I only know that 34 brave U S Navy men serving aboard the USS Liberty were murdered by the Israel Air Force and Torpedo Boats. The ship was a converted merchant ship with a top speed of 5 knots. The Israelis claimed it was going at an aggressive 30 knots. Three life boats were put over with the wounded men aboard. The torpedo boats sank them in violation of the Geneva Conventions.
The Israeli took the engines out of F-104s to put in thier KFIR fighters. This was counter to their agreement with the US in not using the engines for any other use.
Since 1949, the USA has “loaned” Israel 100 Billion Dollars with no repayment in sight. In fact the annual amounts are going up.
Since 1949, the USA has not loaned Palestine one dollar.
You wonder why the Arabs want to blow us up?
I’m 78 years old and served in the Navy flying in SB2Cs so I’ve seen a lot. I think we should pull out of our support of Israel and let them sink by themselves.

For what it is worth we left Quonset Point R.I. with 64 aircraft. One squardon of TBFs. 2 Squadrons of SB2Cs. 3 Squadrons of F6-Fs. I think there was spare aircraft also.