Originally Posted by rochard

because of the fact that israel gets bombed on a regular basis, they've set up a blockade around certain areas. The ships knew of the blockade, and had the intention of running the blockade thinking israel would stand down. But at the end of the day, when your intentionally violating the laws or rules of another country by plowing through a fucking blockade and helicopters are landing military comandos on your ship, well, it's time to back down - not attack them with clubs, knives, and maybe even handguns.

If this was a fucking humanitian mission, why did they have handguns?

At this point it doesn't matter who was right or wrong. When the military of any country boards a ship, right or wrong, lawful or not, you stand the fuck down. Because the military of any country is going to have a lot more firepower than any civilian ship.

As for the blockade, you can debate the legality of that until your blue in the face. The united states did it to cuba and demanded to inspect russian ships. (okay, we didn't call it a blockade we called it a quarantine - same difference.)

i'm not saying that israel is right here. I could care less about israel, and if they were no longer a country in the morning i'm sleeping fine. But when a civilian fleet intentionally runs a military blockade, well, there's gonna be bloodshed. Period.