I recently received the Liberty News, published by the USS Liberty Veterans Association, featuring the 1989 months long exchanges in your paper relating to the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. At this late date, I’d like to throw in my two cents on a topic brought up by two letters critical of the Sentinel and not answered by your supporters.
The two letters stated that Israel had paid “reparations” to the wounded and next-of-kin of those killed and to the U.S. for the damage to Liberty. I take exception to that. I will explain that Israel didn�t pay one thin dime.
U.S. TAXPAYERS PAID ALL THAT WAS PAID!
An arrangement was agreed to by Israel only after U.S. aid to Israel was increased from $13 million in Fiscal Year 1967 to a whopping $76.8 million in Fiscal Year 1968. That aid increase took care of negotiations for the crew, dead and wounded. These payments were made with U.S. Government checks in late Spring, 1968.
Israel then refused to pay for the LIBERTY damage. The United States government then increased the aid to Israel to $121.7 million for FY 1969. The new negotiations began and Israel agreed to pay $7.6 million damages for the $40 million ship which was sold for less than $200,000.00 as scrap. But Israel DID NOT PAY as promised when U.S. aid was cut to $71 million for FY 1970, even though that was still five times the U.S. aid of 1967. And the bill remained unpaid (and not deducted from the increased U.S. aid).
With the election of Ronald Reagan in November of 1980, Israel was unsure of how good a friend to Israel Reagan would be. A bird in the hand, so to speak and Israel initiated new USS LIBERTY damage negotiations with old friend Jimmy Carter. In December, 1980 the state Department announced that Israel had agreed to pay a total of $6 million for the LIBERTY in three payments over the next three years. A State Department official was quoted (as saying), “The book is closed on the USS LIBERTY.” That was 10-1/2 years after Israel had agreed to pay $7.6 million. No interest was to be paid by Israel. Even this last agreement was not kept per the agreement. It was reported in 1988, five years after Carter’s agreement should have been paid off, that Israel had finally paid the last installment.
Between the attack by Israel on the LIBERTY in 1967 and the last payment, some $45 billion is U.S. (U.S. taxpayer money) has been given to Israel by bought U.S. politicians. Any payments were deducted from ever increasing U.S. aid to Israel.
But that is not the end of the story.
To give money to Israel, the U.S. must first borrow the money and pay interest on that borrowed money. The money and the interest become part of our FEDERAL DEBT, now more than THREE TRILLION DOLLARS. We, the U.S. taxpayers, are today paying interest on the FIRST DOLLAR in aid given to Israel in 1949 and all in between.
Using U.S. treasury interest tables on interest rates we have paid, year by year, to borrow money through 1983 and using 10 percent (1984-1990), AID TO ISRAEL WITH INTEREST COMPOUNDED ON THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNTS TO AN ABSOLUTE MINIMUS COST TO U.S. TAXPAYERS OF $128.138 BILLION (ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT BILLION, ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS).
All aid to Israel is now in GRANTS, never to be repaid. And unlike aid to other countries that receive their aid quarterly, Israel is given all their aid at the start of each of our Fiscal Years, thereby costing United States taxpayers an additional $50 million or so in interest each year. And aid to Israel is not subject to any cuts if budget cuts are made necessary by the Gramm-Rudman Act.
No, Israel did not pay reparations for the USS LIBERTY nor to the wounded and the next of kin of those killed as Fred Slavic and four others stated in their letters. Even United States aid to Egypt is to pay Egypt for its peace with Israel.
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Like the former Instructor of Studies at the US Army War College, Dr. Alan Sabrosky said, “It is 100% conclusive that 9/11 was a Mossad operation.” “Not only did they attack the USS Liberty – they did 9/11! They did it!”
The people who still believe the nineteen Arab hijackers story would have difficulty pouring urine out of a boot if the directions were on the heal.
Are you kidding me Patrick? You call Muslims worshiping at the WTC ground zero not a blatant smack in the face from that community? The WTC ground zero has been declared a holy site by most American clerics. I would trust a jew far before I would trust a Muslim. The Qur’an teaches Muslims to lie to indoctrinate women and children, with most of their agendas are hell bent on world domination. The prophet Mohammed was a murderer, pedophile, and homosexual; all to create the evil “Moon God” faith of Islam.
