ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SECONDS FROM NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST
March 12, 2008
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
My fellow Americans, I sit here at 3:00 am with my heart racing and my hands shaking and I ask that you please take a moment to read my letter. I ask not that you read it for my sake, but rather for your own and for your children and grandchildren.
JUNE 8, 1967, during the Six Day War, we came as close to a nuclear war than anytime in history and it scares me to death as it should you. For the benefit of those who do not know what happened (the result of a deliberate campaign of cover-up and censorship by a Zionist-owned media in America) I will give you a quick history lesson. It all started on a beautiful bright, sunny day 40 years ago. Our ship, the USS LIBERTY, was sailing off the coast of Sinai, doing 5 knots. The LIBERTY was the most sophisticated intelligence gathering platform in the world at that time. We were in international waters gathering intelligence, plucking it from the air, which we had every right to do. We were doing what our government ordered us to do.
Early in the morning we began to see Israeli aircraft coming very close to our ship, some so close we could see the pilots waving at us. As we waved back we could clearly see the Star of David on the aircraft. This went on for many hours. Our flag was flying (as always) GTR-5 was painted on both sides of her bow and “USS LIBERTY” was clearly painted on her stern. There could be no mistake as to who we were. Israel knew we were American and we knew we had been identified as American and friendly as the Israelis themselves have since admitted. They plotted us on their war table and made positive ID of our ship as the LIBERTY. The crew all knew the war was still ongoing and we all took comfort in the fact that our Israeli ‘friends’ had come to visit us. It made all of us feel safer, just in case one of the Arab combatants got spunky and came after us as we all knew Israel would be there to protect their American friends and allies.
We had been on station for approximately 7 to 8 hours. Suddenly, at 2:00 all hell broke loose. We were being attacked by jet aircraft. On their first pass they took out our 4 fifty-caliber machine guns, all of our antennae and our moon dish. Everything we had to communicate with was destroyed. They continued their air assault for about 30 minutes using rockets, canons and napalm which they dropped on the bridge to try and burn us alive. Fifteen minutes into their vicious attack Terry Halbadier got an antenna to work and we began broadcasting “under attack, under attack by unknown jet aircraft.” The jets were unmarked, hiding the identity of our attackers. The USS SARATOGA, commanded by Captain Tully, sent aircraft to our aid only to have them recalled by voice from Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara. Again, Captain Tully ordered rescue aircraft to come to our aid. Then, President Lyndon Johnson got on the phone and ordered the recall himself, saying “I don’t give a God damn if every man on board that ship dies, I will not embarrass our ally, Israel.”
Now, if we didn’t know who was attacking us until much later into the attack how did the poll cat Johnson know it was the Israelis that were attacking us? The reason is simple–we were set up by our own government as pawns to let Israel have her way with us. Why else would our government recall the life-saving aircraft when we were still under attack?
When the jets got through with us they sent the torpedo boats, three of them. Then and only then did we become aware of who was attacking us. We could see their flags on their boats with the Star of David on them. We were horrified that our so-called ‘ally’ was doing this to us. The word went out we were under attack by Israeli torpedo boats. This was picked up as far away as Vietnam and many other listening posts around the world. Still no help from our government. We were on our own.
The torpedo boats fired five torpedoes at us, one hitting its mark midships, instantly slaughtering 25 American sons. The torpedo boats kept up the attack, I guess, until they ran out of ammunition, shooting at our boilers, firefighters, stretcher bearers, anything that moved. The captain ordered us to prepare to abandon ship.
We put over 3 life rafts, all that remained that would float. We were going to put our most severely wounded men in them. The Israelis would have none of that and shot two of them out of the water and took one aboard their boat as a trophy.
The torpedo boats left and then came Israeli helicopters with armed troops, ready to board our ship and finish us off. They hovered over us like vultures ready for the kill and suddenly they left. We found out later that they left because they knew we had gotten messages out that it was Israel doing the murdering not any Arab state.
When all was said and done in this almost two hour attack, 34 men were murdered, 174 were wounded. There were over 821 canon and rocket holes in our ship. Thousands of 50 caliber armor piercing bullets riddled her skin and there was a 40 x 40 foot torpedo hole in her side. The LIBERTY was the most heavily damaged ship in modern history including WWII.
