And why did the US not retaliate, Israel killed 34 American servicemen who died at the hands of our ally.
2006-08-07 04:48:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Israel attacked the Liberty because the Liberty was an intelligence-gathering vessel, monitoring Israeli military communications channels, and the Israelis didn't want the world to know what it was doing. A lot of the Israeli strategy in the 1967 war was based on deception, and it didn't trust the United States to keep its secrets. Some speculate that they specifically attacked the Liberty because Sharon was illegally killing members of an Egyptian military unit that had surrendered, and didn't want his war crime made public. I don't know if that was ever proven conclusively.
The United States found it politically expedient, at the time, to believe the official Israeli explanation, that the Israelis thought they were attacking an Egyptian oil tanker. The U.S. accepted this lame excuse, and did its best to keep the incident quiet.
2006-08-07 05:44:36 · answer #1 · answered by DJ Cosmolicious 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
AMERICAN LEADERS SUPPORT USS Liberty SURVIVORS
The Israeli government, the AntiDefamation League, and
certain notorious apologists for Israel insist that the attack was
a tragic accident and that the US government accepts that assertion.
Not so. Virtually every knowledgeable American official with
the lone exception of Robert McNamara is on public record
calling the attack deliberate and the Israeli story untrue.
Here are a few of those American leaders.
2006-08-07 14:21:44 · answer #2 · answered by HHH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To make it look like Egypt did it so that we'd cut off funding to them for their dam. Unfourtunately for them and their shrewd, cold and calculating plan, they couldn't sink the ship. A Russian Warship showed up on the scene and thus further monkey wrenched the plan. The American flag was flying high in broad day light.
2006-08-07 11:55:31 · answer #3 · answered by profile image 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stop living in a past and get a life. UK also killed lots of native americans and people around world while they were ruling basically majority of the countries in the world that doesn't mean we should should attack UK.
2006-08-07 12:04:08 · answer #4 · answered by kunjaldp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe they had good reason to. There are many in the world that know first hand about the duplicity of the US.
You assume innocence and good will. Who knows who or what was behind it and that goes for both sides.
2006-08-07 11:56:49 · answer #5 · answered by Vincent L 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First they blame it on the Soviet Union and the Arabs...Then they said it was an accident ,they mistook USS Liberty for an Arab battle ship...Maybe u'll find more on http://www.ussliberty.org/
2006-08-07 11:57:39 · answer #6 · answered by Tinkerbell05 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
2006-08-07 11:56:41 · answer #7 · answered by ottoncan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i heard about this .but don't have any detail
2006-08-07 11:52:30 · answer #8 · answered by idontkno 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