Remember America’s Dead on the USS Liberty, by Philip Giraldi - The Unz Review
Israel is no friend and never has been one
Israel kills Americans whenever it believes there is some advantage to be gained from doing so and no presidents since John F Kennedy and George HW Bush have dared to push back to protect United States civilians and military even when major US interests are at stake. This reticence about confronting Israel has clearly been due to the widely recognized malignant power and wealth of the Israel Lobby. To cite only the most egregious killing of Americans by Israel, I would recall the June 8th, 1967 attack on the USS Liberty, which killed 34 crewmen and injured 171 more. The crew’s dwindling number of survivors are this very weekend having a reunion in Norfolk Virginia.
The attack was followed by a cover-up that demonstrated clearly that at least one president of the United States named Lyndon Johnson even back nearly sixty years ago valued his relationship with the state of Israel above his loyalty to his own country. The two-hour assault on the Liberty was, in truth, the worst attack ever carried out on a US Naval vessel in peace time. It was a surprise attack which was clearly intended to destroy the intelligence gathering vessel operating in international waters collecting information on the ongoing Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The Israelis, whose planes had their Star of David markings covered up so Egypt could be blamed, attacked the ship repeatedly from the air and using gunboats from the sea. When the ship’s distress signal was received, the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched fighters to go to its assistance, but they were called back under orders from President Johnson. The incredible courage and determination of the surviving crew was the only thing that kept the Liberty from sinking.
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/remember-americas-dead-on-the-uss-liberty/
This Is Israel - by Caitlin Johnstone
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/this-is-israel
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You either want to burn children alive, or you don’t. You either want to deliberately starve civilians, or you don’t. You either want to bomb hospitals, or you don’t. You either want to deliberately assassinate Palestinian journalists while forbidding foreign journalists entry into Gaza, or you don’t. You either want to deliberately massacre civilians and systematically destroy civilian infrastructure in order to force the removal of Palestinians from a Palestinian territory, or you don’t. And if you don’t, you must oppose the state of Israel. |
That’s Israel, the state. Not just Netanyahu. Not just
extremist settlers. Not just “far right elements within the Israeli
government”. Israel itself. Because everything we are seeing Israel do is the
result of everything Israel is as a state.....
......In order to become a truth-driven species, we need to
stop hiding from uncomfortable truths. And one of our favorite hiding places
for uncomfortable truths at this point in history is the modern state of
Israel, and the western empire’s support for it.
This is one of the most significant event in recent history, because it exposes the defining pattern of the “special relationship” between the U.S. and Israel, which consists primarily in Israel using every possible means of deception to make the U.S. military fight Israel’s enemies (Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, etc.), and the U.S. unconditionally supporting Israel despite being betrayed and humiliated.
But perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this war crime is
the demonstrable complicity of President Lyndon Johnson and of CIA
counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton, amounting in both case to high
treason. That makes the USS Liberty attack all the more important to study and
teach, because those two men are also the prime American suspects in the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Since evidence has been
accumulating into a critical mass that Israel was the main beneficiary of the
coup to replace Kennedy by Johnson in the White House (read my book The
Unspoken Kennedy Truth, or the first chapter of Monika Wiesak’s
recent Echoes
of a Lost America), the active participation of Johnson and Angleton in
both plots (JFK assassination and USS Liberty attack) become a crucial piece of
circumstantial evidence in the JFK case.
Let’s review that evidence.
https://www.unz.com/article/remember-the-uss-liberty/
The Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty ....Last month was the 49th anniversary of the Israeli attack on the American ship. I raised the issue of the USS Liberty eight or nine years ago in a syndicated newspaper column, which, as I suspected would be the case, only a few news sources dared to publish. However, the article editor at Hustler magazine saw the article and contacted me. He said that Hustler was popular among US sailors and now that they were again thrust into needless war they should be aware that the US government could sell them out without notice. Would I write the USS Liberty story for the sailors so they would be aware of the betrayal that might await them?
I had already seen that Admiral Moorer’s prediction that
Israel would have us in war against the Arabs had come true. I still hear his
bitter statement that “no American president can stand up to Israel.” Tom was
deeply wounded by the betrayal of the US Navy by the Commander-in-Chief. The
Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff was powerless before the Israel Lobby.
I understood that to take on this task meant much work. I
would have to hunt down USS Liberty survivors and interview them. I would have
to find Captain Ward Boston and a pilot or commander of the rescue fighters
that Washington called back, denying protection to the American sailors aboard
the USS Liberty. They would have to be willing to talk. I undertook the task,
and the story is below.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/06/08/the-israeli-attack-on-the-uss-liberty/
Israel: The Scourge Of Empires - And now it's our turn.....America!
Strangely, the collapse of most major Empires from the
Western world has been because of alliances and entanglements with Israel, in
one form or another. It is something that needs to be acknowledged, otherwise
we face a calamity of biblical proportions.
Political observers often call Afghanistan the Graveyard of
Empires. Apparently, they’re not observing hard enough...
ROME
When the Roman Empire occupied
Palestine, it always tried to appease the Hebrews of Old
Testament Israel, even though they were a constant thorn in its side.
One fateful day, the Israelites brought the Roman Governor an
innocent man named Jesus, so He could be condemned to death. To make their case
they proclaimed Caesar to be their King and rejected Jesus as a demon-possessed
blasphemer who was vying for Caesar’s throne. Pilate did not buy into their
argument. So the Israelites screamed and yelled and… screamed and yelled. In
the end, Pilate relented and allowed them to kill Jesus.