We did not receive any help from our government for 18 hours after the attack when help was only 15 - 20 minutes away. Why was our government willing to sacrifice 294 American sailors, marines and the finest intelligence ship in the world? That’s what we all were wondering. A few days later, Admiral Isaac Kidd came aboard our ship and ordered every crewman never to speak a word about what happened to us to other crewmen, parents, family, no one under penalty of prison or worse and we all knew what worse meant.
We took the ship to Malta. The dead were removed from the torpedo space and the ship was repaired and painted to look brand new, as if nothing had ever happened.
I stayed silent for many years. I was so afraid to say anything as was the rest of the crew. In about 1983-1984 I read a book called “Assault on the Liberty” by James Ennes Jr., an intelligence officer onboard when we were attacked. I began asking questions of the navy, congress, anyone I could write to find out answers to a simple question - why our government went along with the cover-up as it is still doing today. The standard answer you get from congress is there have already been many investigations which is a bold face lie and I have told them that. All you have to do is check the congressional record and you will see there has never been any investigation except for the sham Board of Inquiry which was a white wash and only took 6 days to complete. Isaac Kidd signed off on it as did Captain Ward Boston, Admiral John McCain Jr. and President Lyndon Johnson all in a matter of 10 days. The conclusion? Mistaken identity!! Captain Boston has recanted what was in the Board of Inquiry as a pack of lies. He was ordered to sign off by none other than Admiral John McCain Jr., Senator McCain’s father.
The fact is we were set up to sink fast, blame it on Egypt and bring the U.S. into the war. This was the deal made by our government and the Israeli Government. This government will not help us get the truth out. They are knee-deep in bed with the Israeli Lobby, AIPAC and every other Israeli interest out there. Our elected officials sold us out then and they are still selling us out now. Israel is committing war crimes on Americans and our government could care less. This country is not “We the Government” it is “We the People” and if we don’t take our government back soon it is nobody’s fault but our own.
What I found out later is our government was 120 seconds away from dropping nuclear bombs on Cairo, Egypt and they would have if the LIBERTY would have sunk. The LIBERTY staying afloat was an act of God. He kept us afloat to tell you the truth. If our government would have nuked Cairo you can bet the Soviet Union would have retaliated in kind on the American people. This was a pact with the devil with only the greater interest of Israel in mind.
My fellow Americans, look what is going on in the Middle East today. It all goes back to the Six Day War 40 years ago. We need you to email your representatives in Congress and demand an investigation into the attack on the LIBERTY. Remember, they work for us, we don’t work for them. As futile as it may seem, we must at least TRY to take our country back from Israel before it is too late, if indeed it is not already.
Miracles have hinged on smaller odds than this. Look at what happened to us 40 years ago–we should have been dead, sunk to the bottom of the sea and yet we stayed afloat, as I said, by the hand of God. It was a miracle. Remember, Israel didn’t just attack the LIBERTY, she attacked America with our government’s help, and remember, as the old saying goes, ‘A leopard does not change its spots’. What this gang of criminals has done once it will do again, and this time, chances are that we will not be as lucky as we were 40 years ago. Despite all the propaganda we hear, Israel is not our friend. No friend treats us as she has. She would just as soon slit our throats as look at us, and this is not a theory, it is a fact proven by history.
Phillip F. Tourney, Survivor June 8, 1967
tonktime5@yahoo.com
March 12, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Unbelievable!
I’ve read Ennis’ book, and just finished James Petras’ book on Israeli conrtol of the US.
March 12, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Dear Mr. Tourney,
Your pain and anger is both palpable and justified. I only learned of this event about two years ago and was amazed but not surprised at both the actions of Israel and the inaction of our on government. This is one of the greatest betrayals of American soldiers and the American people in recorded history. The offense of the action and inaction are only topped by the subsequent cover-up and media blackout on the subject. you have every right to be scathing with rage. I was not there and I am surely crawling out of my skin with anger.
