inactive while israel fought Egypt. Bamford says israel’s planned offensive against Syria was abruptly postponed when Liberty appeared off Sinai, then launched once it was knocked out of action. israel’s claim Syria had attacked first could have been disproved by Liberty.* > >*Liberty’s intercepts also may have shown israel seized upon rising Arab-israeli tensions in May-June, 1967 to launch a long-planned war to invade and annex the West Bank, Jerusalem, Golan and Sinai.* > >*Far more shocking was Washington’s response.* > >*Writes Bamford: “Despite the overwhelming evidence that israel attacked the ship and killed American servicemen deliberately, the Johnson administration and Congress covered up the entire incident.”* > >*Why? Domestic politics. Johnson preferred to cover up the attack rather than anger a key constituency and fiscal backer of the Democrats. Congress was even less eager to touch this “third rail” issue. Commander McGonagle was quietly awarded the Medal of Honor for his and his men’s heroism — not in the White House, but in an obscure ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard. Crew members’ graves were inscribed, “Died in the Eastern Mediterranean.”* > >*A member of President Johnson’s staff believed that Johnson offered jewish liberals unconditional backing of israel, and a cover up of the Liberty attack, in exchange for liberals toning down their criticism of his policies in Vietnam.* > >*israel, which claims it fought a war of self-defense in 1967, will be displeased by Bamford’s revelations. Those who believe israel illegally occupies the West Bank and Golan will be emboldened.* > >*More important, the U.S. government’s cover up of the premeditated attack on Liberty has now burst into the open and demands an investigation. After 34 years, the voices of Liberty’s dead and wounded seamen must finally be heard.”*

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Thanks for putting this excellent post together, OP!