The Day Israel Attacked America
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2014/10/day-israel-attacked-america-20141028144946266462.html
Al Jazeera investigates the shocking truth behind a deadly Israeli attack on a US naval vessel.
Al Jazeera investigates the USS Liberty attack in ’The Day Israel Attacked America’
▻http://mondoweiss.net/2014/11/investigates-attacked-america
In addition to the Golan Heights invasion, the U.S.S Liberty Memorial website offers two additional possible motives:
It is possible that [the Israelis] were afraid Liberty might learn and report to the United States that Israeli forces were executing up to 1,000 Egyptian Prisoners of War at El Arish at the very moment that Liberty was just 13 miles off the shore.
It is also possible that USS Liberty was attacked to prevent the ship from reporting a deliberate massacre of 14 Indian United Nations peacekeepers that took place in Gaza shortly before Israel’s attack on USS Liberty.
President Lyndon Johnson believed the attack was intentional and he leaked his opinion to Newsweek. When that sourcing was then leaked, the Israelis rallied their forces. If Johnson did not change his position they would cry “blood libel” and accuse him of gross anti-Semitism. As Bobby Ray Inman, former NSA director, put it in the video, it was “blackmail” pure and simple. If Johnson decided to run for reelection he would get nowhere when the “Jewish lobby” waged the campaign that it threatened to. One legacy of the Liberty affair is that similar coercive tactics against politicians have been employed to this day to great success.