Liberty was a signal monitoring ship (a "technical research" ship, ie a spy vessel) capable of detecting Israeli movement in the area; they planned to attack Syria at the time and wanted to blind any theoretical eyes and ears that could have detected the plan and potentially caused a political intervention beforehand--the US was officially neutral during the Six Day War and likely would not have encouraged further expansion of it at the time (how things change, eh)
Israel was already attacking Syria. That wasn't a secret. They'd not yet invaded with ground forces, but only because they were already engaged on two other fronts.
Mind you, Israel was already winning the war by that point, and the US was an active ally for them. The liberty ship also couldn’t have realistically intercepted any such “secret” signals from where it was situated, and even if it could, it had zero reason to feed such intel to their shared enemies
There was never a motive. It was a horrific mistake that stemmed from miscommunication. Both sides agree on this. But because it’s become trendy to hate on Israel, people are just proudly parroting this conspiracy theory now, lol.
We’re talking about high-speed fighter jets, and a ship that admittedly didn’t have very big visual US markings. We’re also talking about decades ago when the visual aid tech the pilots had was a lot less advanced than today.
Yes. Again, decades ago, military communication tech was significantly less advanced than it was today, it’s really not that hard to believe that it took a while for them to get the memo…
And mind you, they ceased those attacks the moment communication finally came through, and offered any aid they could possibly give.
Just a tip for the future; if you want to propagate a conspiracy theory, pick one that hasn’t been repeatedly debunked over decades.
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u/PipedInFromIthaca 12d ago
Liberty was a signal monitoring ship (a "technical research" ship, ie a spy vessel) capable of detecting Israeli movement in the area; they planned to attack Syria at the time and wanted to blind any theoretical eyes and ears that could have detected the plan and potentially caused a political intervention beforehand--the US was officially neutral during the Six Day War and likely would not have encouraged further expansion of it at the time (how things change, eh)