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Old July 3rd 05, 02:32 PM
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Re Pastor Peters and "Christian Identity"::

http://www.equip.org/free/DI100.htm

the fact that this was heard on a Christian Identity program should
discredit it outright.

Re the Liberty:

MYTH

"During the 1967 War, Israel deliberately attacked the USS Liberty."

FACT

"The Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was a grievous error, largely
attributable to the fact that it occurred in the midst of the confusion
of a full-scale war in 1967. Ten official United States investigations
and three official Israeli inquiries have all conclusively established
the attack was a tragic mistake.

On June 8, 1967, the fourth day of the Six-Day War, the Israeli high
command received reports that Israeli troops in El Arish were being
fired upon from the sea, presumably by an Egyptian vessel, as they had
a day before. The United States had announced that it had no naval
forces within hundreds of miles of the battle front on the floor of the
United Nations a few days earlier; however, the USS Liberty, an
American intelligence ship assigned to monitor the fighting, arrived in
the area, 14 miles off the Sinai coast, as a result of a series of
United States communication failures, whereby messages directing the
ship not to approach within 100 miles were not received by the Liberty.
The Israelis mistakenly thought this was the ship doing the shelling
and war planes and torpedo boats attacked, killing 34 members of the
Liberty's crew and wounding 171.

Numerous mistakes were made by both the United States and Israel. For
example, the Liberty was first reported - incorrectly, as it turned
out - to be cruising at 30 knots (it was later recalculated to be 28
knots). Under Israeli (and U.S.) naval doctrine at the time, a ship
proceeding at that speed was presumed to be a warship. The sea was calm
and the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry found that the Liberty's flag was
very likely drooped and not discernible; moreover, members of the crew,
including the Captain, Commander William McGonagle, testified that the
flag was knocked down after the first or second assault."


for more, see...


http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...ths/mf6.html#j