OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: What happened on October 13, 2007 in California and SEEKING JUSTICE for USS LIBERTY

"J.Q. "Tony" Hart, then a chief petty officer assigned to a U.S. Navy relay station in Morocco that handled communications between Washington and the 6th Fleet, remembered listening as Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, in Washington, ordered Rear Adm. Lawrence Geis, commander of the America's carrier battle group, to bring the jets home. When Geis protested that the Liberty was under attack and needed help, Hart said, McNamara retorted that "President [Lyndon] Johnson is not going to go to war or embarrass an American ally over a few sailors."

"The Johnson administration did not publicly dispute Israel's claim that the attack had been nothing more than a disastrous mistake. But internal White House documents obtained from the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library show that the Israelis' explanation of how the mistake had occurred was not believed. Except for McNamara, most senior administration officials from Secretary of State Dean Rusk on down privately agreed with Johnson's intelligence adviser, Clark Clifford, who was quoted in minutes of a National Security Council staff meeting as saying it was "inconceivable" that the attack had been a case of mistaken identity. The attack "couldn't be anything else but deliberate," the NSA's director, Lt. Gen. Marshall Carter, later told Congress. [IBID]

States and nations have obligations. People have rights.

American democracy is based on the self evident truth that all people are created equal; all are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights…[and] that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted…and derive their powers from the consent of the governed; and, whenever any form of government becomes unjust and destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to rise up+ and alter or abolish it. –paraphrase from "The Declaration of Independence"

I in no way am against the state of Israel, in no way do I want it abolish it, I only desire that it uphold it's promise:

On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations." - May 14, 1948. The Declaration of the establishment of Israel.

EVERY day, the U.S.A. gives more than $7,023,288.00 of we the peoples tax dollars to Israel and over $108 billion since 1948. http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

1,024 Israelis and at least 4,274 Palestinians have been killed since September 29, 2000. [IBID]

7,633 Israelis and 31,531 Palestinians have been injured since September 29, 2000? [IBID]

Israel has been targeted by at least 65 UN resolutions and the Palestinians have been targeted by none.[IBID]

One Israeli is being held prisoner by Palestinians, while 10,756 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel, including children under the age of 16 and women.

For the 2005-2006 election cycle Pro-Israel Funds to Congress totaled $3,277,693 and the total Arab American PAC Funds to Congress was a mere $80,500. - Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, July 2007.

During President George Washington's Farewell Address on September 17, 1796 he warned, "The nation which indulges toward another…is in some degree a slave…a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils."

During President George W. Bush's, Second Inaugural Address he promised, "In the long run, there is no JUSTICE without FREEDOM. There can be no human rights without LIBERTY. All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know the United States will not ignore your oppression or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for liberty, we stand with you."

The man some call prophet and some call God promised that it is the Peacemakers who are the children of God [Matthew 5:9] and "You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free."-John 8:32

In 2006, American Israeli, Jeff Halper, Founder and Coordinator of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a Noble Peace Prize Nominee for 2006, told me: "Israel is a not a democracy but is an Ethnocracy, meaning a country run and controlled by a national group with some democratic elements but set up with Jews in control and structured to keep them in control."

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