I am always curious about people who are so confident that they know exactly how, and when, things are going to play out....

The Altalena was a ship off the cost of Israel bringing weapons for the War of Independence, immigrants and Irgun fighters. Menachem Begin was on the ship and he and David Ben Gurion had a disagreement as to what to dow itht he weapons brought on the ship. Ben Gurion insisted that all the weapons be handed over to the IDF, saying there can only be one military in the fledgling newly founded State of Israel, while Begin wanted most of the weapons distributed among the different Irgun groups so they could continue fighting as militias. After fighting broke out between the two groups, Ben Gurion ordered his forces to sink the ship. Begin decided to stand down and told his people to not shoot back so as to prevent a possible civil war. The ship was shelled and sunk with 16 Irgun fighters being killed (not on the ship but fighting on land with IDF troops), along with 3 IDF soldiers.

no new picture of the wreckage has yet been released