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Posted on June 12, 2015June 12, 2015 By Eileen Fleming 3 Comments on USS Liberty Survivor Onboard with FREEDOM Flotilla
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USS LIBERTY survivor Joe Meadors is a former U.S. Navy signalman who exemplifies the USS Liberty Survivors’ Creed:

I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my shipmates and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.

 

JoeMeadors In 2010, Meadors was again attacked by Israeli forces in international waters –this time as a passenger on the Sfendoni, one of the Free Gaza flotilla boats and he will soon be on-board another!

Meadors explains he persists to put himself in harms way because he “has known about the situation in Palestine literally my entire life having been fortunate enough to live in Saudi Arabia as a child and learn about Palestine and the Zionist effort to depopulate the area from the Palestinians who were driven from their homes.”

In an 2010 interview Meadors said:

I was invited by the people at the Free Palestine Movement to visit the Gaza and see if we can try to break the blockade.

I was kind of apprehensive, given the history I’ve had with the Israelis.

I seem to have all the bad luck in the world when it comes to the Israelis.

Their overtaking of our ship was quite simple.

They just jumped onboard, a couple dozen of them, and took over the ship.

They used tasers and kicked some of the people topside when they were trying to protect the captain and the pilothouse. But their actions were quite swift.

Nothing happened to me. As a matter of fact, on hindsight, they were fairly polite. It was always ‘please’ and ‘thank you’; but those words take on a different meaning when they’re said at the point of a gun.

 

There is no doubt that the Israelis were committing piracy on the high seas against the Freedom Flotilla and used deadly force against unarmed humanitarians whose only crime was defending themselves against a sea and airborne invasion by heavily armed aggressors.

 

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On Tuesday, Meadors informed this reporter:

Freedom Flotilla I resulted in the death of 9 participants including one American citizen during the attack by the Israeli Defense Forces.

Freedom Flotilla II wasn’t permitted to sail from Greece.

I have accepted an invitation to participate in Freedom Flotilla III, which is scheduled to embark in the next few weeks.

Hopefully this Flotilla will be successful in breaking the siege and arrive safely in Gaza.

The only thing I am authorized to say about it is that I will be a passenger and I have to raise my own expenses.

I obviously know more but I am not at liberty to share any more info about it.

 

Perhaps Meadors will reach Gaza by September 10, when this Honor the USS LIBERTY Petition to Congress and President Obama will be delivered:

 

“Never before in the history of the United States Navy has a Naval Board of Inquiry ignored the testimony of American military eyewitnesses and taken on faith the word of their attackers.”- Captain Richard Kiepfer, MD.

Fifteen minutes into Israel’s attack on the USS LIBERTY, Dr. Kiepfer was operating on a wounded sailor when he was hit by shrapnel and, with complete disregard for his own personal safety, exposed himself to overwhelmingly accurate rocket and machine gun fire, administered first aid and treated 174 USA Troops for pain and shock and conducted a major surgical operation.

Congress has not INVESTIGATED Israel’s June 8, 1967 attack on the USS Liberty which killed 34 unarmed Americans and wounded 174 service men.

In 2003, an independent commission of experts convened, including Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, USN, Ret. Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, General of Marines Raymond G. Davis, Rear Admiral Merlin Starling and Ambassador James Adkins.

They concluded there was compelling evidence that Israel’s attack was deliberate and “Israel committed acts of murder against American servicemen and an act of war against the United States.”

The esteemed experts expressed their “Duty to the brave crew of USS LIBERTY and all Americans who are asked to serve in our Armed Forces, hereby call upon the Department of the Navy, the Congress of the United States and the American people to immediately take the following actions”:

The first called for a new and true Court of Inquiry to be convened.

The second, for every appropriate committee of the Congress of the United States to investigate the actions of the White House and Defense Department that prevented the rescue of the USS LIBERTY, including the NSA, CIA and military intelligence.

The third called for the establishment of every June 8 to be known as USS LIBERTY REMEMBRANCE DAY.

We, the undersigned Call on Congress to honor the USS LIBERTY and Support the Troops by taking the 3 steps listed above!

SIGN HERE

 

 

FreedomFlotillafishermenYOU can get onboard with Meadors by donating to help defray his FREEDOM FLOTILLA expenses through PayPal

After logging in click “Send money to friends or family” for Meadors at: joe@ussliberty.com

Learn more about The Freedom Flotilla

 

 

 

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Comments (3) on “USS Liberty Survivor Onboard with FREEDOM Flotilla”

  1. Aer O'Head says:
    June 14, 2015 at 8:11 am

    My sincere respect. Fair winds and following sea!

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  2. Kris L Doyle says:
    June 12, 2015 at 10:46 pm

    Very moving……. the blockade of Gaza by Israel is totally illegal, the murder of civilians is illegal yet the world does nothing. I pray these brave people arrive safely and are not fired upon, as most Palestinian fishermen are daily. The world needs to take notice of the atrocious acts committed by Israel, and send in UN troops to start protecting the Palestinian civilians and remove the illegal checkpoints etc that make their life hell. They should be allowed to move freely in their own land.

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    1. Michael Thomson says:
      June 17, 2015 at 4:21 pm

      THE WORLD DOES NOTHING BECAUSE ISRAEL USES BLACKMAIL AND EXTORTION. LOOK AT FUKASHIMA IN JAPAN, ISRAEL EXPLODED FAKE CAMERA/RADIATION MONITORING DEVICE ,WAS ACTUALLY A BOMB. THEY EXPLODED THEM WHILE USA SIMULTANEOUSLY USED HAARP TO CREAT A SUNAMI AS A COVER FOR THE BOMBS. SOMEBODY, COUNTRY OR COUNTRIES ARE FINALLY GOING TO HAVE TO SAY ENOUGH. THROUGH THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT OF 1913, THESE ZIONISTS, ROTHCHILDE ROCKEFLLERS. WARBURGS NOW OWN AMERICAN. THEY OWN THE BANKS, HOLLYWOOD , THE NEWS MEDIA, THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION TO WHICH600 BILLION IS SPENT AND THAT NOT EVEN THE BLACK OPS WHICH ARE 100 OF BILLIONS MORE.

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