This claim arose from media reports of material included in “Ruach Shaked” [The Spirit of Shaked], a documentary film by Israeli journalist Ron Edelist aired on Israel Channel One television last week. 

Military sources are still attempting to deny that they executed captured Egyptian personnel after the brief war in the Sinai during 1967.  Their denial is in the face of unmarked mass graves the Egyptians have found in the desert.  The alleged atrocity has surfaced again recently in a documentary film on Israeli TV which implies 250 Egyptian soldiers could have been executed in 1967 (though stopping short of claiming it outright.)

This is not the first time horrors in the Sinai have been alleged.  According to a recent March 5th Reuters story, Israeli military historian Arieh Yitzhaki said more than a decade ago that his research showed Israeli troops killed 300 Egyptian prisoners of war in 1967.

The standard Israeli denial whenever caught red handed is:  “They were armed combatants” or “they were Palestinians” (who always deserve it) or “they were trying to escape” or “someone else did it” or “both sides make mistakes.”

         Israel is also ducking current charges that it used cluster bombs on civilians in Lebanon, which can hardly be denied because the unexploded bombs are still going off around civilian homes, and have already killed over 20 civilians since the “war” ended.  How careless of these Lebanese children!

         The 1967 genocide charges against Israel in the Sinai become more revealing if we recall that its navy and air force were at almost the same moment destroying a neutral lightly armed US reconnaissance ship.  Ship’s officers speculated they were attacked because the ship was in position to observe what Israel was doing in the Egyptian Sinai. 

Israel later claimed the attack on the USS Liberty was an “accident”, an unsustainable lie but for the cooperation of the Johnson Administration that ordered the attack covered up.  Admiral John McCain Sr. helped carry out the muffling of the USS Liberty incident.  The elder McCain is the father of the present candidate for President. 

The inquiry committee intimidated and terrified most survivors of the attack into a long silence, which lasted almost 30 years until an erosion of fear loosed frozen tongues and pens.  Some reported they did not even tell their wives about it, and some died without telling the truth. Most of the survivors eventually came clean, including Captain W. L. McGonagle.  Did the Liberty incident really happen?…asked the most partisan Jewish source in the world, the Anti-Defamation League, which tells us:

           “On June 8, 1967, during the Six Day War, Israeli war planes and torpedo boats attacked the USS Liberty, an intelligence gathering ship, while it was on a surveillance mission off the shores of El Arish, in the Sinai Peninsula.  34 Americans died and 171 were injured.  Israel claimed it mistook the USS Liberty for an enemy vessel.  Several Israeli and U.S. investigations corroborated that claim.”(1)

 

Does anyone onboard Liberty that day believe the attack was an accident?  In 2003, a CNN story based on released USS Liberty tapes clearly revealed that the Israeli attackers knew it was an American ship, but were told by their command to pretend it was an Egyptian supply ship while they spent two hours trying to sink it. (2)

Fortunately, the captain of the USS Liberty and most crew members eventually went public with the brutal details of the attack.  They have no doubt that Israel intended to kill every American on board and bury them at sea in the hull of the USS Liberty. (3)

So this writer must ask, if Israelis would deliberately kill 34 Americans and try to kill 300 more, why would one believe them when they said they did not murder the 250 captured Egyptians at the same time? 

 

Endnotes:

 

1) http://www.adl.org/Israel/uss.asp

2) http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/07/09/uss.liberty.tapes/

3) USS Liberty incident:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident#The_attack_on_the_Liberty

 

 

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