On June 8, 1967, US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty
was suddenly and brutally attacked on the high seas in international
waters by the air and naval forces of Israel. The Israeli forces
attacked with full knowledge that this was an American ship and lied
about it.
Survivors have been forbidden for 40 years to tell their
story under oath to the American public. The USS Liberty Memorial web site tells their story and is dedicated to the memory of the 34 brave men who died.
The Attack
After surveilling USS Liberty for more than nine
hours with almost hourly aircraft overflights and radar tracking, the
air and naval forces of Israel attacked our ship in international waters
without warning. USS Liberty was identified as a US naval
ship by Israeli reconnaissance aircraft nine hours before the attack and
continuously tracked by Israeli radar and aircraft thereafter. Sailing
in international waters at less than five knots, with no offensive
armament, our ship was not a military threat to anyone.
The Israeli forces attacked without warning and without attempting to
contact us. Thirty four Americans were killed in the attack and another
174 were wounded.
The ship, a $40-million dollar state-of-the-art signals intelligence
platform, was later declared unsalvageable and sold for scrap.
The Cover Up
Despite a near-universal consensus that the Israeli attack was made with full knowledge that USS
Liberty
was a US Navy ship, the Johnson administration began an immediate
cover-up of this fact. Though administration officers continued
individually to characterize the attack as deliberate, the Johnson
administration never sought the prosecution of the guilty parties or
otherwise attempted to seek justice for the victims. They concealed and
altered evidence in their effort to downplay the attack. Though they
never formally accepted the Israeli explanation that it was an accident,
they never pressed for a full investigation either. They simply allowed
those responsible literally to get away with murder.
In an ongoing effort to reveal the truth about the attack, the USS L
iberty Veterans Association
has filed with the Secretary of the Army in the manner prescribed by
law a detailed, fully documented Report of War Crimes describing the
circumstances of the attack on our ship and evidence that it was a crime
under international law. In accordance with international law and
treaties, the United States is obligated to investigate the allegations.
So far, the United States has declined even to acknowledge that the
report has been filed. The full text of the report can be found at
http://www.gtr5.com/evidence/warcrimes.pdf
Anti-Semitism and the Anti-American Apologists
The USS Liberty Memorial web site abhors the racist
and extreme positions taken by antiSemitic, Holocaust denial,
conspiracy theorist and other such groups which often seek to identify
with us and to usurp our story as their own. We have no connection
with and do not support or encourage support from any of these groups
including National Alliance, National Vanguard, The New Order, National
Socialists, The French Connection, Liberty Lobby, American Free Press, Republic Broadcasting, USS Liberty Radio Hour, Storm Front
or other such groups. We wish harm to no one and encourage social
justice and equality for everyone; we seek only accountability for the
criminal acts perpetrated against us and can do that without help from
hate-mongers.
On the Israeli side, the group of pro-Israel, anti-American
critics of our story, while small, persists in launching loud, vicious
ad hominem attacks on anyone who attempts to discuss the deliberateness
of the attack. These anti-American apologists refuse to discuss the
facts of the case. Instead, they rely on propaganda and charge anyone who questions the Israeli position with being antiSemitic.
For detailed and authoritative accounts of the power and influence of the pro-Israel lobby, please see The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by Mearsheimer and Walt and The Pro-Israel Lobby by Edward Herman.
The Betrayal of American Veterans
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Americans who volunteer for military service effectively
write a blank check, payable to the United States of America for an
amount "up to and including my life." The United States, in turn,
promises to spend these checks responsibly. That bargain implicitly
includes a promise by the United States to protect them and to seek
retribution against anyone who harms them. In the case of USS Liberty, the United States has failed to keep its end of the bargain.
http://www.gtr5.com/
F.A.Q.
The following are some of the more frequently asked questions about the Israeli attack on USS Liberty, together with answers.
http://www.gtr5.com/faq-home.htm
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| A supporter dons a USS Liberty memorial shirt as surviving crew members
place roses on the ship’s memorial at Arlington National Cemetery,
Section 34 on June 8, 2022. (Military.com photo by Drew F.Lawrence) |
" "Heroism was the order of the day, and every man who could help, stepped up to help," said Bowen.
The attack, which left 34 Americans dead and 174 others injured --
two-thirds of the crew in total, according to a press release organized
by the Liberty Veterans Association -- has been veiled in controversy
since it happened, with survivors, and even some former senior intelligence officials, pointing to a deliberate bombardment by Israel and a subsequent U.S. dismissal of the event to pardon its ally. "
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/06/08/were-fed-it-survivors-of-uss-liberty-look-answers-55-years-later.html
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