The Attack on the Liberty
The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship
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Publisher Description
The definitive account of the infamous 1967 attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli forces and the continuing controversy over what really happened.
• Notorious incident: In 1967, Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats attacked the spy ship uSS Liberty in international waters during the Six-Day War. Thirty-four sailors were killed and more than 170 wounded, many critically injured. Israel claimed mistaken identity, which a U.S. naval court of inquiry confirmed, but that explanation is contradicted by the facts of the case.
• Based on new revelations: James Scott has interviewed Liberty survivors, senior u.S. political and intelligence officials, and examined newly declassified documents in Israel and the united States to write this comprehensive, dramatic account. He reveals that officers in Israel’s chain of command were aware of the Liberty’s identity and shows how events in Vietnam prompted the American government to deemphasize the attack despite widespread disbelief of Israel’s story.
• Journalist and son of an attack survivor: Scott’s father, John, was an officer and engineer aboard the Liberty who was awarded the Silver Star for helping to save the ship from sinking.
Customer Reviews
The truth emerges at long last
Excellent book, contrasting the U.S. government and Pentagon’s philosophy of the telling “the truth, the semi-whole truth, and nothing but that truth which is self-serving to personal, career-longevity, and corporate interests.
We should withhold any and all support of Israel until they tell us all the facts of who, what, and why… which they will never do. If that’s their choice, we should permanently withhold formal, informal, and behind-the-scenes support of Israel.
Israel screams with every attack against it, with any citizen wounded or killed, demanding justice. Why can’t we expect the same for the sake of those murdered by Israel and the IDF?
The lives lost, and those permanently diminished — no matter what the wounds suffered by the Liberty crew — demand and deserve the whole truth of the deliberate and malicious attack. Until that time, we should allow Israel to exist without a single penny of support.