By Rev. Ted Pike
In this season of giving, know that since 1949 we
Americans have annually given Israel massive financial aid, now
totaling $108 billion. Interest of $60 billion is also borne by
American citizens on money we borrowed to give Israel.
In 1967, the government of Israel took an unforeseen
opportunity to repay the American people for our generosity. Their
novel actions are recounted by Phil Tourney, a seaman on the U.S.S.
Liberty.
[On June 8], 1967 I was a 20 year old 3rd class petty officer in
damage control at the time of this sneak attack from our so-called
ally, Israel. We were identified as American and friendly many hours
before the slaughter began at 2:00 P.M.
The Israeli jet aircraft were ruthless and stubborn in their
attempt to sink and murder all hands aboard. They hit every antennae
on our ship, no accident for sure. The Israeli reconnaissance aircraft
took pictures of our ship in the morning hours, nothing was missed.
The attacking aircraft dropped napalm on the bridge of our ship to
burn us alive.
Soon after the jets were done with us we see 3 motor torpedo boats
approaching our ship at a high rate of speed. We then learned who our
attackers were.
We saw 3 flags marked with the Star of David. We were in shock
because the Israelis were supposed to be our allies! We had had no
idea who was attacking us until then. The attacking jet aircraft were
unmarked. The torpedo boats maneuvered themselves into a torpedo
launch attitude, now come the 5 to 6 torpedoes. The captain was doing
his best to maneuver the ship to avoid sudden death. The torpedoes
whizzed by our ship, forward and aft with 1 hitting its mark, almost
dead mid-ships, blowing to bits 25 American heroes who stood their
ground below the water line and accepted their fate, doing their duty
for the United States Government.
The torpedo gunboats were not even close to being done with us.
The torpedo gunmen shot at our fire fighters and stretcher bearers,
anything that moved. They were shooting at our water line to blow up
the boilers inside and finish the job of sinking us.
The captain had given the order to abandon ship, as it appeared we
were about to roll over. There were 3 life rafts left that were
floatable. We put them over the side so we could put our most severely
wounded in them to try to save their lives. The torpedo gunmen would
have none of that and blew 2 of them out of the water. They took the
3rd raft aboard their boat, seeing it as an obvious trophy for all
their hard work. The torpedo gunmen continued their assault until I
guess they ran out of ammunition. They circled the ship and left.
Old Glory was still on her mast, 7' x 13' holiday colors. We
thought the attack was over. Two Israeli helicopters approached our
ship with armed gunmen at the ready to finish us off. They were there
a short time and left in the same direction they came. We had no idea
why they didn't shoot at us. We wondered if they were finally done
with their murderous carnage on a virtually unarmed ship which only
had 4 50 caliber machine guns that had been taken out by the jets on
the first pass when the attack began.
Little did the crew know that Terry Halbardier, an ET, got off an
SOS from an antennae that was not hit by the Israeli heat seeking
missiles because it was taken off line due to a malfunction before the
attack. The SOS he sent stated we were under attack by unknown jet
aircraft. This message was sent out within 15 minutes of the attack
and was picked up by the USS SARATOGA and the USS AMERICA. Captain
Tully of the USS SARATOGA sent ready aircraft to our aid only to have
them recalled. The USS AMERICA also sent rescue aircraft to come to
our aid. These life saving planes were recalled not once but twice.
These orders came straight from the White House, first from Secretary
of Defense Robert McNamara and then from President Johnson himself.
Johnson said he was not about to attack our "ally", Israel. How did he
know who was attacking our ship when we didn't even know? Help did not
arrive until 18 hours later when the American rescue aircraft could
have been there in 15 to 20 minutes driving off the torpedo boats and
saving precious American lives.
What remained was a ship with a 40 x 40 foot torpedo hole in her
side, 821+ canon and rocket holes, thousands of rounds of fifty
caliber armor piercing bullets and napalm that had been burning up our
ship. Thirty four American souls were murdered, 173 were wounded,
which constituted attempted murder, out of a crew of 294. Two thirds
of the crew had been murdered or wounded.
Israel and our government, in this 2 hour attack, had come up with
a plan to sink our ship, blame it on Egypt and bring the U.S. into the
Six Day War. If this so called accident was so cut and dry, why were
all records sealed tighter than Fort Knox? Israel got by with cold-
blooded murder and other war crimes and it's only a matter of time
until they do it again, perhaps on a ship off the coast of Iran.
Israel controls America's fate and our elected officials bow to their
every whim.
I love my country and will not stand by and let this continue.
While there is time, we must do what we can to save our sinking ship
of state. In many ways, America today is the USS Liberty after that 2
hour attack taking place 40 years ago. We are badly hit and stand the
chance of sinking into the abyss with everyone being lost forever
unless something is done immediately. Write your president and
congressmen and let them know you know what is going on and you will
not fight anymore for Israel. Israel has 300 nukes, so let them take
care of themselves. There is nothing, neither in the Middle East nor
elsewhere, that is worth one more drop of precious American blood. 1
Tourney's account causes us to ask: What more evidence do
we need that the government of Israel has never shared our values and
is not really grateful to us? Israel was founded primarily by
Marxists and terrorists who valued America only because of what they
could get out of us monetarily or militarily - nothing else.
Israel has repeatedly inveigled America into mid-East
conflict to her benefit. Sometimes she was unsuccessful, as in the
U.S.S. Liberty attack, and sometimes spectacularly successful, as in
Afghanistan and Iraq. With our navy anchored in the Persian Gulf,
anticipating another war for Israel, it is well to remember that,
while Christian America has unflagging support for Israel, our "ally
in the war on terror" has no genuine love for us. If they had, they
would not have rained terror on 294 American seamen on June 8, 1967.
As she bristles with over 200 nuclear warheads, let's hope
Israel does not go ballistic next time she decides to "repay" America
for a century of kindness.
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Endnotes
1. Tourney, Phillip. "Treason on the High Seas." <http://
ussliberty.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/%E2%80%9Ctreason-on-the-high-seas
%E2%80%9D/> The U.S.S. Liberty Veterans Association is offering
$10,000 to anyone who can disprove the accounts by Tourney and many
other survivors of the attack. No pro-Zionists have accepted the
challenge.
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Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network, a
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