Hmmmm, that's about what I would expect of the Israelis, after carefully bypassing the fact that they never even had a legitimate reason to be aboard the vessel at the time.
Once they can do that, we'll look at whether they were harshly treated or not. Remember, according to the best evidence so far, they were conducting an act of illegal warfare. In which case they deserve everything they get and forego the expectations that should be accorded to a legitimate force.
Ahhh,... the masters of disproportionate force and retaliation. Such a charming group.
Aggghhh,....NO! not you too!There are two sides to every story and you completely ignore a portion of this story to aid and abet the enemies of Israel.
Methinks there is just a little antisemitism here.
I am of Jewish extraction on my Father's side, my mother having been a gentile.Seno ...
I didn't realize you were Jewish .....
But which side are the "terrorists"? The ones who had their own land promised to them by the British administration, in exchange for their help against the Turks in WWI, only to have it given instead to the Jews of Europe, or the ones who took it upon themselves to just start flooding into a country that was not theirs, whilst using the collective guilt of the Allies along with help from such noted Jewish persons as Lord Balfour to force the British into pressuring the UN and others to allow them to set up their own homeland in Palestine.My point was/is, the Israelis are at war with the terrorists that are attacking them, and I don't think they give a patootie whether the ship was in international waters or not.
There is an argument that there is no legally enforceable embargo in place http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UegRc9phwjY and even if it were, it cannot be enforced in International waters unless there is a state of declared war, and there is not.They were preemptively intervening before a load of embargoed material could be unloaded clandestinely.
It has not be shown that there was any attempt to land any weapons. If there were, I have no doubt whatsoever, that we would have known about it within hours of the Israelis capturing the vessel.You say you are Jewish ... so I have to ask you how you feel about an attempt to bypass the embargo and land weapons/ammunition.
- I could support landing humanitarian material in violation of an embargo ... but not weapons/ammunition.
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