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GIVE US THE USS LIBERTY
by Barry Chamish
www.barrychamish.com
April 26, 2009
In my recent
review of Jeff Gates very anti-McCain book, I cited his claim that:
- John McCain's father, led the government commission of inquiry which
exonerated Israel for deliberately and with deadly purpose, almost sinking
the USS Liberty in 1967.
The issue of the Liberty has deeply poisoned the American relationship with
Israel. It is a far greater thorn than Israelis understand because, in fact,
Israel did try to kill every sailor on board The Liberty. If I needed
persuasion of that, I got it with the correspondence I began with two
officers of the Liberty, as well as my personal meetings with British
documentary maker, Peter Hounam, who made a highly
damning of Israel film of the incident, shown on the BBC.
My conclusion, and it gibed well with Hounam's,
was that Israel was creating another Lavon Affair, trying to lure the US into
the war against Egypt, as it had done by bombing American targets in Cairo
during the mid-50s. But one problem gnawed at me; The Liberty was hit on June
8, when Israel had already as good as won the Six Day War. In short, why
bother?
The standard pro-Israel line was taken by the Loftus
and Arons book, The Dirty War Against
The Jews. Within, the authors assert that the Liberty was intercepting
Israeli military messages and funneling them to the Syrians. The two Liberty
officers I had a dialog with vehemently denied the claim, and frankly, I
believed them way more than Loftus and Arons. After
all, they were there, while Loftus and Arons
collected known public sources into a book filled with no shortage of errors.
That's how things stood until information arrived on
the wave of my last article. Admiral McCain was not covering for Israel, he was protecting Pres. Lyndon Johnson, who
ordered Israel to attack the Liberty. It all began when my reader, Maria,
sent the following internet data:
www.echarcha.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24357
June 8, 1967 during the 6 day war between Israel and the Arab Nations
President Lyndon B. Johnson sends the U.S.S liberty to collect electronic
intelligence in the eastern Mediterranean. The clearly marked U.S. ship was
14 miles off the coast of Israel in international waters. Israel's aircraft
identified the ship as an American vessel and an ally. At 2:00 PM that afternoon
the U.S.S. Liberty was attacked by two unmarked Mirage 3 fighter bombers The
U.S.S. Liberty was then attacked by three Israeli torpedo boats bearing
Israeli flags. The torpedo boats opened fire with high caliber machine guns
and launched torpedos. The torpedo boats then began
strafing life-rafts in the water, an international war crime. During the
attack the U.S.S. Liberty continually called the 6th fleet which was nearby
begging for air support. Two groups of fighter aircraft were sent to defend the
Liberty but unbelievably they were recalled by the White House. The Admiral
in Command of the sixth fleet called Washington to confirm the recall order.
Secretary of Defence MacNamara
came on the line followed by the president himself who told the Admiral,
"I want that G D Ship going to the bottom" Finally after 3 hours
into the attack a Russian spy ship appeared so the Israelis withdrew because
there were witnesses allowing the Liberty to limp home to safety. Here is
what really took place. President Johnson had personal control over the ship,
made a backroom deal with Israel to attack it with an order to kill everyone
on board. Then the attack was to be blamed on Egypt and U.S. would enter the
war and take over the entire Middle East.
If Johnson made Israel do the sinking, Israel is
much of the way home to redemption. Cutting to the chase, it wasn't Israel's
idea. Israel still did the killing, and muffed the attack with an amateurish show of its military
prowess, but it wasn't the leader of the hit squad. That's far better than
being left in the lurch as the mafia's don.
So I spoke with the author and broadcaster Dr. Stan
Monteith, (
www.radioliberty.com) who has long researched the Liberty attack and
boasts a 4 CD set of interviews, including with the seamen and officers of
the ship. He was direct: "Of course Johnson gave the order. But he
received his orders from higher up."
"So the attack on The Liberty wasn't an Israeli
decision?" I asked.
"It was an American action forced on
Israel," he answered.
