These provocations make a confrontation inevitable. Luckily the aid organization who sent the last ships has stated they have no intention on sending ships in the near future. If Turkish naval ships do indeed violate the blockade then Nato should pull Turkey's membership. Turkey can't go around attacking one of Nato's biggest allies.
If I was Israel I would try to mend things as much as possible. But we all know that the blockade will not end until the threat of Hamas is over, which will not happen anytime soon.
I was watching the news today and they said that in a confrontation Turkey had a vastly superior navy, however they said the Israeli air force would be capable of taking it out and doing heavy damage to any Turkish units which attacked Israel. They also had a statement from Nato saying Nato would not intervene as a Nato intervention requires all member states to agree , since Turkey is a Nato state confronting them would be out of the question.
I think the US and other Nato countries should contact Turkey and threaten to drop their Nato membership if they pursue hostilities against Israel and destabalize the region. The last thing we need in the middle east is Turkey and Israel going at it. Nato has more to gain from Israel then they do Turkey.
Turkey needs to show Nato and the world that they are a force of peace and not confrontation!
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
