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I’m sharing a 2017 video marking the 50th anniversary of the June 8, 1967 USS Liberty attack, detailing the clash and claims of a government cover-up by the Johnson administration. It notes a 69% casualty rate with 34 dead and 172 wounded, and highlights James Scott, author of The Attack on the Liberty, who is the son of a sailor on board. The post aims for education and informed discussion. Bookmark and share.
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🎦🌐THE USS LIBERTY ⚓️ ▶️📺 Video from 2017 (the 50-year anniversary) about the June 8, 1967 attack on US spy ship USS Liberty and the subsequent cover-up by the US govt and the Johnson admin. USS Liberty suffered a 69% casualty rate in the attack that left 34 American servicemen dead and 172 wounded. 🔠📚 James Scott is the author of "The attack on the Liberty", son of John Scott who served on board USS Liberty. ℹ️💬 This post shares historically accurate details for education & informed discussion, not to promote or glorify any ideology. 🔄🔖🔗Bookmark and share!
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On June 8, 1967, during the Six Day War, the USS Liberty, a state-of-the-art American signals intelligence ship patrolling international waters off the Egyptian coast, was attacked by Israeli jets and motor torpedo boats. The assault included napalm, rockets, cannon fire, and torpedoes. Of a crew nearing 300, 34 were killed and 172 injured, two-thirds of the crew. The ship, flying the U.S. flag and bearing the hull number of an American vessel, presented a visible American presence as the attack began.
Real-time audio captured on board by the Israeli military reportedly shows that Israeli commanders knew they were attacking an American ship. The attack unfolded while the Sixth Fleet was hundreds of miles away, and the ship’s air cover and rescue planes did not reach it in time. The Liberty’s role was to intercept signals and gather intelligence; crewmembers described their work as intercepting communications and bouncing signals off the moon for the NSA, with translators on board and a capability to receive signals across bands. They stressed that the ship was a neutral intelligence platform, not targeted at Israelis.
Leading up to the attack, the Liberty had arrived off the coast of Egypt with two days remaining in a broader regional conflict. Israel promised not to strike first, but the Israelis conducted reconnaissance overflights and radio jamming of distress and tactical frequencies during the assault, complicating rescue attempts. The crew noted a surprising sense of safety, aided by an American flag and “holiday colors,” and by the presence of Israeli surveillance aircraft that circled the ship earlier in the day. An Israeli reconnaissance plane later identified the Liberty as an American spy ship.
As the attack commenced, the crew witnessed intense damage: a forward gun crew killed, life rafts machine-gunned, and the ship set ablaze from napalm that scorched the front of the vessel. The crew attempted to defend the ship with four .50-caliber guns, but the jets’ speed and missiles overwhelmed defenses. A torpedo strike at 02:35 p.m. produced a massive hole (39 feet by 24) and killed 25 sailors in one hit. Survivors recounted the chaos: flooded compartments, bodies, shrapnel, and a ship now listing severely. The crew grappled with fires, sinking water, and a scramble to evacuate wounded to decks and lifeboats, all while under continuing air and sea attack.
With the attack by Israeli motor torpedo boats and gunfire, the ship’s air communications were jammed, leaving the Liberty cut off from the outside world. After the torpedo strike, the Israelis ordered the destruction of sensitive material aboard, a standard procedure during a capture or loss scenario. Crewmembers described destroying computer data and other material to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.
The U.S. Sixth Fleet and American authorities were forced into a political crisis. The attack prompted immediate discussions at high levels in Washington, including President Lyndon Johnson. Documents later showed Johnson briefly informed the press that Israelis had attacked the ship, and declassified Israeli materials reveal that Israel contemplated threatening Johnson with “blood libel” if he pressed harder. The U.S. government pursued a policy of repair and concealment, avoiding public confrontation over Israel’s culpability.
An official U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry exonerated the Israelis, and an Israeli internal report suggested that the events were a series of mistakes with no one at fault, a conclusion that was widely disputed by survivors and families. The incident catalyzed a long-running, complex relationship between the United States and Israel: military cooperation deepened, intelligence-sharing arrangements were intensified under programs like Stone Ruby, and American aid to Israel increased substantially.
Compensation for victims and their families took years to settle. By 1980, the combined compensation and ship settlement totaled around $17 million, with the U.S. and Israel reaching a joint agreement, and the Liberty itself was sold for scrap. The episode left unresolved questions about war crimes and accountability, with survivors and families continuing to seek fuller acknowledgment of what happened and why it occurred.
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Speaker 0: Early June nineteen sixty seven. The six day war in The Middle East between Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria is underway. A spy ship, very lightly armed, but bristling with antennae, steams into the Mediterranean to eavesdrop on the conflict. It is patrolling in international waters off the Egyptian coast. At two in the afternoon on June 8, with the war reaching its climax, Israeli jets and motor torpedo boats launch an unprovoked attack on the ship.
They drop napalm and strafe its decks with rockets, cannon fire, and armor piercing rounds before trying to sink it with torpedoes.
Speaker 1: We had no way to defend ourselves, and it was just we're just slaughtered.
Speaker 2: And they shot up the life rafts that were put into the water, and they shot the ones that were still on board the ship.
Speaker 3: Bullet holes, shell holes everywhere, blood. The folks saw the front part of the ship was just red with blood.
Speaker 0: Throughout the attack, the ship flies the stars and stripes, the flag of Israel's closest ally, The United States Of America. Its name, the USS Liberty, is freshly painted on its stern, and the bow carries the distinctive numbers of an American naval vessel.
Speaker 4: Out of a crew of just under 300, there were thirty four killed and a hundred and seventy two injured in varying degrees to life threatening, life debilitating injuries. So that was more than two thirds of the crew.
Speaker 0: This audio tape, which has never been broadcast before, was recorded in real time by the Israeli military during the assault. The woman's voice in the background is counting down the seconds. It proves that Israeli commanders knew all along that they were attacking an American ship. For the first time, this and other evidence allows us to reveal the true story of what happened that day and what came after. When a deadly assault by one ally on another was covered up American president was manipulated by the secret agents of a foreign power, events that have shaped US Israeli relations ever since.
The United States Navy Memorial in Washington DC. 06/08/2014. Every year, on the anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty, survivors, relatives, and supporters gather together.
Speaker 4: It's a remembrance of those who who were killed that day, the '34. I'm Dave Lucas. I was in charge of the deck force. I was 25. My first child was born when I was one day out on that cruise.
So as long as they're survivors and and maybe children of survivors, I think this will probably be an annual event.
Speaker 2: And salute.
Speaker 1: Forward.
Speaker 0: The names of the 34 killed are read out.
Speaker 2: Pull. Jack Raper.
Speaker 0: Punctuated by the tolling of a navy bell.
Speaker 3: David Marlborough.
Speaker 0: And the playing of taps. Anthony The traditional military funeral lament.
Speaker 4: It's important to not forget what happened and to continue to try to find out why it happened and and who made it happen.
Speaker 0: In the 1967, America was in turmoil. An incendiary mixture of racial discrimination and extreme poverty exploded into a summer of rioting in cities across the country. But one issue dominated. The Vietnam War. In all, 10,000 troops would die that year.
The Americans were trapped. They couldn't leave, and they couldn't win. In the Middle East too, war looked inevitable. There was growing tension between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Armies were mobilizing.
Israel promised the White House they would not attack first. But on the June 5, they jammed radar sets at the US embassy in Tel Aviv so the Americans couldn't detect their jets taking off to launch a surprise assault on Egypt. Meanwhile, the USS Liberty was sailing across the Mediterranean into the war zone.
Speaker 1: Liberty was a state of the art intelligence gathering vessel of the time. What we did is we listed. We were a listing ship. My name is Lloyd Painter. I was a research officer.
