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Candace Owen's goes there. Vicious sneak attack on U.S.S. Liberty by Israel

Posted on 12/11/24 at 10:32 pm
Posted by RiverCityTider
Jacksonville, Florida
Member since Oct 2008
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Posted on 12/11/24 at 10:32 pm
"We had the Star of David all over that ship (The Liberty) and we're hoping our Israeli buddies would win."



Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
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Posted on 12/11/24 at 10:47 pm to
Just watched the entire interview.

Already has over 900,000 views the last 7 hours.

Just going to say frickING WOW!

That is all.
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
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Posted on 12/11/24 at 10:49 pm to
Also want to say, this is becoming a pattern. A pattern of false flags over the decades.
Posted by AquaAg84
Member since May 2013
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Posted on 12/11/24 at 10:54 pm to
That! Should be a potential candidate for a future President. Not a DEI placement.
Posted by GumboPot
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Posted on 12/11/24 at 10:59 pm to
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That! Should be a potential candidate for a future President. Not a DEI placement.


So you watched it to the end.
Posted by POTUS2024
Member since Nov 2022
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Posted on 12/12/24 at 12:39 am to
US Naval Institute.
PART 1 OF 2
Commentary—Remember the Liberty
By Captain Gene Thomas Gomulka, Chaplain Corps, U.S. Navy (Retired)
June 2017
Proceedings
Vol. 143/6/1,372

It has been 50 years since Israeli air and naval forces attacked the USS Liberty (AGTR-5) on 8 June 1967 during the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War. Thirty-four Americans were killed and 171 wounded, accounting for more than two-thirds of the crew. The attack began at 1400 local time, when three Mirage fighters attacked the ship with cannon fire and rockets that disabled nearly every radio antenna on the vessel. The fighters were followed by Mystère aircraft that not only fired cannons and rockets, but also dropped napalm, which is rarely used against ships. During the attack, the Israelis were able to jam five of the Liberty’s six communications circuits. Even when the ship finally was able to get out a distress call on the sixth circuit, the attackers could not be identified because the aircraft did not bear any national markings.

After some 30 minutes of intense air attack that left the Liberty covered in blood, full of holes, and burning from napalm, three Israeli motor torpedo boats (MTBs) arrived from Ashdod, Israel. Just prior to their arrival, the Liberty’s commanding officer, Commander William L. McGonagle, ordered the holiday-size U.S. flag measuring 7 by 13 feet to be raised to replace the flag shot away earlier. Despite the flying of this large U.S. flag, the MTBs fired five torpedoes, one of which struck amidships in the cryptologic spaces. The torpedo left a 40-foot hole in the hull, killing 25 men and trapping 50 more in the flooded compartment.

With the ship in flames, dead in the water, and sinking, orders were given to abandon and scuttle the Liberty. When sailors put rubber life rafts in the water, however, the Israelis proceeded to machine-gun them.

A little over an hour from the time the air and sea attacks began, someone from the U.S. Sixth Fleet erroneously radioed the Liberty that help was on the way. At this same time, the MTBs discontinued their attack, but this was followed by the arrival of two helicopters armed with mounted machine guns and carrying combat troops. The Liberty crew believed this combat force was sent to kill whoever might have survived the air and sea attacks. After circling the ship a number of times, the helicopters suddenly withdrew.
The Cover-Ups

The case of the Liberty is not the first time the U.S. government has covered up atrocities committed by allies. When mass graves of some 22,000 Polish nationals were discovered in the Katyn Forest in 1943, the Soviet Union’s longtime dictator, Joseph Stalin, claimed that the victims had been murdered by the Nazis. Even though President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill knew Stalin was lying, their response to a request from the Polish government in exile for an investigation was the same one given by the White House and Congress over the past five decades to queries from the Liberty’s veterans and their families: silence.

It was not until 1990, 50 years after the Katyn Forest massacre, that General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev formally expressed “profound regret” and admitted responsibility for the killings by the Soviet secret police. Twenty years later, in April 2010, Russian President Vladamir Putin likewise expressed regret by attending a Katyn memorial service at which he knelt over the graves of the Polish dead.

