Jewish Virtual Library Perpetuates Myth About USS Liberty Attack

Jewish Virtual Library Perpetuates Myth About USS Liberty Attack
by Joe Meadors

Myth Synonyms: delusion, error, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, hallucination, illusion, misbelief, misconception, old wives’ tale, untruth.

Fact Synonyms: actuality, case, materiality, reality.

USS Liberty Entry in Myths & Facts Copyright © American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) Inc., 2017 Used Under Provisions of fair use principles in U.S. copyright laws.

USS Liberty Entry in Myths & Facts Copyright © American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) Inc., 2017 Used Under Provisions of fair use principles in U.S. copyright laws.

 

The Jewish Virtual Library publishes Myths and Facts A Guide to the Arab-Israel Conflict describing it as “The most comprehensive and informative book explaining the intracacies [sic] of the Arab-Israeli Conflict throughout history.”

Dr. Mitchell G. Bard, Founder and Executive Director of The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise who wrote the screed goes to extensive lengths to try to prove that the attack on the USS Liberty was not the premeditated, deliberate and illegal attack that we know it was.

All to no avail.

He has an entire page of “investigations” of the “incident” but nowhere does he tell you that none of the reports was prepared following an investigation of the attack.

Why does he omit such a relevant fact?

Simple.  He wants you to believe the US government has investigated the attack.

It has not.

Do what Dr. Bard is afraid to do himself and hopes you don’t.

Prove it from an official US government source – the Congressional Research Service.

Requests to the Congressional Research Service must be initiated by a Member of Congress so you’ll have to go through your Congressional Delegation to contact them.

We’ve taken the effort out of the process and automated it for you.  All you have to do is to CLICK HERE and send the email we’ve prepared.

Then share this post with anyone you feel may be interested in helping us in our effort to ensure the truth about the USS Liberty attack is finally known to the American people.

The ADL’s Connecticut Office Lies About the USS Liberty Attack

The ADL’s Connecticut Office Lies About the USS Liberty Attack

by Joe Meadors, USS Liberty Survivor

Andy Friedland

Andy Friedland, Assistant Director at the Anti-Defamation in the League’s Connecticut Office, has lied about the US government’s conduct following the attack on the USS Liberty.

In a February 27th letter to the editor of the Post-Chronicle, Mr Friedland writes that “Several government investigations have concluded that the attack [on the USS Liberty] was carried out in error.”

Given that it is almost 51 years since the attack it is hard to believe that Mr. Friedland’s effort is nothing more than an effort to perpetuate the myth created by Jay Cristol that claims the US government has conducted many investigations of the attack on our ship.

In my letter to the editor response to Mr. Friedland which at this writing has not been published I write:

Andy Friedland’s reference to the USS Liberty attack in his letter of February 27th leaves the reader with the impression that the US government has conducted a number of investigations of the attack on our ship.

It has not.

House and Senate historians cannot find any reference to a Congressional investigation of the attack on our ship.

Neither can the Congressional Research Service.

Had the attack already been investigated, we wouldn’t still be trying to convince the US government that an attack on a US Navy ship that includes the use of unmarked aircraft, the jamming of our radios on both US Navy tactical and international maritime distress frequencies and the deliberate machine gunning of our life rafts in the water warrants Congressional scrutiny.

We hope that the Post-Chronicle will assign an investigative reporter to independently verify the facts we have presented by contacting official US government sources.

While I doubt Mr. Friendland will be moved to conduct the research I am asking the Post-Chronicle to do, I hope the Post-Chronicle will deem the claims made by USS Liberty survivors credible enough to do as we ask and research the claim by contacting official US government sources.

You can help us by politely encouraging the Post-Chronicle through their email address at [email protected].

It’s Official! No Congressional Investigation of USS Liberty Attack!

It’s Official! No Congressional Investigation of USS Liberty Attack!

by Joe Meadors

Let’s face it.

Without the publication of Jay Cristol’s apologia “The Liberty Incident,” the fact that the attack on the USS Liberty has never been investigated by the US government would be known only to relatively few.

Along came Jay Cristol and his myth that “After ten official US investigations (including five congressional investigations), there was never any evidence that the attack was made with knowledge that the target was a US ship.”

To prove his point, Cristol even lists those documents that he claims are investigations of the attack on our ship.

Eager to prove we are simply a bunch of Israel-hating anti-Semites, who were only interested in evidence that proves our claim that there never has been an investigation of the attack, the Cristolmyth took on a life of its own. 

