At the time, the US was leaning more toward the Arabs than towards Israel, and Tel Aviv suspected that Liberty was passing intercepted communications to the Arabs.
Whatever the case, the incident is now water long under the bridge and has NO RELEVANCE to the present situation in the Middle East.
The only reason someone would bring it up at all in this day and age is to smear some stink on Israel.
Exactly right.
Which makes the frantic re-posting on the subject all the more pathological.
As far as I know, that's untrue. We might not have become full-fledged allies of Israel at that point, but American public opinion was very much in favor of Israel, and I find it very hard to believe that LBJ's administration did not reflect that bias. Think of the extent to which LBJ was beholden to Abe Fortas throughout his political career, for God's sake. Before I accept this claim, I want to see some evidence.
The only reason someone would bring it up at all in this day and age is to smear some stink on Israel.
I know that's untrue, because I know what prompted me to bring the matter up. It was germane to the discussion. Why don't you look at the reply to which I was replying?
I was making the point that people make charges of anti-Semitism for awfully flimsy reasons, just to stop discussions. And I think the further course of this thread has proved my point.