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- From: dzk@cs.brown.edu (Danny Keren)
- Subject: Re: Schmidling is simply wrong.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.233436.3529@cs.brown.edu>
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- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:34:36 GMT
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- eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu writes:
- #
- #According to Steven, the attack on the Liberty was by no means a
- #mistake.
-
- The CIA, Navy inquiry committee, defense secretary McNamara and
- others disagree.
-
- #(I know that has been hashed out on the net already, but go
- #on.) The Israelis had been intercepting radio transmissions from
- #Cairo and rebroadcasting them to Jordan in a modified form, making the
- #war news sound like Egypt was winning.
-
- An insane fairy tale which was never proved, and lies beyond the
- realm of the possible. Are you really suggesting that the famous
- phone conversation between Nasser and Hussein was altered by the
- Israelis? And all this while Egyptian radio was broadcasting day and
- night that "Tel-Aviv is burning"? Where's the logic? If any, Egypt
- would want Jordan to join in the war, to keep the pressure of it
- by opening a second front.
-
- #This was an obvious attempt to
- #lure Jordan into the war, which succeeded.
-
- No. Jordan declared, again and again, that it will join any war
- between Egypt and Israel. What makes the above even more absurd is
- that Israel warned Jordan *twice* (via UN General Bull) to stay
- out of the war, but Jordan continued shelling Jerusalem and the
- coastal region, leaving Israel no choice but to go to war with it.
-
- #The Liberty was listening
- #in on this, and the Americans found out what the Israelis were up to,
- #and told the Israelis as much. With the Israeli deception unmasked,
- #the Israelis didn't want any other secrets snooped on, and felt forced
- #to bomb the USS Liberty (after asking that it be removed, and seeing
- #that it wasn't moving).
-
- What makes this story even more illogical is the fact that the Liberty
- was attacked near the end of the war, when a cease-fire has already
- been signed with Jordan, and the war with Egypt was all but over
- (a cease-fire was signed the same evening). There was simply no
- reason for Israel to attack the ship. I have never seen any of the
- "delibarate attack" advocates come up with any motive strong enough
- to justify his theory.
-
-
- -Danny Keren.
-
-
-