We could send we could receive any signal that was out there, low band, high band, anything, intercepting it, recording it. And we did have on board some translators who could have immediate translation of what was going on. We would actually bounce signals off the moon back to NSA.
Speaker 5: We were we're spies. I'm Jim Cavanaugh. I was communication technician aboard the USS Liberty, and I intercepted Morse code. We're spies. I mean, we're intercepting messages from embassies, military bases, police, anything and everything that we could get to ensure that The United States was comfortable with what was going on in the world and no one's conspiring against us.
Basically, it was to protect our interests.
Speaker 0: This was the Cold War. American president Lyndon Johnson knew that the Russians already had substantial military influence in Egypt. He needed to find out what they were going to do next to make sure that a local conflict did not become a world war with The USA backing Israel and Russia siding with the Arab cause.
Speaker 3: I was assigned as a Russian linguist aboard the ship. I'm Bryce Lockwood, United States Marine Corps, retired to Israelis. Our primary purpose was to intercept communications of the Russian spy aircraft as it were at Alexandria, Egypt, And then that was our job, to find them. We were not targeted against the Israelis.
Speaker 1: Life was very relaxing. One of the nice things about the Liberty is we had air conditioning because we had communications equipment. So we were cool in the hot days. It was a very laid back, very clean ship. It was it was spotless.
The morale was pretty high. I mean, very high.
Speaker 0: By the time the Liberty arrived off the coast of Egypt on the June 8, the war had just two days left to run. Israel had seized the old city of Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. Jordanian forces were beaten, and Egypt was conceding defeat. Only Syria held out.
Speaker 6: The airways were dead. The only voices we did get were those of Israeli or Hebrew, was what we were hearing. My name is Bob Wilson. I worked for NSA on 06/08/1967 when the when what we were trying to monitor, find something coming from the direction of of Egypt. There just was nothing.
They owned the skies and the ground and everything. They I don't think there was anything moving at that time that they didn't know about.
Speaker 5: I was listening to the chatter the night before. They they knew it was American ship that came into the area. They knew who we were.
Speaker 0: 05:15AM, first light. The ship's log recorded an Israeli photo reconnaissance plane flying over the Liberty.
Speaker 6: It was easily identifiable as a nor Atlas aircraft, and those are photo reconnaissance aircraft.
Speaker 0: Israeli records obtained by Al Jazeera show that their reconnaissance plane reported the Liberty as an American spy ship, hull number GTR5.
Speaker 7: Well, I was on the bridge. I'm John Scott. I was the damage control officer, and it circled the ship kind of in a broad circle and headed back towards Israel.
Speaker 0: Israeli planes then continued to fly over the Liberty
Speaker 1: all
Speaker 5: morning. And they would do half moon passes over us, and we saw that they were Israeli.
Speaker 1: They were slowly lumbering over our ship, and we were waving at them. They were waving at us.
Speaker 5: They were sophisticated, almost as sophisticated as we were as far as surveillance and and technology. They had everything. We supplied them with all the technology to this day.
Speaker 1: And I felt that we were in we were in great shape because they
Speaker 5: knew who we were. They're our friends. We felt safe. Actually, it was a secure feeling to see them.
Speaker 0: There was one other thing which made the crew feel safe.
Speaker 1: We had an American flag flying the standard, and then we put up the holiday colors, which is a huge American flag. And it was a bright sunny day with the wind blowing. I don't know, five or 10 knots, the flag was unfurled. You could see it for miles.
Speaker 0: Meanwhile, Israeli military jets were on their way. On the real time audio tape obtained by Al Jazeera, at 01:53PM, the pilots asked their base control about the ship. The USS Liberty was the only ship of any size in the area. The American sixth fleet, including two aircraft carriers, was 500 miles away.
Speaker 2: Oh, it it was a great day.
Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 2: I'm, Jim Smith. I was a damage controlman in engineering. I mean, I'm 20 years old at the time. I come from a small town. I used to throw hay bales in in the summertime for a buck an hour.
Sun was shining, blue sky, clouds, nice, people sunbathing on the deck. We had lunch, and five minutes later maybe, here came the jets, and when nobody really knew what was happening till they started firing.
Speaker 1: The captain said to me, alert the forward gun mounts. We're under attack. And I tried to raise the two sailors and the forward gun mounts. I looked out and they were blown to pieces by the rocket.
Speaker 5: When the attack started and we realized that we needed help, we tried to communicate with the sixth Fleet.
Speaker 3: They were jamming both our distress frequencies and our tactical frequencies. The tactical frequencies is alright, but the international distress frequencies is a violation of international law to jam them, the Israelis were jamming
Speaker 1: them.
Speaker 5: And we could not get a signal across. Here's the question I have to ask. Who would know the frequencies other than an ally? And who was the ally in the war? It wasn't Egypt.
It was Israel. They would know, and only they would know in this conflict what our frequencies would be.
Speaker 0: Now cut off from the outside world, the crew on the Liberty was defenseless.
Speaker 4: We had four fifty caliber machine guns on board that were basically there to repel any borders that might come by, you know, a pirate situation. Certainly weren't designed to bring down jet aircraft that were hammering at us.
Speaker 2: But you can't shoot a jet going 600 miles an hour with a 50 caliber machine gun. It doesn't work.
Speaker 1: It was just a surreal scene. People who had been standing there earlier joking and laughing were now dead, dying, and with the walking dead and wounded. It was just unreal.
Speaker 0: Gasoline barrels stored on the deck of the ship burst into flames. The crew rushed to try to put out the fires.
Speaker 2: I was watching the aircraft as they circled around, and when they got to coming back towards the ship, I just holler at him, down. They'd fire and circle back around. We'd jump back up and keep fighting fire. The rocket noise is horrendous. When a rocket explodes, you can't escape a rocket.
I don't care where you go.
Speaker 0: What the crew didn't know was that at three minutes past two, the Israeli pilots were ordered to use a new, much deadlier weapon.
Speaker 2: The biggest problem, I guess, that was the napalm, which they dropped from the airplane. The napalm had burned, scorched almost the entire front part of the ship, the bridge area.
Speaker 1: The whole topside of the ship had been set on fire and was all charred. It was no longer navy gray.
Speaker 2: You have to stop the fires to stop the flooding to keep that ship afloat. That's your home. You got nowhere else to go. You can't pack up and go down the road because there is no down the road.
Speaker 0: Up above, the Israeli military argued about what should happen next and who should sink the liberty.
Speaker 1: I remember thinking I was in pretty good shape then. I I said, I think I could swim it to the shore. And then I thought sharks. And I thought a lot of things all all quickly, you know. At
Speaker 0: eleven minutes past two, with the Israeli jets running out of ammunition, the pilots were instructed to fly down and confirm the identity of the ship. It was now twelve minutes past two, and the Israeli control tower knew for certain this was an American ship, the same one its forces had first identified at 05:15AM that morning and then buzzed again during seven additional reconnaissance flights throughout the day. The jets then pulled out, but three Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats were already on their way. The USS Liberty was a spy ship. In the event of an attack, it was standard procedure for the spies on board to destroy everything just in case it fell into enemy hands.
Speaker 5: Everyone was destroying material. Every everyone was stripping information off of computers, ripping computers open, pulling information out.
Speaker 3: That's something you just don't wanna hear aboard ship. You've done all this work, collected this intelligence and processed it, and now you have to destroy it.
Speaker 5: You just didn't want the enemy to get ahold of anything classified.
