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[–] 9 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Israel did the same thing to us in the 1960s to goad us into a war with Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (9 children)

    That was not a false flag attack

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    At no point was Israel or the US pretending to be a country they weren't, ie using a "false flag"

    "False flag" operations intend for the blame or legal consequence of the operation to be placed on the the people/country that the perpetrator is pretending to be so in the case of Northwoods, Cuba

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (6 children)

    israel tried pretending to be egypt when it attacked the USS Liberty killing US servicemen with the hope it would trigger the US to join their war against egypt

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)

    I wasn't alive then -- but none of the sources I've read mention anything other than Israel being fully responsible, and the only debate being whether the attack was deliberate or not

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    Yes, everything I saw regarding this incident, the one I was responding to, indicates that Israel engaged the Liberty; their account said they thought the American ship was Egyptian, they never claimed to be Egyptian firing on the US

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