I take the time to write to you out of respect for your loss and the betrayal perpetrated on you and the other sailors of the USS Liberty. While, unfortunately, I do not believe our corrupt government will ever correct the situation let alone acknowledge it, I do and always will make an effort to inform all who’s attention I can get about this most important and overlooked chapter in our secret history. And most importantly, I tell the youth of this history. My children, their friends my nieces and nephews; they now know and they speak of it. Their friends know. this must never be forgotten and Israel must never be forgiven.
With friends like Israel…who needs enemies?
Be Well.
March 12, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Phil Tourney has done America a great favor with his bold stand for truth and justice. Will America listen? Or are the brains of Americans too filled with Zionist propaganda and “love for the Jews” to consider the statements of this eyewitness to a REAL holocaust? US politicians today are just as much the toadies to Israel as was LBJ - who owed his presidency to them. If anything is to be done, it will have to come from grass-roots patriots, and not the bought-and-paid for prostitutes elected as our “leaders.” Thanks Phil. We appreciate you and the men of the USS Liberty, both the murdered and those still living.
Ray Goodwin
Texas
March 12, 2008 at 4:34 pm
The USS Liberty was attacked by the terrorist state of Israel to destroy Liberty herself. Divine Providence saved the ship and all Americans should be greatful for the enourmous courage of her crew. I think there were two Medals of Honor awarded.
The subsequent survival of the ship, and her making it to Malta, only to be scrapped stateside, has led to Congress and other agents of the Jews “scrapping” liberty herself. The most obvious example is the destruction of our Social Security, not just with the raiding of our Social Security Trust Fund by Congress, but with the attack on the World Trade Towers, and all the other “essential” events of the “(Julia-Lewis) Dreyfus Affair” “terrorist states-of-affairs” “affairs of state” of the terrorist state of Israel. These include serial murders, “goverment” and other “leaders” determined to destroy the People, Iraq, abortion, Smallpox and HIV in Africa, etc., etc.
The good news is that We the People of the United States have found out about these abominations and, with faith in God and knowledge of the great destiny of the United States to bring Peace to the World, we pledge to the People of the World to do what is necessary to defeat Satan.
March 12, 2008 at 4:49 pm
This is to bad, unfortunately the corruption will continue. It’s the American way.
March 12, 2008 at 5:12 pm
As Michael Rivero states on his site:
“Here is the one question nobody can answer.
Israel claims they thought the USS Liberty was an Egyptian ship and therefore a legitimate target of war. If that were so, WHY DID ISRAEL ATTACK USING UNMARKED SHIPS AND PLANES?
Given Israel’s history, the most likely explanation for the attack on the USS Liberty was that Israel intended to sink the ship, kill everyone aboard, and frame Egypt for the crime, in order to trick the US into (yet another) war on Israel’s enemies.
Egypt had been the target of an Israeli frame-up years earlier during the The Lavon affair.”
I have another, and equally good (IMHO) question: when LBJ issued the second recall order, why did Tully obey that order, if he was willing to ignore it the first time?
March 12, 2008 at 7:13 pm
I got one question ? Who will Americans elect as their president in November 2008 ?
Will it be another Neo-Con McCain ?
Will it be another Neo-Dem Clinton ?
Will the people go with Obama ?? the lesser of the 3 evils I think .
What Americans needs to do is find out the TRUTH about 911…. and Once people accept that the government
(the present and previous one)arranged for this tragety to occure.
Over 3000 people dies in the NYC, PA, and Washington crashes and maybe as much as 1,000,000 people were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001 .
WHY ????
Because of Oil ? because of Power ? because of Terror ?
The ONLY TERROR the people of the world is experiencing is US Government Terror.
It IS time for the public to wake up and reject their government’s Terror threats.
March 12, 2008 at 7:26 pm
absolutely sick
if it means anything, this incident woke me up to Israel’s full intentions
heres another time Israel helped people within our own government kill US citizens
http://patriotsquestion911.com
How these crimmes have gone unpunished is truly disgusting. How these snakes think God is on their side, I’ll never figure out
March 12, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Big M asks, “why did Tully obey that order, if he was willing to ignore it the first time?”
THAT is the question in every military involved act of treason. Why do these obviously intelligent military commanders and field officers go along with illegal command(s)? The USSLiberty was the center of an act of war by another nation, yet treason was the result from the Johnson admin, for why?? Is zionism the sole cause or are there other issues that prevail.
