Replay: Stew Peters Sits Down With SURVIVORS Of Israeli ATTACK On USS Liberty
The Stew Peters Show
Stew Peters
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🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On June 6, 1967, Israeli Air Force fighters attacked Egyptian air bases destroying 80% of their air assets. |
| 0:09.0 | By June 7th, the Air Forces of Jordan and Syria were also destroyed mostly on the ground, but the war was being monitored. |
| 0:17.0 | The United States and other nations had a vested interest in what was transpiring in the Middle East, |
| 0:23.6 | and gathering intelligence was critical for both political and strategic military planning. |
| 0:28.6 | What was the USS Liberty? |
| 0:31.6 | Why was it in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea during the Six-Day War? |
| 0:38.3 | Why did Israeli-era naval forces attack an American ship? |
| 0:43.3 | Why was so much effort put into the cover-up after the event? |
| 0:48.3 | USS Liberty was a floating CIA intelligence gathering platform monitoring all transmissions from all sources |
| 0:54.3 | involved in the 1967 Six-Day War. Israeli progress was followed as well as the |
| 1:00.8 | Arab Coalition of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, known as the United Arab Republic. |
| 1:08.7 | As a result, Israel secured Sinai, all of Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. |
| 1:13.6 | But Israeli intelligence had reported to Chief of Israeli Naval Operations, Admiral Issy Rahar, |
| 1:20.6 | that a ship had fired upon Alarich in Sinai. |
| 1:24.6 | This was proven to be a ruse. The only ship in that area was the USS Liberty, which flew the U.S. flag and was in international waters. |
| 1:35.3 | In what was described by both President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Israeli government, as a case of mistaken identity, |
| 1:43.3 | Israeli air and naval assets attacked |
| 1:46.7 | the USS Liberty on June 8, killing 34 Americans and wounding 172 of the 294-man crew. |
| 1:55.0 | Kisleff told his pilots that, quote, if they could confirm that it was a military ship, |
| 2:00.6 | they could hit it, end quote. |
| 2:02.5 | The naval contingent was also on the alert. |
| 2:06.0 | Beniquette wanted to have positive identification of the ship that may have been involved. |
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