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In article <EGGERTJ.92Aug11132525@moses.atc.ll.mit.edu> eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu writes:

>        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).
>--

	As a child in Tel-Aviv during the early days of the  6-Days-War, 
my family watched television broadcasts from Cairo showing in vivid 
(black-and-white) graphics the advances of the Egyptian army from the
Mediterranean sea, towards the coastal-way of Tel-Aviv, cutting Israel
in several central areas.

	To me and my family it was a "comedy-show", since here we are,
sitting in Tel-Aviv, and seeing utter rubbish on Egyptian T.V.

	Your point (vs. Steven, Stewart, 1937) , that "Israelis had 
been intercepting radio transmissions from Cairo and rebroadcasting 
them to Jordan in a modified form, luring Jordan into the conflict
and...." is really too much. 

	How LOW can you get? And you write this from MIT........

>=Jim  eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert)

--Rafy

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