With this said, with the idea given to the public of proud war hawks on watch, why does any jewish man or woman get what are refered to as “security clearances” for top secret and any other level of secret distinctions, with the base ‘religious’ nature of a jew not being able to “tell on another jew”?
I do believe a full investigation into the chain of command and communications, are full of people that have some inbread-religious conflict regarding the security of the national secrets and lets say, sabotage.
In reply to Patrick M. Griffin Says: 2008 03 12 @4:34 pm “The good news is that We the People of the United States have found out about these abominations and, with faith in God and knowledge of the great destiny of the United States to bring Peace to the World, we pledge to the People of the World to do what is necessary to defeat Satan.”
Well Pat, you say some wise opinions then you take the wrong direction. We will never see justice done until we get interested ourselves and act, demand justice in every injustice we are involved in. Faith is nice, but it has always been a large tool in the continuance of the tyrants actions.
In reply to, C Says: 2008 03 12 @4:49 pm “This is to bad, unfortunately the corruption will continue. It’s the American way.”
The line went, “truth, justice, and the american way”, a list of three different items/things.
March 12, 2008 at 8:17 pm
In reply to the question raised by “MeatwadGetsIt” (Big M asks, “why did Tully obey that order, if he was willing to ignore it the first time?”) I would like to ask, why does Congress have to authorize promotions to Colonel and higher?
Evidently they want to ensure his “political correctness”, i.e. his obedience to the “nation” of “Israel”. That of course begs in turn the question, “and why are they so interested in this obedience?”
Get it, folks, you are governed by a bunch of traitors!
March 12, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I heard about the USS Liberty some time ago and bring up the subject of this tragedy when similar incidents arise. Some people are in such shock that they almost don’t want to believe what I am telling them. I suggest they simply go to Google or Yahoo and type in “USS LIBERTY” if they don’t. It’s almost like the movie the Matrix, people are plugged in to the perceived TRUTH or REALITY of any given subject. Anything that goes against TRUTH or REALITY is disregarded.
Mr. Tourney, thank you for keeping the truth alive!
March 12, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Reading these comments gives one hope. Maybe there are more true patriots out there than one might imagine. I taught American History on the college level until 2002. The USS Liberty incident was not mentioned in ONE “history” text I was assigned to use. Yet the 1968 capture of the Pueblo WAS mentioned. People need to ask themselves, WHY would this be so?
Not only the kept historians will not mention it - keep in mind that those who print and publish the books are also very instrumental in keeping truth from our nation. So, look in that chain of command as the gentleman suggests - and sure, you are going to find followers of that 6-pointed star and their Judas-goats. And you will also find out, if you look, that the printing and publishing of the textbooks used to “educate” our young - are ALSO under the control of these “chosen” rats. Keep one thing in mind, however - those RATS could not subvert our nation without the total assistance and cooperation of those non-Jews who are so anxious for their 30 pieces of silver an brief moments of “fame” and praise by their manipulators. The enemy is indeed “us.”
Ray goodwin
Texas
March 12, 2008 at 8:55 pm
And how do you propose that we “take our government back” when the mechanisms to do so are in the hands of our enemies? Why the hell would we want it back anyway. It was obviously fatally flawed to allow this to happen. The state is not the country.
March 12, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Lyndon Johnson was a grandstander. He was always at the microphone, in the lights, and wearing a big Cowboy Hat. He insisted on having the cameras focus on him.
Except of one occasion. When John Kennedy was killed, Lyndon Johnson was in one of the last cars in the line-up. I don’t think he was wearing his cowboy hat either.
Once he got to be president, he had a chance to bomb Cambodia because one of our ships was supposedly attacked by the Cambodians.
Did I mention that before he was in politics he was a slum lord, and preyed upon real estate buyers with foreclosures to his own benefit.
Sacrificing the Liberty fits Johnson’s MO to a Tee. Who knows what else, or who else he committed crimes against.
