Subject: Re: WHY does Israel have to wait for

If you read the wiki, it is not as cut-and-dried as the two governments would have you believe. FOIA requests and declassified documents (decades later) seem to indicate they pilots knew it wasn't an Egyptian ship, but continued the attack anyway.

Considering events at that time, both governments had reason to sweep it away. The Israelis needed our support, and we had an interest to maintain one of the only allies we had in that region. So I put more weight on survivors who were there. But we'll probably never know for certain.

I had to refresh my memory. I put a hard edge to these because mistakes that happen like this are a chain of events with different players at different times.


There's no smoking gun either way, so to me, that means the official conclusion that it was a mistake stands. Here's an article on it:

https://archive.is/49jKQ

But you see, I'll go with the historian fellow. There's also oodles of conspiracy theories there, do you think any of those are highly likely?