Today I just recorded the first segment of a DHP episode I've been quietly working my ass off on in recent weeks. I've said almost nothing about this publicly, other than maybe a very vague tweet or two.
The topic is this: The Israeli attack on the USS Liberty on June 8th, 1967.
This is a topic I've intended to cover on the DHP eventually at some point. But with the Israeli-American conflict with Iran, & then Trump's complete 180 on the Jeffery Epstein scandal, I felt compelled to set aside a lot of other things I was working on to push the Liberty story to the front of the queue.
This story is infuriating & largely unknown to Americans today. Over the course of several hours, Israeli planes & torpedo bots attacked an American ship in international waters, killing 34 Americans & wounding 171, & nearly sinking the ship. Even though the Liberty was flying an American flag & had identifying marks prominently visible on its hull, the Israeli government claimed it was a tragic mistake, & the US government largely let them get away with it, one example of many that the US-Israeli "alliance" is actually only one-way in terms of costs vs. benefits.
I'm working as hard as I can to try to get the Liberty DHP episode done by Monday. I think I can do it, but it'll be a pretty big episode. (My notes for it are 27 pages & I'm still adding to them here & there even though I've started recording, which is par for the course for me.)
