[hangin' chad]

The Liberty was a mistake, an innocent but tragic mistake. Only an anti-semite would refuse to acknowledge that fact.

Only a moron would make such a statement. I suppose the Israeli planes thought the Liberty, clearly marked as a U.S. ship, was part of the Palestinian navy at the time. LOL

[monkeyshine]

The Americans claimed that there were no ships in the area. Assuming that the IDF did see the US markings, which is a big assumption, how were they supposed to reconcile those markings with the knowledge that the USA claimed no ships were in the area? The obvious conclusion would be that this was a ruse.