Recordings Back Israel Claim on Spy Ship

[Seraphim]

I remember some of you guys had a discussion about this incident in some earlier post.

http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=world&cat=israel

[He219]

Again, Miami Judge A. Jay Cristol, as the Naval Institute Proceedings article was saying, had always dismissed the Crew's assertion that the attack was ruthless if not possibly premeditated.


http://www.usni.org/proceedings/Articles03/images03/1walsh06.jpg http://www.usni.org/proceedings/Articles03/PROwalsh06.htm?nl=061803

To me the most disturbing part is not whether the attack was premeditated, but the method of the attack itself and the consequences to the Liberty's crew thereafter.

For an event that happened in 1967 and resulting in the deaths of 34 men and 172 wounded, some of them disfigured by the effects of Napalm as the Naval Institute indicates, it took until 1980 that death and injury claims negotiated much earlier were reluctantly paid to the tune of some 6 million dollars. It's a ridiculous settlement (even in 1980's dollars) considering that this year alone US taxpayers are paying Israel some 3.6 Billion dollars in Military aid on top of 2 Billion dollars in Economic aid.

The Naval Institute reports the Crew's account that heavy automatic weapons fire was directed at stretcher bearers, fire-control teams and at the life rafts the crew were deploying. The real victims, the crew, seem to be falling on deaf ears. Is it true that the Israeli attackers are honored in a display at a museum and that they were never punished? It reminds me of Jonathan Pollard, a US Navy research specialist convicted of spying for Israeli Intelligence, responsible for the 'inadvertent' capture and murder of all American spies in the former Soviet Union over the period of a year.

Of course I realize the 'taboo' nature surrounding this subject and may be labled as 'bigoted' in even mentioning the above, but it's straight out of the Naval Institute's 'Proceedings'.

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[usa320]

sometimes i wonder rather or not we can fully trust israel or if they just say what we want to hear so they can get another delivery of F-16's. Honestly i think we really should cut down on how many planes and helicopters we give them. They have tons of Apaches, Cobras, F-15's, F-16's and F-4's, for a nation that small, and considering the fact that the surrounding nations are still using 1960/70 era migs, i really thing that the IDF has more than enough planes and helicopters from the US.