When the State Department releases anything pro-Israel, you know that the documents have to be pretty reliable. In a conference on the 1967 War over the weekend, new documents were released proving yet again what everyone except die-hard anti-Semites already know – that Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty was an accident:
New documents released by the State Department relating to the period of the 1967 Six Day War include CIA memos that say Israel did not know it was striking an American vessel when it attacked the USS Liberty off the coast of the Gaza Strip on June 8, 1967, killing 34 American sailors and injuring 172. The memos say the attack was carried out “by mistake, representing gross negligence.”
Along with the release of the documents, the historian for the top-secret National Security Agency said Monday he believed available evidence “strongly suggested” Israel did not know it was bombarding an American ship.
But of course this won’t change the convictions of the die-hards:
Bamford stood by his assertion that Israel had deliberately attacked the ship and that the US and Israel had orchestrated a “big cover up.”
He read from a recent declaration by Ward Boston, who served as senior legal counsel for the Navy’s Court of Inquiry into the Liberty attack. That Court concluded there was insufficient information to make a judgment about why Israel attacked the ship.
That’s the beautiful thing about conspiracies – any evidence contradicting your theory is just proof of how dramatic and far-reaching the conspiracy actually goes.
