"Not Our War"
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Regional sources and analysts in the Arabian Gulf told Reuters there’s a sense they’re ultimately paying the price for Trump’s Iran war, as airports, hotels, ports, and oil facilities in the area are being hit by Iranian drones in a conflict they didn’t start and weren’t consulted on.
"It is not our war. We did not want this conflict, yet we are paying the price in our security and our economy," Ebtesam Al-Ketbi, President of the Emirates Policy Center, told Reuters.
Ketbi also fretted that Trump, having embroiled the region in chaos and inflamed Iran, might lose focus as the costs grow.
“If America leaves the war now without achieving victory, it will be like abandoning an injured lion,” she told the outlet. “Iran will remain a threat to the region, capable of striking again. And if the regime collapses, leaving a power vacuum, neighboring states will suffer the consequences.”
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Israel apologized for the attack, saying that USS Liberty had been attacked in error after being mistaken for an Egyptian ship.[6] Others, including survivors of the attack, dispute this account, and state that the attack was deliberate.[7][8] Thomas Hinman Moorer, the 7th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, accused President Lyndon B. Johnson of having covered up that the attack was a deliberate act.[9]
In May 1968, the Israeli government paid US$3.32 million (equivalent to US$30.8 million in 2025) to the U.S. government in compensation for the families of the 34 men killed in the attack. In March 1969, Israel paid a further $3.57 million ($31.3 million in 2025) to the men who had been wounded. In December 1980, it agreed to pay $6 million ($23.4 million in 2025) as the final settlement for material damage to the ship plus 13 years of interest
