Why was Israel spared scrutiny for the 1967 USS Liberty attack?

US Representative Thomas Massie set to honour the crew of the vessel on the House floor, bringing attention to the 1967 attack.

On June 8, 1967, at least 34 US sailors were killed and 171 others were wounded in an Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, a United States Navy technical research ship stationed in the Mediterranean Sea off Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula...