Regarding the "Liberty attack incident", Chaimfan writes:
"I still see no evidence that this was authentically documented at the time.
Do you have a source for this?
Not trying to be a jerk, just eternally a skeptic.
Chaimfan'"
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Well, Forum members, it most definitely happened.
Unlike the vast majority of those here insistent that they know all of the facts about it being a hoax, never happened, couldn't have happened, etc... I can assure you it is a factual documented event because I was alive during that time and vividly remember the event.
Documented proof of the attack can be found worldwide in newspaper reporting as well as recordings of TV newscasts of that week.
At the time, the U.S. Gov't hushed up the situation and swept it under the carpet, as if it never happend, hoping to avoid having to account for it.
And THAT, my friends, is precisely the reason that the event has been allowed to simmer and draw Jew-Haters as well as nutcases to invent the reasons it took place.
The U.S. Government's behavior seemed one of extreme shame at its own conduct, embarrassment at having been attacked as an enemy combatant ship, or both and maybe a lot more.
Major lesson here: "cover-ups" always cause more problems over time than simply "facing up to facts and admitting them".
Some of the posts and replies to them here regarding this incident of the Liberty are pure and simple "knee-jerk reactions" -- Israel perfect and good..incapable of committing such an act whether an accident or not.
Yet, many JTF followers here have no aversion to denouncing Rabin's machine gun murder of a boat load of Jewish refugees sailing into Haifa bay; a heinous act done by Bolsheviks in hopes of murdering Menachem Begin and preventing any Jewish Nationalism in Eretz Yisrael.
Others have no aversions to incriminating the actions of Peres, Beilin, Clintons, Bush, etc...
So, I'm curious as to when the subject of one single event in a huge 1967 War is broached, knee-jerk reactions from every corner appear; all of them "knowing that it was a hoax", or insisting that Israel and its government were (and are?) incapable of such things, and also insisting that the U.S. was such a "friend and ally" of Israel that it also was (and is?) incapable of any treachery or betrayal towards its "friends"!
Everyone seems to have "all the answers" without ever asking any of the questions.
Nor do the responses here document their stated "facts".
As far as a "recording" which did not appear until almost 40 years after the fact, all I can say is that I listen to "recorded news stories" on NPR & elsewhere all the time, and they are not only false propaganda, but literally manufactured in high-tech recording studios, using an array of pre-recorded sound effects to simulate "being there" and also to create the proper sympathetic moods in listeners to their propaganda.
Now...does everyone here want to ban me for writing the truth?
If so, go ahead and do it.