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Snowflake@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoThe 6 day Israel-Arab war. A casualty was encourred and Israel pleaded it was an accidental casualty of war. They made concessions.
The gulf of tonkin. Not a casualty but a calculated attack.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep complete accident. Have you read any of the reports? The ship was broadcasting it’s nationality in every way possible. The only way it was a mistake was if the Israelis turned off all of their communications and fired with their eyes closed.
Snowflake@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yes indeed I did. It’s completely false the ship was broadcasting nationality in every way possible. The ship wasn’t even suppose to be as close as it was because they were experiencing multiple communication failures. Nice bullshit comment though.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The ship was in international waters and clearly not a warship. That orders to move away given in an abundance of caution didn’t arrive in time has no bearing on the situation. It should not have been attacked for that reason alone. Pilots were clearly able to identify the ship as there are several recorded exchanges in Israeli headquarters about it being an American ship occurred before it was attacked and visual contact with pilots was their only contact with Israeli forces until they were attacked.
Once there was an attempt at communication, the response was ignored and they were torpedoed anyways. There’s no way to interpret this as anything other than a brazen and willing war crime.
Snowflake@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’ve read the unclassified investigation reports. A lot of what you say is simply made up. In fact pilots initially thought it was an Egyptian vessel through efforts to identify the ship which was clouded in smoke after failing to signal the ship to identify themselves. It wasn’t until after the attack launched and one torpedo boat approached an opposite side of the liberty did they see the ships hull number therefore realizing they falsely identified the ship and called off the attack.
Yea because their shoreline was being shelled for hours at that point and the ship was heading towards one of their ports. You may not realize but every minute matters in war.