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Originally Posted by Gamblor
Surprised at champstark for repeating trutherism.
Anyhoo, evidence swings pretty hard to some variation of "mistake" but there is circumstantial evidence otherwise (coming mainly from the American veterans of the incident and the usual suspects), and I can't rule out that it was something else. There was certainly no officer meeting where an attack on an American ship was ever discussed. If i had to guess, I might concede that the pilots suspected it might not be an Egyptian ship, but played it safe and hit it anyway.
In any event, Israel and the US were not allies until after the 6 Day War, and Israel issued a full apology, paid out compensation to the families, and even paid for all repairs to the ship, with interest.
If this is still an issue to you, you probably were personally affected, or really, really hate the Jewish state.
1. It's history. It's not particularly relevant today, I agree with that for sure. It's dumb thekid posted it to try and knock down Israel, sure, and I don't agree with that.
2. I did a lot of research on this in college and it seemed like there was no way Israel couldn't have known the ship was American. We can agree to disagree on this, because, as you said, the evidence is circumstantial. I don't deny that--I just don't find the alternate explanations to really make much sense.
This would have made much more sense being posted in the history forum. I'm not trying to support thekid at all, obviously, just stating my opinion on what happened almost 50 years ago.
