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{He and his compatriots didn't bother getting in close to identify a ship before attacking it - they raked it with cannon and rocket fire, then when that didn't cause enough damage, napalmed the thing. The fact that the ship didn't shoot back should've been a major clue. The fact that no one in the attacking aircraft got up on an international radio channel to interrogate the ship to ascertain its identity before attacking is another clue. (The was little chance that a 20-knot ship could get away from 500-knot aircraft during the pause required to get positive identification).}

Your analysis leaves little room for improvement. Conspiracy theory or no, the baffoons flying those aircraft should have been, at the least, court marshalled.
Instead, arrogant SOB's like Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Yiftach Spector are promoted to base commander. And many on this thread will continue to wonder why the Liberty continues to be a smoldering hot point of US/Israeli relations for some.....

The concepts of "measured response" and "accountability" seem to be alien to generations of Israeli leaders. We have been their most dependable (and generous) allies since the nation of Israel was formed. We have stood by them against all comers and I still remember watching workmen spraypainting Stars of David over the US insignia on A-4 Skyhawks as they were being prepared in Norfolk to be sent to replace Israeli losses in the '73. We sent those planes and we sent tanks and we sent everthing else we could during that dark and desperate time, even though virtually no one in Europe would assist us and we paid a hard price in the Arab Oil Embargo that followed.

Despite this history, there has been no real investigation, no real accounting, and no real conclusion to the acts that killed and wounded so many American servicemen aboard the Liberty. There are conspiracy theorists in abundance (particularly on this FreeRepublic of ours) because Israel has stonewalled its best friend with inadequate responses and in the case of this IAF officer, unfeeling arrogance. He and all of those in responsibility for that attack should have been court-marshalled. There should have been a meaningful apology and there should be a memorial in Israel to the American men who fell at their hands.