Remembering USS Liberty - 32 US Sailors Killed by Israeli Air Force June 8, 1967

Why would anyone mourn the death of US NSA agents?

This was an unprovoked attack. The ship was in international waters. Actually thirty-four sailors died. You might think that after all of the money and support the US has given Israel they might not attack at US ship and kill American sailors. The most disturbing thing about all of this is the cover-up by the US Government..and the Israeli government.

"This was an unprovoked attack"

Generally when Arabists bring up the "Liberty", either an arab attack on American possessions or persons is imminent, or has just happpened.
Besides, the Liberty was in an active war zone, the Israeli military had been informed that no US ships were in the region, and the spy ship was gathering information of Israeli troop movements.
At any rate, the Israelis totally destroyed 5 Arab armies in SIX DAYS! A Miracle of Biblical proportions!!
Masha'allah

Just like Rachel Corrie.

Why is the crap on Indymedia? Don't you know who runs that site? Or don't you care?

Let's see - the israeli's killed 34 US Sailors, 5 arab armies and Rachel Corrie. Why would anyone care? Apparently only racists would care.

Ah, the antisemites, rising up to worship at the shrine of the USS Liberty. It was ONE INCIDENT, yet they repeat it every week for 40 straight years.

I consider myself an antiZioist but support what happened to the USS Liberty. Any day NSA agents get blown up is a day to celebrate.

Well, we've been hearing about the Holocaust for 50+ straight years, to justify everything from land theft to genocide. Any chance you Zionists will stop whining about that? Crybabies.

"Well, we've been hearing about the Holocaust for 50+ straight years, to justify everything from land theft to genocide."

LOL!! Let's hope we hear about it for another 100 years. It has nothing to do with justfying anything. The Arabs were allied with the genociders of WWII and they're still trying to anihilate the Jews.

See:

http://www.deiryassin.org/mas.html

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Early in the morning of Friday, April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun, headed by Menachem Begin, and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. It was several weeks before the end of the British Mandate. The village lay outside of the area that the United Nations recommended be included in a future Jewish State. Deir Yassin had a peaceful reputation and was even said by a Jewish newspaper to have driven out some Arab militants. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and one plan, kept secret until years afterwards, called for it to be destroyed and the residents evacuated to make way for a small airfield that would supply the beleaguered Jewish residents of Jerusalem.

By noon over 100 people, half of them women and children, had been systematically murdered. Four commandos died at the hands of resisting Palestinians using old Mausers and muskets. Twenty-five male villagers were loaded into trucks, paraded through the Zakhron Yosef quarter in Jerusalem, and then taken to a stone quarry along the road between Givat Shaul and Deir Yassin and shot to death. The remaining residents were driven to Arab East Jerusalem.

That evening the Irgunists and the Sternists escorted a party of foreign correspondents to a house at Givat Shaul, a nearby Jewish settlement founded in 1906. Over tea and cookies they amplified the details of the operation and justified it, saying Deir Yassin had become a concentration point for Arabs, including Syrians and Iraqis, planning to attack the western suburbs of Jerusalem. They said that 25 members of the Haganah militia had reinforced the attack and claimed that an Arabic-speaking Jew had warned the villagers over a loudspeaker from an armored car. This was duly reported in The New York Times on April 10.

A final body count of 254 was reported by The New York Times on April 13, a day after they were finally buried. By then the leaders of the Haganah had distanced themselves from having participated in the attack and issued a statement denouncing the dissidents of Irgun and the Stern Gang, just as they had after the attack on the King David Hotel in July 1946. A 1987 study undertaken by Birzeit University's Center for Research and Documentation of Palestinian Society found "the numbers of those killed does not exceed 120".

The Haganah leaders admitted that the massacre "disgraced the cause of Jewish fighters and dishonored Jewish arms and the Jewish flag." They played down the fact that their militia had reinforced the terrorists' attack, even though they did not participate in the barbarism and looting during the subsequent "mopping up" operations.

They also played down the fact that, in Begin's words, "Deir Yassin was captured with the knowledge of the Haganah and with the approval of its commander" as a part of its "plan for establishing an airfield."

Ben Gurion even sent an apology to King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan. But this horrific act served the future State of Israel well. According to Begin:

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Arabs throughout the country, induced to believe wild tales of "Irgun butchery," were seized with limitless panic and started to flee for their lives. This mass flight soon developed into a maddened, uncontrollable stampede. The political and economic significance of this development can hardly be overestimated.

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Of about 144 houses, 10 were dynamited. The cemetery was later bulldozed and, like hundreds of other Palestinian villages to follow, Deir Yassin was wiped off the map. By September, Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Poland, Rumania, and Slovakia were settled there over the objections of Martin Buber, Cecil Roth and other Jewish leaders, who believed that the site of the massacre should be left uninhabited. The center of the village was renamed Givat Shaul Bet. As Jerusalem expanded, the land of Deir Yassin became part of the city and is now known simply as the area between Givat Shaul and the settlement of Har Nof on the western slopes of the mountain.