It has been repeated by the Jewish Virtual Library and by anonymous authors of a Wikipedia article to mention a few. 

It has also made its way into boilerplate used by Members of Congress when responding to queries from their constituency.

All for naught, I’m afraid.

In a response to a request I made to the Center for Legislative Archives of the National Archives, we learned:

“I have been unable to identify any files in the records of House and Senate committees related to an investigation of the 1967 USS Liberty incident.  As far as I can tell, the investigation held by the Naval Board of Inquiry seems to be the primary government investigation into the incident.“

As a matter of routine, and directly opposite the tactics of Israel-Firsters, we never ask people to take what we say without question.

Contact the US government sources yourselves.

Contact the Historians of both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.  Ask them to provide you with a copy of the Congressional investigation of the attack on the USS Liberty.

They will not be able to.

Contact your Congressional Delegation and ask them to send you a copy of the Congressional investigation of the attack on the USS Liberty.

They will not be able to.

Contact your Congressional Delegation and ask them to have the Congressional Research Service send you a copy of the US government investigation of the attack on the USS Liberty.

The Congressional Research Service will not be able to.

The email address of the Legislative Archives is [email protected].

Write to them — if you dare.

USS Liberty: More Congressional B***S***

USS Liberty: More Congressional BS

The response I received from Senator John Cornyn is so outrageous that it deserves far more than the meek and mild “BS,” it warrants a more emphatic, spelled out description of what it is: BS.

by Joe Meadors

For decades USS Liberty survivors have been waiting for Congress to tell us they are beginning an investigation of the attack on our ship. Not an unexpected event given the fact that Congress has investigated every attack on a US Navy ship since the end of World War II.

You can understand our surprise when in the late 1990’s we learned from our Congressional Delegations that “there have been ten official US investigations (including five congressional investigations)” of the attack.

Actually, more confusion than surprise.

You see, despite so many investigations of the attack, not a single USS Liberty survivor was questioned. Well, that’s not entirely true. There was a US Navy Court of Inquiry that was conducted. A few USS Liberty survivors were interviewed by that Court. But we know that some testimony has been removed from the record of the Court.

The removed testimony that we know about is Lloyd Painter’s.

He testified about his witnessing the attacking torpedo boats deliberately machine gun the life rafts we had dropped over the side in anticipation of abandoning ship.

Why the Court picked his testimony to remove from the record is anyone’s guess. Perhaps they didn’t want to embarrass our “best friend and only ally in the Middle East.”  

Maybe that’s the reason the US Navy removed the written statements submitted to the Court at its request by 65 USS Liberty crewmen. Maybe something they wrote in those sworn statements would embarrass the people who attacked us.

Clearly that was paramount in their minds. Just like it was during the investigations of the attacks on the USS Pueblo, USS Stark and USS Cole as well as the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut. <Sarcastic mode off> 

Where does Senator John Cornyn enter the picture?

We all know that Congress has never investigated the attack on our ship. Despite this, Members of Congress routinely reply to constituent’s inquiries by insisting the US government (and Congress) has conducted numerous investigations of the attack. John Cornyn is no different. He lies about the USS Liberty investigation right along with the best of them.

I thought the best way to educate Members of Congress that there has been no Congressional investigation is to ask them to provide me with a copy of it. And not only me, but everyone who is sick and tired about Congress lying about the attack on our ship.

So, I created an easy way to email your Congressional Delegation to ask for a copy of their investigation and I encourage everyone to do so. Just click here to send an email to your Congressional Delegation asking for a copy of the Congressional investigation of the attack on the USS Liberty.

I sent a request to my Texas delegation. John Cornyn responded by claiming: 

“I have received your recent letter and regret the problem you describe does not appear to be one over which I have jurisdiction as a United States Senator. Consequently, I am unable to afford you the assistance you requested.”

So a United States Senator, second in the Senate only to Senator Mitch McConnell, cannot send me a copy of the Congressional investigation of the attack on our ship nor can he contact the Congressional Research Service and have them send me a copy of any US government investigation of the attack because it is not in his jurisdiction!?

If you are as outraged at this turn of events as we are, please email your Congressional Delegation with a request that they send you a copy of the Congressional investigation of the attack on our ship. When they respond, please send a copy of their response to us at [email protected].

