{"id":690625,"date":"2022-06-08T07:24:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T07:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=245877"},"modified":"2022-06-08T07:24:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T07:24:44","slug":"the-attack-on-the-uss-liberty-55-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/08\/the-attack-on-the-uss-liberty-55-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"The Attack on the USS Liberty, 55 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-five years ago today Israeli fighter jets and gun boats attacked the unarmed USS Liberty ship off the Egyptian coast and hoped to pin the assault on Egypt. Thirty-four American sailors were killed and 171 were wounded, many with lifelong burns and traumas that lingered for years. In a shameful response, the US Government and  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/08\/the-attack-on-the-uss-liberty-55-years-later\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/08\/the-attack-on-the-uss-liberty-55-years-later\/\">The Attack on the USS Liberty, 55 Years Later<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/08\/the-attack-on-the-uss-liberty-55-years-later\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-five years ago today Israeli fighter jets and gun boats attacked the unarmed USS Liberty ship off the Egyptian coast and hoped to pin the assault on Egypt. Thirty-four American sailors were killed and 171 were wounded, many with lifelong burns an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690626,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690625\/revisions\/690626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}