The massacre of Palestinians at Deir Yassin is one of the most significant events in 20th-century Palestinian and Israeli history. This is not because of its size or its brutality, but because it stands as the starkest early warning of a calculated depopulation of over 400 Arab villages and cities and the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian inhabitants to make room for survivors of the Holocaust and other Jews from the rest of the world.

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http://www.marxists.de/middleast/ironwall/15-shamir.htm

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Shamir’s Background

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. . . was born Yitzhak Yzernitzky, in Rozeny, in what is now Byelorussia, in 1915.

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Little is known of his Irgun career, but one incident stands out. In 1938 Yzernitzky and a 15-year-old recruit, Eliyahu Bet Zouri, tried to blow up a WZO defence fund collection booth which levied a toll on Jewish travellers leaving Tel Aviv. They planted a crude gunpowder bomb which went off prematurely, severely burning Bet Zouri’s legs and scorching the face of Israel’s future Prime Minister. [6] But this bizarre incident was a mere nothing compared to his career as a leading figure in the “Stern Gang”.

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A terrorist leader armed a child with a bomb. How interesting. Now we know where the terrorists of today learned their trade.

See also:

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/12/1711461_comment.php#1713340

et’s not forget Sharon:

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/sharon.html

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In 1953, he founded and led the "101" special commando unit which carried out retaliatory operations.

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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/special.html

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Unit 101 only existed for five months and was disbanded after a raid in which the unit's members killed dozens of unarmed enemy citizens in an infamous brutal retaliation act.

Once disbanded, Unit 101 was merged with T'zanhanim company.

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With the increase in manpower, the T'zanhanim unit became an elite infantry brigade rather the elite infantry company as it was before.

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With the much larger personnel, Arik Sharon, the former Commanding Officer (CO) of Unit 101 and then the new CO of the T'zanhanim infantry brigade, was able to launch full scale SF attacks . . .

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"Unit 101" was kinda like the Iraqi Resistance of its day against the British. The Jewish Resistance under the British had the right to fight for the same reason the Iraqi resistance has the right to fight and the same reason Palestinians have the roght to fight against the Occupation. The USS Liberty had the right to get hit for the same reason the Chinese had the right to bring down a US EP-3 Aries in 2001. Those who support freedom and oppose occupation should always stand with the weak agsinst the strong in cases where pwoerful countries try to lord over others by might of arms. Palestinians have a right to resist but the USS Liberty wasnt a scandal it was an event to be celebrated.

>"Unit 101" was kinda like the Iraqi Resistance of its day against the British.

No it wasn't. It wasn't even *founded* until five years after the Brits pulled out.


>The Jewish Resistance under the British had the right to fight

Not while the Brits were still fighting the Nazis, they didn't. It was just another act of collaboration with Hitler.

>>The Jewish Resistance under the British had the right to fight
>Not while the Brits were still fighting the Nazis, they didn't. It was just another act of collaboration with Hitler.

So your saying that the colonies of Britian had no right to fight for self determination while Britain was fight a war in Europe? Many Palestinian groups also fight against the British during WWII with purely local aims (despite the fact that the alliance is always used by Zionists to dmeonize Palestinians).
To place a limit on resistance because a major power is engaged in a fight agianst evil would be like falling into the Republican trap of demonizing all groups fighting the US because Bin Laden is evil.

To wage war against the enemies of Nazism is to collaborate with Nazis. Begin turned the Irgun into a de facto unit of Hitler's "foreign legion," the SS Freiwilligenverbände.

What an obscenity, Jews fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Skanderbeg Division, the Britisches Freikorps, the Finnisches Freiwilligen Bataillon, SS Division Charlemagne, Vlasov's Army, and the Organizatsiia Ukrainskikh Natsionalistov.

After the war, Begin and his crew should have hung at Nuremberg. Instead, he want on to found Israel. To find out what happened to the rest of the SS Freiwilligenverbände after the war, read *Blowback* by Christopher Simpson, and study up on WACL, the Ratline and the so-called "Captive Nations" movement.

The US has supported Israel financially and politically since its beginning. Sometimes it seems like the US Government is run more for the interest of Israel than for the interest of the American people. 34 young sailors died onboard the USS Liberty which was in international waters. This massacre was done by our so called ally Israel. You know ...I'm disgusted. American sailors on board that ship did nothing to provoke their deaths. Most of them were probably drafted during the Vietnam war period. Like the incidents at Abu Grade Prison, lower level american troops pay the price for the decisions of higher ups in the CIA or NIA. But the USS Liberty should not have been attacked by an ally and this incident has much more serious implications regarding the nature of relations between the US and Israel.

"But the USS Liberty should not have been attacked by an ally and this incident has much more serious implications regarding the nature of relations between the US and Israel."

It's funny watching "liberals" defend the NSA! Anti-semitism trumps everything I guess...The NSA shouldn't have been spying on an ally during a shooting war.
The US didn't support Israel until after the Six Day War.
Beirut
UssCole
USS Stark
Us Embassies in Africa
9/11