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Old March 23rd, 2022 #1
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Default Tom Parker Interviews U.S.S. Liberty Survivors

Tom Parker Interviews U.S.S. Liberty Survivors

The USS Liberty incident was a deliberate attack on a US Navy research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli naval and air forces on 8 June 1967, during the Six-Day War. It was a typical false flag operation designed to goad the US into going to war against Egypt and Israel's other Arab enemies. The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two marines, and one civilian), wounded 171 crew members, and severely damaged the ship. At the time, the ship was in international waters north of the Sinai Peninsula, about 25.5 nmi (29.3 mi; 47.2 km) northwest from the Egyptian city of Arish.

Israel apologized for the attack, saying that the USS Liberty had been attacked in error after being mistaken for an Egyptian ship. Historians and the survivors of the attack, have rejected this claim and maintain that the attack was deliberate.

In May 1968, the Israeli government paid US $3.32 million (equivalent to US$24.4 million in 2019) to the U.S. government in compensation for the families of the 34 men killed in the attack. In March 1969, Israel paid a further $3.57 million ($24.9 million in 2019) to the men who had been wounded. In December 1980, it agreed to pay $6 million ($18.6 million in 2019) as the final settlement for material damage to Liberty itself plus 13 years of interest.

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