And: if there was a benefit, why would you let the vessel escape and abandon any chance of covering it up?
Under no rational model does the conspiracy theory survive.
What I find most interesting about those who accuse Israel of apartheid is not how little they know about Israel, but how little they know about apartheid.
Clear weather, huuuge US flag, attack lasted for a long time, submarine joined the attack, life rafts machine-gunned.
It was another of LBJ’s scams, and Israel was a partner —success hinged on Liberty going down completely, and she didn’t.
We’ve seen similar teachery in Bengazi.
Scam success would have provided premise for massive US intervention in the Middle-East —it worked in the Gulf of Tonkin, right...?
Lemme Guess:
Pollard is a huge hero, and he did NOTHING wrong, the USA is nasty for not giving him a medal.
Right?
And anyone who says otherwise is Hitler, or an Arab.
Right?
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FWIW
Sure. A spy ship with huge communications masts and a large American flag looks just like an Egyptian freighter full of horses.
Propagandists make a run at this on Free Republic every few years. I’m not sure why they keep seeking vindication for the illegal acts. It seems it would be smarter if they just let most folks forget the murder of American servicemen.
Oh, great. Here come the neo-Nazi and Ayrab trolls.
The Liberty Incident
Gag Orders Debunked
http://www.thelibertyincident.com/gag-orders-debunked.html
Gotcher Debunked
http://www.thelibertyincident.com/gotcherdebunked.html
The Liberty Incident
Documents
[Debunking of neo-Nazi conspiracy tales.]
http://www.thelibertyincident.com/documents.html
Why You Shouldn’t Pay Attention to the Claims that Israel Attacked the USS Liberty Deliberately
http://hnn.us/articles/39936.html
[I don’t have time to reply to anti-American, anti-Israel REMFs, BTW. They should move back to their Axis countries.]
The USS Liberty Attack - Facts vs Fiction
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/the-uss-liberty-attack-—facts-vs-fiction/question-2700623/
[Another one to read while ignoring any fans of Hagel.]
Myths debunked on Israel’s 1967 attack on USS Liberty
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/0715cristol0715.html?&wired&nclick_check=1
Investigations of the Liberty Tragedy
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/liberty2.html
Israeli Attack on USS Liberty
What happened to the USS Liberty during the Six Day War?
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1948to1967_uss_liberty.php
(great site worth reading more of—lots of facts on quite a few topics)
Not a historian by any means, but IMO it’s just a little too difficult to believe that this was - oops, sorreee! - an accident.
Conspiracy mongers of obvious affiliation have been encouraged to appeal to emotional responses in the thread. Let’s see if the same latitude is allowed for us patriotic Americans and our real allies.
If this were an Arab child, it would be flashed around the world
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2992330/posts
The amount of ignorance on this thread is just astounding
The ship has flying their parade flag
Very large flag
They strafed sailors in the water
A prolonged repeated bloody sailor killing on purpose plastered with USA insignia
That is indisputable
Why Israel never explained why and we never pushed it is telling but why
The ship was scrapped immediately
Hushed up and pushed down the memory hike
Why who knows
Hell yes it was deliberate but why
I have listened to hours of testimony from survivors
The crew were paid a pittance I think 2000 each to families
A travesty hushed up
No question they knew who they were attacking or at least what flag etc the ship was flying or displaying
If Israel is so omnipotent intelligence wise how did this “mistake” happen
The excuses here for Israel is usually end times gang that always does this
Hagee acolytes
They strafed men at slow speed and at deck level and torpedoed the ship more than once
Some missed
Listen to survivor accounts
Israel is not infalliable sorry to break it to folks here