Dump Israel

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DUMP ISRAEL
Remember the USS Liberty
(demonstration)
When: July 4th, 2008
Where: Statue of Liberty
New York City
Time: 1:00pm
A New Look At Israel's Bombing of the USS Liberty
by Eric Margolis
(reprinted in part from the 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 armoured 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 US 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 interecepts 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, 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 the US 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 boarding, but the Israelis, probably fearing intervention by the Sixth Fleet, departed.

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


Note: For the complete article along with its conclusion that the USS Liberty was attacked because its intercepts could prove that Israel had attacked Syria, not vice versa, as part of a land grab, send a SASE to RNPA Headquarters, P.O. Box 1281, Lockport, NY 14095. The next time Bush, Cheney, Giuliani or McCain start talking about Israel as an ally, Remember the USS Liberty and those in Washington who betrayed them!