>>Hello Mike,Mike wrote: ... Even terrorism against Americans is tolerable. The Israeli terrorist attacks against U.S. installations (also, public places) in Egypt in 1954 in an attempt to exacerbate U.SbEgyptian relations and abort secret peace negotiations then in progress were ignored at the time and are barely remembered, much as in the case of the attempt to sink the U.S. spy ship Liberty in international waters in 1967 by Israeli bombers and torpedo boats that even shot lifeboats out of the water in an effort to ensure that no one would escape, with 34 crewmen killed and 171 injured, the worst peacetime U.S. naval disaster of the century, but dismissed as an "error" b a transparent absurdity b and barely known. (See James Ennes' 'The USS Liberty: Back in the News', American-Arab Affairs, also A Journey Through the Cold War Brookings Institute 2001).
The bombing of the USS Liberty was not b dismissedb as an error. It was thoroughly investigated by a US military high tribunal and not b dismissedb until more than twenty years later, when the two governments formally signed an agreement (after twenty years of research) that the bombing was accidental, closing the issue. The USS Liberty had no colours struck at the time of the incident, and was not included in the listing of US naval positions given to Israel at the outbreak of the 6 Day War. Israeli pilots concluded that the ship was one of the Egyptian ships which had illegally blocked the Straits of Tiran triggering the war (by UN resolutions passed at the end of the Suez Campaign considered an b act of warb ). That Israelis shot sailors in their lifeboats is a lie. Laurent
