[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by Steel_Tomb

If the ship had been ID'd as a US ship, why in gods name would the IAF attack it??? Sorry if I'm missing something (I haven't had the time to read the thread in its entirety), but it seems very strange that the IAF would attack a ship they couldn't ID without much thought about it.

Hours passed between the initial ID and the actual attack. The actual attack was in response hours later to Israeli ground forced being attacked and it was misassumed that some/all of the incoming fire was coming from the sea. As per above, it was also assumed that the ship identified as American had long disappeared by now. There was simply a total disconnect between morning and afternoon events.

This is all tragic and incompetent but that's what all the documentation from original US and Israeli military sources points to.
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They could have sent in boarding vessels quite easily, with fighter protection should the vessel prove to be hostile. Its just common sence and proper military planning.

Not after IDF ground forced in El Arish were being attacked at that time, not with the assumption that the same US ship would no longer be there, and not with the mistaken ID of the incoming fighter jets, who were flying much higher and faster than the early morning Israeli recon planes.
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The US has a very keen interest in the state of Israel, and I would have thought the top brass in the IAF and the rest of the Israrli military would have been on the look out of US ships in the med.

Not that close. In fact, the Liberty wasn't supposed to approach within 100 miles of the coastline, in order to avoid the risk of entering an active confrontation area. And that is why - again and again - Israel assumed that it was normal for a US ship to possibly get that close but it wouldn't hang around for half a day.

Although I understand your just supporting your country,

I support the facts.

I'm also a US citizen and I support the United States. This whole conspiracy stinks and does not benefit either country, which makes a lot of other people more than happy to keep on supporting the conspiracy, with full disregard of the facts and of the opinions of experienced military professionals on both sides of the ocean, based on the documentation and historical precedents. This should never have gotten this far.

as I would support the UK, theres no need to go on the defensive and just ignore any other viewpoint than your own.

You have a lot of nerve. I haven't ignored anything said here. In fact, I did just the opposite, sighting documentation to disprove or explain practically ever claim that's been made on this thread so far.

Now ask yourself what made you accuse me of ignoring others viewpoints?

I don't mean to be offensive

But you were. Too late.

And with that, I close off another day of having to deal with one of the latest blood libels against my people. Yes, that's what it is - a blood libel - plain and simple.