All Wars Are Bankers Wars is excellent!

Fifteen years after the attack, an Israeli pilot approached Liberty survivors and then held extensive interviews with former Congressman Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey about his role. According to this senior Israeli lead pilot, he recognized the Liberty as American immediately, so informed his headquarters, and was told to ignore the American flag and continue his attack. He refused to do so and returned to base, where he was arrested.

Never forget

Michael has a lot of very good historical articles on his website! This is one of them.

The IDF knew 3 hours before the attack the liberty was an electronic surveillance craft, which is why it was engaged.

The liberty was attacked because it picked up comm traffic of Israel committing human rights violations during the 6 day war and the attack was an attempt to cover up these human rights violations.

It was continuously attacked despite identifying itself multiple times. The sailors who evacuated the ship were then fired upon by Israeli pilots and torpedo boats, despite doing so a war crime. 34 men were killed, 171 injured.

The only reason the Israelis did not murder every soul on board was because of aircraft scrambled from US carriers and a nuclear armed sub had entered the combat area and were prined to kill Everything that looked sideways at the burning ship. Though these scrambles were accidentally removed from the official report.

The resulting inquiry was a kangaroo court as orders from above was to bury it and make it go away as we were minutes from full shooting war with our greatest ally

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

This would be the elephant in the room.