Editing Moshe Dayan (section)

====USS ''Liberty'' incident====
During the [[Six-Day War]], [[Israeli Defense Forces|Israeli aerial and naval forces]] [[USS Liberty incident|attacked the USS ''Liberty'' spy ship]] as she was on patrol in international waters in the eastern [[Mediterranean Sea]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/israel-attacks-uss-liberty | title=Israel attacks USS ''Liberty'' | date=9 February 2010 }}</ref> 34 Americans were killed and 174 were wounded in the attack. Israel's official explanation was that the attack was a case of “mistaken identity,” but this remains disputed.

Many ''Liberty'' survivors and their supporters maintain that Dayan personally ordered the attack, and this is supported by a [[CIA]] report on the attack.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=72cI13uPqGMC | title=The Attack on the ''Liberty'': The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship | isbn=9781439166055 | last1=Scott | first1=James | date=2 June 2009 | publisher=Simon and Schuster }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://stationhypo.com/2021/08/08/uss-liberty-lawsuit-reveals-us-govt-withholding-hundreds-of-pages-about-deadly-1967-israeli-attack-guest-post/ | title=USS Liberty Lawsuit Reveals US Gov't. Withholding Hundreds of Pages about Deadly 1967 Israeli Attack (Guest Post) | work=Station HYPO | date=8 August 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v19/d516 | title=Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XIX, Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1967 – Office of the Historian }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2017/june/commentary-remember-liberty|title=Commentary – Remember the Liberty &#124; Proceedings – June 2017 Vol. 143/6/1,372|date=June 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.wrmea.org/2005-august/washingtons-fateful-cover-up-of-israels-attack-on-the-uss-liberty.html | title=Washington's Fateful Cover-Up of Israel's Attack on the USS Liberty | date=27 August 2005 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/uss-liberty-cia-report-dayan-personally-ordered-the-attack-39469/ | title=USS Liberty: CIA Report "Dayan Personally Ordered the Attack" | date=July 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140604-remember-the-uss-liberty-the-us-and-israel-wish-you-didn-t/ | title=Remember the USS Liberty? The US and Israel wish you didn't | date=4 June 2014 }}</ref>

One of the prevailing theories for the motivation for the attack is that the Israelis wished to keep secret their pending invasion of the [[Golan Heights]], and they feared that the [[signals intelligence]] collection ship might have collected intelligence about the pending invasion.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WGQSAAAAYAAJ | title=Assault on the Liberty: The True Story of the Israeli Attack on an American Intelligence Ship | isbn=9780394505121 | last1=Ennes | first1=James M. | date= 1979 | publisher=Random House }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/israels-assault-on-the-uss-liberty/ | title=Israel's Assault on the USS Liberty }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.fauquier.com/news/fauquier-man-seeks-truth-of-attack-on-uss-liberty-50-years-ago/article_0b2f85f8-34d4-11e7-8a4c-3be94cbba260.html | title=Fauquier man seeks truth of attack on USS ''Liberty'' 50 years ago | date=10 May 2017 }}</ref><ref>https://www.usslibertyveterans.org/files/documentcenter/USS%20Liberty%20Document%20Center/usslibertydocumentcenter.org/doc/upload/MOSHE%20DAYAN%20AND%20THE%20ATTACK%20ON%20THE%20UNITED%20STATES%20SHIP5.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2024}}</ref>