Originally Posted by Rochard

I don't understand your point. They could have disabled the ship by what - firing on it and taking it out? That only works in the movies.

And even if they could disable it, then what? Try to board then? Wait until it sinks? Wait until they surrender? Wait until another ship came to rescue them?

They ordered the ship to stop in accordance with international law, the ship refused, and it was boarded under force.

Your calling them "aid workers" and I'm calling them criminals who intentionally violated a blockade, opposed the Israeli Navy, and then attacked them as they boarded the ship. They violated international law - the law of the sea (which is a treaty as gay as it sounds) and refused to stop when ordered to do so. I'm not sure what your parents taught you when you were a kid, but your captain of a ship and a warship orders you to stop, you fucking stop. If not, you get shot at.