Ali Ataie – USS Liberty When Israel attacked an American Ship in 1967 on the High Seas
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In the midst of the war on June
8, 1967,
Israel attacked the USS Liberty, an unarmed American
naval ship in international waters flying the American
flag.
It was a coordinated attack from the air
and sea. The Liberty was identified by Israeli
pilots as being American. There is no doubt
about this. This was not mistaken identity. There
are recordings.
Despite clearly identifying the ship as American by
reading out the ship's whole number and seeing
the American flag, Israeli pilots fired at the
ship from above from above,
and Israeli missile boats fired torpedoes from below.
34 American sailors were killed, another 174 injured.
The American government tried to cover this up.
They tried to hide this event from the
press and the American public. Why their greatest
ally in the Middle East intentionally
and callously attacked them? The most likely reason
is that the USS Liberty
was a spy ship.
And as a spy ship, it was listening
in on Israel's war plans.
Israel didn't like that, so they tried to
massacre everyone on the ship.