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I see you put loyalty to Israel ahead of loyalty to the US.
Not without divine intervention.

LBJ may have been a lousy President, but he doesn't have to withdraw from the area because the Israelis said so.
LBJ did not have to make the promise, but he did.
Thus Israel had no reason to believe that there were American ships in the area.

The fact is the Liberty was flying a huge US flag yet low-flying Israeli aircraft attacked it.
Fog of War. No American ships were supposed to be in the area.

Even when ships are known to be in an area, they can be misidentified. For instance, during the British capmaign to sink the Bismark, British bombers flying at only 100 knots attacked their own cruiser. The Swordfish were supposed to follow the HMS Sheffield, which was trailing hte Bismarck and attack the 40,000 ton battle ship. Instead, they attacked their own 8,000 ton cruiser!

How many times have our military forces bombed the wrong taget?

"What aid did Israel get from the US from 1948 until 1968?"
How about a country.
Huh? The US did nothing for Israel for those 20 years. In fact, one could argue that we wanted to see Israel destroyed. Although the US recognized Israel in 1948, we immediately enforced arms sanctions on Israel and the Arabs. The problem was that we already armed the Arabs either directly, or thorugh the british, who gave lend-lease equipment to the Egyptians and Transjordanians.
The ARabs had American tanks and fighter. Israel had virtually nothing but small arms.