WI: The USS Liberty was a Soviet ship?

That happened multiple times. Look up Operation Rimon 20. In 1970, IAF fighters shot down 5 Soviet-piloted MiGs with no losses. During the Yom Kippur War, a number of Soviet personnel were killed, and several were reportedly taken prisoner and later exchanged for Soviet Jews. Also, Israeli missile boats sank a Soviet merchant ship, and there were a few times when the IDF and Soviet naval units fired at each other. Also, a Soviet ship was damaged in the Suez Canal (my dad, a Jewish kid in Russia at the time, got beaten up for that).

yeah, I've read of all that too. Which makes me think that this POD wouldn't lead to anything more than words. Especially if the Soviet 'Liberty' was a spy vessel up to monkey business so near to Israel...
 
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