~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G ~WAKE UP AMERICA.1984 .IS HERE!: Israel Charged With Systematic Harassment of U.S. Marines

~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G ~WAKE UP AMERICA.1984 .IS HERE!: Israel Charged With Systematic Harassment of U.S. Marines:

t was 12 years ago, on March 14, 1983, that the commandant of the Marine Corps sent a highly unusual letter to the secretary of defense expressing frustration and anger at Israel. General R.H. Barrow charged that Israeli troops were deliberately threatening the lives of Marines serving as peacekeepers in Lebanon. There was, he wrote, a systematic pattern of harassment by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that was resulting in "life-threatening situations, replete with verbal degradation of the officers, their uniform and country."

Barrow's letter added: "It is inconceivable to me why Americans serving in peacekeeping roles must be harassed, endangered by an ally...It is evident to me, and the opinion of the U.S. commanders afloat and ashore, that the incidents between the Marines and the IDF are timed, orchestrated, and executed for obtuse Israeli political purposes."1
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