Selected USS Liberty Documents

Selected Information About the June 8, 1967 Attack on the USS Liberty

Last Updated June 22, 2019

USS Liberty Veterans Association Official Website http://bit.ly/15YkDl6

Email your Congressional Delegation and have them request the Congressional Research Service send you a copy of the US government investigation of the June 8, 1967, Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty.

Email your Congressional Delegation and have them send you a copy of the Congressional investigation of the June 8, 1967, Israeli attack on the USS Liberty.

Email the Historians of both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate and ask them to send you a copy of the Congressional investigation of the June 8, 1967, Israeli attack on the USS Liberty.

Donate to the USS Liberty Veterans Association http://bit.ly/2KIt4gi

USS Liberty Document Center http://bit.ly/1TQDxk1

Al Jazeera Documentary “The Day Israel Attacked America” http://bit.ly/1E57ySG

Capt. William McGonagle (Commanding Officer of USS Liberty) [attack was] “not a case of mistaken identity” http://bit.ly/1GFTMYd

Oral History of USS Liberty Survivor Dale Larkins http://bit.ly/1K0rMRY (Dale manned Mount 51 and brought the torpedo boats under fire, fired a single shot at the torpedo boats when the gun jammed)

US Navy Court of Inquiry Report http://bit.ly/1I6dEJP

ADM John McCain Limited Endorsement of US Navy COI Report http://bit.ly/2kxgvIi

July 27, 2005 Letter of RADM Merlin Staring to the Secretary of the Navy excoriating the US Navy Court of Inquiry Report. Staring was the Legal Advisor to CINCUSNAVEUR ADM John McCain who was the Convening Authority for the US Navy Court of Inquiry into the attack on the USS Liberty http://bit.ly/2WWihzJ

USS Liberty Veterans War Crimes Report http://bit.ly/7Rvr4

Exhibits to the War Crimes Report http://bit.ly/L3n9L

Declaration of Capt. Ward Boston – Court of Inquiry Legal Advisor http://bit.ly/RLZM8

Account of Capt. Joe Tully (CO of USS Saratoga) http://bit.ly/13usYrL

Memoranda from RADM Merlin Staring (CINCUSNAVEUR Legal Advisor) http://bit.ly/12N4ICV

Department of Defense Law of War Program http://bit.ly/1QawErT

Affidavit of Lloyd Painter http://bit.ly/13unpcQ

Affidavit of Dave Lewis http://bit.ly/13uhW5N

Statement of Glenn Oliphant http://bit.ly/13ulxRn

Army War College Report http://bit.ly/1Qaxbdg

Declaration of Steve Forslund http://bit.ly/13uDVcB

Declaration of Ron Gotcher http://bit.ly/13uE5Rw

VFW Resolution 431 http://bit.ly/1DLcI5W

JAG Manual http://bit.ly/1GPNE2b

Faked Gun site Photo Included in Jay Cristol Dissertation http://bit.ly/13ujcG3

IDF Statement on Photos Provided to Jay Cristol http://bit.ly/1PeOojw

JAGC Statement on Handling of War Crimes Report http://bit.ly/1zEguDb

David Walsh Article in Proceedings, June 2003 http://bit.ly/1zEgCTh

13 Investigation Myth http://bit.ly/13usC4b

Walter Jacobsen Article in Winter, 1986 issue of Naval Law Review http://bit.ly/jdjgSD

Draft State Resolution http://bit.ly/1GQXmnI

Draft Congressional Statement for June 8 Memorial Service http://bit.ly/1GPOFHJ

Uniform Code of Military Justice http://bit.ly/2F6FKrQ

Naming of LCS-2 (USS Liberty Name Considered) http://bit.ly/17zkJB7

Review of “The Liberty Incident Revealed” by A. Jay Cristol http://bit.ly/1dGtZIA

New revelations in attack on American Spy Ship by John Crewdson-Chicago Tribune Article October 2, 2007 http://bit.ly/1cifslS

‘But Sir, It’s an American Ship.’ ‘Never Mind, Hit Her!’ When Israel Attacked USS Liberty – Ha’aretz July 11, 2017 http://bit.ly/2Mnj3V5

“Attack on a Sigint Collector – USS Liberty http://bit.ly/2Xpsshi

US State Department Legal Advisor Carl F. Salans September 21, 1967 Memo Refuting the Israeli Claim That They Mistook Us for the Egyptian Tramp Steamer “el Quseirhttp://bit.ly/2XhhPQY

US State Department Legal Advisor Carl F. Salans September 21, 1967 Memo Retyped for Clarity http://bit.ly/2XhR8vm