It’s interesting because i was just posting in a resistance strategy of “Malicious compliance causing gridlock” and i was going to use this as an example but decided it was too macabre and insinuated that this strategy implied direct action which it doesn’t necessarily. I’ll see if i can find the source again

Here's a much better source that shows the darker intentions behind it: http://desip.igc.org/LBJLiberty.html

Excerpts:

Operation Cyanide: Why the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III... asserting that the U.S. and Israel colluded to provoke the war and to sink the Liberty in a false-flag attack, blaming it on Egypt. The sinking of the Liberty was to serve as President Johnson's pretext to publicly join Israel's war and to strike a Cold War blow against U.S.S.R. support for Israel's Arab neighbors.

Fatefully it was also Johnson’s decision to shield Israel from international pressure to withdraw from captured Arab territory, which opened the door to the ongoing tragedy of more than five decades of Israeli military rule over millions of Palestinians.

Hounam's subtitle, Why the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III, references the even more inconceivable element of his theory, namely that only the unanticipated survival of the Liberty prevented President Johnson from proceeding with his plan to initiate World War III by employing nuclear weaponry to attack Egypt.

Relevant:

1. Greater Israel: A larger state of Israel, possibly encompassing all of the "promised land" from Nile to Euphrates, which is currently partially occupied by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq etc.

2. Yinnon Plan: https://amirmortasawi.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/isil10.pdf

   Provides one theory for America's destabilization of the Middle East. It's not for oil (oil theory could be misdirection).

3. A common strawman used to misdirect is Israel wanted to destroy US surveillance capabilities, and attacked USS Liberty for this reason. The above source does a take down of that theory.