Speaker 0: At 02:35, the Israeli motorboats fired five torpedoes, four missed, but one hit. It had been over nine hours since the Israeli military first identified the liberty. Israeli planes had flown over it repeatedly, and twenty minutes earlier, their control tower had confirmed it yet again as an American ship. 25 Americans were about to die in a single moment. This is what it looks like when a torpedo hits a ship the size of the Liberty.
Speaker 1: The torpedo threw us up in the air like a roller coaster. It felt like one coming down. Dead silence, lights all off, smoke and haze everywhere.
Speaker 3: I went back to the drinking fountain and filled it with blood, reached down to get a drink, and a black man stared back at me.
Speaker 2: And when it fell back to get right, it just kept getting wrong. Kept sinking and sinking and sinking.
Speaker 1: Just waited. All of us waited thinking that this was it. We're going down.
Speaker 3: And I figured that was the end of life for me.
Speaker 0: The torpedo had blown a huge hole in the hull, 39 feet by 24, killing twenty five Americans in a single hit.
Speaker 5: The torpedo hit the room that I was in, and it was just luck. This guy died. This one lived. That guy died. It was how much shrapnel was coming in your direction.
You know, the old fashioned typewriters, I had the letter h sticking out of my left foot. I had, I don't know, 80 pieces of shrapnel in my lower extremities. And the place filled up with water that fast. Totally black, totally filled with powder and oil. It was like you're gagging, and you only had about eight or 10 inches of space where you could catch a breath.
Only way I could go in that direction was to drop down and swim underwater four or five strokes, come back up, and then frantically catch a breath and try to find something else to hold on to. And I got pulled through the hatch and onto the deck.
Speaker 0: Others were not so lucky.
Speaker 3: My friend Ronnie Campbell had a desk right there. And I remember Ronnie saying, you fellows can do what you want to, so I'm going to write a letter home. And he stuck a piece of paper in his mill, his typewriter, and began typing, dear Eileen, you won't believe what's happening to us. And just seconds after that, the torpedo struck and killed both the two marines, killed my friend Ronnie Campbell.
Speaker 1: And my job was to try to get probably 20 or 30 wounded sailors out to the main deck into the life rafts. So I went up and looked out myself before I tried to get anyone up, and that's when I observed a motor torpedo boat, Israeli plainly marked with the Star of David, machine gunning our life rafts.
Speaker 0: The crew of the Liberty were now trapped on board their own ship with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
Speaker 1: The torpedo boats came in closer and began to machine gun the ship using armor piercing projectiles.
Speaker 4: The armor piercing, the shells that they were using were leaving holes about that big around in the the metal plating. Just peel it out like it was orange peel.
Speaker 0: At close range, the armor piercing rounds ripped through the steel hull of the ship. Nowhere was safe.
Speaker 4: This bullet was retrieved from one of the navigational books at the rear portion of the bridge. It had penetrated the skin of the ship, gone through at least one other book, and then stopped in in the second book. This is part of an armor piercing shell. The outer portion or jacket makes the hole that this then goes through. And a bullet like this that hit, seaman Francis Brown and and killed him.
Speaker 1: He died right on the spot. Just fell to the floor dead. He was just barely 18.
Speaker 3: There weren't enough helmets to go around for everyone.
Speaker 1: It was like sitting in a cardboard box and having somebody shoot through it. The the bullets were just coming everywhere.
Speaker 0: Throughout the attack, the Liberty had been silent to the outside world. All its aerials were either smashed or jammed.
Speaker 3: We had one whip antenna which hadn't worked the entire cruise, and it had a bullet hole in it. One of the radio men had taken a reel of coax cable and ran it from one of the transmitters back there to that whip antenna and took some shrapnel in the process. He got out in Mayday. Firefox, Firefox, this is rock star, rock star, under attack by unidentified surface and naval air units require immediate assistance.
Speaker 0: The American sixth fleet was 500 miles away and picked up the signal. So did the Israeli armed forces. The attack stopped shortly afterwards. The American aircraft carriers were in the middle of a nuclear weapons drill and had to rearm with conventional bombs before they could take off. Once the Israelis knew The US jets were in the air, they summoned the American naval attache and told him there had been a terrible mistake.
The American planes were recalled. As they returned, Israeli helicopters flew out to the Liberty.
Speaker 3: This one had some personnel from the, Israeli government and The US naval attache dropped a brown paper sack on the deck in the fore part of the ship, weighted down with an orange, had a business card in it. It landed right next to the severed leg of one of the deck personnel.
Speaker 4: And the note said, Do you have casualties? Pretty obvious that there were casualties. I mean, there's still body parts and blood streaming down the bulkheads. So his message, do you have casualties, was kind of out of place. One of
Speaker 3: the sailors carried that sack back to the captain. And the captain took out the note and read it, looked up at the helicopter and popped the social finger at him.
Speaker 0: 06/08/1967, the height of the Six Day War. The USS Liberty, an American spy ship, had just been attacked by Israeli jets and torpedo boats while in international waters off Egypt. Badly damaged, two thirds of its crew were dead or wounded. As soon as the news reached Washington, the attack on the Liberty instantly triggered a domestic political crisis. According to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, one solution suggested in American government circles was to sink the Liberty so journalists could not photograph it and inflame public opinion against the Israelis.
The NSA rejected this idea with an impolite comment. Handling the media became the top priority.
Speaker 8: I was taken to my home in White Oak, Maryland. My name is Patricia Blue Rishakas, and my husband was killed on the Liberty. And by the time I got there, there were any number of people from the National Security Agency there. They were there to make sure that I didn't speak to anyone from the press. And I didn't.
They stayed night and day.
Speaker 0: Back in the Mediterranean, the Liberty was now listing at 10 degrees, a massive hole in the hull above and below the waterline.
Speaker 4: The planes that they said they were sending to us never arrived.
Speaker 1: What I was afraid of, and I think most of us, was that we were gonna sink.
Speaker 2: Well, mess decks was was pretty much littered with the wounded.
Speaker 1: It looks like something out of a horror movie with people standing around or lying, wounded and dead and stunned, their heads missing, parts of their bodies.
Speaker 0: The Liberty had only one doctor on board with very limited medical resources.
Speaker 2: There was not a table that wasn't being used with a body on it or a wounded body on it.
Speaker 0: The doctor fixed compound fractures and treated bullet and shrapnel wounds while blood transfusions were given arm to arm.
Speaker 7: It was real bad.
Speaker 1: And the doctor said to him, Do you want me to operate? He says, You're probably gonna die if I do it, and you'll certainly die if I don't. And he said, Go ahead, doctor. And so when the doctor operated, we held him as tight as we could. It was horrible pain, I'm sure, for him.
And all of a sudden, he went limp and he died right there.
Speaker 7: I don't want to ever see anything like that again.
Speaker 4: Captain McGonigal received a pretty bad leg injury, lost a lot of blood. He was navigating by the stars.
Speaker 1: We had a a little bit of power and tons of water in our belly, which meant the ship waved back and forth all night long.
Speaker 0: The next day, American ships arrived to take the injured and the dead off the Liberty. The American government now made sure that no journalists could get anywhere near the crew.
Speaker 1: When they took the severely wounded to various parts, they actually posted guards on their room so that no one could be interviewed by the press. The total press blackout was in effect.
Speaker 0: Back in Washington, the government ensured there was little information for the press while politics went on behind closed doors.
Speaker 9: I was told to go up urgently to the 7th Floor. Well, my name is Bill Woyt. I was in charge of the Arab Israel desk. Sit in because the secretary of state himself, Dean Rusk, had summoned ambassador Harmon of Israel to come in urgently. And so I sat through the meeting taking notes and in a loud voice, secretary was was really demanding some explanation for why and what had happened.
The ambassador himself seemed to be ignorant of the incident. She immediately said, I can't believe what you're telling me. It's it would be impossible. It would be unheard of.