March 12, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Both LBJ and Daddy WarBush were implicated in the assassination of JFK. Don’t believe me? Do some research. The current Zionist Senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Sphincter, was the inside man on the Warren Report which whitewashed the assassination, blaming patsy Oswald for firing the magic bullet. The nasty old closeted dragqueen, J. Edna Hoover, then head of the FBI and controlling all the blackmail dossiers on American politicians ,was also in on the action.
Yet, all these nasty men were merely actors on the stage, taking their cues from the Cabal, headed by the Rockefeller clan and their ilk here in the US and the Rothschilds internationally. These elite scum, called by some the Illuminati, control world finance through their privately owned “Federal” Reserve Bank system; the Bank of England, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Bank of International Settlements. It is their generation’s- long scheme to control the planet and rule it from Jerusalem where the Rothschilds built and paid for the Israeli Supreme Court building, a structure which is loaded with Masonic symbology.
By no means are all Jews aware of how they are being used by these schemers. But there is this tribalistic tendency among the “Chosen People=Master Race” to never cross another Jew, particularly if that man wields financial and/or political power. Those Jews who cannot live with other people should have no right to remain in Palestine. No god in his right mind would have a “chosen people” and give them the place in perpetuity. Yahweh is strictly an invented Hebrew tribal god and despite all of you who mindlessly believe in the Roman Imperial creation called the Bible, Yahweh is definitely not the Creator.
People all over the world are waking up to this madness and even in the home of the pisstest and land of the slave there are a growing number of people who do not buy the bull emanating from the mass media of misinformation and deception spewed out by the Zionist media owners and their goyish henchmen.
March 12, 2008 at 10:14 pm
My very good friend, whom I call my brother/dad, Ron Kukal was on the Liberty with you and he has shared much of that experience (I’m not sure “experience” is a strong enough word for what you all went through) with my husband and me in his own words.
I don’t know what to say except that I’m so sorry you had to go through that horror. It was a completly uncalled for and heinous act on the parts of both Israel and the United States.
Don’t get me wrong here. I love my country, it’s my government that I don’t trust.
March 12, 2008 at 10:15 pm
“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
W Churchill
March 12, 2008 at 10:29 pm
The people who run the government have gotten so arrogant about the power they have that they don’t even TRY to pretend we have a democracy. Why are they arrogant? Ask Carl Rove and DIEBOLD. They know they willget elected no matter WHAT they do! So why should they care what we think? People wake up!
March 12, 2008 at 10:29 pm
If you work within a microcosm of society as I do, then you are aware that the informed (i.e. internet savvy) have known of this for years. However, the majority gets their news from the MSM, and we all know what a lying pack of elitist Zionist crack-kissers they are. America is finished and in her death throes as I type. God help us all.
March 12, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Does any of this surprize anyone? I think not, the jews are a rouge country and are still killing innocent men, women, and children, look at Palestine. The world can only hope they make a mistake and mess with Iran and then have the Russians and Chinese come in and kill all of them so the world will be a much better place. It amazes me that the people of the world don’t stand up and demand that the land the u.s gave away to those vile excretement of sewage, give it back to the Palestinians. It shows what a bunch of gutless pieces of crud they are by fighting with u.s armament while the Palestinians fight with rocks, makes the jews look even more jerk off pieces of excretement that the world really knows they are.
March 12, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Opinion,
They (America and Israel)are still at it today.
The action on Palestinians is “GENOCIDE”.
“In the beginning was the word and the word was “GENOCIDE.
The world needs to pray “seriously and act seriously soon”.
March 12, 2008 at 11:04 pm
If you’re going to “vote,” WRITE-IN RON PAUL!!!!!!!
March 12, 2008 at 11:22 pm
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March 12, 2008 at 11:26 pm
I heard about this from an old aquaintance of mine who was killed, due to his top secret clearance he had with the US Navy.
He was killed because he wrote a book and informed thousands of people about the truth. He quit the Navy, after he found out what the US Navy and other rogue powers including secrete combinations of the IRS, the Federal Reserve Bank for Profit and others… were doing to the American People.
Bush and his boys are doing the save thing today, with Iran, Iraq and the USA Inc.
They set up self inflicted Terrorism acts, scared the public and fooled congress. They instigated, controlled and demolished the New York Trade Center complex, along other terrorist actions.
