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He won’t bow to Netanyahu because Israel didn’t murder Americans
Shavua tov, a good week to everyone.
President Obumbler won’t bow to Prime Minister Netanyahu because Israel didn’t murder Americans. But on Saturday he bowed to the Emperor of Japan.
Jerusalem Carl is not at liberty to discuss this:
Draped above a bookcase in his home northeast of Seattle, Jim Ennes displays a bullet-riddled American flag.
On June 8, 1967 — 42 years ago Monday — the flag flew over his Navy spy ship, USS Liberty, as it came under assault from an unlikely antagonist — the state of Israel that unexpectedly turned its weaponry on America at the height of the Six-Day War against Egypt.
In a one-sided battle that lasted for more than an hour, Israeli fighter planes unleashed cannon shots, rockets and napalm. Then, an Israeli torpedo boat scored a direct hit that tore a 39-foot-wide hole in the hull. By the time the fighting was over, the Israeli military had killed 34 U.S. crew members and wounded more than 170.
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Israel has always maintained that the attack in international waters was an accident — a tragic case of Israeli forces mistaking a U.S. spy ship for an Egyptian ship less than half the size. The Israeli government issued an apology, paid $6.7 million to the survivors and the families of the dead, and sought to put the matter to rest.
Others — including Ennes — have maintained that the attack on a clear, sunny day off Egypt’s coast could not have been a mistake, in part because the ship was marked as an American vessel by identifying hull numbers and the U.S. flag that flew from a mast.
“There’s no way they couldn’t have seen that flag,” Ennes said. “When it got shot full of holes, we put up a new one.”
Sometimes history can be inconvenient…
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Sometimes history can be inconvenient…
That would be generally in the case of conservatives. Reality and the facts have a well known liberal bias
Damn you and your books…T-Bogg!
More inconvenient history here.
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With his boyfriend
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Forced to wear a dress to amuse his Oriental overlords
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I just love it when some likudnik who renounced his citizenship concern trolls the US on our government.
Either Matsav is full of shit or the current Emperor of Japan was an unusually gifted and bloodthirsty little tyke: Akihito was eight years old when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
What is the proper protocol to greet the Israeli PM? or any PM
What is the proper protocol to greet the Israeli PM?
Judging from recent history, you hand him a bag containing several thousand dollars in unmarked bills.
A couple months back I saw Netanyahu putting in an appearance at some John Hagee confab. I would like to know what the precedent is for a sitting Prime Minister of an important ally lending credibility to a batshit lunatic fringe religious cult inside the U.S.
Ah ah ah, another addition to Casa Biscuitbarrel’s widely feared Bad for the Jews List! Israel Matsav!
I would like to know what the precedent is for a sitting Prime Minister of an important ally lending credibility to a batshit lunatic fringe religious cult inside the U.S.
Here you go – “Any foreign leader visiting a Republican president.”
Wow, you don’t often see USS Liberty mentions, even in blogs. I thought it was completely down the memory hole.
“Sometimes history can be inconvenient”…
You gotta be proactive, like Caribou Sarah, and remake it when it comes outta the oven, also……….
Yes, well, it must be wonderful being a republican… waking up everyday, your mind wiped clear of everything that had ever happened in your life up to that point, being told how to think, what to say, and how to say it… kind of reminds me of these people…
Well, comrade?
So good to see this mentioned on a mainstream blog. Thanks to everyone who commented on Matsav’s blog.
Actually my husband said that you never bow to another head of state when you are a head of state and that Obama was a “menace” for not knowing protocol things like this. John seems good-humored about having lost his bet so I will try to mention this over there too.
So by this logic Netanyahu is not even the head of state of Israel and never asked to be bowed to as far as I know.
TBogg’s post is impeccable. Israelis did kill Americans. If it was really an accident you can finagle “murder” and more properly say “America did not choose to make an international incident out of this because Israel had enough problems, this being during the Six Day War and all”.
Nope, Michael Oren had a detailed treatment of this in his book, which came out during the last decade, and came down on the side of “accident”.
Also my husband would like all the Marines to stay on Okinawa.
All the Marines? I’m sure the ones currently deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan will be pleased to hear of their eminent transfer to a safer location. Of course this assumes that your husband’s opinion counts fer shit with the commanders who make those kinds of decisions, which I suspect it doesn’t.
I find it hard to believe the attack wasn’t an accident, because there was no reason for Israel to fire on a US ship. The US wasn’t, at that time, as important an Israel ally as France (O how times change), but allies we were. What possible benefit could Israel get out of deliberately attacking the Liberty?
Come now, TBogg. To be fair, they’ve accepted billions of dollars in foreign aid from us by way of apology.
Actually I’ve run into some Liberty
wackaloonsobsessives in the last few years, but it was on Usenet. It appears to be a favorite story among people who are fearful of Teh Evuuuulll Joooos.