A narrowly avoided catastrophe

In the weeks and months before the Six Day War the Soviet Union was spreading its influence into the Middle East, it backed radical governments in Egypt and Syria such as Nessar who had become the Arab worlds chief spokesman for the Arab world on the Israeli problem.



When the Six Day War begun Israel became victorious in the early hours of the war (it had begun) destroying most of the Egyptian air force in air strikes in Sinai, they were completely caught by surprise and over 80% of their air force was destroyed in a matter of hours.

During this time the Soviet navy had increased their presence near the war moving 20 war ships into the eastern Mediterranean, the US responded by sending in the US SIxth Fleet to be within one hundred miles of the Israeli coast, except for the USS Liberty which came near the Sinai coast.
They were in international waters flying the American flag, what need would they have for an armed escort?

On Thursday the 8th of June it had reached its destination, what was on shore was a nearly complete Israeli victory, they had seized the West Bank and were pushing forward to capturing Jerusalem itself!

On at least nine different occasions Israeli aircraft buzzed the Liberty, Israel was Americas allies, and it was obvious they knew just that, it was a clear summers day, what could go wrong?

That was when Israeli Mirages begun attacking the Liberty crippling it after firing rockets and machine guns at its deck, in this horrific incident 34 Americans were killed!
The Liberty had been crippled but was still able to send out a distress call to the American Sixth Fleet.



Knowing full well that the Liberty had been attacked the aircraft carrier USS America went into condition November, nuclear armed A-4 bombers and their fighter F-4 escorts were launched, the US had been prepared to retaliate against Egypt since they presumed it was them that had attacked the Liberty.

Ready aircraft had been launched (the ready meaning nuclear armed aircraft).

The US embassy in Cairo was warned that an attack was coming, the US had been ready to nuke that city and possibly kill thousands of people instantly and have hundreds more die slowly from radiation poisoning!



The aircraft were already on their way when Defence Sectary Robert McNamara gave the order for the aircraft to turn back not wanting to see a mushroom cloud over Cairo, McNamara wasn't the perfect defence sectary but he was right about what he said about going all the way with nuclear weapons, and that was essentially the complete destruction of nations!

Apart from widely accepted fact that Israel had attacked an American ship and killed 34 of its crew is bad enough, but imagine if the Sixth Fleet had gone all the day and incinerated Cario and killed thousands of people that lived there!

This clearly was a narrowly averted catastrophe that would have ever lasting effects to this day!

the biggest threat to peace in the Middle East

Israel, a state born out of Jewish terrorism and the only country in the Middle East to possess nuclear weapons, 150 or so.

This is the same Israel that has hated its neighbours and fought wars and invaded parts of their neighbours starting with the land they wrestled from the Palestinians and formed their own country on in 1948, the US first found out that Israel was developing nuclear weapons after an overflight of a U-2 spy plane photographed a nuclear reactor.

During the 1973 Yom Kippur War when the Syrians were about to enter Upper Galilee Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized the arming of missiles and the placing of eight nuclear armed F-4 Phantom II's at Tel Nof Airbase on 24 hour alert and as many nuclear missile launchers at Sedot Mikha Airbase operational as possible, they're initial targets including the Egyptian and Syrian military headquarters near Cairo and Damascus.

This forced the US to launch Operation Nickel Grass bringing supplies to the IDF to help them win the war against the Arab armies conventional and retaining control of the Golan Heights and Sinai that they had seized in 1967 and still cling on to to this day.

When Iraq attempted to develop nuclear weapons the Israeli's briefly teamed up with the Iranians flying sorties against Iraqi sites, Operation Opera launched by the Israeli Air Force in 1981 knocked out a major Iraqi reactor supplied by France proving that Israel was to remain the only nuclear power in the region.



In 1991 when Iraq launched nearly 40 conventional Scud missiles at Tel Aviv Saddam Hussein vowing to wipe out the city the Israeli's threatened that if they didn't stop they'd be looking at "an Iraq without a Baghdad."

Where they threatening a nuclear strike on Baghdad?

The Americans managed to keep them back by attacking 100 targets selected by the IDF.

Today Israel has missiles that can reach targets from over 7,800 km away from their launch point being able to targets any city in the Arab and Muslim world, and considering how Israel was formed and their foreign policy from day one is it really smart to give them this power?

Even though tough Iranian generals have recently been saying things like they can wipe Israel from existence in 11 days the truth is that is if Israel sits back with its thumb up its ass, and if Iran attacks first they will give Israel the excuse to prevail, if Israel attack Iran first (its 80 or so nuclear facilities) then Iran will prevail in a much more dangerous way and most probable way the US could help the Israeli's to stop them pushing the nuclear button is to blow the shit outta the Iranians conventionally.