The result of the debate was Speedy deleted, overwhelming consensus to delete.Homey 21:24, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
No such thing, actually.
There are two incidents in this short article that don't justify having a whole entry for them.
The first one (the bombing of the USS Liberty) was not a terror attack. It was an army operation, either made by mistake (as I believe) or deliberately. In any case, it does not qualify as an act of terrorism.
The second, an amateur operation in Egypt with no casualties and negligible damage, was a terror attack, but not against the United States as the title suggests. It was a controversial operation with most Israeli population being against it, and surely was not "state terrorism" or on the same scale as other acts of terrorism. In any case, it has its own article.
--Gabi S. 11:35, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Rename Teorrorism tends to be stronlgy POV except for those groups who openly use the word to describe their own actions. I still think the article is notable, and it makes sense to have a short article that 1) mentions the Liberty and the Lavon events, and 2) which could include other similar events that people want to write about. As for the Lavon operation, Gabi calls it amateur but that term's quite ambiguous. Amatuerish perhaps, but it was directed (according to the article) by a colonel in the army who was head of military intelligence: that sounds quite professional to me. Also an attack on USIA libraries was probably an attack against property in US diplomatic compounds and, hence, an attack on what was technically US territory. Gabi rightly points out that this is hardly the same scale of many other acts of terrorism, but it does seem to be an example of state-supported terrorism (on a small scale) against the US. As a title, how about Israeli Attacks on the United States? Interlingua talk 13:50, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]