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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran

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To: rrufff who wrote (1543)6/7/2004 12:17:36 PM
From: Thomas M.  Read Replies (1) of 22250
 
USS Liberty

A. Jay Cristol alleges that there were "thirteen investigations, all of which exonorated Israel." This allegation is completely false.

"Thirteen." Putting aside all other issues, there were not "thirteen" investigations (or whatever you wish to call them). Two of the "thirteen" were complete fabrications - they never happened.

"Investigations." Of the remaining eleven documents referenced by Cristol, at best, three could be argued to have been investigations. The other eight were nothing more than compilations of existing reports. Of those three, two (the Yerushalmi Report and the Ram Ron Report) were Israeli investigations to determine whether the Israeli Chief Military Prosecutor's indictments of a number of Israeli military personnel for criminal negligence should be upheld. The third (the Joint Chiefs of Staff Report) was an investigation, but it only inquired into the facts of the message routing system and did not undertake any "investigation" of the attack.

"Exonorated Israel." Not surprisingly, the two Israeli reports (or if you prefer "investigations") not only exonorated Israel, but affirmatively found that no Israeli military personnel did even the slightest thing negligently or improperly.

Those U.S. reports which even offered an opinion uniformly stated that there was not sufficient evidence at the time of the report (in most cases mid-June 1967) to establish that the attack was not a mistake. This is hardlly an exonoration of Israel. Nonetheless, Cristol continues to spin the Big Lie that there have been "thirteen investigations, all of which have exonorated Israel."

Readers should judge all of his work by the quality of his research on this subject. No matter what one might conclude concerning the others, two of the alleged investigations are simply lies - they never happened.

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