ExatFromOK writes: "israel felt its national survival was at stake, so they did what they thought they had to to stop the flow of information. You will note they did not sink; they damaged it to the point in which they thought it could no longer transmit. You will also note we did not respond because it would have brought into sharp focus world-wide the mission and activites of that ship."
Note in photograph the extensive damage done by bombing, straffing and torpedos in photo. You don't tropedo a ship just to prevent electronic signals from being received or transmitted.
