"Bob Ackley -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
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 BA> Okay.  You've attacked Tim.  Now, are any of the facts he noted
 BA> above false?

Some.

 BA> Items 1 & 5 above.  Example:  Jonathan Pollard, currently doing hard
 BA> time in a US prison for committing espionage for Israel.  The Israeli
 BA> government has for years been trying to get him released.

Yes, putting pressure on George HW Bush for a pardon, then Clinton, and
then George W. Bush.

Fortunately, all four said no.

 BA> Item 2.  USS Liberty, 1967.  There was only *one* ship on the whole
 BA> f*cking planet that resembled the USS Liberty, and that was the USS
 BA> Liberty.  Israel's claim of mistaken identity is demonstrably false,
 BA> particularly in view of the two close low level fly-bys by Israeli
 BA> reconnaissance aircraft that preceded the attack.

The Liberty was an old "liberty ship," built during WW2.

 BA> When the USS Cole was bombed and nearly sunk in Aden, the US had the
 BA> whole ship brought back to the US and rebuilt (which rebuild,
 BA> incidentally, cost more than the original construction of the ship -
 BA> and in the same shipyard); when the USS Liberty was bombed, torpedoed
 BA> and nearly sunk in international waters off the Israeli coast in 1967
 BA> she was towed to Italy, decommissioned and sold for scrap.

It deserved to be scrapped 20 years before it got pounded.

 BA> That the US congress is bought and paid for by the Israeli government
 BA> (among others) is an observable fact that shouldn't even be in
 BA> dispute.

Without USA aid, the Arabs would annilate Israel and slaughter all the
Israeis.
They have said so flat out.

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