I had a conversation with @grok... x.com/i/grok/share/J4F7W2IKX…

👍👍👍 Which is true ‼️

I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t want Palestinians at a sporting event.

Never forget, Am Yisrael Chai. 🇮🇱

🔴 JUST IN A B-52 Stratofortress has reportedly crashed after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Huge fire sending a plume of smoke into the sky. Praying for any potential survivors.

He’s completely spot on and it’s actually insane that anyone would disagree with this.

I see that Jones (and or the LVA) cannot help but to continue to promote the LIE that USS Liberty sailors were killed while bobbing helplessly in the water in rubber liferafts. This, of course, is beyond the pale. In fact, none of the Liberty sailors even BOARDED a liferaft. According to testimony from the Liberty's crew, empty rafts stored on the deck damaged by aircraft strafing were knocked over the side, but the order to abandon ship was never given. Just another in an ongoing series of lies and mistruths promulgated by Tourney and the Liberty Veterans Association.

Much has been made by USS Liberty conspiratroids about the idea that thIs incident has never been fully investigated - that it was swept under the rug and quietly forgotten. There is this notion floating around that the "mistaken identity" finding is purely and exclusively a ZIONIST conclusion and that those who promote it are, thusly, acting out of some slavish devotion to Israel and their paymasters in Tel Aviv. "Collect your $7000!" is a common refrain among the 'troids. In fact, this incident has been the subject of NUMEROUS US investigations over the years which have all more or less concluded that the Israeli attack on the Liberty was the result of mistaken identity - fog of war, friendly fire, whathaveyou. In fact, the 1967 US Navy Court of Inquiry was chock-full of testimony from the sailors who were aboard the USS Liberty, including the ship's Commanding Officer, William McGonagle, who, despite being severely wounded, is credited with having saved the ship and crew and who remained on the bridge of his ship, observing the IDF activities. An excerpt of McGonagle's sworn testimony to the US Navy Court is attached to this post (see image), and one can read the entire USNCOI transcript here: web.archive.org/web/20201112… Here (below) is a list of various other US investigations of the USS Liberty incident with a brief summary of their conclusions: U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry June 10-18, 1967: The attack was a case of mistaken identity. Calm conditions and slow ship speed may have made American flag difficult to identify. No indication the attack was intended against U.S. ship. CIA Report June 13, 1967: The attack was not made in malice and was a mistake. Joint Chiefs of Staff Fact Finding Team (Russ Report) June 9-20, 1967: Outlined "findings of fact," bud did not make any findings about the actual attack. Clifford Report July 18, 1967: No premeditation, but "inexcusable failures" by Israeli forces constituing "gross negligence." Senate Committee on Foreign Relations 1967: Secretary of Defense McNamara testified he supported conclusion that the attack was not intentional. Senate Armed Services Committee Feb. 1, 1968: No conclusion. Secretary McNamara makes comparison of attack on Liberty to that on Pueblo with regard to uncertainty about what was happening at the time of the incident. House Appropriations Committee April-May 1968: Navy communications "foulup" and no conclusion regarding Israeli actions. Much of report remains classified. House Armed Services Committee May 10, 1971: Critical of Navy communications, no conclusion regarding Israeli actions. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 1979: Responding to critical book by Liberty crewman James Ennes, Senate investigation found no merit to his claim attack was intentional. National Security Agency 1981: Liberty was mistaken for an Egyptian ship as a result of miscalculations and egregious errors. House Armed Services Committee June 1991: Responding to request from Liberty Veterans Association, Subcommittee on Investigations launched probe that concluded there was no evidence to support allegations made by the Association and no reason for further investigation.

USS Liberty conspiracy theorists love to trot out a certain Haaretz article with the sensational headline: "'But Sir, It’s an American Ship.' 'Never Mind, Hit Her!' When Israel Attacked USS Liberty..." as evidence that even the Israelis themselves admit that the attacking IDF pilots knew the ship was American and were ordered to attack it despite their protests. But has anyone actually read this Haaretz article? X abounds with screen shots of the article's lead-in containing this quote, but none go further than this image, which has now become something of a kooktroid meme. A reading of the article does tell a different story. It turns out that the basis for the lead-in is actually a mention of a BOOK which features the recollections of one Dwight Porter - it doesn't contain any attack recordings or transcripts thereof, and the Haaretz lead-in quote, "But sir...!" appears to be solely based on Porter's remembrances: haaretz.com/us-news/2017-07-… [... A new book published in May in the United States (its authors include several survivors of the attack) promises that “the truth is being told as never before and the real story revealed.” The 302 pages of “Remember the Liberty!: Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas” include quite a number of documents, testimonies, arguments and information that were gathered in the subsequent 50 years. [...] ...the new book quotes a story reported by former U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dwight Porter, who recounted a conversation between an Israeli pilot and the Israel Air Force war room, which was allegedly picked up by an NSA aircraft and inadvertently cabled to CIA offices around the world... Israeli pilot to IDF war room: This is an American ship. Do you still want us to attack? IDF war room to Israeli pilot: Yes, follow orders. Israeli pilot to IDF war room: But sir, it’s an American ship - I can see the flag! IDF war room to Israeli pilot: Never mind; hit it. ...] The problem with this is that the ACTUAL published transcript of the attack recordings contain no such exchange, and, in fact, show that the attacking IDF pilots were ordered to break off the attack when they began reading English letters off the ship's hull back to their controllers (see image). In fact, excerpts of the actual audio recordings which match these published transcripts have appeared in documentaries made by Al Jazeera and the LVA-sanctioned documentary, "Sacrificing Liberty". How the makers of these documentaries got access to the full attack recording is unknown, but what is clear is that the IDF pilots never once identified the ship as American and attacked in on the basis that it was an Egyptian war ship. And when they began to realize their mistake, they were ordered to withdraw, which they immediately did.

