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In article <1992Aug10.202147.23969@bony1.bony.com> jake@bony1.bony.com (Jake Livni) writes:
>   In article <1992Aug6.021844.16199@colorado.edu> perlman@qso.Colorado.EDU (Eric S. Perlman) writes:
>   >In article <4eU6CL600UhW85XWBJ@andrew.cmu.edu> David O Hunt <dh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
>   >>military conflict, and so intentionally took steps to get an arab attack, so
>   >>they could conquer more land.
>
>   >It should be mentioned that Flapan's book is hardly any better than
>   >either Palumbo's or Quigley; he not only has an axe to grind, but most
>   >of what he writes is not credible.  
>   >
>   >Flapan is not a reliable source, not by any means.
>
>   Don't be so severe, Eric.  Hunt is simply telling us that Flapan wrote that 
>   the Arabs attacked Israel because Israel TOLD them to.  Some Arab apologists
>   are still saying things like that.  Did you hear the one last week about
>   how Iraq invaded Kuwait because Israel told them to...?

I read an interesting account of the Liberty affair (you know, when
the Israelis bombed the USS Liberty during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war)
in the book
        AUTHOR: Steven, Stewart, 1937-
         TITLE: The spymasters of Israel / Stewart Steven.
     PUB. INFO: New York : Macmillan, c1980.
   DESCRIPTION: xxi, 329 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

According to Steven, the attack on the Liberty was by no means a
mistake.  (I know that has been hashed out on the net already, but go
on.)  The Israelis had been intercepting radio transmissions from
Cairo and rebroadcasting them to Jordan in a modified form, making the
war news sound like Egypt was winning.  This was an obvious attempt to
lure Jordan into the war, which succeeded.  The Liberty was listening
in on this, and the Americans found out what the Israelis were up to,
and told the Israelis as much.  With the Israeli deception unmasked,
the Israelis didn't want any other secrets snooped on, and felt forced
to bomb the USS Liberty (after asking that it be removed, and seeing
that it wasn't moving).
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=Jim  eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert)