{"id":31629,"date":"2018-08-14T18:23:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T02:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=31629"},"modified":"2018-08-14T18:23:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T02:23:15","slug":"uss-liberty-survivor-talks-to-consortium-news-radio-after-release-from-israeli-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/14\/uss-liberty-survivor-talks-to-consortium-news-radio-after-release-from-israeli-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"USS <I>Liberty<\/I> Survivor Talks to Consortium News Radio After Release From Israeli Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/\">Consortium News<\/a> Radio this week:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A USS <em>Liberty <\/em>survivor who was arrested by Israel this month trying to break the Gaza blockade joins Episode 2 of Consortium News Radio.  <\/p>\n<p>Joe Meadors was a signalman on the USS <em>Liberty <\/em>surveillance ship on June 8, 1967 when Israel attacked, killing 34 U.S. sailors and injuring 173 more. This month Meadors was arrested by Israeli soldiers onboard a boat taking part in a flotilla to break the Gaza blockade. Meadors tells Consortium News Radio in this episode how he first became sympathetic to the Palestinians while growing up in Saudi Arabia; how he was told by his superiors not to discuss what happened on the Liberty; why he broke his silence 12 years later; who he thought was attacking the <em>Liberty<\/em>; why the U.S. covered it up; what he believes was Israel\u2019s motive in trying to sink his ship; what it was like in Israeli custody this month and much more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GkaIaxGdx-s\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Consortium News Radio this week: A USS Liberty survivor who was arrested by Israel this month trying to break the Gaza blockade joins Episode 2 of Consortium News Radio. Joe Meadors was a signalman on the USS Liberty surveillance ship on June 8, 1967 when Israel attacked, killing 34 U.S. sailors and injuring 173 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-31629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31631,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31629\/revisions\/31631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31629"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=31629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}