Speaker 0: It was especially tough for Lyndon Johnson, to date, the most pro Israeli American president in history.
Speaker 10: Johnson was, in a very tough mood. I'm Tom Hughes. I was director in the State Department, director of intelligence and research at the time of the, Liberty incident in '67. Attack on the Liberty, Johnson himself briefed Newsweek magazine off the record that the Israelis had attacked, and the reason they'd attacked was that they thought this was an intelligence ship that was intercepting perhaps Israeli as well as Egyptian communications.
Speaker 0: But then everything changed.
Speaker 10: The fact that Johnson himself was the leaker and briefer of Newsweek was soon leaked. And this alarmed, of course, the Israeli embassy and and their leading friends and the Jewish organizations. And the Israeli embassy regarded this as a major problem and that what Johnson had told Newsweek practically amounted to blood libel.
Speaker 0: Declassified Israeli documents show they were going to threaten president Johnson with blood libel, gross antisemitism, and that would end his political career.
Speaker 11: Blackmail. This is admiral Bobby R. Inman, US Navy retired. I'm a former director of the National Security Agency. But they know if he is thinking about running again, he's gonna need money for his campaign.
So, alleging that he's blood libeling is gonna arouse the Jewish donors.
Speaker 0: The Israeli government hired teams of lawyers, some of whom were close friends of Lyndon Johnson, and began an all out offensive. They lent on the media to kill critical stories and slanted others in favor of Israel.
Speaker 10: There was a campaign mounted to see if what could be done about returning Johnson to his normal, predictable pro Israeli position.
Speaker 0: At the time, Johnson was still undecided as to whether to run for president the following year.
Speaker 10: Efforts were to be made to remind the president of the delicacy of his own position, that he personally would might lose support for his run for reelection in 1968.
Speaker 0: Israeli tactics were clever. They identified Johnson's soft spot, the war in Vietnam, and gave him two extraordinary gifts, neither of which were made public at the time. The first was political.
Speaker 10: But one of Johnson's complaints about Israel was that many of the Jewish organizations and the heads of leaders in the Jewish community were opposing him on Vietnam, and they were suddenly becoming more silent on Vietnam as the liberty crisis moved. So he also knew that there was a move back in his favor if he was moderate on Israel. There was a second gift,
Speaker 0: much more secret but vital to the American president. The dreadful death toll in Vietnam was dominating the domestic news agenda. The North Vietnamese had Russian surface to air missiles, which were bringing down American aircraft on a daily basis. The American military attache in Israel got a surprise visit from a senior Israeli intelligence officer.
Speaker 11: Took some helicopters and went across the North Red Sea to the surface to air missile sites and not only captures them but took back everything. The launchers, the missiles, the manual maintenance manuals, the rest of it. And then he went to The US Embassy to the air attache and said, I think I have something you might be interested in. And, of course, those were the same missiles that our aircraft flying over North Vietnam were encountering day to day. And countermeasures was a huge issue.
Speaker 0: So grateful was the American government, they gave Israel two gifts in return. They resupplied them with the weapons they had just lost in the war, and the liberty inquiry run by the Department of Defense, the DOD, was watered down.
Speaker 11: All that's influenced by what have we benefited from from the captured SA two missile sites.
Speaker 10: Soon, Johnson did respond and took a much more lenient line and wished that the whole incident could be put behind us as soon as possible.
Speaker 0: Johnson's softer approach to Israel was immediately reflected in the American Navy inquiry, which was now underway on board the Liberty.
Speaker 1: We began to realize that a cover up was was just was descending upon us. A lot of people
Speaker 4: that were in a key position to offer testimony were not given that opportunity.
Speaker 1: I testified to the machine gunning of life rafts, to the captain's state of mind, and it was that those two issues in particular were totally omitted.
Speaker 0: Lloyd Painter was not the only officer to have his testimony ignored.
Speaker 4: I saw what looked like unburned Vaseline, and I scraped a little bit of it off and put it in the jar and sealed the cap on. And I presented it to the court of inquiry, that's the last I saw of that jar. There was no mention of napalm, and I'm sure that's what it was.
Speaker 1: They didn't wanna hear any of that. I didn't know that at the time. I didn't know it till many months later that none of that had been recorded. Looking back on it, it was a total sham.
Speaker 0: The US Court of Inquiry reported in just twenty days. It was a rush job, full of spelling mistakes, much key evidence ignored, no Israelis interviewed, and it exonerated them from blame.
Speaker 1: I read the Court of Inquiry and realized that my statements had been stricken from the record and never recorded. So I I knew then for certain that the cover up was was massive.
Speaker 0: The Israelis then rushed out their own report, which concluded that the whole affair was a series of mistakes and that no one was to blame. The only dissenting voice was that of the Israeli ambassador in Washington. He sent a secret telegram back home arguing that Israel was clearly guilty. He cited the audio tape of the attack, the existence of which was known to top Israeli officials and mentioned the crucial twenty minute gap that followed the Liberty's identification and the launch of the torpedoes against her. He said they should own up to what they had done and put the guilty on trial.
His advice was ignored. The focus now was to repair the damage to American Israeli relations.
Speaker 11: The Israelis have always been very skillful at tracking what the US government is doing, saying, thinking, and effort to influence it. And they're by no means the only country that does it. Many do. They're just more effective at it than most. And the great advantage they have as compared to other countries, is their influence in the Congress.
Speaker 0: Around the time of the attack, the Washington Post had noted that the Jewish lobby could help determine the outcome of a 169 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.
Speaker 10: The big emotive words about the attack disappeared from press releases at the Pentagon in a much more bland and neutral sounding discourse occurred. And this was true of the private briefings that official people in the Pentagon made about the incident.
Speaker 0: But whatever was said to journalists, every US intelligence head believed the attack was intentional. One of them wrote, a nice whitewash for a group of ignorant, stupid, and inept XXX.
Speaker 11: The Jewish community has always been, more generous than many of their other counterparts in supporting financially, elections, political causes in the process. That does translate into influence.
Speaker 0: Many of Johnson's closest friends and advisors were pro Israeli, and they reported back to Tel Aviv on his every move. The Israeli story constantly shifted to counter whatever new intelligence the White House received. So sensitive with these communications that the Israelis used code names to protect the identity of their White House agents. But for the first time, the members of the ring can be named. Hamlet was a million dollar fundraiser for the Democrats.
When he rang, Johnson took his calls. He was Abe Feinberg. Minajee was Arthur Goldberg, The US ambassador to the United Nations. Harare was David Ginsburg, a high profile Washington lawyer who also represented the Israeli embassy. Elan was Supreme Court Justice Eid Fortas.
Lyndon Johnson had dinner with him on the eve of the Six Day War. The strategy worked. The US Israeli relationship proved to be stronger than the killing and injuring of more than 200 Americans.
Speaker 10: The American Israeli relationship was very much at stake, and it was brought back from the precipice. The crucial intelligence came from
Speaker 0: The US ambassador to the United Nations, Arthur Goldberg. He warned Tel Aviv that The United States had the audio tape, which revealed Israeli pilots knew it was an American ship before they attacked. The tape was quietly buried.
Speaker 11: I think a conscious decision was made to sweep it under the rug to put it behind. My reading is that The US Government had made a decision to, accept the apology and reject the, you know, the rationale, but don't push it further.
Speaker 0: With the politics sorted, the only remaining issue was the fate of the USS Liberty, badly damaged and now in Malta for extensive repairs. The torpedo hole was massive and was revealed to be much bigger once they got the ship into dry dock and drained it of water. The sealed compartment was a water filled tomb, full of bodies, body parts, and top secret equipment.
Speaker 1: You could smell death and you could smell oil. That's what I remember. As soon as the air hit the bodies, they began to deteriorate rapidly.
Speaker 2: You do what you have to do. They were your shipmates. Still are.
Speaker 1: The Navy was more concerned with equipment parts than they were body parts. But when I went down, I knew that you couldn't separate the two. We had to start shoveling up the the the parts, a 168 bags worth.
Speaker 0: Elsewhere, the makeup artists were getting to work.
Speaker 4: We were in the dry dock about six weeks.
Speaker 1: And 300 Maltese workers
Speaker 4: They're working two shifts a day and I think seven days a week to try they were cutting out the shell holes, welding plates over that, and fabricating metal to cover the torpedo hole.
Speaker 1: And then in one day, they painted the entire ship. We looked like nothing ever happened. We took it across the Atlantic. It was like being in a cemetery. But when we pulled into port, we looked good.
There's press and everything were there, and we looked like basically nothing really happened. So it was great for the press to downplay what really happened to us.
Speaker 0: While the survivors met the widows and friends, the 168 bags of body parts and top secret equipment were quietly taken to an incinerator and burnt. A year later, and the liberty captain William McGonagall was given the Medal of Honor, America's highest award for gallantry. The tradition has always been that it is presented by the president in the White House.
Speaker 2: I look at these two gallant marines, and I see America.
Speaker 0: Captain McGonagall never heard words like these from his commander in chief. There was no television coverage for him as he received his medal in a quiet ceremony in the Navy Yard. President Johnson was just four miles away at the time. He stayed in the White House to hand out diplomas to school children. The reason was revealed in this internal memo, which advised president Johnson that due to the nature and sensitivity of these awards, they should be given by the Department of Defense, not by him.
The advice was clear. No press release regarding them should be made.
Speaker 1: When I received my Purple Heart in a in a secret ceremony in the Captain's Office, I was admonished, the threat of court martial, don't ever tell anyone where you got this. Don't ever tell anyone how you got this medal.
Speaker 0: The following year, American aid to Israel increased fourfold, and president Johnson agreed a treaty classified above top secret with Israel for the mutual exchange of intelligence, an arrangement which is still in place today, code named Stone Ruby.
Speaker 4: One of the things that bothers me is there wasn't a nice explanation of what went on. No one wants to talk about the why.
Speaker 0: The big secret the Israelis wanted to protect was their next move. They had told the Americans that this was to be a limited war and not a land grab. But on 06/08/1967, their forces were poised to attack and seize the Golan Heights and invade Syria, something they wished to keep from the White House until they'd done it. Successive American administrations, both Republican and Democrat, had refused to deal with the Liberty. Even the issue of war crimes against unarmed Americans has never been addressed.
Speaker 4: There was a war crimes report filed by the Liberty Veterans Association to address the issues of such war crimes as firing on life rafts. That was never answered properly. I don't think it was answered, period.
Speaker 5: The people who were responsible for attacking the liberty liberty were, you know, by and large, the military individuals in the war room. I don't know how many, four, eight, 10. Those are the people who came up with the plan. Those are the individuals who were responsible for the attack. The pilots, the motor torpedo boat personnel, they were ordered.
Know, you don't follow orders, go to jail. So they have to follow through. It wasn't the Israeli people who ordered that attack. It wasn't the average Jewish person who ordered that attack. We really need to exonerate the average Jewish person Israeli from this and go towards those individuals who are responsible for the attack.
Speaker 8: No one was really willing to take this on. Not the State Department, the White House, not the Congress. It's in everybody's best interest to just let this go. And that's exactly what they did. But by doing that, they left a lot of pain for the survivors and for the families because there was a lot of broken families, broken marriages, alcoholism, depression, post traumatic stress disorder.
So those crew members suffered a lot, but so did the families.
Speaker 1: The hardest part was the the reaction of our own government toward us. And we were actually the fingers were pointed at us. And the Israelis were they weren't they they were never questioned as to why they did it. They only questioned us.
Speaker 0: The family still want answers from their government, which remains silent. For many, some memories never fade.
Speaker 8: We had a wonderful time just being together. I met Alan at a party. We spent a lot of time talking throughout the evening and at the end of the evening he said to me, are you busy tomorrow afternoon? And I said, well, no. And he said, you think we could get married?
Then I was told that he was among the dead. It was absolutely the worst moment of my life.
Speaker 5: There's not a day that doesn't go by where I don't think about those guys. I mean, I went through hell, but they left the earth.
Speaker 4: When I'm walking up to the mass grave, I still feel a connection with those people. Hard to explain, but it's still there. So I wanna remember that connection as long as I can. What we shared, what we felt.
Speaker 0: It took thirteen years of haggling before both sides finally agreed a compensation deal for the ship. By 1980, the bill plus interest was just over $17,000,000. Israel offered six. The Americans accepted, then sold the Liberty for a $100,000 scrap. The settlement for the victims was quicker, but many are still unhappy with it today.
Speaker 8: Not feel it was a fair settlement, I would have fought it. But I was so sad and broken, I just didn't have the energy to take on that fight. And it wasn't a fight that I thought I could win. The State Department were very eager for the survivors to make that settlement. They sent a check for the, the amount and that was that.
Speaker 0: The American government came up with a formula for the Israelis to compensate the widows and children for their loss. This included a payment for shock and mental anguish. The widows got $25,000 with $10,000 for each of their children over five. An American government lawyer doubted that children under five could sufficiently comprehend the event to suffer shock and grief. The US proposed they should therefore receive nothing, an offer the Israelis accepted.
Since the attack on the Liberty, The USA and Israel have grown ever closer. At the time, George Ball, The US Undersecretary of State noted that it seemed clear to the Israelis that as American leaders did not have the courage to punish them for the blatant murder of American citizens, they would let them get away with anything.
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"A 'false and intentionally misleading bible' called the Scofield Reference Bible was published by Oxford University Press in nineteen o eight, 'Its mission was to inject into the Christian text reinterpretations that made the future state of Israel the way to God.' The book 'was to be a foundational document upon which Christian Zionism ... would begin its methodical growth by deception.' 'Note on page 19 that the footnotes dwarf the text.' The footnotes claim, 'God made an unconditional promise of blessing through Abram's seed to the nation of Israel to inherit a specific territory forever,' and speak of 'a promise of blessing upon the individuals and nations who bless Abram's descendants and a curse lay upon those who persecute the Jew.' Critics say, 'For a nation to commit the sin of antisemitism brings inevitable judgment.' 'There was no Jew in the time of Abram.' 'The present day Israel... would be born of force forty years after his death.' Philip Morrow warned that 'the Schofield Bible' has 'usurped the place of authority that belonged to God's Bible alone.' Doctor Curley criticized Christian Zionism's effects."
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Speaker 0: A more direct attack on Christianity came from Oxford University Press in England in nineteen o eight when it published a false and intentionally misleading bible called the Scofield Reference Bible. Its mission was to inject into the Christian text reinterpretations that made the future state of Israel the way to God.
Speaker 1: This book was so important that Oxford University Press opened its first branch in The United States to publish it. They had never published an American book before. They had not published Whittier's books, his poetry. They had not published Longfellow. They had not published any of our great American authors, but they published this.
Speaker 0: The Oxford University Press published the Schofield book. They promoted it into key American seminaries and bible schools where the beliefs of future generations of pastors could be molded to cloud the peacemaking traditions of Christianity and benefit the state of Israel. Most pastors and teachers were unaware of any danger since there was no state of Israel at the time. Most of them did not even know that Jewish state was being planned. Few guess that the Schofield book would be used by secular powers to bend Christians into political and financial servitude to the Jewish state present day Israel.
