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Mark's avatar

Not sure if you're soliciting topic suggestions other than the ones polled, or if your focus now is exclusively on Judaism as such rather than Israel, but I'd enjoy a piece on the USS Liberty intentional false flag theories. They seem ridiculously, obviously false, to nearly the same extent that Ryan Dawson's 9/11 theories are, but enjoy immense currency on Twitter and are basically an unshakeable article of faith on that part of the right.

My other sincerely humble suggestion is to pick a consistent handle so I can more easily refer you to other people. :) Extremely huge fan of your content.

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Wittmayer's avatar

Thanks, any suggestions are welcome. Wrt the Liberty I'd have to look into it more but as I see it currently I don't think it's a slam dunk case in either direction, there are still unknowns and I'd have to see if there's anything I could add that others haven't already. And it'll be Wittmayer from now on, William was just a random name I made in 2022

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Patrick McNally's avatar

If one is simply debating whether the attack on the Liberty was a conscious attack on a known US ship, that is what is confirmed by John Loftus & Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against the Jews. Their book is very pro-Israel, but carries interesting tidbits of admissions almost as if the Mossad wanted to backhandedly admit to certain things in a quiet way. They do affirm that it was a known strike against a US ship.

The more dramatic charge which gets thrown around on X is that it was intended to draw the US into a war with Egypt but somehow failed. That sounds really overblown. The simplest explanation is that Israeli intelligence knew that the Liberty was capable of gathering intelligence about local military maneuvers and instinctively decided to knock it out. Loftus & Aarons present their own conspiracy theory that LBJ was allegedly anti-Israel and willing to give intelligence to the Egyptians. I don't buy that at all. But simple security-paranoia probably motivated some Israeli commanders to treat it as if the Liberty was spying for Egypt.

As for claims that the Liberty incident was intended to draw the US into a war with Egypt by blaming the incident on Nasser, that sounds so crazy that one must demand overwhelming evidence. This was at a time when protests over Vietnam were rising. If LBJ had tried framing Egypt for the attack and gone to war in the Mideast, this wouldn't have gone over well. From the perspective of practical Israeli interest, the quick victory in the Six-Day War was the optimal outcome. At a time when fighting against guerillas in southeast Asia seemed to drag on, lots of people admired the swift sharp victory of the Six-Day War. But there would have been hell to pay if LBJ had stuck Nixon with another war to get out of.

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Christopher Kuehl's avatar

On the issue of Liberty, this is one event that Dennis Prager didn’t really have an answer to in his 15 page response to Candace Owens.

https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/4rR7bx8wnD4YcM06JiBp3l/36e46704f8d36e2fb6db3c79db3c88ee/a_letter_from_dennis_prager_to_candace_owens.pdf

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Michel djerzinski's avatar

You should do the money lending article. Also i recommend the book “the chosen few” on jewish education (ie a theory of selection for intelligence among jews)

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Wittmayer's avatar

I own a copy! Fascinating history.

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Christopher Kuehl's avatar

Please do a Talmud debunking.

This is a great resource for debunking holocaust denial. The second video with David Cole is especially interesting.

https://willspencerpod.substack.com/p/defeating-holocaust-denialism?triedRedirect=true

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Eugine Nier's avatar

For those who don't believe in the real presence, the Catholic host is effectively an idol, the kind all Abrahamics are commanded to desecrate.

I could imagine Jews or later low-church Protestants engaging in host desecration. Heck, there were a few recent infamous instances of atheist host desertions during the height of New Atheism.

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