9 dead as Israeli forces board Gaza aid Convoy

[famousringo]

RageBot said:

famousringo said:
Ignoring the finger-pointing, the practical outcome is that Israel can cross another ally off the list. You can bet that Israel won't be willing to apologize and try to redress the offence to Turkey, because Israel truly has no regrets when it comes to using any amount of force in response to a threat, no matter how disproportionate or diplomatically insensitive.

Israel is building a self-fulfilling prophecy where it really is Israel alone, isolated, and surrounded by enemies. It acts only in the interest of Israel, and any country which fails to take its allies' interests into account will eventually find itself without any allies.

Probably.

The real mistake on Israel's part is the fact that they didn't take into consideration the possibility that some of the "peace activists" are violent Jihadist calling for the death of Jews.

And anyway boarding these ships was a mistake, the Israeli forces should've just neutrlized their engines (after entering Israeli waters) and make the ship stop in their tracks, while providing food, until the "peace activists" would agree to hand over the supplies (like they should've done in the first place).

I'd say it's just the opposite. The commandos were well-prepared to deal with violent, well-armed jihadists. They weren't at all prepared to deal with angry civilians armed with sticks and knives. An appropriate response would have been rubber bullets, pepper spray and batons, but all the commandos had were guns.

Because Israel chose to send in soldiers instead of police, a dozen or so civilians are dead and Netanyahu gets to manage yet another international incident.

I'm not convinced that shooting up the flotilla's engines would have been any safer or gone over any smoother.