Israel Matzav has a nice roundup of links demonstrating the Palestinian culpability in their own misfortune in 1948. (See also the American Thinker. Both via memeorandum.)For a relevant article see Benny Morris’s Reign of Error by Efraim Karsh.
Dennis Mansfield has a nice rebuttal to many of the charges brought against Israel regarding the U.S.S. Liberty.
In the course of reviewing Judge Cristol’s “the Liberty Incident” 4 years ago I got into contact with him. What Mansfield writes about the hate packets is right. Various anti-Israel groups have co-opted the Liberty survivors.
By far the point that I find most convincing is the one about the Israelis failure to use the 500 lb. iron bombs.
A few years ago there was a symposium at the State Department about the 6 Day War. One part of it had to do with intelligence. It featured Judge Cristol, James Bamford and Michael Oren.
Bamford had arranged quite a following including a number of folks who were casting aspersion on Judge Cristol. Judge Cristol, unfortunately was mostly on the defensive that day. Bamford was slick. But Dr. Oren saved the day when he started by describing a friendly fire incident in which his company was strafed by Israeli planes in 1982 killing some of his friends.
Judge Cristol’s debunking here is quite effective. For a longer article consider Michael Oren’s Case Closed.
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
http://www.nsa.gov/liberty/