DudleySmith
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USS Liberty survivor says the Israeli torpedo boats strafed the life rafts.
(at around 44:00 minutes on the video)
The surviving Liberty sailor says he has no doubt the Israeli's knew they were attacking an American ship and wanted it sunk with all the sailors killed.
He explains in his eye witness account the reasons why the deliberate attack was covered up by both the Israeli and American governments.
So your claim is the Israelis could shut down an Arab invasion in 6 days, but they couldn't sink an unarmed freighter if the wanted to? lol okay.
That is indeed what he is claiming. Though strictly speaking the Liberty did have four machine guns. They fired on the Israeli torpedo boats with one of them.
We have the radio broadcasts from the pilots during the mission; it's clear they were holding back and trying to get their command to verify if it was a U.S. ship, and their command kept ordering them to attack, then they finally got U.S. Intel to verify it was indeed ours. It doesn't take long to sink an old ship if they were not holding back.