Soon the Dollar will crash,
Bush and the North American Trade group will introduce the Amero in its place for pennys on the dollar. this will bankrupt many people.
March 12, 2008 at 11:44 pm
There is NOTHING more REVOLUTIONARY than the TRUTH;
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“You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.”-John 8:32
America was founded by dissidents, rebels and revolutionaries!
NOT neo-cons or conservatives!
What we the people need to do is take back America THIS YEAR!
And it begins by putting the fear of God into our AIPAC beholden Congress, Hillary and McCain by inundating them FAXes, emnails and snail mail to !
Wake Up Time from Orwell’s Nightmare
On March 5, 2008, 404 House members beat the drum for more war by passing HR 951, which cites Iran and Syria as the main sponsors of Palestinian terror-and totally ignores the 40 year Military Occupation by Israel which is aided and abetted by over 3.2 BILLION USA tax dollars a year!
House Resolution 951 cites the “more than 4,000 rockets and mortar shells [that] have been fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip by Hamas and other terrorist organizations… [and claims] the Government of Israel’s military operations in Gaza only target Hamas and other terrorist organizations.” [1]
Apparently the callous idiots running the asylum in the House of Representatives perceive the 982 Palestinian children who have been killed by Israeli forces, since 2000 are card carrying members of Hamas, but reality is:
“The majority of these [Palestinian] children were killed and injured while going about normal daily activities, such as going to school, playing, shopping, or simply being in their homes. Sixty-four percent of children killed during the first six months of 2003 died as a result of Israeli air and ground attacks, or from indiscriminate fire from Israeli soldiers.” [2]
In Orwell’s nightmare, 1984, the Party slogan “War is Peace” and “Who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past” are life in the 21st century USA for the 404 congressional reps who have convinced themselves that history never happened.
Not a word in HR 951 mentions the fact on the ground that human rights have been denied the 1.5 million human beings in the open air prison of Gaza nor Israel’s persistent blatant disregard of international law and the 65 UN resolutions that have targeted Israel.
“Aside from the core issues—refugees, Jerusalem, borders—the major themes reflected in the U.N. resolutions against Israel over the years are its unlawful attacks on its neighbors; its violations of the human rights of the Palestinians, including deportations, demolitions of homes and other collective punishments; its confiscation of Palestinian land; its establishment of illegal settlements; and its refusal to abide by the U.N. Charter and the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.” [3]
Big Brother would be in his glory in the America of today, for the Industrial Military Media ‘Security’/Surveillance Complex persists to spin the fallacy that Israeli forces withdrew from [Gaza] in 2005, but reality is that the drama in Gaza was made for television.
The colonists/squatters/settlers the world witnessed being removed were financially compensated and resettled in other illegal settlements in the West Bank. Israel never gave up complete control of all air, land and sea borders to Gaza and the Jewish apartheid state birthed the world’s largest open air prison inhabited by 1.5 million human beings which gives credence to Big Brothers mantra that “Ignorance is Strength.”
All right thinking people of good will condemn and deplore the targeting of any civilians and grieve over the loss of any life taken by any independent militant, terrorist organization or army of any state or nation.
HR 951 cites “the near-daily rocket fire [that] has been targeted primarily and intentionally at civilian communities in Israel, such as Sderot and Ashkelon, making life in such areas agonizing…[and] that these unprovoked rocket and mortar attacks have murdered over a dozen Israelis, inflicted hundreds of casualties, produced thousands of cases of shock and posttraumatic stress, especially among children, and caused severe disruption of daily life.”
None of those who voted yes for HR 951, apparently have ever read the Israeli human rights organization, B’Tselem’s reports among which affirm that since the year 2000, 1,259 of the 2,679 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Gaza Strip were not participating in hostilities when they were killed, and 567 were minors, nor have a clue of the trauma inflicted upon the children of Gaza who are denied electricity for hours every day and often days on end and who only know Isrsael’s through the barrel of a gun.
“Israeli deaths are “terrorism,” while Palestinian deaths are merely an unfortunate consequence of the fight against “terrorism.” But the two are intricately linked, and what happened in Jerusalem [at the Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav on March 6 are] a direct consequence of what Israel has been doing to the Palestinians for decades.” [4]
That west Jerusalem school is the ideological cradle of the most militant of all the Jewish settler movements-Gush Emunim- and “unlike other sects in Israel which sought exemption of their students from military service, Gush Emunim encouraged its followers to join the army and become the armed wing of religious nationalist Zionism. Gush Emunim settlers…founded the most extreme and racist settlements in the Occupied West Bank, including the notorious colonies in and near Hebron whose inhabitants have made life miserable for Palestinians in the city and forced many of them out of their homes. It is the militant settlers of Gush Emunim who still honor Baruch Goldstein who murdered 29 Palestinians in Hebron in February 1994. It is in Hebron that the Gush Emunim settlers spray “Arabs to the gas chambers” on Palestinian houses.” [IBID]
In June 2005, I made my first and last trip to Hebron, the most painful place I have ever been.
My guide was Jerry Levin, who in the 1980’s had been CNN’s Mid East Bureau Chief in Lebanon and a secular Jew. Jerry was kidnapped and held hostage by the Hezbollah for nearly a year. Shortly after he experienced a mystical Christmas Eve, and escaped unharmed, he was never the same. He became a Christian and he and his wife, Dr. Sis, have devoted themselves ever since to seeking justice and peace in the Holy Land.
In 2005, Jerry was a full time volunteer with CPT/Christian Peacemaker Teams in Hebron when he told me, “Every time I get ready to return to Palestine, everyone asks me, ‘Aren’t you afraid?’ I reply, ‘Of what, the Palestinians? No way! But when it comes to the Israelis soldiers, you bet I am!’”
In 2005, Hebron contained 450 Israeli settlers/squatters/colonists and three thousand Israeli forces. The eighteen- to twenty-one-year-olds patroled the streets with their weapons at the ready and turned us away at one of the many checkpoints. Jerry quipped, “Most of the soldiers don’t like the CPTs. Whenever they won’t let us through, we just go another way, and always, eventually, get where we want to go.”
I was nauseated the entire day for the oppression was visceral. The narrow, winding stone streets that for centuries had been trod by Palestinians were eerily empty in many areas except for the open air market street and another where apartment buildings were on one side Israeli, and the other Palestinian. The only connection to the other side of the street was a thick deeply sagging netting strung over head. Huge rocks, shovels, electronic equipment, furniture, and all manner of debris had been flung upon it and I wondered if I would be underneath when it gave way.
Jerry told me, “It gets cleaned out about every year or so. Come back in a few months, and this netting will be much closer to your head. The settlers just throw whatever they want onto the netting; they do whatever they want and get away with it. The CPT’s run interference by nonviolent resistance; we get the children and woman to where they need to be going and back again. Sometimes, the settlers curse and stone us all; it keeps it interesting.”
We then walked to a desolate area and Jerry pointed out all the empty and formerly Palestinian homes that the settlers had painted graffiti and Stars of David on. It was not a nightmare, but reality when I saw spray painted on a now empty, but formerly Palestinian home, “GAS THE ARABS.”
I told Jerry Hebron was hell on earth and he replied, “You haven’t seen anything, until you see Gaza.”
And that was in 2005!
1. http://cnifoundation.org/images/stories/HR_951.pdf
2. http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/children.html
3. http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/un.html
4. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9381.shtml
March 13, 2008 at 12:10 am
I call myself ‘Commander Z’, my email address is jewlessworld@live.com and although I pretend to be one of you really I am just a nutjob. If you get anything from me delete it as I was probably drunk or high when I wrote it.
COMMANDER Z
March 13, 2008 at 12:29 am
You don’t have to shop at Walmart. You don’t have to use a bank. All these are choices you make. You don’t have to sport a telly in your living room. A 10′ x 10′ garden (small piece of most lawns) can support you for a winter. You don’t have to go to the grocery store. You don’t have to use the system. I don’t. Why complain about something that was corrupt from its inception?
quack
March 13, 2008 at 1:00 am
Sir, There are no words…. Thankyou for your service to my country America. You are a voice of courage among a storm of voices of cowardice in american media today. Admiral Fallon has just “resigned”. Is he too a voice of cowardice? Are we all simply cannon fodder for Israel’s quest of global conquest. It seems so. Sir, Go With God. Thankyou again for your courage. Sincerely, David Mende.
March 13, 2008 at 1:04 am
The attack upon the USS Liberty was a “Triggering” event, designed to get a full blown nuclear holocaust of humanity underway.
Many have called it a “Miracle” that the Liberty stayed afloat against all odds.
A more likely explanation is that the “High Level Powers, that we refer to as “ET,” stepped in, and prevented the sinking of the USS Liberty.
We have all been slated to be exterminated in an all out nuclear war. The decision to immolate humanity was made in 1946. We are the “Living Dead.” This is why the presence of “ET” is still classified “Above top secret.”
Bush and Cheney have launched a nuclear war several times since they have occupied the office. “ET” has taken the “Keys” to the nuclear war machine away from them. If “ET” had not stepped in, we would all be the “Dead Dead,” rather than merely the “Living Dead.”
If you can find it. read “Operation Cyanide” by Peter Hounam. Or read “Red Star Rogue,” by Ken Sewell. Both will give you an idea of how the “ET” have a tight grip on our nuclear war fighting elite.
March 13, 2008 at 1:28 am
It is abundantly clear after reading Eileen Fleming’s carefully researched commentary that the membership of the US House of Representatives, with a handful of exceptions such as Ron Paul, have sold their souls for Zionist campaign contributions. Having done so, these so-called “representatives” of the American people have revealed themselves as accountable to a foreign power and have violated their Oaths of Allegiance to the Constitution of the United States.
We may conclude from this that most of the members of the House have committed HIGH TREASON against their country and should be accountable to the highest penalties of the Law of the Land. Perhaps a few people will take note if you individually bird-dog these “representatives” when they come to your area, begging for your votes. Perhaps you could hold up signs which read “Traitor”. You could hand out a piece of literature describing their act of treason against the Republic and of their kowtowing to the genocidal foreign policy of an alien state.
My solution for Jews who are incapable of living with other people without becoming parasites and/or attempting to dominate the “goyim” would be a new Zion to be located on the island of Tasmania, off the coast of Australia. As the original white settlers of Tasmania killed off the entirety of the native population, they have no moral hold on their home. There is certainly enough Jewish money in the world to pay off the Tasmanians at say a million a head, to move to the Australian mainland should they not prefer to convert to Judaism. Jews who do not hold this “Chosen People= Master Race ideology should be free to live wherever they are and be welcome there as fellow human beings.
March 13, 2008 at 1:30 am
It is tragic how US democracy has been hijacked by politicans following an Israeli agenda. The Liberty attack is a parallel to what is happening in Iran today. With the retirement of a high ranking military official yesterday another obstacle to a military operation in Iran has been removed. Iran has never been and never will be a threat to the US.
The Liberty attack and the posturing in Iran is proof that Americans have more to fear from their own government than any perceived external enemy.
The one saving grace is that when WWWIII ends the Russians and Chinese will pull Bush and Cheney from their comfortable underground bunkers and try them as war criminals.
March 13, 2008 at 2:16 am
This all reveals that democracy is a joke and a lie, along with every other form of Government. The Point is Human Beings are perpetually corrupt, all throughout history citizens of every culture have supported and allowed Psychopaths to attain power, and then wonder why events like the USS Liberty have happened.
March 13, 2008 at 2:21 am
And how can ANYTHING ever be solved when The Ugly Truth is moderated and deleted by “Overseers”?
March 13, 2008 at 2:36 am
I hope one day that every citizen in the western world wakes up pretty soon……….Even our skies are sprayed everyday leaving scars across them.
The powers that be call them contrails (chemtrails) could this daily spraying everywhere, but Russia and China, be the reason why so many of our brothers and sisters are sheople……Is this why Russia has suddenly
turned on a united europe? do they see something from the outside that we do not? The answer is clear to those who wish to see it. Even the japanese government has questioned the validity of 911(transcript available online).
I think your letter is another example of a cover-up, but we need to find a way for every individual to take back the freedoms we deserve, the freedoms we have yet to experience as a race.
Everyone in my e-mail contacts will recieve a copy of your recollections….Good luck to us all, as the fight has just begun for humanity.