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Well, I am pro-Israel, but I think it was attacked on purpose. I'm not excusing it, but the reason for attacking it was that Lyndon Johnson was about to interfere, yet again, against Israel at a critical moment, and the Israelis attacked the ship in order to cut off Johnson's ears, as it were, and give themselves a little more time to achieve their military objectives.

That was a terrible thing to do, but on the other hand the United States has done some pretty terrible things to the Israelis.

The honorable thing would be to admit the sins on both sides and try to behave better in the future, but Socialists seem to have an absolute compulsion to cover things up. For that matter most governments tend to cover things up, and the Bush government is not exempt.

and the Israelis attacked the ship in order to cut off Johnson's ears, as it were

And as one report goes, Johnson's inadvertent mouth (the Egyptians were somehow managing to intercept the American recommunications -- not a shining moment for the CIA).

Well, I am pro-Israel, but I think it was attacked on purpose

Do you believe this was a planned attack? If you believe so, how long in advance did Israel plan it, in your opinion?

83 - "Well, I am pro-Israel, but I think it was attacked on purpose. I'm not excusing it, but the reason for attacking it was that Lyndon Johnson was about to interfere, yet again, against Israel at a critical moment, and the Israelis attacked the ship in order to cut off Johnson's ears, as it were, and give themselves a little more time to achieve their military objectives. "

I have been reviewing the posts and references and comparing to my personal memory, I was in the Air Force at the time, and accessed classified information.

It has been a long time, but I am missing one thing in all the references, versus my memory - the Israeli's asked us to get out and let them do their thing (my memory). The didn't want us to interfere like the Brits did in the 1956 war, when the brits and the french forced them back from the Suez canal. And Johnson had just really started intervening in Vietnam. I am sure the attack was 'intentional', and designed to warn/tell the US - hands off - let us do our job defending our country, and we kept our hands off, and they promptly won in 6 days.