American Christianity became increasingly Zionized after 1948 when the state of Israel appeared as a result of the United Nations edict. Oxford University Press was strongly Zionist influenced, and it provided a huge financial and promotional boost when it opened a publishing branch in New York City. This for the purpose of publishing the Christian Zionist manual in nineteen o eight called the Schofield Reference Bible. This book was to be a foundational document upon which Christian Zionism by host of other names including evangelicalism would begin its methodical growth by deception. The founders of world Zionism, especially Chaim Weitzman, successor to Theodore Herzl, had much to do with drawing The United States into World War one.
A mere handful of dominant American scientists were able to influence president Wilson, possibly by blackmail, to join the war in Europe over his adviser's objections. America lost over 100,000 men who were entirely innocent of any involvement in European politics. And out of all this, the world Zionist movement gained a piece of land called Palestine. The land of the Philistine was England's payoff to world Zionism for causing America to enter World War one on the side of Great Britain, which was losing the war to Germany. By 1917, the world Zionist movement was in high gear toward occupying Arab Palestine after the Balfour Declaration gave them a claim without title to any land occupied by the Palestinians.
The Scofield Reference Bible was copyrighted in nineteen o nine. It is an old and new testament with most of the notes in the original text added in the old testament. Later, many notes were added to the New Testament as the Scofield Reference Bible was re edited several times with the most radical change being made in 1967.
Speaker 1: The book has been updated over and over again, each time by Oxford University Press, always having Mr. Scofield's name on the front of it. In fact, he's listed as the editor in the most recent edition, even though he's been dead for about forty years.
Speaker 0: The cover shows the editor, Cyrus I. Scofield, with seven other men on the editorial board. One of these was Reverend James M. Gray, president of the Moody Bible Institute, one of the most influential organizations in evangelical circles of the day. There were also two other seminary leaders on the editorial board.
Those lending their names were predominantly heads of seminaries and Christian colleges.
Speaker 1: What happened is the distribution took place through these seminaries. And then when young pastors were graduated from these schools and they went back out and took a church and started to to teach from the pulpit, they had one of these in their hands. This is what was given to them. And I suppose that they were probably given to the seminaries. It was likely that the Oxford Press made it was very generous in making sure that all these people had these.
Speaker 0: What exactly is the Scofield Reference Bible? Let us look critically at just one page of the book that has become the guide for secularist Jews in Israel and evangelical Christians in America to explain why they think present day Israel has the right to all of the land in the Middle East beginning with Palestine. Genesis twelve three is part of the Torah and is quoted in the Koran. These three verses are standard in the King James translation and very similar in other Bibles. Let me paraphrase it as you read the old English.
The Lord told Abram to leave his home and family and go into a land that God would show him. God promised to then make of Abram a great nation. Bless him and make his name great. Protect him by blessing his friends and cursing his enemies. And from Abram's seed, all the nations of the earth would be blessed.
Now for the part that is important to traditional Christians. I quote, in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Christianity has for two thousand years taken this to be the first notice from God of the coming savior of mankind. Genesis twelve three is the earliest covenant that God made to Abram and it is the one used by Israelis and Christian Zionists to justify the idea that the entire Middle East should be Israeli property. I quote, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house into a land that I will show thee.
Zionists of all races interpret the phrase into a land that I will show thee as a perpetual land grant to present day Israel. Now we will examine the most effective corrupter of scripture in history, one Cyrus I Scofield, a nineteenth century American. Note on page 19 that the footnotes dwarf the text. Note also that the italicized insertions in between the verses that are not part of the Bible. In the 1967 version of the Scofield Reference Bible, there are more footnotes than in the original nineteen o nine version.
And since the death of Scofield in 1921, the footnotes have grown to dwarf the text in these very important pages. Let's look again at the vital footnote two found in the Scofield Reference Bible in 1967 on page 19. The footnote reads, God made an unconditional promise of blessing through Abram's seed to the nation of Israel to inherit a specific territory forever. But the passage doesn't say anything like this. God orders Abram to go to a land that God will show him using the first person familiar the, meaning Abram and no one but Abram.
The passage does not say that God is giving any piece of land to anybody forever. It doesn't say anything about Israel.
Speaker 1: Now how complicated is is it? Leave leave your land, go where I tell you to go, and I will protect you. How complicated is that? How many footnotes does it take to understand what God was saying to Abraham? Anybody who reads that should be able to figure that out.
That's what the message is. But mister Scofield wrote all of this to explain it.
Speaker 0: In fact, if we accept biblical history, we know that Abram had no children when this happened and not for quite a while. So there was no person or nation named Israel when this promise was made. There was no state or nation named Israel. The man Israel did not even exist in Abraham's imagination when God spoke to him. How then could Schofield or the Oxford University Press say that God was promising the land to the present day state of Israel forever?
Speaker 1: Where did the state of Israel get in this? When Abraham was spoken to by God, Israel, the man known as Israel, hadn't been born yet. He was two generations in the future, And he was not a state. He was a person that eventually had a tribe. And then after him, three thousand years later, along comes a bunch of Europeans who name their state after him.
But this says that God gave that land to the nation of Israel forever. Imagine 70,000,000 people who are taught this every day.
Speaker 0: The Oxford University Press did not stop there. Note three on page 19 reads, there is a promise of blessing upon the individuals and nations who bless Abram's descendants and a curse lay upon those who persecute the Jew. The word Jew is used in the footnotes in describing an occurrence two to three thousand years before the word Jew existed. In fact, Jew is taken from the name Judah who was, it is told, one of the 12 grandsons of Abraham, Abram of Genesis 12. Neither Judah nor Jew existed, and this footnote is a false concoction.
Node three continues. God's promised Abram and his seed certainly did not terminate at Sinai with the giving of the law. The New Testament and Old Testament are full of post Sinai promises concerning Israel and the land which is to be Israel's everlasting possession. Listeners should be asking, why is Oxford University Press putting words in the mouths of the readers of this Bible? To make them think their God promises blessings and curses on people today based on how they think about or act toward present day Jews and present day Israel?
What about all the other people in the world? Let's read further in the footnotes to Genesis twelve three. Promise to the Gentiles. I will bless them that bless thee. Those who honor Abram will be blessed and curse them that curse thee.
This was a warning literally fulfilled in the history of Israel's persecution. It has invariably fared ill with the people who have persecuted the Jew and well with those who have protected him. And here is the punch line. For a nation to commit the sin of antisemitism brings inevitable judgment. The future will still more remarkably prove this principle.
Isn't that convenient?
Speaker 1: So now you have antisemitism as created in Abraham's time. The footnote to Abraham's words create and the word antisemitism. Christian Zionism believes that our nation will be judged if we are not sufficiently kind as a nation to the State of Israel. They have made sin a sort of a national corporate event rather than an individual thing. Of course, there is no such thing as national sin.
Nations don't sin, we do. Individuals do, men do. But this has created a national sin so that Christian Zionists like John Hagee believe that God will rain fire down on our country, will somehow punish our entire nation for being insufficiently kind to the state of Israel.
Speaker 0: Zionist friendly Oxford University Press says in our Bible that the whole country will be considered in sin, and we will be in line for judgment from God if we are not properly friendly to the nation of Israel. And remember, there was no Jew in the time of Abram. There was no Israel at the time that Schofield penned the original notes, and it is doubtful that Cyrus Schofield would have even understood the enormity of the evil purpose for which his book was written. It was to have the most prominent Zionist publisher in the world, and it would deify a country that did not exist and would be born of force forty years after his death. Not all Orthodox Christians were asleep during that time.
