Bringing up the USS Liberty incident is rubbing sandpaper on an open wound, and elicits the often asked but never answered question: what the hell has Israel ever done for the U.S.? From Ryan McMaken at mises.org:
The recent destruction of the Syrian regime, replaced by Islamists and Jihadists, reminds us that the American foreign-policy establishment in Washington continues to do the bidding of the State of Israel which exerts its influence through one of the most well-funded and extensive lobbying efforts Washington has ever known. The surreptitious alliance of terrorist Syrian Rebels, Israelis, and Americans, is just the latest manifestation of this working relationship.
For more than thirty years now, the US has repeatedly committed American troops and American treasure to carry out the bidding of Tel Aviv with no advantage gained for ordinary American people. The Iraq War—with its thousands of American casualties—the endless drone wars, the potential war in Iran, and the American alliance with jihadists in Syria, are all at the service of the Israeli state. Trillions have now been sent to fund various war efforts for the Israeli state, a foreign parasite state that continually calls upon Americans to toil and die for its benefit.
Israeli propaganda and lobbying efforts have been so successful, in fact, that pro-Israel Americans often refer to Israel as “our greatest ally.” Yet, the State of Israel is a cautionary tale about the dangers of committing American lives and treasure to the service of a foreign state that offers nothing when it comes to the actual defense of the American homeland.
As merely one example of the treachery of this supposed ally, it is always helpful to remember that the State of Israel is the only ally to have willfully attacked a ship of the US Navy, and to have suffered no repercussions for the attack whatsoever. I speak, of course, of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967, an attack that most scholars now agree was deliberate, and which may have been intended as a false flag to get the US to declare war against Egypt. Then, as now, Tel Aviv was doing what it does: victimizing ordinary Americans and raiding the US Treasury.