Just as the Russians lied about the massacre of 22,000 Poles, so too did the Israelis lie about their intentional attempt to sink the Liberty. In his book Body of Lies: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency (Anchor Books, 2001), James Bamford discusses the Six-Day War and writes, “An essential element in the Israeli battle plan seemed to have been to hide much of the war behind a carefully constructed curtain of lies. Lies about the Egyptian threat, lies about who started the war, lies to the American president, lies to the UN Security Council, lies to the press, lies to the public.”

Posted by POTUS2024
Member since Nov 2022
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Posted on 12/12/24 at 12:39 am to
PART 2 OF 2
Because the survivors of the attack on the Liberty were threatened with courts-martial or imprisonment if they were to discuss what they considered to have been a war crime, media coverage of the attack over the years has been limited. The two most extensive reports on the attack were produced not by U.S. news outlets, but rather by the British Broadcasting Company, which produced the 2002 documentary “USS Liberty: Dead in the Water”; and Al Jazeera, which produced the 2014 documentary “The Day Israel Attacked America.”

Most researchers and members of intelligence agencies believe the Israelis attacked the Liberty to conceal their troop movements to take the “impregnable” Golan Heights. The attack originally was scheduled for 8 June 1967. Many believe it was postponed until the Liberty’s electronic surveillance capability had been neutralized by Israeli jet fighters and motor torpedo boats. If the Liberty had not been eliminated, the U.S. Navy technical research (electronic collections) ship possibly could have intercepted Israeli communications regarding the troop withdrawal from the Egyptian front for this planned attack. Had the Americans learned of the planned attack against the Syrians, which they had warned Israel not to undertake, lest the Russians be drawn into the conflict, the Israelis feared their plan would be compromised. Had this been the case, the Egyptians might then have counter­attacked after learning of the redeployment of Israeli forces. Further, had the Syrians learned of the threat, they might have repelled the attack, and Israel might have lost the war.

During interviews undertaken by Anthony R. Wells in 1976–77 with Dean Rusk, Secretary of State in 1967, Rusk went on record as saying the attack on the Liberty was “not an accident, but deliberate.”1 He also stated that Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan’s orders to attack the Liberty, as well as his decisions to attack Syria and take the Golan Heights, were made without consulting Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and other key Israeli officials.2

Although Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, president of the Liberty Court of Inquiry, and Captain Ward Boston, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, the court’s lead counsel, concluded “it was a deliberate, planned attack on an American ship,” the report that was officially recorded in the U.S. Navy Department branded the attack an accident, a case of mistaken identity with the Egyptian ship El Quseir.

Today, when congressmen write to the Defense or Navy Departments inquiring into the attack, they receive carefully crafted form letters saying, “The Government of Israel . . . has consistently maintained that the attack was the result of an error.” These communications go on to say, “The Navy plans no further investigations into the incident.” What the letters do not address is the wealth of evidence to prove what Captain Boston stated in a sworn affidavit before his death in 2009 when he testified, “I know from personal conversations I had with Admiral Kidd that President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered him to conclude the attack was a case of ‘mistaken identity’ despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”3

The most tragic part of this cover-up has been the harm that has been done to the survivors and families of the dead and surviving crew members. No monetary compensation can heal the pain and suffering they have endured. Considering the intensity and duration of the air and sea attacks, it is a miracle the ship did not sink with all on board.

The Liberty survivors and their families believe the time for confessing, forgiving, and healing is long overdue. Because less than 20 percent of the members of Congress are veterans, and with billions of dollars in foreign military sales to Israel at stake, the survivors do not believe they can count on congressional support. The only way they believe justice might be achieved would be if the U.S. media were to expose the cover-up, as did The Boston Globe in the case of the sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.


1. Anthony R. Wells, “Moshe Dayan and the Attack on the United States Ship Liberty, June 8, 1967,” USS Liberty Document Center, September 2013; Eric Ture Muhammad, “The Matter of Liberty: The Day Israel Attacked America,” The Final Call, 9 June 2006.

