I’ve always been pro-Israel but from what I’ve read on the subject, their attack on the Liberty was no accident. It wasn’t one of those “fog of war” incidents.
It happened on a sunny day in an area of the Med. Sea that was no experiencing combat operations. There were no Egyptian ships in the are at all. The attack was no one of those “out of the blue” ones either. The Israelis had surveilled the Liberty at least twice that day.
The latest evidence indicates that it was an accident.
The Israeli jets which attacked USS LIBERTY were armed with
rockets, napalm and 30mm cannon
Land attack weapons
Always wondered about that
If was deliberate attack why not arm your planes with
weapons against ships (500/1000 lb bomb, etc)
Or was it case that these were only planes available and
sent out with they had
The Israelis were in the process of slaughtering arab soldiers and maybe some collaterals and the Liberty was thought to have been a witness so efforts to eliminate the witness were made. Had I been born a couple of years earlier with the same aptitude for languages, I could have been a CT on that crew. Or the Pueblo or the EC-121 for that matter.