What Phil Saw That Day
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 11:57PM Gilad Atzmon
45th anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty
By Gilad Atzmon
. . . “I was a 6th Navy’s pilot” he said. “We were deployed to the
Mediterranean Sea. On that day in June 1967, we heard it all, the
sailors on board of the Liberty, they were begging for help, it was a
real agony, we were fuming, we wanted to get on the planes, we were
about 10-12 minutes away, we wanted to save our brothers, but they
didn’t let us onto the deck.”
On June 8, 1967 USS Liberty, an American auxiliary technical research
ship, a military vessel specialised in gathering intelligence, was
attacked by the Israeli forces. It was subject to an 18 hours combined
air and sea raids that left 34 American crew-members dead (naval
officers, seamen, two Marines, and one civilian) and 170 injured.
The
attack also severely damaged the ship. Like the Mavi Marmara, at the
time of the attack, the ship was in international waters, north of the
Sinai Peninsula, about 50 km northwest from the Egyptian City of El
Arish.
Phil
Tourney is a USS Liberty Survivor, & like many of his friends who
were lucky enough to survive that hot day in June 1967; the event
changed his life. I met Phil in Aspen last March. I spent some good
hours together with the great man and his lovely wife. We shared our
personal stories and thoughts about Israel, America and the Jewish Lobby
with a few friends and listeners. When it was time to depart Phillip
left me with “What I Saw That Day”; a devastating biographical account
written by Phil and the courageous truth teller journalist Mark Glenn.
The book is the life story of a man who survived a murderous Israeli
aggression, but it is also the story of a man who has witnessed four
decades of deceit. The event, which Phil ‘saw that day’ is something
most of us have failed to see for decades.
“What
I Saw That Day” is a story of America turning its back on its
service-men. It is a story about Israelis slaughtering in cold blood
American sailors on the high sea.
But it is also a story about a man who
battles with wounds and scars that have refused to heal for forty five
years. It is a book about the American serviceman being deceived and
neglected by American political and military elite.
“What I Saw That
Day” is also a personal painful account of the tragic consequences of
Israeli and Jewish lobby domination in America.
The survival of the USS Liberty was nothing but a miracle. The ship
was an old WWII ‘one goer’ that was converted into a military
intelligence vessel. It wasn’t built to stand a combat, it wasn’t
structured to take any penalty. And yet, it somehow survived hours of
heavy Israeli raids.
It was hit by napalm bombs and torpedoes, by the
end of that horrid day it was soaking with young American blood, but it
refused to go down. It didn’t sink. The USS Liberty is there to remind
us, our leaders, the Israelis and their lobbies that the memory of
this massacre is not going to sink either. Like the Nakba and the
Holodomour, USS Liberty bounced back.
Seemingly, injustice cannot be
suppressed, it always waits patiently for humanity to transform history
into a moral lesson.
This horrendous story has been silenced for decades, but not anymore.
What Phillip Tourney saw that day was just a glimpse into the
magnitude of Western immorality and barbarism. Since then many
Americans soldiers lost their life in Zionist global wars. Millions of
Muslims and Arabs have been slaughtered in wicked interventionist
conflicts.
To save our homes, families, friends, dignity and the world as we
know it; is to stand up for the truth and to call a spade a spade.
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