Remember the USS Liberty
Remember the USS Liberty A textbook case of Israel’s perfidy and U.S. government treason, and what it teaches us about Kennedy's assassination Laurent Guyénot The attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967 was a false flag attack by the Israeli Air Force and Navy, meant to be blamed on Egypt, in order to draw the U.S. into bombing Egypt, and possibly to start WWIII. To succeed, the operation needed the unarmed NSA ship to be sinked with no survivor. It failed: despite having been strafed, bombed and torpedoed by fighter aircrafts and destroyers for seventy-five minutes, the USS Liberty stayed afloat and, though 34 crew members were killed and 171 wounded, the evidence and the survivors’ experience made it impossible to blame the attack on Egypt. Instead, Israel apologized for the attack, pretending that the ship had been mistaken for an Egyptian warship. President Johnson accepted the excuse, and the scandal was hushed up. This is one of the most significant event in recent histor...