'Dummies' Guide To Geopolitical Relationships In The Middle East

I think a Tribe member downrated your accurate statement.
I countered the downrate.
If (((THEY))) could get away with this and the assassination of JFK why should we surprised at anything else they do...

On June 8th, 1967 the USS Liberty, an intelligence ship on station in the eastern Mediterranean, was viciously strafed and bombed by four Israeli fighter jets, as well as, attacked by torpedo boats. Per our “greatest” ally in the Middle East (or, you would be told our greatest ally in general) the highly distinctive and practically defenseless vessel was “mistakenly” identified as an Egyptian horse-cavalry transport. The ship’s mission was to monitor the communications of Israel’s Arab enemies and their Soviet advisers during the Six-Day War, but not on Israeli communications. It didn’t matter though, after the Jews attacked the ship for two hours, including machine-gunning at close range the lowered lifeboats, 34 Americans were killed and 172 were wounded.

Per Admiral Thomas Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations from 1967 to 1970 and later Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1970 to 1974, in a 2004 Stars and Stripes article, “U.S. military rescue aircraft were recalled—not once, but twice—through direct intervention by the Johnson administration. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s cancellation of the Navy’s attempt to rescue the Liberty, which I confirmed from the commanders of the aircraft carriers America and Saratoga, was the most disgraceful act I witnessed in my entire military career…Despite claims by Israeli intelligence that they confused the Liberty with a small Egyptian transport, the Liberty was conspicuously different from any vessel in the Egyptian navy. It was the most sophisticated intelligence ship in the world in 1967. With its massive radio antennae, including a large satellite dish, it looked like a large lobster and was one of the most easily identifiable ships afloat.” Some suspect that the Israelis wanted to sink the ship, kill the entire crew and blame the event on the Egyptians—which would trigger the US to join Israel in the Six-Day War. Sounds like a great friend, right?