The passage of more than four decades gives some distance and perspective on the incident of the Israeli attack on the US Naval vessel “USS Liberty” which took place in international waters in broad daylight, 08 June 1967, during the so-called “Six Day War.”

The Liberty was a WWII-era Victory ship converted to do duty as a broad-band communications & sigint monitoring station.

Fog of War or the calculated attack on an ally’s vessel that was judged capable of compromising Israel’s order of battle and disposition of forces in a lop-sided contest against numerically superior adversaries…

Either way, it tells us something of Israeli will to do what they think is needed.