(07-29-2024, 10:12 PM)Dana Wrote: [...] Watching the video I was horrified by his comment of the USS Liberty. An excellent book by Phillip F. Nelson called Remember the Liberty! Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas, disputes the notion of it being a spy ship.
The USS Liberty incident is very often used by pro-Palestinian Arabs as propaganda against Israel, so just to be clear the following are extracts from some researching on the Internet:
Quote:'The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship (spy ship), USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats, on 8 June 1967, during the Six-Day War.[2] Israel apologized for the attack, saying that the USS Liberty had been attacked in error after being mistaken for an Egyptian ship.[5]'
[See webpage for citations.]
Extracts source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
Regarding the accidental attack on the USS Liberty by Israel in 1967, unfortunate “friendly-fire” incidents are difficult to completely-avoid:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/long...conflicts/
June 21 [1967, CIA] memorandum:
Quote:'The June 21 [1967, CIA] memorandum is a point-by-point analysis of Israeli inquiry findings of fact. It concludes: “The attack was not made in malice toward the U.S. and was by mistake, but the failure of the IDF Headquarters and the attacking aircraft to identify the [USS] Liberty and the subsequent attack by torpedo boats were both incongruous and indicative of gross negligence.” '
Linked document referred:
http://www.thelibertyincident.com/docs/CIAreports.pdf
[The Clark Clifford Report of July 1967 concluded that the incident was:]
Quote:'[...] a flagrant act of gross negligence [...]'.
Linked document referred:
http://www.thelibertyincident.com/clifford.html
Extracts source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident