Daniel Wahlqvist

Once USS Liberty-deniers are backed into a corner and can no longer dispute the events that took place that day, they always fall back on saying, “What was the motive?” Don’t fall for that. The surviving crew members have told a consistent story that shows the Israelis (and LBJ admin) lied, and that there is no plausible way the Israelis were unaware of the identity of the ship. By standards of evidence we accept for any other event, the intentionality of the attack is not likely, it’s proven. So don’t let them weasel out of their corner by making you speculate about parts of the story you can’t prove. What was the motive? I don’t know. I know that 19 years earlier, Zionist terrorists are alleged to have bombed synagogues and Jewish community centers in Baghdad to speed the emigration of Iraqi Jews to Israel. The British embassy and the Iraqi Jewish community believed that, and even the Zionists convicted for it have admitted that their group carried out the attacks (though for a different motive). I know that just 13 years before the Liberty attack, Israeli agents bombed British and American theaters and community centers in Egypt in order to blame it on the Egyptians. Both of those incidents are mainstream history now, and the false flag motive is no longer even disputed by Zionists. I know (from Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman and his on-the-record official sources, that a decade after the Liberty attack, Ariel Sharon, as Minister of Defense, carried out a campaign of covert car bombings, killing hundreds, in Southern Lebanon with the explicit intent of Palestinians, Shi’ites, and Christians blaming each other and sparking a civil war. So I don’t know why the Israelis attacked the Liberty, but the very people in charge of the Israeli government at the time had a now-proven track record of attacking “friendly” targets to blame it on their enemies.