The United States has supported Israel over the years to stabilize the middle east oil. Is that some sort of secret? Hey, when the oil runs out in the middle east, our interest will be gone and we will leave them to do whatever they see fit in their rubble cities. So, we have 40 or so more years of meddling with the satanists over there.
Oh, don’t forget about the Iranian airplane filled with dead bodies that was shot down during a collision course with a Naval ship 22 or so years ago. Pure evil!
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Jews don’t keep my from having Christmas… Muslims and Athiests do.
Patrick – trust a jew – better reseach that better, thru the centuries the torah and the talmud has when thru many changes just as much as the christain churches has. The zionism are a breed from KHAZAR TURKIC blood line which adopted the talmud and they are the worse kind of cult to trust and the Judaism dispites that cult
Patrick, you must be a Zionist dumbass. “…most of their agendas are hell bent on world domination”. What a stupid, broad generalization to make, have you interviewed all of the world’s muslims, or did you just pull that “fact” out of your ass? I think we know the answer. Are you a “Christian” Zionist, or just a run of the mill uninformed idiot, to make such a statement? If you want to read about slaughtering women and children (an entire village), all kinds of lies and deceit, constant wars with everyone around them, child sacrifice to Molech, arrogance, greed, and more, dust off your Old Testament. Jesus (who they HATE) condemned Jewish lies, greed, and self-righteousness long before Islam even existed! Of course, there are decent Jews as well. Try not to paint a billion or more people with your ignorant broad brush, most of them want to be left alone by the US to live in peace. Bringing suffering and death to people for the oil in THEIR countries, that YOU want, is not an acceptable excuse for supporting injustice. As far as Israel being an ally, research the USS Liberty case, Jonathan Pollard, and similar incidents. What the hell have they done for us, other than suck untold billions of American taxpayer dollars out of our economy, and cause the Arab/Muslim world -which used to have respect for the United States before our OBVIOUS double standards towards them/Israel caused them to lose it- and motivate militants (or those with dignity and self-respect) to want to avenge the deaths of their families and friends, ie 9/11. They’ve lost WAAAAY more than 3,000 people at our hands-more like a million. Please educate yourself… I’m not even Christian anymore, but Jesus called them out in chapter 8 of the book of John,
“I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. 38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. 41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” So go ahead and trust them is you want to, they take BILLIONS of dollars from gullible Christians, and laugh at them behind their backs, while considering Jesus a blasphemer and having nothing but disgust for him, and Christianity! If only Christians would educate themselves beyond the bible and Christian evangelical books…
May I suggest the Talmud for a good read?
I feel sorry for you sir, not in a bad way.
You were backstabbed by the Jew.
They have done this to so many noble Christians and Americans, that we cease to be America any longer.
We now are just a Jewish State under their total financial and mental control
I was one of the receipients of insufficient compensation for my injuries. It didn’t cover the forty some years of physical and mental pain that resulted from the attack. It didn’t even come close. When I wrote to the State Department about this they told me tough luck the case is closed. Many of us inlcuding myself suffered from PTSD which wasn’t even known then so we couldn’t report it as such. The check I received was not from Israel as far as I know since it was an official U.S. Government check. I felt fotunate because some recived nothing.
I was one of the receipients of insufficient compensation for my injuries. It didn’t cover the forty some years of physical and mental pain that resulted from the attack. It didn’t even come close. When I wrote to the State Department about this they told me tough luck the case is closed. Many of us inlcuding myself suffered from PTSD which was even known then so we couldn’t report it as such. The check I received was not from Israel as far as I know since it was an official U.S. Government check. I felt fotunate because some recived nothing.
So sorry for your experience, Ronald. Thanks for sharing, and for your service. Don’t worry, we probably won’t see an investigation in our lifetimes, but word is getting out to the public about the Liberty, little by little, and those of us who still have critical thinking abilities, and are not hopelessly brainwashed, are doing our own investigations and coming to our own conclusions. I don’t hate Jews, but Israel’s treatment of your crew, and their belligerence and dishonesty in general, has been nothing but trouble from the beginning, IMO. As he said, our government is bought and paid for, it will be a grass roots uprising that eventually turns things around, someone like Ron Paul understands but people aren’t ready for a solution yet. Thanks to the internet, information IS being spread. Blessings to you Sir, I’m not sure what part of the ship you were in, or what your experience was, but it must have been hell that day.