The United Methodist Church has recently published Israel-Palestine: 2007-2008, an adult "study guide" written by the Stephen Goldstein.
Yitzhak Santis, the director of Middle East Affairs for the Jewish Community Relations Council in San Francisco has read the guide, and is not impressed:
No surprise here, UMC has been taken over by radical liberals just as a few other denominations.
As for the Liberty attack? It was deliberate no doubt. I don't think the goings on onboard LIBERTY had anything to do with it but I think LBJ and his state department likely were double dealing with Syria and others whom Israel was facing.
That era had another Johnson foreign and national defense policy boo boo called PUEBLO. I think Israel had caught LBJ and because he would have likely been impeached LBJ and company was more than glad to shut things up over the whole event. This is a period of about six months and Johnson played the PUEBLO incident to the hilt. The original Wag the Dog. Reading Pueblo's story there was no reason for it to happen except for Johnson's stupidity.