COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE ON INVESTMENTWATCH
“Did you know that On
June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, a U.S. Navy intelligence ship, was attacked in
international waters? The attack killed 34 U.S. servicemen and wounded at least
173. And we still give billions per year to the aggressor”
There is no question of Israel’s responsibility in attacking
the USS Liberty, of course, but I've often wondered whether there was some kind
of complicity by Lyndon Johnson.
He was a very dark and devious man. Played dirty politics
his entire career, including his very first election in Texas which he won by
vote fraud. And he sure wasn't reluctant to see people killed, launching, as he
did, the mindless Vietnam War in which an estimated 3 million Vietnamese were
killed eventually, a true holocaust.
I've never understood the way he just shut everything down
right after the attack - called off emergency responders and made no big
diplomatic storm over the event and made no great effort to make Israel pay for
what it had done, pay in any way.
It was the chance of a lifetime to put Israel in its proper
place, a small nation with defined borders. Instead, his response allowed
Israel to grow into a Frankenstein monster. His is great burden of guilt for
Israel’s next fifty years of brutal abuse.
It doesn't make sense, especially considering his volatile
temperament. I think his reasons have never been examined, but I know there
were reasons. He had a motive, if nothing other than a huge secret effort to
buy him off by the Israel Lobby.
It has been speculated that Israel’s knowledge of Johnson’s
complicity in President Kennedy’s assassination was used to shut him up. This
is distinctly possible, however, while we know the Warren Commission’s version
of the assassination was a complete fantasy, we do not know just what really
happened. Johnson was from the beginning a highly plausible suspect, but we do
not have the necessary proof.
Israel's motive for the attack is quite clear. They wanted
to turn their armor in the south to head north, something they had been advised
against.
So, they shut down the American intelligence ship. This, of
course, also shut down reporting of Israel's atrocities in Sinai, which the
ship's gear would have picked up.
Israel was in such a mad rush to turn the armor around, the
army just machine-gunned all the Egyptian prisoners of war they had in Sinai.
Hundreds of them.
But for Israel, this was from the beginning a war of
conquest. It was carefully planned, and Israel knew it could win against the disorganized
Arab states that it had deliberately provoked a number of times leading up to
the actual conflict.
Of course, fifty years later, we all still live with the
hideous results, seeing millions live with absolutely no rights, no
citizenship, no votes, constant abuse, and even the degrading insult of having
additional homes and farms stolen periodically.
Moshe Dayan, the victorious general of the Six Day War, made
numerous statements to the effect of Israel's having to make the Palestinians
feel miserable enough, they would leave.
Well, Israel certainly has done its part in making millions
miserable, but they greatly underrated the courage and stamina of the
Palestinians, who are not leaving.
Here are some details of the event: http://www.rense.com/general39/pilot.htm