More research was necessary and this led
to such an obvious scenario! The Americans sink ships to start wars. The
Maine was sunk to get the Spanish American War rolling. The Lusitania and the
attacks on the shipyard at Pearl Harbor were caused by provocation and
deliberate military neglect, but they got the Americans to stumble awkwardly
and reluctantly into two world wars. But Johnson himself was an active
proponent of the sink a ship and go to war philosophy:
1964 The
Gulf of Tonkin In the summer of 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson needed a
pretext to commit the American people to the expanding covert war in south
East Asia. So the Gulf of Tonkin incident was staged claiming that Vietnamese
patrol boats had attacked a U.S. destroyer off the coast of Vietnam. This
staged incident paved the way for 58,000 American deaths and over 1.500.000
Vietnamese.
The reason to sacrifice over 200 American sailors was the American, and
actually accurate perception, that Egyptian President, Gamal
Abdul Nasser had drifted into the Soviet camp and threatened to make much of
the Middle East, Russian clients. As Johnson saw it, Nasser had to go and
fast. A pretext for war was all that was necessary. But Israel just couldn't
sink The Liberty and screwed up the best laid plans of the whole operation.
Nasser was not ideologically a
communist. And America wanted him as an ally so much that the Eisenhower
administration abandoned its allies Britain, France and Israel, who won the
Sinai War of 1956, but excluded the US from the action and the spoils. It was
over a dam that Nasser brought the Soviets to the most powerful country in
the Middle East, with much communist mischief to follow. Following the Sinai
Campaign, Nasser's grandiosity was so out of touch with reality,
that he demanded the Americans build him a huge dam at Aswan and pay
for it to boot.
American engineers went to work and
foresaw a project that would hold back the Nile's silt, little by little
collecting behind the dam, making the dam less efficient until it would serve
no purpose at all; meanwhile killing off the small fish of the Nile delta
which feed off the silt, ultimately destroying most of the fishlife of the Eastern Mediterranean. Back on land,
farmers would be forced to turn to chemical fertilizers to replace the silt,
much of the world's greatest storehouse of antiquities would be drowned, all the while Egypt had enough oil to provide electricity
of the non-hydro variety just as cheaply.
The Americans said, no. And all the dire
predictions came true. So, Nasser threw the Americans out of Egypt and
brought Russian communism in, with promises to spread the ideology. All this
happened because the Americans had betrayed their natural allies of the Suez
Campaign, and they now felt humiliated and really ticked off. Especially when Israel used French
planes to destroy the Air Forces of Egypt, Syria and Jordan.
Sinking The Liberty would get rid of
Nasser for good, and quickly create an American-led Egypt, with an obedient
quisling like Anwar Sadat, though he would rise a few years later after
Nasser was given a killing stroke at age 51. This point is not proven but
when I told Peter Hounam my suspicions, he
answered, "You know, a lot of Arabs think that."
And finally we have the reason Moshe
Dayan turned into Israel's top traitor of his day. As Chief-0f-Staff of the
IDF, Dayan HAD to have given the order for his Air Force to sink
the Liberty. Johnson may have given the actual command, the American navy did
nothing to rescue the stricken ship, but Dayan had the blood of 37 American
sailors on his hands and if he didn't play major league ball, he and Israel
would be turned into friendless lepers.
Dayan began quickly, by handing over
control of the Temple Mount, won by Israel with buckets of blood, to the
Jordanian Wakf, the consequences of which are felt
deeply to this day. Then in October 1973, as Defence
Minister, under the duress of Henry Kissinger, Dayan agreed to give Egypt and
Syria a full day to regain lost territory. The consequence of not pre-empting
the Yom Kippur War was over 2000 dead Jewish soldiers in two days. After
Pres. Carter forced PM Begin to take Dayan into his cabinet as foreign
minister in 1977, Dayan abused his position to sway Begin to accept an accord
with Egypt, that gave up every square inch of the
Sinai to Sadat. This decision led directly to Egypt today allowing
the Sinai to be a rocket funnel for Hamas.
There were endless debts to be paid, and
America offered Israel $3.2 billion in annual aid to keep its mouth shut. But
Israel bore the existential brunt of Dayan sinking close to the entire
Egyptian navy, but accidentally keeping afloat one American ship too many.
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