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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (3276)	2/4/2003 8:02:48 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) of 15987

There were reports that Israelis were executing prisoners at El Arish on June 8th (General Tal's division)... Hawk, Oren does mention the prisoner-shooting theory… Among the more far-fetched theories that have been suggested is the possibility that the Liberty was attacked because it had learned of the Israeli execution of Egyptian POWs; or that it had picked up Israeli attempts to draw Jordan into the war so that Jerusalem might be brought under Israeli control.43 But no document, American or Israeli, contains any reference to prisoner executions; neither are they mentioned in any Arabic source that has come to light to date.44 By the same token, the Jordanian attack on Israel on June 5 and the fall of Jerusalem to Israeli forces on June 7 took place well before the Liberty's arrival off the Gaza coast, and none of the documents now available in any way link the Liberty incident on June 8 to these events. shalem.org.il I am no expert on this incident, but I doubt that any Israeli leader would risk a conflict with the USA in the midst of the 6 Day War – or at any other time, for that matter, even if they did have a reason, which – to my knowledge – they never ever did.

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