USS Liberty deniers will say Israel’s 1967 attack on the U.S. spy ship was a total accident. Marine Staff Sergeant Bryce Lockwood was on the Liberty and says there’s no doubt Israel meant to kill every American on board.
0:00 The Story of the USS Liberty
11:14 What Really Happened During the Attack?
21:28 Did Israeli Boats Help Survivors After Receiving Their Mayday Call?
26:13 Did the Johnson Administration Allow the Attack?
29:14 How Many Americans Were Killed in the Attack?
32:51 When Did Lockwood Realize the Attack Came From the Israelis?
35:06 What Was the Motive?
37:00 Was Lockwood Told Not to Talk About the Attack?
47:25 The People Dismissing the Attack as a Mistake
52:25 Why Did the US Ignore This?
55:59 What Should Congress Do?
58:33 Is Lockwood Still Preaching?
For more than a millennium, an “antisemitic trope” has plagued the Jewish people in every nation they’ve sojourned in the diaspora: the anti-Jewish stereotype is that despite being a tiny minority, through cunning schemes, they’ve been able to take over the power structure of their host nation and do what is in their own best interests, against the will and interests of the nation’s Citizens. And now, through the powerful Israel Lobby in the United States, the U.S. Congress has found a workaround for collapsed public support for the Israeli war machine: instead of having to vote to appropriate financial support for the IDF every few years - which would make congressmen unpopular (and unelectable) with their constituents - just give the very same nation caught spying on us repeatedly, and repeatedly supplying our enemies with our secrets and technology, permanent ownership of the research, development, and procurement of the essential war-fighting technologies of the future. Maybe all those conspiracy theories exist for a reason. Just kidding. Of course, they do.
And now, they don’t have to pay spies like Jonathan Pollard to steal our military secrets. They will get it for free. The plan is being billed as a “partnership.”
On June 1, Netanyahu sent a letter to Congressman Marlin Stutzman of Indiana thanking him for supporting the plan to reshape the US-Israel military relationship. “Israel deeply appreciates the financial component of the military aid the United States has generously provided us over the years,” he wrote. “The time has now arrived for us to move from aid recipient to partner.”
That’s how growing up works, right? Your child turns of age, is ready to leave home and live on their own. So you add him to your bank accounts, the titles of your cars, and the deed to your house. Right? Is that not how “coming of age” works? No, it doesn’t. You let them pack a bag, drive away in their own car, having paid the insurance themselves, and move into their own apartment somewhere across town and stand on their own two feet. You don’t make them co-owners in your business ventures. We don’t cut food aid to Ethiopia and then make them partners in the USDA.
The vast sums that AIPAC pours into specific American elections -- in order to remove from the US Congress anyone who isn't loyal to Israel and install and maintain those who pledge loyalty to Israel -- are in a different universe than any other lobby. More than $20m on Haley "Israel comes to me in my dreams" Stevens.
AIPAC's ads never mention Israel because they know Americans are against financing that foreign country. It's pure manipulation for Tel Aviv. Anyone who purports to be concerned about "foreign interference in elections" without focusing primarily on this has an agenda other than the one they claim.
We need actions, not words, on the genocide in Gaza.
End all military cooperation with Israel, impose sanctions, and establish a public inquiry into British complicity, now.
🚨#BREAKING: HORRIFYING VIDEO FOOTAGE OUT OF BALTIMORE SHOWS 6 BLACK "TEENS" BEATING THE LIVING HELL OUT OF AN ELDERLY 74-YEAR-OLD WHITE MAN.
POLICE SAY THE "TEENS" HAD AN ASSAULT WEAPON AND SWORD AND RUTHLESSLY BEAT THE ELDERLY MAN, STOMPING ON HIM OVER AND OVER.
About 60% of Republicans under 65 years old dislike Israel, including about half who dislike them passionately.
The "never-ending wars in the name of Judeo-Christian values" grift is over.
You took their Trump Redo Presidency from them.
Voters will NEVER forgive you, idiots.
Marjorie Taylor Greene just delivered the most honest eulogy Lindsey Graham's legacy deserved:
"Lindsey Graham was a neo-con warmonger. A murderer. He wanted to wipe out innocent people in Iran, Gaza, Lebanon. He was a dedicated Zionist. He was the greatest lobbyist the military industrial complex ever had - with over 400 defense contractors in his state alone."
JUST IN: Nancy Pelosi will vote in favor of the Massie/Khanna resolution to cut off aid to Israel.
The tide has officially turned in American sentiment of Israel/Palestine.
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This is the whiny Penn student whom Mike Johnson invited to go to the Capitol to cry: "I DO NOT FEEL SAFE" because he saw anti-Israel signs. Has he disclosed this?
There are some employees who are really good at working independently and don't need constant meetings with their supervisor to be micro-managed and corrected.
Trump is not one of them. He can't go even 2 months without needing a major meeting with the Big Boss for reviews:
The reason Israelis and its American loyalists are so horrified by the interview with @RoKhanna is because @jeremyscahill advocates hehre the most taboo idea of all taboos in DC:
That the same moral standards the US and Israel purport to impose on the world also apply to them.
Thus: if Israel had the right to attack and bomb the shit out of Palestinians due to October 7, then Palestinians had and have the right to attack Israelis (especially military bases and IDF soldiers) due to Israeli violence against them on Oct 6, Oct 5 and pretty much every day befoe that for the prior years.
One of the great stains on the American experiment has been the brutal, systemic exclusion of Jews from Hollywood: no studio moguls, no agents, no writers or directors, no actors. No Holocaust films. Just systemic suffocatting anti-semitism. The ADL has denounced it.
Listen here to the tragic ways Jews *still* suffer in Hollywood solely for being Jews:
Everyone at @TheAtlantic, such as @jonathanchait, works for a boss -- Editor @JeffreyGoldberg -- who left the US to join the IDF as a prison guard in an Israeli dungeon holding and torturing Palestinians.
So Atlantic writers should probably refrain from this accuastory imagery:
Still more explicit arguments for eliminating the free speech and press rights of American citizens in order to protect Israel.
Jeremy Scahill and every other American journalist is permitted to say whatever the fuck they want about Israel without being hauled before Congress: