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Israel’s Hidden Faces: A Long Day’s
Night for Us All
 Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D., University of Michigan)
March 3, 2011 posted by Dr. Alan Sabrosky -
 About the Writer: Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D., University of Michigan)
is a writer and consultant specializing in national and international security affairs. In  December 1988, he received the Superior Civilian Service Award after more than five years of
 
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 service at the U.S. Army War College as Director of Studies, Strategic Studies Institute, and holder of the General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research. He is listed in
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 WHO IN THE EAST (23rd ed.). A Marine Corps Vietnam veteran and a 1986 graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Dr.
Sabrosky’s
 teaching and research appointments have included the United States  Military Academy, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Middlebury College and Catholic University; while in government service, he held concurrent adjunct professorships at Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Dr. Sabrosky has lectured widely on defense and foreign affairs in the United States and abroad. You can email Dr. Alan Sabrosky at:
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srael’s Hidden Faces : A Long Day’s Night
for Us All
Why Do Most Americans Know Nothing About These Issues
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 Dr Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D, University of Michigan) is a ten-year US Marine Corps veteran and a 1986 graduate of the US Army War College.
 This is not intended for those who follow these issues, but as a primer for a general public (especially Americans) who do not follow them, and in fact are not even aware that they are issues! Hoping that others may also find useful material in it. Far too often, issues involving Israel and its actions are addressed in a sophisticated and complex manner, often with little or no linkage among them. This is fine for professionals who are well versed in the subject matter, and can infer detail and linkages where none is explicitly given or made. But it is NOT so for a general public, most of whom are not even aware that these issues exist, and have been exposed to a steady diet of pro-Israel propaganda throughout most if not all of their lives. This can be used in many ways, but I would focus on state and local officials, newspapers and radio
and TV stations, and veterans groups. The classic ―grass roots‖ ap
 proach is the only way to
 
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circumvent the virtual lock the Zionists have at the national level in the political realm and the media. So let us begin.
Towards a Changing View
I began as a supporter of Israel. I knew nothing of ‗the Nakba‘ (Israel‘s ethnic
cleansing of
Palestinians in 1948) and wouldn‘t have cared much if I had heard of it. In the years of death, ethnic cleansing and resettlement of peoples during and after WWII, it just didn‘t matter. And with the
USSR supporting most of the Arab countries, US support of Israel (like Iran under the Shah) made sense. It was only in the aftermath of the Six Days War (1967) that things changed.
Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty
On June 8, 1967, early in the Six-Day Middle East War, Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats attacked the USS Liberty, a US Navy intelligence ship off the coast. Over 200 sailors and Marines were killed or wounded. Israel declared it had mistaken the ship for an Egyptian horse transport, and the US Government accepted that explanation. So did I, until 8 years later. Then I learned. Separate attempts by the two carriers with the US 6th Fleet to launch aircraft to come to the rescue of the USS Liberty were recalled: The first by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara; the second personally by then-President Lyndon Johnson. Either rescue effort would have prevented most of the US casualties.

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