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Aisha's avatar

Thank you for sharing this and exposing all the grim details. Israel is clearly not an ally for the American people, they are our biggest enemy. Our own government officials have proven time and again from then until now, that they will always side with Israel abandoning their own citizens, at all costs, under any circumstance, even their very own military. This is a toxic relationship that needs to end before it does even more damage then its already done to our country.

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Shaun King's avatar

Absolutely

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Gary Jackson's avatar

Mistakes happen in all war. The USS Liberty incident was found to be a case of mistaken identity decades ago by a US Navy Court of Inquiry, largely-based upon the testimony of the sailors who were on board, including the ship's Commanding Officer.

A good site to check out would be: www.thelibertyincident.com

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Aisha's avatar
2dEdited

Israel surely seems to make a whole lot of “mistakes”, “tragic mishaps”, “grave mistakes”, “serious failures”, “tragic mistakes”, “errors”, “technical failures”, “every possible mistake”, and these are the ones they admit to…

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David Elliott's avatar

Excellent report Shaun.

But I still don’t understand how Israel could have exerted - and continues to exert - such a controlling, bullying influence on the US.

Is it just down to a ‘Zionist conspiracy’ or is there something else more subtle going on here?

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Shaun King's avatar

I’d really like to dig into that.

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R Shelli's avatar

The US seems to now exist for the benefit of Israel.

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Shaun King's avatar

It does

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Robin's avatar

Thank you for sharing and thank you for fighting for our Sailors that were forced to be silent. Their shipmates that has been purposely murdered and to the Sailors that were harmed and faught for the truth to be told, I am so sorry our country had committed such heinous war crimes on The Liberty.

I have always believed that Israel has been purposely murdering the people of Gaza. They want to kill the babies, children, young and old for one reason and one reason only, it's because Israel believes they are superior to every human being. They have very short memories of what Hitler had done to them. They Israeli government hates Arabs. After they're done committing genocide in Gaza, don't think they plan on using our country again to go after the other Arab states/countries.

My country is an embarrassment and has been complicit ( still is complicit ) to our own military and citizens. Our country is using the same language from 1967 and today.

My heart is smashed to a million pieces, the children, the women, every human being that's been chased down like animals then bombed to pieces is sick! It's inhumane!! It's a war crime!!!! And my country is supplying the arms to do this!!!

My USA is so morally corrupt that it refuses to listen to We the People!

🥲😓😥😢

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Shaun King's avatar

I am so glad you see the truth Robin.

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Robin's avatar

I always have, I've spoken out for yrs here there, the last 20 yrs as I aged and became a mom, widow, 68 yrs old that has been a victim, but nothing like the Palestinians, my veterans, the last decade media showed more of the abuse, treatment, of Gaza ppl, they held their knees on the throats of every one of them, they've planned this for yrs, the Israeli government made Hamas, they wanted it, they used it as a reason to get to their big prize = wipeout the Palestinians and have their Seaside Resort. Jared kushner, Bibi, The trumps, had it all planned. 10 yrs ago I remember the media speaking on it for one day, who the F*** could forget? they're physco paths that grift, lie, backstab, steal, and feel entitled to more money then anyone, they don't care who suffers or dies for their personal gains and; power, they have no damn empathy.

These last few yrs I have lost so much respect for some politicians that refuse to stop supporting the Genocide. It's ripping apart my country, it's sickening, the UN needs to suspend the countries that refuse to stop helping Israel govmnt and stop supplying the weapons. I'm so sorry, I'm heartbroken and; pissed off.

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Kieran Maxwell's avatar

Fantastic article. I had heard of USS Liberty but not in the detail you have given. The betrayal of the survivors by their government was abhorrent

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Robin's avatar

Same here, I did not all the details 😥😢

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Tony Harrison's avatar

Here’s a few more that you and your followers might want to Highly consider purchasing. By Way Of Deception, Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy. They Dare To Speak Out, Paul Findley. Profits Of War. Ari Ben-Menashe. I have a few more but I will let you and your followers, friends, check those out if they don’t already have them.

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Tony Harrison's avatar

Sorry for the little typo on the word won’t, but you guys get the point.

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Tony Harrison's avatar

Forgive me Shaun and the rest of the group, this one here is definitely a MUST READ, if you haven’t already.DEFRAUDING AMERICA, by Rodney Stich. I almost forgot about this one.Once you guys get thru the authors ordeal, which ends on page 90. Then the author will take you into a world you want believe but it’s real because a majority of the people he came in contact with I just happen to run across those same people in other books and with those few that I read they DEFINITELY PUT ALL THE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE TOGETHER I will close here.

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Tony Harrison's avatar

Assault on the Liberty, by James M.Ennes, Jr.

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Sir Thomas Goodwin's avatar

Since 1982, I have maintained that modern terrorism was pioneered by Israel during the 1930s and 1940s, with the British as their initial targets. The violence was brutal and persistent. This continued through events such as the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967, a significant milestone, and the cycle of conflict endures today, particularly in Gaza.

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Shaun King's avatar

This is accurate.

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Eddie Gomez's avatar

I have No more words to describe this barbarism !

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Helen McCallum's avatar

Very impressive and enlightening ,what is the reasoning behind the Whitehouse always covering for Israel

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Linda Swift's avatar

Love your reporting. I was not aware of this. I have quite a few Jewish friends and they do not like what they are seeing. I miss Yitzhak Rabin. Netanyahu knows no boundaries. He wants to kill everyone and is. It is clear and has been for sometime that he is a war criminal —

committing a genocide in Gaza and now that isn’t enough- he has to assassinate the president and entire cabinet of

Yemen. WTF?? Thank you for your work

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Shaun King's avatar

It's my honor Linda. Thank you.

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ShirleyRose's avatar

Sorry for typo's, quick write up on my work break.

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ShirleyRose's avatar

I'm from the UK and not many people know you here. The silence in the UK is quite horrific. Yes people do protest but in my tiny city it's very small and no body likes to talk about the genocide in Palestine. I can't even talk to my own husband or children, they can't bare to hear it, not out of deny but out of how horrific it is. One of my daughters who I homeschool (which is rare in the UK) wanted to be a human rights barristers and if she was alive she would be fighting alongside me too but sadly she died at age 13, 9 year ago which to this day breaks my heart BUT this makes me fight harder for the truth to be heard because I know my dear Beth would want to be fighting alongside me but she sadly lost her voice. TT have banned 49 accounts from me!!! But they won't silence a women on her own fighting to show the truth and maybe just maybe more people won't remain blind to the evil of Israel!!! I've shouted screamed and tears have flown endlessly hoping just hoping someone will do something. The leaders of the world who are meant to represent us have sickened me with there lack of action, words words and more words which do absolutely nothing to stop the nazi regime.

We hear Trumps insane plan to turn Gaza into a Hugh tech resort on what would be on top of a huge mass grave of Palestinians and this makes me sick to my stomach.

The only reason I can think of the USA government for there great support of the zoinest thieving state is because of the control it gives the USA in the middle east!!

The USA President's go on about America first, that slogan should've of been change to America 2nd!!!

But people still blindly vote for the corrupt leaders again and again!!!

My Nan always said to me, never trust a Jew ( she probably didn't know the world Zoinest) but would never explain why, I was only a child but I would go on and on asking why but she was adamantly silent and just said "Money is there route too all evil and that's all they think about" and this was back in the 80s. Unfortunately she passed when I was 14 so I couldn't ask more.

Your voice is powerful, I hear you and I also see every horrific crime of the evil zoinest state through my phone. You should post more of there evil crimes. Your voice is louder than mine. I do indeed show the criminal injusticed to the Palestine people, the truth needs to be shown!!!

🇵🇸 💔 😪 💔 🇵🇸 #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 💔 😪 💔 🇵🇸

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Cristina Couto's avatar

Excellent...

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Tony Harrison's avatar

Sorry Shaun, one more I forgot, Israelis holocaust against the Palestinians, most of these can probably be found on Amazon

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Gary Jackson's avatar

Common misconceptions about the USS Liberty attack:

1. The attack didn't last for 2 hours. The planes didn't strafe the ship for "an hour and a half". According to the Liberty's logs and the testimony of the crew, the first shots were fired at about 1400 hrs. About one hour later, the IDF boats signaled offers of assistance with no further attack.

2. This ONE HOUR time period includes the part where the IDF boats initially approached the Liberty flashing signals requesting ID, and the Liberty's gun mounts OPENED FIRE on them in response, fairly-well turning their hulls into swiss cheese. This comes directly from the sworn testimony of Commanding Officer, William McGonagle, and it's a significant part of the narrative that conspiracy theorists fail to mention every time they speak on this incident.

3. The IDF helos which approached the Liberty after the boats retired to shore were not filled with armed gunmen or soldiers intent on "finishing off" the crew. They were rescue helos, and one of them included a US Naval Attache who dropped a note down to the Liberty asking if there were wounded on board who required medical assistance. Since the ship's listing precluded a proper landing on deck, they, too, eventually retired toward to shore. In fact, the recordings of the Helo pilots conversations with their air controllers indicate their continued confusion as to the ship's identity, with instructions issued to the pilots as to the disposition of the crew, "...if they're Egyprian".

4. Neither Johnson nor McNamera ordered the rescue flights recalled while the Liberty was still under attack. In fact, at the time of the attack, the nearest US carrier was hundreds of miles away, rendereing an intervention impossible. By the time any flight of US planes were dispatched, the attack on the Liberty was over. And, in fact, the recall order was issued by Sixth Fleet's Vice Admiral Martin at about 1630, well after the IDF boats departed the scene.

5. Many of the Liberty's crew publicly spoke of the incident in the days that followed it, and none were ever punished with imprisonment "or worse". Some even wrote home about it. Others appeared in press stories (e.g., Ken Ecker). Reports of a cover up and silencing of the crew under pain of "or worse" have been greatly exaggerated.

6. Intercepts actually indicate that the IDF plnes were ordered to break off the attack when they began reading English letters off the hull. At no time were they ever ordered to continue the attack after identifying the ship as American. That identification occurred by the rescue helos after the attack. A transcript of the attacking planes and their controllers can be found here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1148399/posts?page=33

[...

14:11 ROYAL Homeland from Royal, do you read me? Pay attention. This ship's markings are Charlie-Tango-Romeo 5. There is no flag on her! She looks like a minesweeper with that marking. Roger, I'm leaving her. I'm staying around one more minute. (the Liberty's correct markings were GTR-5)

14:12 ROBERT What altitude? What altitude is Royal reaching?

MENACHEM Charlie-Senator-Romeo (he incorrectly recalls CSR-5)

KISLEV Leave her! (his flat tone changes dramatically as he realizes this was no Egyptian ship)

ROBERT Leave her. What ship is this?

...]

Anyway, the short version of this incident is covered in my video, if anyone wants to cut through the crap that's continually being perpetuated...

The USS Liberty: A Brief Anatomy of a Tragic Wartime Mistake. A quick overview of a tragic footnote to the 1967 Six Day War in which a US technical research vessel (AGTR-5) was mistakenly attacked by IDF forces.

https://youtu.be/Axsm0hwIchw

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