this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2023
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[โ€“] [email protected] 104 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why worry about Israel attacking a US ship while pretending they are Egyptian in order to draw the US in a wider war? It's not like they've been shown to be spying on the US, or have any recent evidence that Netanyahu's government funds enemies of Israel in order to bolster political support.

This is all a big nothing-burger of millions of lives at stake. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

[โ€“] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A quote from Dean Rusk, former US Secretary of State:

I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation. Their sustained attack to disable and sink Liberty precluded an assault by accident or some trigger-happy local commander. Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. I didn't believe them then, and I don't believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They also tried to say that they asked the US to keep their ships away or at least tell them where the ships were. However, they didn't ask this until after the boat was sunk.

[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago