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So Who's Afraid of the Israel Lobby? Virtually everyone: Republicans and Democrats alike

By admin, Section From The Wires
Posted on Mon Oct 08, 2007 at 03:16:34 AM EST

The fear factor is non-partisan, you might say, and palpable.

By Ray McGovern, Consortium News

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee brags that it is the most influential foreign policy lobbying organization on Capitol Hill, and has demonstrated that time and again, and not only on Capitol Hill.

Nowhere is the Lobby's power more clearly demonstrated than in its ability to suppress the awful truth that on June 8, 1967 during the Six Day War:

--Israel deliberately attacked the intelligence collection ship USS Liberty, in full awareness it was a U.S. Navy ship, and did its best to sink it and leave no survivors;

--The Israelis would have succeeded had they not broken off the attack upon learning, from an intercepted message, that the commander of the U.S. 6th Fleet had launched carrier fighters to the scene; and

--By that time, 34 of the Liberty's crew had been killed and over 170 wounded.

Scores of intelligence analysts and senior officials have known this for years. That virtually all of them have kept a 40-year frightened silence is testament to the widespread fear of touching this live wire.

Even more telling is the fact that the National Security Agency destroyed voice tapes seen by many intelligence analysts, showing beyond doubt that the Israelis knew exactly what they were doing.

But the truth will out--eventually. All it took in this case is for a courageous journalist (of the endangered species kind) to listen to the surviving crew and do a little basic research, not shrinking from naming war crimes and not letting senior U.S. officials, from the president on down off the hook for suppressing--even destroying--unimpeachable evidence from intercepted Israeli communications.

The mainstream media have now published an expos

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