Turkey's prime minister determined to have a war with Israel.

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scottie said:
@ MrBubbles - I suggest you reread my previous post. All I can do is repeat myself. Israel is entitled to use reasonable force to enforce their blockade. If Turkish warships fire upon they, they are legally allowed to fire back. If Turkish soldiers shoot at them with small arms, they are entitled to fire back with small arms. They are not entitled to fire back with their ship's weapons - this would be disproportionate force.

In the example where the 9 died, the soldiers were being attacked with primitive melee weapons, and thus firing back with small arms is legally disproportionate - it is illegal. As I said above, it is enough of a grey area that the law will almost never be applied in such a situation, particularly being as the Israeli soldiers didn't have enough time to return to shore, and come back with riot shields + nightsticks. I am making no comments on whether or not I believe it to be immoral, but, it is illegal.

Israel used reasonable force - they put their commando teams in danger and risked life of their soldiers while they could have used anti-ship missiles or ship artillery guns  to stop the movement of ship when it refused to stop.