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Massie Takes To House Floor To Call For The Truth About The USS Liberty

By blueapples | Ashes of Acacia | June 8, 2026

For generations, the attack on the USS Liberty by the Israel Defense Forces (”IDF”) has served as a catalyst that shifted the paradigm of how the American public views the United States’ relationship with its supposed “greatest ally.” For the current generation of Americans, Kentucky representative Thomas Massie has been the catalyst that has opened their eyes to the reality of the lengths that Israel will go to in order to shape the governance of the U.S. toward pursuing the Jewish state’s interests instead of those of the American people. Massie’s defeat against Ed Gallrein in the Republican primary for the 4th Congressional District of Kentucky, like the attack on the USS Liberty, is a distillation of how Israel has subverted the American democratic process, virtually transforming the U.S. into its vassal state. The parallels between the attack on the USS Liberty and the pro-Israel lobby’s assault on Massie make it fitting that the outgoing congressman from Kentucky will be dedicating a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives on June 8th, 2026 to honor the memory of the American servicemen who lost their lives aboard the USS Liberty at the hands of IDF.

Massie’s speech before the House of Representatives will fall on the 59th anniversary of the June 8th, 1967, IDF attack on the US Navy technical research ship, which was stationed in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea near the Sinai Peninsula during the Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon. The USS Liberty was attacked from air and sea by Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats during its active signals intelligence-gathering mission. The attack led to the deaths of 34 American servicemen, injuries to 171 others, and severe damage to the vessel, which led to it being decommissioned the following year. To date, the bombing of the USS Liberty is the lone instance in which the U.S. has not responded with military force against a nation that has attacked it in the country’s 250-year history.

IDF forces launched a two-wave, 23-minute assault on the vessel, first blasting it with gunfire and bombing the ship with napalm from four Mirage III and Super Mystères fighter jets. After the air raid, the Israeli navy started a second wave of the attack on the USS Liberty by sea, in which its naval vessels opened fire on the ship and launched torpedoes at it. One torpedo struck the USS Liberty, leading Israel to finally cease the attack when it believed that the ship was sinking.

In the fallout over the attack, Israeli officials declared the IDF’s assault had been executed in error, claiming it mistakenly identified the ship as a vessel belonging to the Egyptian Navy. Survivors have long disavowed Israel’s claim, as they contend that the ship had been flying an American flag from the start of the attack. Even after that American flag was destroyed during the first wave of the air assault on the USS Liberty, its crew raised an even larger American flag to make the ship’s allegiance unquestionable. Subsequent independent investigations of the attack led separately by the U.S. and Israel each determined that the USS Liberty had indeed flown an American flag from the beginning. However, the investigation commissioned by Israel maintained that the IDF did not identify the ship’s flag before unleashing its attack.

Although sitting U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson fully accepted the Israeli version of the events that unfolded, high-ranking members of his administration and the country’s military vehemently disagreed. Dean Rusk, the Secretary of State that Johnson inherited from his predecessor, President John F. Kennedy, unequivocally contended that the attack on the USS Liberty by the IDF was deliberate. Rusk remained outspoken against Israel over the attack throughout his life, writing in 1990 that, “I didn’t believe them then, and I don’t believe them to this day.” Conversely, Johnson only dedicated one small paragraph to addressing the attack in his autobiography. In that paragraph, Johnson even went as far as to distort the casualties of the attack, lowering the death toll from 34 to 10 and the injured from 171 to 100.

Admiral Thomas Hinman Moorer, who served as the 18th Chief of Naval Operations during the attack on the USS Liberty and the 7th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1970 to 1974, went as far as to accuse President Johnson of ordering a cover-up of the attack to conceal the deliberate attack by Israel in an effort to hide the massive influence the country holds over the U.S. In a 1983 interview, Moorer stated:

“I’ve never seen a President — I don’t care who he is — stand up to them [Israel]. It just boggles your mind. They always get what they want. The Israelis know what is going on all the time. I got to the point where I wasn’t writing anything down. If the American people understood what a grip those people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our citizens don’t have any idea what goes on.”

