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The Israelis were kind of busy at the time, dealing with larger air forces, navies, and armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Tunisia, Libya, and Saudi Arabia.

Seriously, sh_t happens in war. Take a look at British actions when they were trying to sink the Bismark. British torpedo planes attacked a British cruiser that was in radio contact with them! (let's not miss the obvious, that a light cruiser looks nothing like a battleship and cruiser taskforce. Wrong size, wrong number of ships) Did the British intentionally attack their own cruiser? Or was their a mistake in war?