USS Liberty incedent (Israel "mistakingly" pummels US flagged ship)

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reddog1

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This is one of the big reasons why I don't understand why "conservatives" are so pro-Israel. Do a little reading up on this incident--it will make you sick. Israel is widely considered our biggest spying threat, as well.

FACT: Israelies were detained on 911 and out of them, 3 were found to be part of Mossad (Israeli Intelligence)

They were "movers" on a dock dancing just after the first plane hit.
 

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I was not an adult at the time, but I have read about this over the years. There seem to be many cases where the US sailors that survived believe/know beyond any doubt that this was not a case of mistaken identify and that Israel knowingly acted to attack the Liberty. You have to believe the Sailors.
 

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"During the run up to the Six-Day War, the Americans repeatedly rebuffed Israeli requests for military aid and approval for an Israeli preemptive attack on Egypt. The United States, bogged down in Vietnam and facing domestic opposition to that war, was loathe to become embroiled in a second front. Rather than get involved militarily, the Americans aggressively pursued diplomatic solutions and sought to cobble together an international regatta to challenge the Egyptian blockade on Israeli shipping in the Straits of Tiran, a campaign that ultimately failed. But while the U.S. continued to refuse to aid Israel militarily, the American opposition to unilateral Israeli action began to soften in the beginning of June 1967."

Sound familiar?
 

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It is a miracle that ship and some of its crew survived... what a testament to the bravery and skill of those sailors. The Israelis threw everything they had at them. By rights they should all be at the bottom of the Med and only one side of that story would have ever been told.

As for whether it was deliberate or an accident, no one can truly know... but one thing I always do in these situations is consider who could benefit from it.

One thing I do know -- the Israelis are master manipulators, and this certainly wouldn't have been the first time they tried to manipulate world powers for their own interests. Hell, how many other groups of people could have gotten the UN to support them taking over a piece of land inhabited by other people, just based on the fact that their ancient ancestors lived there a couple millennia ago?! Could you imagine anyone else pulling that off?! How many other tiny middle eastern sh!tholes could get most of the inhabitants of the most powerful nation in the world to support their nation's interests over their own? It boggles the mind.
 

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I am disgusted and disappointed at the amount of anti-Semitism on this thread. I find it oddly curious that someone would bring up such an old incident at a time when Israel is on the brink of war. In these Last Days you do not want to be on the side of Israel's enemies. We are on the cusp of the fulfillment of Psalm 83 and Ezekiel 38-39. You have been warned.
 

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I am disgusted and disappointed at the amount of anti-Semitism on this thread. I find it oddly curious that someone would bring up such an old incident at a time when Israel is on the brink of war. In these Last Days you do not want to be on the side of Israel's enemies. We are on the cusp of the fulfillment of Psalm 83 and Ezekiel 38-39. You have been warned.

*Warning Noted*
Are being anti-Isreal and anti-semitc synonymous?
 
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