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Title: A dubious platform for obsessions about Israel
Review: The author of this book devotes a large portion of his work to the Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, essentially claiming that the Israelis attacked the Liberty because it was eavesdropping on Israeli war crimes in progress. The author ignores the context of the times, including longstanding U.S. support for Egyptian President Nasser, especially in 1956, and the fact that Israel was a client-state of France, not of the U.S. It apparently did not occur to Bamford that the Israelis may have thought that the Liberty was transmitting real-time intelligence to the Egyptians about Israeli positions and its order of battle.
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