Moorer was in attendance during the ceremony of the presentation of the Medal of Honor to the USS Liberty’s commanding officer, Captain William L. McGonagle. In an unprecedented event, the presentation of the Medal of Honor to Captain McGonagle was done by Secretary of the Navy Paul Ignatius off of the grounds of the White House. President Johnson elected to have the ceremony held off of White House grounds, with Secretary Ignatius awarding the medal instead of himself, in a maneuver to minimize the event’s publicity in the interest of prioritizing the U.S. relationship with Israel over honoring Captain McGonagle’s heroism, adding even further insult to injury against the American servicemen aboard the vessel who withstood the attack at the hands of the IDF. To this day, the Medal of Honor presentation to Captain McGonagle is the first and only ceremony to be held in such a manner.

Moorer spent the rest of his life fighting for the memory of the victims of the attack on the USS Liberty, leading an independent commission in 2003 that determined the attack by the IDF was deliberate. Although Moorer provided his commission’s findings in a formal request for a congressional investigation into the attack, Congress never acted upon his request. Moorer remained committed to revealing the truth behind the attack on the USS Liberty until he was on his deathbed, continuing to call upon Congress to open an investigation less than one month before he passed away in 2004.

Although Captain William McGonagle died in 1999, 5 years before Admiral Moorer, dozens of survivors of the attack on the USS Liberty are still alive today and continue to advocate for an investigation into what unfolded on that tragic day. According to Rep. Massie, some of those survivors of the attack will be in the gallery of the House of Representatives as guests of honor invited to attend his speech. In spite of his attempts to honor the memory of the victims who lost their lives and give a voice to survivors still fighting to bring the truth about what really happened to the USS Liberty to light, Massie’s decision to commemorate the anniversary of the attack has been met with disdain by a chorus of Zionist sycophants who show that the attitude of the U.S. government that put the interests of Israel ahead of its own servicemen in 1967 prevails to this day.

Outgoing Republican representative for the 2nd Congressional District of Texas Dan Crenshaw was one such voice who directed his ire at Massie for bringing the attack on the USS Liberty back into the spotlight. Crenshaw, who lost his own Republican primary in March, questioned Massie’s authenticity in a passive-aggressive post on his X account.

Crenshaw’s response to Massie’s decision to fight for the truth about what happened to the USS Liberty is typical of the rhetoric that American Zionists resort to when the subject is brought up. Pro-Israeli members of U.S. government and political commentators aligned with them alike have continuously oscillated between regurgitating platitudes about how the attack by the IDF on the USS Liberty was a tragic accident or treating the topic like the plague by either feigning ignorance or being too cowardly to address it head-on. The empty rhetoric behind their protestations in the face of calls for the truth to be revealed about what happened to the USS Liberty has only amplified the magnitude that discussing the attack has on opening the eyes of Americans to the true nature of their country’s relationship with Israel.

Although Israel maintains its official position that the IDF attack on the USS Liberty was not a deliberate act of war, the country has paid a total of nearly $13 million in compensation across several different settlement agreements. In 1968, the year following the attack, Israel paid $3.32 million to the U.S. government to be awarded to the families of the 34 servicemen killed in the attack. A year later in 1969, another $3.57 million payment was made as compensation to the 171 others aboard the vessel who were wounded. In 1980, a final payment of $6 million was paid by Israel to the U.S. government as restitution for the irreparable damage done to the ship, which led to it being decommissioned.

In the wake of those settlements, survivors of the attack on the USS Liberty who have continued to be ignored have made it clear that it isn’t financial restitution that they have been seeking. What they desire above all else is the truth. What has kept them from arriving at the truth is that the U.S. government has continued to stand by Israel instead of the servicemen who were aboard the USS Liberty on that day. While that decorum favoring Israel over Americans has become the standard in Washington, D.C., Thomas Massie continuing to prove that he is one of the few exceptions to that rule will give survivors of the attack on the USS Liberty perhaps what is the largest platform they have had to have their story told when he takes to the House floor to honor the legacy of the brave men whose memories have been cast aside since the U.S. Capital has become Israeli occupied territory.

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June 8, 2026 - Posted by aletho | Deception, False Flag Terrorism, Timeless or most popular, Wars for Israel | Israel, United States, USS Liberty, Zionism