Philip Morrow was one who saw both the heretical and the war making dangers of the new religion and actually called it Zionism. Morrow was a well known patent attorney, counsel for the Columbia Phonograph Company, and a Christian researcher who wrote legal briefs for William Jenning Bryan's famous court cases. In his 1927 book entitled Gospel of the Kingdom with an examination of modern dispensationalism, Philip Moore wrote, through an incident of recent occurrence, I was made aware of the extent, far greater than I imagined, to which the modern system of dispensationalism has found acceptance among Orthodox Christians, and also the extent correspondingly great to which the recently published Schofield Bible, which is the main vehicle of the new system of doctrine referred to, has usurped the place of authority that belonged to God's Bible alone. Philip Morrow tells us that he had been caught up himself in the evangelicalism or Christian Zionism of his day and learned about it from the inside. This has been the case with most of us who come to an understanding of Christian Zionism.
The late Philip Morrow had been a source of encouragement to many critics of Judeo Christianity who thought they were alone. Philip Morrow was a dedicated scholar with an engineer's logic and a lawyer's tenacity. That allowed him to foresee error in 1927 that Christian scholars are only beginning to acknowledge eighty years later. We, like Marrow, should also be profoundly sympathetic for those who are caught up in the error of Christian Zionism, dispensationalism, or Judeo Christianity by any name because they are among our families and best friends. Jesus' words require that we reclaim them back to traditional Christianity.
Doctor f Furman Curley is another unsung Christian scholar who saw the path to war and the error of dispensationalism. He was the head of graduate studies of Abilene Christian University. In 1983, he wrote a short book entitled the Middle East crisis in biblical perspective, in which he takes sharp issue with those he calls Israel first millennia and Christian Zionism's evil fruits of perpetual war in The Middle East. He names Hal Lindsey and the late Jerry Falwell as radical Zionist prophets who would help nudge The US into endless war with Islamic states. Doctor Curly explained why.
When the concept of Armageddon as in Revelation sixteen sixteen is raised, those who believe in a literal war at Armageddon often feel that Christians should work to start this war and should vigorously participate in it. Those in particular who view this present situation as Armageddon believe that Christians should support Israel with vigor, and they urge our government to take an active part in the conflict in The Middle East. Kurley saw Christian Zionist support for Israel's brutal occupation of Palestine as a precursor to more wars in The Middle East and concluded one needs to be absolutely certain that the doctrine he follows is God's and not of men before he advocates a doctrine that would put the blood of other men on our hands. He explains the neo Christian love affair with war as a religious fixation stating, whereas Christians must pray for peace in The Middle East, premillennials must pray and work for World War three so Armageddon will come. They cannot pray for peace in The Middle East.
If a follower of Christian Zionism will only examine the simple teachings of Jesus in the New Testament, he will find there is not a single passage or phrase that would give a follower of Christ the cause to take the life of another man or another man's wife or a child in a faraway country.
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Speaker 0: Alleging not simply a cover up by the US government, but by the entire American media. It's totally implausible. Like, we would report that if that were true. Building 7 was not hit by an airplane.
Speaker 3: That's seen Building 7 collapse, the Sallon Brothers building? No. I wanna show you that right now.
Speaker 4: Now here, we're gonna show you a videotape of the collapse itself. Describe that feeling. Now we go to videotape the collapse of this building. It's amazing. Amazing.
Speaker 3: I t's reminiscent of those pictures we've all seen too much on television before when a building was deliberately store destroyed by well placed dynamite to knock it down. No plane hit that building.
Speaker 6: Well, it starts with Building 7. Yes. Where you look at that and it just yeah. I mean, this this is really weird. You know, it it does come down just like a, you know, building demolition type of project. When you start putting together at what temperature steel melts. They had molten steel in the twin towers, and I'm not sure we had a number seven.
Speaker 0: I never questioned anything about nine eleven, and I actively attacked people who did. I'm ashamed of that, but that's a fact.
Speaker 6: And, of course, the Overton window is is is is about this is what you can discuss without threat or without, you know, risk. And but you gotta go beyond that.
Speaker 0: What began to make me wonder, I have no idea what happened in 09/11, but it's very clear that there's a lot of lying around it, was the collapse of Building 7.
Speaker 0: because I was part of the cover up, and I feel guilty about it. That's why. And I'm trying to atone for my previous sense. That's the real reason.
Speaker 0: I did it on tape more than once because my feeling was, well, you know, like, that's divisive or whatever. I was a child and an idiot.
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Speaker 0: Alleging not simply a cover up by the US government, but by the entire American media. It's totally implausible. Like, we would report that if that were true.
Speaker 1: Tucker, not quite entire.
Speaker 0: One thing to hold on to. How you make this these claims or appear to make these claims. Do you have any
Speaker 2: evidence that they want in the building? Sure. Sure. Let's start with the collapse of Building 7. Can you roll the video clip that I sent to you?
Speaker 0: Okay. I'm not sure if that can.
Speaker 1: Building 7 was not hit by an airplane.
Speaker 0: I've And so conveniently I know. And if there's any evidence that the government's behind 911, what's I I believe anything if there's evidence, but there isn't evidence. So knock it off.
Speaker 3: That's seen Building 7 collapse, the Sallon Brothers building? No. I wanna show you that right now.
Speaker 4: Now here, we're gonna show you a videotape of the collapse itself. Describe that feeling. Now we go to videotape the collapse of this building. It's amazing. Amazing.
Incredible. Pick your word. For the third time today, it's reminiscent of those pictures we've all seen too much on television before when a building was deliberately store destroyed by well placed dynamite to knock it down.
Speaker 0: Was this after the collapse of the other two?
Speaker 3: Yes. So she's saying it's fallen, Building 7.
Speaker 5: Familiar New York skyline, a symbol
Speaker 1: on by
Speaker 5: the mayor Rudy Giuliani, much earlier today, because of the course the dreadful collapse of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. But, New York very much a city still in chaos. The phones are not working properly.
Speaker 3: They announced Building 7 fell twenty five minutes before it did, and then Lyden said this wasn't real and then later admitted it. Now we have the up close footage of CNN. Police saying, get back. They're gonna bring it down.
Speaker 6: Are walking back. It's a building about to blow up.
Speaker 4: It's reminiscent of those pictures we've all seen too much on television before when a building was deliberately destroyed by world place dynamite to knock it down.
Speaker 3: What do you think of that?
Speaker 0: You know, I'm not a structural engineer. I think it's upsetting to watch it. I remember when that happened. I mean, look, I have no idea. I I don't know any I mean, I I don't understand how buildings collapse.
I don't understand how Building 7 collapsed.
Speaker 7: What what actually happened with Building 7? Like, is weird. Right? It doesn't. Like
Speaker 3: what is Right.
Speaker 7: If you
Speaker 0: were to say something like that on
Speaker 7: television, they'd flip out. They would flip out. You should, like, lose your job over that. Why? Why?
Speaker 0: But it's an entirely fair question. It is not crazy to ask how did those buildings collapse in the way they did, particularly the building that was not hit by a plane? Like, what was that? And you get to a certain point where you realize people are lying right to your face. What began to make me wonder, and I have no idea what happened in 09/11, but it's very clear that there's a lot of lying around it, was the collapse of Building 7.
And all the wackos would be like, Building 7, Building 7. I'd like, shut up, wackos. And then if you just sort of look at it, you're like, well, that is very weird, actually. No plane hit that building in it. Does this happen a lot when buildings catch fire?
Right. Okay.
Speaker 8: Besides being a firefighter, I worked for the INA, largest insurance company in North America. I was responsible for training their fire protection arson people for eighteen years. That doesn't happen. You never have a 47 story building just collapse, which this is. By the way, I never
Speaker 0: questioned anything about nine eleven, and I actively attacked people who did. I'm ashamed of that, but that's a fact. I did it on tape more than once because my feeling was, well, you know, like, that's divisive or whatever. I was a child and an idiot. Now that you've looked into it and you said you don't have a coherent theory as to what it was, but you've got a lot of questions, which questions trouble you the most?