No sooner did they proclaim Caesar to be their King than the
Israelites rose against the rule of Rome. Tired of that rambunctious bunch,
Rome dispatched its army in AD 70 and destroyed the
Hebrew nation, Jerusalem, and the Temple. A genocide that saw the entire
Hebrew race wiped out. It was known as the Apocalypse, the Armageddon, the
Tribulation, and the End of the Age of the Hebrews and of the Old Covenant.
As Jesus’s disciples were multiplying in Rome, Caesar felt
threatened.
1) He thought Christians were going to rise up against him
because Pilate had ordered Jesus killed on account of the Israelites. He only
thought so because, in his warped mind, if he had been a Christian that’s what
he would have done.
2) He also deduced that the Israelites had made a martyr out
of Jesus and in so doing had turned him into a god who was now competing
against his Roman gods. So, just like the Israelites, he adopted the belief
that Jesus was not God and embarked on a campaign to spread the anti-Christ
spirit of Old Testament Israel.
He began slaughtering Christians. But contrary to what Caesar
thought of them, the Christians remained peaceful and faithful, even unto
death. Just like their Lord.
Thus began the destabilization and fragmentation of Roman
society and soon after of the Empire itself, which eventually led to its
collapse and to the rise of its perceived enemy, Christianity – itself on its
way to becoming an Empire.
....THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
The violent and bloody Catholic Crusades in Palestine began
around 1099 during the Fatimid Caliphate occupation of the “Holy”
Land.
Being the most powerful political and religious Empire of its
time, the Catholic Church thought it could forcibly establish “legitimate”
control over Palestine. After all, the place where Jesus walked was being
trampled by “infidel” Muslims.
Thus, the Church took up arms and went to war. In so doing,
it morphed into ruthless warmongering Old Testament Israel. It
never crossed their mind that dancing with the anti-Christ spirit was
dangerous.
Consequently, these Crusades almost bankrupted the Church,
caused disunity and conflict between the various Latin Christian interests of
the Eastern Mediterranean, led to the Avignon Papacy where the Pope no longer
resided in the Vatican, inflicted the Papal Schism which was a split inside the
Catholic Church that lasted between 1378 to 1418, provoked a loss of the
Church’s political power and prestige, and finally left an indelible stain on
the Catholic faith which even now is struggling in the face of a powerful
Protestant movement, a competition the Vatican did not have then.
Unfortunately, there are harsh consequences for
resurrecting Old Testament Israel. The Catholic Church had to
be reminded that God was done with the Old, and that His son had paid a hefty
price for a New Covenant. Even though the Church is the new Spiritual Israel,
it must abide by the new rules. Christianity is to be a worldwide Empire of
peace and love, not of warmongering and hatefulness.
If they had read their Bible, they would have known that.
“By calling this covenant new, he has made the first one
obsolete.” Hebrews 8:13
https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/israel-the-scourge-of-empires/
Even though the US Federal Government has done horrible
things throughout its lifetime, once in a while it implements truly unique
policies that redeem its soul. For one thing, America welcomes the downtrodden,
the poor, and the tired from all over the world without regard to race or
religion and gives them the freedom and opportunity to prosper.
“Jesus said: ‘Truly I tell you, whatsoever you do for the
least of these, you do unto me.'” Matthew 25:40
It is a Christ-inspired act of kindness and love that is
matched by no other country on earth. An act that is predominantly responsible
for America’s greatness and for its numerous and dazzling innovations that
immensely benefit mankind. Thus, those rejected as the rabble of the world
become the lowly that God lifts up.
“The lowly He sets on high, and those who mourn are lifted to
safety.” Job 5:11
Whereas Modern-day Israel is a racist and parasitic state
that feeds off the goodness of Americans. It is bleeding America dry.
Financially, spiritually, and morally.
Billions
of dollars a year are plundered out of America’s coffers for
Modern-day Israel to wage
war and oppress the
Palestinians, while millions of Americans go hungry, jobless, and homeless. The
Israeli lobby constantly wags the US Government to initiate countless conflicts throughout
the world – Iraq, Syria, Libya, Iran and Ukraine –
in order to strengthen Israeli interests.
Conflicts that so far have resulted in over
59 million refugees and displaced people and 27 million dead,
including Christians.
Only the conflict with Iraq escalated into a full-blown war that required a US
invasion. That war caused the US economy to tank and its budget deficit to
balloon. But not to worry, it’s about to get worse as some of the other
conflicts are still simmering in the background, ready to explode at any moment.
Nevertheless, except for Iran, those targeted countries already lie in ruin,
while these conflicts have drained trillions upon trillions from the US
treasury.
Incredibly, some non-profit American “Christian”
organizations, such as John
Hagee‘s CUFI, fundraise for
the Zionist settlers. In so doing, they’re actually helping these land thieves
steal another people’s land while empowering them to kill
the original inhabitants in the process. These supposedly “Christian”
groups are no different than the Catholic Crusaders of old, a warmongering blot
on Jesus’s name. In other words, it’s like they’re crucifying Christ all over
again.
These Apartheid enablers,
along with the Israeli lobby, relentlessly push the US government to provide
the criminal
state of Modern-day Israel with diplomatic cover in the international
community, even when Israel is indiscriminately bombing innocent men, women,
and children. And when the US Empire even flinches in its support, no matter
how insignificant the wavering, they scream and yell and… scream and yell. So,
the Empire relents, becomes an accomplice to mass murder, and sends them even
more money.
As Pat Buchanan once quipped, “Congress is Israeli-occupied
territory.” A nice euphemism for saying that Modern-day Israel has taken over
the American government, or that America has become a subservient country, an
occupied nation, an
Empire on a leash. As a result, the whole world cringes in dismay at the
moral bankruptcy of American leaders. In turn, this has spawned a
universal disgust and hatred for
America, which has become a real stumbling block for American policymakers and
businesses.