There have been some first hand accounts by Liberty’s crew of how the Israelis first scouted the ship and then attacked despite desperate attempts by the crew to identify the ship as U.S.
These accounts convinced me. I don’t think I have a tin-foil hat mentality, but simply a realistic viewpoint of the perceived needs of Israel to maintain their security. These needs aren’t necessarily the same as the desires of the U.S. government.
Our Government’s ‘official’ accounts and investigations are less convincing because they take into account the diplomatic interests of the government in preventing full disclosure.
As another poster pointed out earlier in the thread, aircraft have occaissionaly misidentified ships & even attacked them in previous conflicts. I also wonder how much training, if any, the IAF had in ship identification when their arab opponents had little or nothing in the way of a Navy. Point is I can still allow the possibility that it was a mistake.
This is why I turn to 'motive'. I wonder if there are any uniformed military men left in either the Israeli or US Armed forces who were actually in the service in '67? Point is, there aren't likely to be plowing any new ground since the principals are long dead.
Yes we know the US State Department does Israel’s bidding and has done so since the 1930s (sarcasm on)