Speaker 6: Well, it starts with Building 7. Yes. Where you look at that and it just yeah. I mean, this this is really weird. You know, it it does come down just like a, you know, building demolition type of project.
You you you get a documentary of this Alaskan structural engineering professor that does a four year study on it. Pretty well debunks NIST's analysis. Again, you don't have to be a structural engineer to say this really doesn't make sense. When you start putting together at what temperature steel melts. They had molten steel in the twin towers, and I'm not sure we had a number seven.
But if one column said in one column expanded, went off kilter, and that's what brought the whole thing down, well, it wouldn't come down so symmetrically. You wouldn't have a free fall. You know, why have you been so instrumental in broadening the Overton window on some of these things? And and, of course, the Overton window is is is is all is all about this is what you can discuss without threat or without, you know, risk. And but you gotta go beyond that.
So
Speaker 0: because I was part of the cover up, and I feel guilty about it. That's why. And I'm trying to atone for my previous sense. That's the real reason.
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Command to wipe out from among all the descendants of Esauv, descendants of Amalek, male and female, young and old.
And that is why Amalek is so terrible, and it has to be totally uprooted.
Therefore, Therefore, God tells us we should erase their memory, and we should eradicate them from the face of the earth.
Who is Amalek? Amalek comes from Asav.
Asav was a brother to Jacob.
Esav became Edoine, which is a nation.
Edoine became Rome.
Instead of it being Rome, it became Christianity.
Christianity, of course, ultimately became Western civilization.
The throne of God is incomplete until we destroy Amalek.
The audacity, the chutzpah to destroy Amalek and to cut off the offsprings of the nation of Amalek.
I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the prime minister of Israel, his excellency Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Speaker 0: Command to wipe out from among all the descendants of Esauv, descendants of Amalek, male and female, young and old. And that is why Amalek is so terrible, and it has to be totally uprooted. Therefore, Therefore, God tells us we should erase their memory, and we should eradicate them from the face of the earth. Who is Amalek? Amalek comes from Asav.
Asav was a brother to Jacob. Esav,
Speaker 1: who in modern day terms is really basically, you know, certainly one of them is is is America. Esav became Edoine, which is a nation. Edoine became Rome. Instead of it being Rome, it became Christianity. Christianity, of course, ultimately became Western civilization.
So ace of today is really Western civilization.
Speaker 2: But the new realm, United States. But the new realm.
Speaker 1: Esau is Europe, The United States.
Speaker 0: The throne of God is incomplete until we destroy Amalek.
Speaker 1: Any nation that has that religion can be considered Esau.
Speaker 0: The audacity, the chutzpah to destroy Amalek and to cut off the offsprings of the nation of Amalek.
Speaker 2: I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the prime minister of Israel, his excellency Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The speaker argues that "As a nation, they'll cease to exist, even as individuals. Every individual, no survivors." They add, "Not only as a nation, they'll cease to exist, even as individuals." They claim, "In modern terminology ... they call it cultural genocide," and that "There's a term for it ... It's called cultural genocide, and it's actually used the word genocide" by progressives. The speaker concludes that "So that's the the opinion who says that they'll be annihilated, They basically learned there's gonna be cultural genocide." The overall claim is annihilation of both nation and individuals, framed as cultural genocide attributed to progressives.
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Speaker 0: Asking what's gonna be with the when she comes. Will they be destroyed and annihilated? Who cares? That's what they say. Someone asked who cares.
Okay. As a nation, they'll cease to exist, even as individuals. Every individual, no survivors. Not only as a nation, they'll cease to exist, even as individuals. As they're gone.
Their personality, their their their as they exist if if they would exist independently of, they don't exist. They're done. In modern terminology in modern terminology, they call it cultural genocide. There's a term for it in the by the by the, you know, by progressives. It's called cultural genocide, and it's actually used the word genocide.
So that's the the opinion who says that they'll be annihilated, They basically learned there's gonna be cultural genocide. Right? You know what? The the as they exist as that's done with.
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Question: 'Do you believe that the Gentiles, the Goyim, will one day become the slaves of the Jews?' 'So I believe it's it's gonna it's part of the Torah.' The speakers discuss politics, then answer: 'No.' 'No.' and 'No.' 'No.' I'd love to hear your thoughts on the current conflict. Everything's happening? It's all an illusion?' 'Yes. Yeah. Wow. That guy is the is one of the greatest optimists I've ever seen.' 'Can I ask you a couple questions?' 'Yeah. Yeah. So somebody just threw a water balloon at us. And now there's a crowd gathering because they're gonna they're saying that they're gonna chase us away, and they're gathering numbers now.' 'So there's a big flock of people who's gonna chase us.' 'Yeah. I'm not Santa Monica. It's not Yolanda. So I'm not allowed to talk to anybody in the'
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Speaker 0: Well, I'll ask in English. Do you believe that the Gentiles, the Goyim, will one day become the slaves of the Jews?
Speaker 1: So I believe it's it's gonna it's part of the Torah. We speak you some questions? About Political political? A little bit.
Speaker 0: No. No.
Speaker 1: No. No. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the current conflict. Everything's happening? It's all an illusion?
Yes. Yeah. Wow. That guy is the is one of the greatest optimists I've ever seen. How you doing?
Can I ask you a couple questions? Yeah. Yeah. So somebody just threw a water balloon at us. And now there's a crowd gathering because they're gonna they're saying that they're gonna chase us away, and they're gathering numbers now.
So there's a big flock of people who's gonna chase us. Yeah. I'm not Santa Monica. It's not Yolanda. So I'm not allowed to talk to anybody in the
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When God gave us the Torah, the Gentiles were jealous of us. They feel we think we're elitist; we think we're the chosen people, which we are. Only the Jewish people are the children of God; the nations are not the children of God, they're God's creations, they're created with Selim and Eliakim. This creates jealousy, and they don't like that. There's an ethical reason: they feel we're elitist, that we think of ourselves as better than them, which we do. And therefore, they hate us. God selected us. So, these are the two reasons for anti Semitism. One is what Rashi says: Amr Ab Shimbaiichai, halachahi bi aduah, there's no reason; it's just a law. There's gravity and relativity, and antisemitism. And then, on the other hand, you have this Qumran Shabbos that the Gentiles hate us for they feel that we think of ourselves as better.
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Speaker 0: When God gave us the Torah, the Gentiles were jealous of of us. It's they feel that we think we're elitist. We think we're the chosen people, which by the way, we are. We do think we're elitist. We are the chosen people.
They think that we think only we are the children of god, and we do think that. And we're not embarrassed to say, only the Jewish people are the children of god. The j the nations of the world are not the children of god. They're not god's children. They're god's creations.
They're created with Selim and Eliakim. They're not god's children. And this creates a certain jealousy, and they don't like that. In other words, there's an there's a ethical reason. There's a they feel that we're elitist, that we think of ourselves as better than them, which we do.
And therefore, they hate us. What can we do? God selected us, you know? Yeah. Good.
God selected us. So, these are the two reasons for anti Semitism. One is what Rashi says. Rashi says, Amr Ab Shimbaiichai, halachahi bi aduah, say, that that what's the reason for it? There's no reason.
It's it's it's just it is. God the reason for anti semitism according to Rashi is that it's just a law. It's a law of nature. There's gravity and there's, you know, theory of relativity, and then there's antisemitism. And then on the other hand, you have this Qumran Shabbos that the Gentiles hate us for they feel that we think of ourselves as better.