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Before we begin, here’s what the US investigation of the USS Liberty – having concluded that Israel’s attack on the US spy ship was an accient – said about anyone who would ignore the overwhelming evidence that they compiled:

Here is no truth in these conspiracy theories against Israel. [But] those who hate Israel, who hate Jews, and those who believe in conspiracy, will not be convinced by anything.

And now here’s what Australia’s The Age recently allowed to muddy their opinion page:

If Israel did deliberately attack the most powerful nation on Earth, it knows it can do so and get away with murder” and “We now know it is from this period that Israel cheerfully began building its own atomic bomb. We know Israel will push over the edge whenever it suits, because recent history shows that it can get away with such actions.

We love the phrase “If blank did…” It allows you to get away with making the most baseless insinuations and then jumping to wild conclusions. “If The Age is run by a bunch of viciously anti-Semitic Martians hell-bent on enslaving humanity, we have to make the hard decisions and nuke them immediately”. Jagoffs.

Anyway, the slow infiltration of the Anglosphere – the birthplace and home of circumspection as a cultural value – is actually becoming a little troubling. We expect vicious demogaugoury from certain European circles – not a few authors have noted that anti-Semitism is almost palpably in the air on the Continent. It occassionally condences into wild swings of public opinion, but what’s happening here is a little different. In Britain and Australia it’s much harder to get public opinion moving – but it’s also harder to alter its course once it picks up a certain inertia (h/t: MR reader Lana)

References:
* Return Of The USS Liberty [Honest Reporting]
* Six Days Of War 40 Years Of Secrecy

Previously:
* 4 Out Of 5 American Jews Agree – Self-Destruction Really Does Taste Better
* Telegraph Publishes Demonstrably False, Vicious Anti-Israel Libel As Fact – USS Liberty Edition
* Dead Horse Story of the Day: USS Liberty Bombing An Accident