When I saw the date, I wondered and had to go check since I I didn’t find it at the stationhypo link... yup, this occurred right in the middle of the Six-Day War.....
Israel should have been held responsible. Whether it was intentional or not (and I don’t believe it was) they were still responsible and should have been liable financially for their reckless actions
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According to the book, “Spymasters of Israel”, the American ship was identified as an intelligence leak to the enemy and was politely asked at the highest diplomatic levels to leave the area. America refused. Israel removed the intelligence leak.
when the commander of the Liberty was awarded the Medal of Honor, it was cleared with Israel first. The president didn’t award it as is customary.
I met a couple of guys who served on the Liberty at that time, and they were then, and remain to this day, convinced that the Israelis were attempting to sink the Liberty and kill all on board. Why else did the Israelis machine gun the life rafts. Twice when US jets were scrambled to protect the Liberty they were called back each time.
The US Navy sent a spy ship, and everyone knew it was a spy ship, into a war zone. Obviously, it was to spy. Who or what it was spying on and for whose benefit is immaterial. Maybe we just wanted to see how well it worked. Israel thought it was there to spy against Israel and in support of Egypt. I assume that is because Israel was not in communication with the ship or receiving information from it. They demanded we leave, but we didn’t.
What would anyone do when a spy ship is in a war zone but not cooperating? Assume it is hostile. Israel did that. We just didn’t like the outcome. Stupid move on our part.
It doesn’t matter if we were neutral or helping Egypt, we were not helping Israel and they were under extreme duress in that war, so they assumed we were hostile.
I’ve noticed this anti-Israel, anti-Jews story comes up all over the Internet lately. Why? Is it because the current administration is anti-Israel and the push is on??
This is the fault of the Deep State. Why The USS Liberty was conducting Electronic Warfare interception for the Egyptians against the Israelis can only be attributed to Deep State animus against the nascent Jewish State. They were warned yet kept intercepting and transmitting information to the Egyptians. What would the US do? The same damn thing.
I actually met an injured survivor of the Liberty at Class A school in Pensacola Florida NCTC. He was a Petty Officer second class. I don’t remember his name.
Thanks for posting.
Imho, Robert McNamara was a pos, and deserved the lowest circle of Dante’s hell.
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Stopped reading at that lie. Israel was attacked on all fronts that day. I'm pretty certain that the Liberty was misidentified, not knowingly targeted as an American ship.
God Bless the crew of the Liberty, living and dead; but don't use them to try to spread hatred of Israel.