Israel killed the terrorist responsible for murdering our soldiers this morning. And apparently people are mad about it.

One more before bed... USS Liberty 'troids often claim there were "gag orders" imposed upon on the crew of the ship such that they were prevented from speaking about the incident under pain of imprisonment - or worse. While there were certain aspects of the Liberty's mission that were sensitive (it was essentially an NSA spook ship, after all) and that some crew were prevented from speaking about to the press, and while there may have been a temporary moratorium on press engagement in general owing to the US Navy Inquiry in progress, the incident was hardly a state secret, and, in fact, the 1967 press was RIFE with articles and interviews with survivors in the days following the incident. And again, in a recent X space, someone actually argued to me that there was ZERO press surrounding this incident at the time it occurred, and that it didn't become widely known in the public until sometime in the mid-2000's. Setting aside the fact that (survivor) Jim Ennes book on the USS Liberty came out in 1979, here is a list of various publications which carried stories about this incident from June 1967 onward. It's actually quite extensive (see images for a few PAGES of this list)... libertyincident.com/docs/Gag…

Another frequent claim among USS Liberty 'troids is that President Johnson personally intervened in order to curtail rescue efforts that would have saved the Liberty and the lives of her crew. There are several problems with this "theory", not the least of which it the fact that, according to Sixth Fleet records, the time that the recall of the US rescue aircraft was issued was at 1640 Sinai - a full 1 hour and 40 minutes after the firing had ceased and the IDF offered assistance with no further attack, and some time after the Israelis announced their involvement in the incident to Washington DC. [... Z 081440Z JUN 67 [1640 Sinai time, 1040 Washington time] FM COMSIXTHFLT TO USS AMERICA USS SARATOGA CTF 60 CTG 60.2 CONFIDENTIAL         1. Recall all strikes Repeat recall all strikes GP-3 ...] I was recently in an X space wherein it was argued that, regardless of the time that the recall was issued, the orders could have still emanated directly from President Johnson. I countered that the orders actually came from Vice Admiral Martin - and no one else. And, lo and behold, I recently came across this back-and-forth with VA Martin... libertyincident.com/messages… [... Q. SIR. WERE YOU ON THE PHONE TO THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY? A. NO. Q. WERE YOU TALKING TO THE JOINT CHIEFS IN WASHINGTON ON THE PHONE? A. NO. Q. THIS WAS ALL RADIOTELETYPE MESSAGES THAT YOU USED. DID YOU GET ANY INSTRUCTIONS FROM THEM IN WASHINGTON AT ANY TIME? A. NO. ...]

A common refrain among USS Liberty kooktroids is that the motive for Israel attacking the ship was to create a "false flag" in order to drag the US into the Six Day War on Israel's side. One problem with this "theory" is that by that point in the war, the Egyptian Air Force had been largely decimated, and they didn't have the air resources with which to mount such an attack on a ship in the Med. In short, Israel effectively signed their names to the attack when they strafed the ship with planes manufactured by the French. Then I stumbled across a New York Times article that came out just TWO DAYS before the Liberty incident which more or less puts this entire motive to rest, once and for all time. It turns out that the Israelis felt confident they had the Arabs on the run and didn't even need the US's assistance, even if such a thing ever once crossed their minds - for which there is zero indication. And so, this long-standing 'troid theory dies with the clickitty-clack of a typewriter keyboard... nytimes.com/1967/06/07/archi… [... Israelis Think the War Has Been Won; ISRAELIS BELIEVE THE WAR IS WON TEL AVIV, June 6—After only two days of spectacular air and tank warfare, Israeli officials here are talking about their terms for peace. They are at least half-way through their strategic plan: First, cripple the Arab air forces, which they caught on the ground yesterday; then with air superiority, destroy the Arab tanks, and, finally, use their air and armor victories to deal with the Arabs at Sharm el Sheik and Ras Nasrani and thus open up the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli commerce between the port of Elath and the Red Sea and Asia. Officials here are confident that they can think in these terms. They believe that Israel won the war yesterday in the battles for supremacy in the air. They also believe that the destruction of the Arab tanks and the Arab forces at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba is only a matter of days. ...]

Why am I not surprised... camera.org/article/bbc-corre… BBC Correspondent Actively Supports Palestinian War Against Israel [... The BBC’s correspondent in Gaza reportedly declared at a recent Hamas event that reporters and the media are “waging the campaign [against Israel] shoulder-to-shoulder together with the Palestinian people.” (Jerusalem Post, May 24, 2001) ...]

The was back in the day would @Lukewearechange would put a little card in his hat with the word, "PRESS" scrawled in crayon and pretend he was a real-life news reporter. I sure miss those early 9/11 kooktroid days.

I wish I was kidding. This is so pathetic. When you win a debate, you don’t do an emergency stream to convince people that you won by accusing your opponents of being paid to know facts.

Someone just sent me a clip of Clint Russell doing an emergency livestream to essentially whine that he actually won the debate and that I’m paid to memorize facts. 🤣

The same people who bring up the USS Liberty, an incident that Israel has apologized for and pays the victims and their families, seem to have no issue with the Islamic Republic killing thousands of our troops over the span of decades. Weird.