From USS Liberty to Rachel Corrie: Israel’s Attacks on US You Probably Didn’t Know About

Israel’s convulsive past with US citizens reveals a shocking signifier of attacks and impunity. (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

By Robert Inlakesh

Israel’s convulsive past with US citizens reveals a shocking signifier of attacks, cover-ups, and impunity.

While it has go normalized for US Presidents to openly avow that they are Zionists and pledge unconditional enactment to their Israeli ally, astir Americans inactive stay unaware that Israel has repeatedly attacked and killed their chap citizens.

During the past 4 years of Joe Biden’s Presidency, Israel has gotten distant with murdering 5 American citizens, for which determination person been nary consequences for the US’ peculiar narration with Tel Aviv. Yet Israel’s attacks against America and its citizens spell backmost overmuch further.

In 1954, Israeli quality operatives planted bombs successful US, British, and Egyptian civilian areas successful Cairo, ranging from buying malls, and movie theatres to diplomatic targets.

The extremity was to framework Communist groups, the Muslim Brotherhood, and different actors to service Israeli interests, convincing the US and UK to backmost Israel successful taking subject action. However, the plot, known arsenic “The Lavon Affair” was thankfully foiled and represented a diplomatic debacle for Tel Aviv.

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During the June 1967 warfare that Israel initiated with its “Operation Focus” astonishment onslaught against Egypt, an American naval vas called the USS Liberty was deliberately attacked by the Israeli military.

The incidental led to the sidesplitting of 34 US sailors and the wounded of 173 others, miraculously the US-flagged vessel did not descend contempt Israel having repeatedly assaulted it with torpedoes and adjacent napalm.

Then US President Lyndon B. Johnson covered the lawsuit up successful bid to not embarrass Israel, though the ship’s survivors person campaigned for justness for years and seldom received overmuch media attention. It is alleged that the Israeli volition down the USS Liberty battle was to make a false-flag onslaught that justified American involution successful the 1967 war.

On August 28, 1980, Israel astir succeeded successful assassinating the US ambassador to Lebanon, John Gunther Dean. Although the American ambassador provided grounds that Israel was down the effort connected his life, Dean was rapidly replaced and the incidental swept nether the rug.

The authoritative communicative accepted by the US government, contempt the worldly grounds of Israeli involvement, was that the fascist militia radical called the Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners (FLLF) had been down it.

Years later, successful his book, Rise and Kill First, Israeli investigative journalist, Ronen Bergman, revealed that 3 Israeli officers – Meir Dagan, Rafael Eitan, and Avigdor Ben-Gal – were liable for creating the FLLF. Their extremity was to airs arsenic an integrated anti-Palestinian radical of Christian Lebanese extremists.

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In the lawsuit of the attempted assassination of John Gunther Dean, it was speculated that the crushed down the onslaught was to regenerate the American ambassador owed to his willingness to talk to the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). If this was the objective, they succeeded successful replacing the ambassador.

On March 16, 2003, a 23-year-old American bid activistic named Rachel Corrie was deliberately crushed to decease by an Israeli worker driving a militarised bulldozer successful the Rafah country of the Gaza Strip. She had been volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and was attempting to artifact the Israeli service from destroying Palestinian homes. Her parents are inactive campaigning for justice.

In 2010, Israeli commandos raided a humanitarian assistance convoy successful International Waters, violently storming a vessel called the Mavi Marmara connected May 31. The Israeli soldiers gunned down 10 of the activists connected board, who had intended to interruption the amerciable subject siege connected Gaza and were carrying humanitarian aid, 1 of those who was murdered was an American citizen.

The Mavi Marmara survivors are inactive bringing ineligible challenges successful an effort to clasp Tel Aviv accountable.

On May 11, 2022, an Israeli worker assassinated Palestinian-American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, successful the Jenin Refugee Camp. The State Department aboriginal published a study that contradicted itself and served to whitewash the event. The seasoned Al-Jazeera writer had worked successful her relation for 25 years and was a household sanction for Palestinians.

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Israeli concern constabulary forces assaulted mourners astatine Abu Akleh’s funeral, causing the pallbearers to driblet her casket. Israeli constabulary aboriginal published a doctored video of that incidental to effort and blasted Palestinians for initiating a clash, which was debunked owed to video grounds from aggregate angles.

Then-Israeli PM Naftali Bennet initially tried to blasted Palestinians for shooting Abu Akleh, utilizing videos wide shared connected authoritative Israeli societal media pages, which were rapidly debunked by Israel’s ain apical rights radical B’Tselem.

There has not been justness for Shireen Abu Akleh’s family, who person been repeatedly fto down by an American authorities that isn’t consenting to adjacent unit Israel to punish the worker responsible.

On April 1, 2024, Israel deliberately murdered 7 World Central Kitchen (WCK) assistance workers, including an American-Canadian dual citizen. WCK receives financing from the US government-funded USAID program.

Despite the overwhelming grounds that an Israeli drone launched repeated strikes against intelligibly marked humanitarian assistance vehicles, targeting workers who moved from 1 conveyance to the next, the US took nary enactment to decently punish Israel.

Israel has not lone murdered dozens of US citizens, galore of them Palestinian-Americans who person small to nary sum compared to non-Palestinians, but American citizens proceed to beryllium harassed, detained, assaulted, and subjected to pogroms successful the occupied West Bank.

Despite the overwhelming grounds of Israeli warfare crimes committed against US citizens, Washington repeatedly turns a unsighted oculus and it is uncommon that adjacent the idiosyncratic Israelis liable volition beryllium held partially accountable.

(The Palestine Chronicle)