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From: jho@ihlpa.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The "Liberty" incident
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 01:33:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 01:33:50 1986
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> The Israelis did NOT confuse the American ship with an Egyptian ship.  They
> are not that stupid.  The ship was sitting there, spying on Israel.  The only
> danger the ship posed was that the US might get more information on the Syrian
> side of the war than Israel wanted the US to have.  The UNITED STATES, mind
> you.  Calling the attack unprovoked is the only reasonable conclusion.
> 
During the 1967 war, the air force that inflicted the greatest casualties
on Israeli troops, was not an Arab air-force.  It was the Israeli air-force.
Scores of Israeli soldier were killed and wounded in such attacks.  I
doubt if anyone would accuse Israel of deliberately attacking its own
troops.  A war is usually characterized by confusion.  This was especially
true for the 1967 war which was very swift.  It is quite probable that
those who fired on the Liberty suspected the ship to be hostile.
Contrary to what the above posting suggest, I would think that it
would be very stupid for Israel to deliberately attack an American
ship for any reason.  

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Yosi Hoshen, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois,  Mail: ihnp4!ihlpa!jho