However, I'd be interested in finding out the answer to this and all these other questions. Maybe we should condition our next aid package to Israel on 1) Israel's allowing us to examine all evidence relating to the attack on the Liberty, 2) allowing all Israelis involved in the attack to be cross-examined under oath and in public before Congress, and 3) allowing the survivors of the attack also to give testimony in public before Congress.
Do you think AIPAC would go for this?
Already has.
2) allowing all Israelis involved in the attack to be cross-examined under oath and in public before Congress
Why would Israel, a sovereign country, allow its citizens to go before a foreign government? Would you want the US pilots who bombed Canadian troops go before the Canadian parliament? Tapes of the Israeli IAF communications have been released which bring out the true misfortunate facts.
3) allowing the survivors of the attack also to give testimony in public before Congress.
They have already given testimony numerous times. What do you think of the testimony by other members of the Liberty who oppose the viewpoint Israel did this on purpose?
You do realize that the operational archives of the British and American navies were available for Israel's perusal, and that numerous popular histories of World War II gave detailed accounts of what did and didn't sink ships.
You argue that the Israelis were crafty enough to suborn two entire branches of the US government, but, at the same time, they were too stupid to crack open Morison's history of US Naval Operations in World War II and figure out that napalm wouldn't work?
However, I'd be interested in finding out the answer to this and all these other questions. Maybe we should condition our next aid package to Israel on 1) Israel's allowing us to examine all evidence relating to the attack on the Liberty, 2) allowing all Israelis involved in the attack to be cross-examined under oath and in public before Congress, and 3) allowing the survivors of the attack also to give testimony in public before Congress.
Sure, why not?
Do you think AIPAC would go for this?
A chance for some of "their" Senators and Congresscritters to cross-examine American sailors, to highlight every inconsistency in their testimony, and to reveal some of the unsavory organizations these sailors belong to?
AIPAC would say "Please don't throw Br'er Rabbit in the br'er patch!"
They did a pretty good job on the Altalena in 1948.
Would a country whose leader and *founding father* killed his fellow Zionist Jews and sank a ship containing desperately needed arms just to assure that he kept political leadership and control to himself also kill Americans if they thought their American sympathizers could help them get away with it? Oh yes.