2. Wells, “Moshe Dayan and the Attack on the United States Ship Liberty.”

3. LINK
Captain Gomulka served on active duty for 24 years, during which time the Secretary of the Navy presented him with the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award “for literary achievement and inspirational leadership.” He took Captain Boston’s deathbed testimony about the cover-up of the investigation on the attack on the Liberty.


Posted by POTUS2024
Member since Nov 2022
20943 posts
Posted on 12/12/24 at 1:04 am to
People come on here and act as though Israel is a great ally of the US and it's disgusting. Israel does not give a shite about our country. We have a lot of great Jewish people here in the US but I don't see evidence that the nation of Israel provides any benefit to us at all. Some act as though we depend on Israel for intelligence in the region, yet they were never helpful in preventing 911, the attack on the USS Cole, and with the Liberty, they killed our people. And don't look for Trump to take a stand on any of this. He is owned by Israel, as is almost everyone in Congress.

Another piece from USNI
The Spy Ship Left Out in the Cold
A half-century after one of history’s most controversial attacks on a U.S. Navy ship, the wounds from the Liberty incident remain unhealed.
By James M. Scott
June 2017
Naval History
Volume 31, Number 3

Some excerpts:
“Consideration was being given by some unnamed Washington authorities to sink the Liberty in order that newspaper men would be unable to photograph her and thus inflame public opinion against the Israelis,” NSA Deputy Director Louis Tordella wrote in memo for the record.

The day after the attack, Johnson met with his Special Committee of the National Security Council. The Liberty discussion was heated, minutes show, as Johnson’s advisers spurned Israel’s claim that the attack was simply a tragic accident. Clark Clifford, head of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and one of Johnson’s most pro-Israel advisers, demanded the attackers be punished. “Inconceivable that it was an accident,” Clifford said. “Punish Israelis responsible.”...

In the heat of battle, Liberty officers were able to identity the flag and hull number off a swift-moving torpedo boat, yet Israel claimed its own forces were unable to identify a lumbering cargo ship with towering hull numbers, her name on the stern and an American flag on the mast. To many, that seemed impossible...

Israeli diplomats tapped influential American Jews, many of whom were close friends with President Johnson, to help. Documents show that Eugene Rostow, who was third in command of the State Department, repeatedly shared privileged information about U.S. strategy with Israeli diplomats. Others who assisted Israel included Supreme Court justice Abe Fortas and Arthur Goldberg, who was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Many of these and others who helped the embassy are referred to by code names in Israeli documents. For example, Democratic fund-raiser Abe Feinberg is identified in Israeli records by the codename “Hamlet.”...

Diplomats also needed to tone down President Johnson. To pressure the President, Israeli officials tapped Justice Fortas and Washington lawyer David Ginsburg to make Johnson “aware of the dangers facing him personally if the public learns that he was party to the distribution of the story that is on the verge of being blood libel.”...

In evaluating the Liberty court of inquiry, it is worth comparing it to the court that examined North Korea’s capture of the Pueblo. The Liberty court lasted just eight days, interviewed only 14 crewmen, and produced a final transcript that was 158 pages. In contrast, the Pueblo court lasted almost four months, interviewed more than 100 witnesses, and produced a final transcript that was nearly 3,400 pages....

U.S. leaders had hoped Israel would punish the attackers, as both Dean Rusk and Israeli Ambassador Harman had demanded. In August, however, U.S. officials learned that the Israeli judge tasked to examine the attack instead had exonerated everyone. The assault on the Liberty, which had raged for approximately an hour on a clear afternoon in international waters, was the most violent attack on a U.S. naval ship since World War II. Yet Israel’s investigating judge could find no evidence of wrongdoing, no negligence, no violation of military procedure....


Posted by Lima Whiskey
Member since Apr 2013
22594 posts
Posted on 12/12/24 at 1:08 am to
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With the ship in flames, dead in the water, and sinking, orders were given to abandon and scuttle the Liberty. When sailors put rubber life rafts in the water, however, the Israelis proceeded to machine-gun them.



