First, we start with a snippet from
National Security Law:
Quote:
During and after the Six-Day War, Israel consistently claimed to have been "attacked" first. Because Israel's attack was overwhelmingly successful, however, the question of who did what to whom first was relegated until after the fact. In the meantime, there was only one witness whose proof could have been irrefutable, the U.S.S. Liberty. That American electronic surveillance vessel located in international waters monitored Israel's air sorties and could have provided the data that might have branded Israel as an aggressor and deprived it of the fruits of its victory. Israel destroyed that evidence as it bombed and strafed the upper decks of that vessel where the data and equipment was stored, killing 34 and wounding 166 American Navy men.
A naval board of inquiry concluded shortly after the incident that it was a deliberate, unprovoked attack, that Israeli planes and torpedo boats could not have failed to identify the ship as an American vessel in international waters, and that the attack was intentional. The report of the board of inquiry was ordered to be kept secret, presumably by the White House, because of its political implications.
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My exam is on Saturday, but here's your exam!
Reading this makes Snake feel:
A: Infuriated with Lyndon B. Johnson.
B: Infuriated with the American educational system, because he seriously did not hear of this
until law school, seriously you think this would be a rather important tidbit about the Six Day War and America's relationship with Israel.
C: Amused by the inherent irony that Israel legally lacked a valid
Article 51 claim of self-defense against Egypt,
but America actually had a valid Article 51 claim to attack Israel.
D: Infuriated to have considered himself a Republican who once sided with Israel against Palestine as a matter of course because
seriously, Israel, what the fuck.
E: Confused because, seriously, like,
your ally deliberately bombs your servicemen with the clear intent to cover for a war crime
and they're your ally and the OTHER guys are your enemies?
F: Really confused because, can Israel seriously get away with
anything by just being like "Yo, America, you're Christian, we're Jewish, your Judeo-Christian belief in us owning this land means you have to hate the other guys?"
G: Enraptured with a sudden desire to procrastinate from studying by posting this shit on NPF.
H: Why the fuck am I studying this bullshit would I could be watching
My Little Pony or
Mawaru Penguindrum