9 dead as Israeli forces board Gaza aid Convoy

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famousringo said:

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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.

The first troops the boarded the ship were armed with paintball/practice rifles, and basic pistoles, they were unequiped to dewal with what they encountered on the ship.

Israel made a mistake, I agree with you completely, no troops should've boarded any ship, however, once the Israeli troops were attacks with knifes, Metal rods, Bats, and were thrown off the deck, the lethal retaliation was self-defensive, in order to protect Israeli troops.

It would've gone, if these ships would've entered Israel's territorial water, since International law allows neutrilizing engines of ships who enter such areas without being allowed to do so by the government, it is actually something that happens in places like the US, not all the time, but frequently enough, not to mention that Israeli navy forces train to preform manuvers just like that, so that they can cause as little damage as possible.