I finally got around to watching the special on the USS Liberty that ran on The History Channel last month.
I’d heard the story about the USS Liberty before. It was an American ship that got attacked by Israel during the Six-Day War. I had assumed that Israel would have come to its senses by now and admitted they bombed us.
I assumed wrong. The sight of Israel’s embassy spokesman insisting to this day that Israel had mistaken the Liberty for a combatant ship sent me into a seething rage.
Israel knew damn well what it was doing. It was attacking an unarmed ship in international waters. For all the blather about Israel and America being allies, Israel plays the U.S. like a fiddle. Israel gets what it wants from us and then thumbs its nose at us.
Israel will get no sympathy from me until sees fit to right this treacherous wrong.