This moment tells you everything about who the Israelis are and what their core nature is
Posted by ole man
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
18030 posts
Posted on 12/12/24 at 1:34 am to
Watch alpha warrior, operation gladio on rumble with colonel Towner Watkins if you want your mind blown about U.S.S. liberty
This post was edited on 12/12/24 at 3:36 am
Posted by TheQuadrangle
Member since Dec 2022
141 posts
Posted on 12/12/24 at 2:14 am to
Most people assume it was just an accidental strike and they don't know that Israel got up close and repeatedly attacked us from multiple angles. They used missiles from jets, machine guns, torpedoes from another ship, and threw in napalm. Pretty wild shite.

On the last day of Louisiana's legislative session recently they were struggling to get the budget passed. Changes were made and senators were crunched for time to read everything before passing the bill.

What they did have time for is to pass legislation to commemorate Israel. It was the anniversary of when they bombed the USS Liberty.
Posted by POTUS2024
Member since Nov 2022
20943 posts
Posted on 12/12/24 at 2:20 am to
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What they did have time for is to pass legislation to commemorate Israel. It was the anniversary of when they bombed the USS Liberty.

The cynic in me has no problem believing the bill was written by AIPAC, pushed on that legislature, and the date was specifically targeted by AIPAC to be on or as close to the Liberty date as possible.
Posted by RCDfan1950
United States
Member since Feb 2007
39692 posts
Posted on 12/12/24 at 2:59 am to
And if this is true and indicative of current Israeli sentiments re our our strategic alliance, then I think Israel is going to be whacked no matter how cunning and ruthless their machinations may be. God will not stand with such an unrepentant people. And it’s not like we won’t bear our own come uppance as well. Our own Leaders started that Ukraine war straight up by slamming Putin with NATO at his door and the blood is on us. The “end times “ scenario seems well deserved by all involved. I look to the day when real honesty and Truth are in the hearts of the leaders of our Nations, but it seems that those ‘leaders’ are seldom those of today’s culture, but will be those who come out of the humbling, extraordinarily painful “end times/second coming “ scenario. Both the Islamists and the Jews are taking us down. They own the coming slaughter. Seems our ‘alliances’ are becoming more problematic by the day. Damn frustrating. Lord come quickly and have mercy on them who love.
Posted by 11
Member since Sep 2024
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Posted on 12/12/24 at 3:00 am to
The Israel firsters aren't gonna like this one at all.
Posted by idlewatcher
Planet Arium
Member since Jan 2012
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Posted on 12/12/24 at 3:08 am to
That is a rather disturbing video. Appreciate the share
Posted by RCDfan1950
United States
Member since Feb 2007
39692 posts
Posted on 12/12/24 at 3:13 am to
“That which is spoken in the closets will be shouted from the rooftops “. They will have to own it.
Posted by shinerfan
Duckworld(Earth-616)
Member since Sep 2009
28540 posts
Posted on 12/12/24 at 3:35 am to
Didn't the French intercept radio communications that confirmed the Israeli pilots and ground control were aware it was a US ship? I believe there are still living participants from the Israeli side. Even all these years later we should insist on harsh punishment. Not just an angry letter but a requirement for continued aid.
Posted by Big4SALTbro
Member since Jun 2019
24431 posts
Posted on 12/12/24 at 4:06 am to
Poor little Ben is going to be in shambles. I bet he won’t touch this with a ten foot pole. He will just sit there and lob defense of the united health and make weak attacks on Joe Rogan
Posted by Lieutenant Dan
Member since Jan 2009
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Posted on 12/12/24 at 4:36 am to
I'm interested to see if Charlie Kirk responds to this.

It's not surprising to see Zionist Shapiro slapping the conspiracy label on it.
Posted by shinerfan
Duckworld(Earth-616)
Member since Sep 2009
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Posted on 12/12/24 at 4:47 am to
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It's not surprising to see Zionist Shapiro slapping the conspiracy label on it.



Calling this a conspiracy theory should mean a 100% loss of credibility. It absolutely happened, the Israelis absolutely knew it was an American ship, and American military aid to Israel should have ended that day.
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