It's unbelievable how the US can ignore it all, it shows how far gone they are morally.
It's hard for me to imagine a moral society allowing anyone to profit from the misery that war inflicts on innocent civilians; war and debt have controlled the most powerful countries since the fall of the Roman Republic, and the US has elevated that terror into an art form.
As far as Liberty is concerned, Israel had very little popular support in the US in 1967. In fact, it was the ease with which Israel "won" that conflict that inspired popular respect and support here.
That would all have changed in a heartbeat if Liberty's survivors had been allowed to tell their story 56 years ago:
USS Liberty Memorial: Summary of Events
"Within a few short moments, and without any warning, Israeli fighter aircraft launched a rocket attack on USS
Liberty.
"The aircraft made repeated firing passes, attacking USS
Liberty with rockets and their internal cannons.
"After the first flight of fighter aircraft had exhausted their ordnance, subsequent flights of Israeli fighter aircraft continued to prosecute the attack with rockets, cannon fire, and napalm..."
"After the Israeli fighter aircraft completed their attacks, three Israeli torpedo boats arrived and began a surface attack about 35 minutes after the start of the air attack.
"The torpedo boats launched a total of five torpedoes, one of which struck the side of USS
Liberty, opposite the ship's research spaces.
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"Twenty-six Americans in addition to the eight who had been killed in the earlier air attacks, were killed as a result of this explosion..."
"Survivors report that the torpedo boat crews swept the decks of USS
Liberty with continuous machine gun fire, targeting communications equipment and any crewmembers who ventured above decks..."
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"Survivors also report that the torpedo boat crews fired on the inflated life boats launched by the crew after the captain gave the order 'prepare to abandon ship.'
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"This order had to be rescinded because the crew was unable to stand on the main deck without being fired upon
and the life rafts were destroyed as they were launched."