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Originally Posted by crockett
And the evil Israeli mind readers are to know this how? Did they forget to bring their special Zionist evil over lord detector rings?
It seems to me if they were actually using paint ball guns they went above and beyond their duty to try and not harm innocent bystanders. Our Military sure as hell would send troops into that situation with paint ball guns.
The Video pretty much supports the soldiers side of the story as you can clearly see they were being attacked the moment they landed on the decks. Like it or not they had a job to do and it doesn't matter if it's un-popular with a bunch of activists or not.
This isn't like the Thai govt actively having it's troops shoot civilian protesters. (btw where is the big 20 page topic and out rage about that? ) The point being the blockade was a known factor and these ships tried to run it knowing they would cause a conflict. They stopped being "innocent" civilians the moment they boarded those ships to try and run a military blockade.
For the Record I do think Israel can go a bit far at time and by no means do I think they are blameless in the whole middle east problems. However I looks at the facts of what happened here instead of just jumping on the hate bandwagon. Their soldiers had every right in the world to open up fire in this situation.
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I agree with you. Israel can - and has - gone too far. Clearly their intention here to seize as much territory as they can. They've been doing this very slowly over the past forty years, and the amount of territory they do not control or own is slowly shrinking.
And I can understand why. Their entire race has been under threat for the past one hundred years or so. I'll never understand why one race believes they can look down at another race, or how one race believes they are better than any other race. Even before the Nazis, the entire Jewish race was looked down at.
But you need to take the Muslim / Middle East / Israeli context out of the issue. If your off the coast of any country, that country under international law has the right to stop you and inspect you. It's never open to discussion. Ever. The United States does this every day, mostly in the interests of stopping drugs from coming in.
Has Israel done wrong? You betcha. They sure aren't saints, that's for sure. They once bombed a clearly marked US ship because they knew it was listening in on something else that the Israelis didn't want anyone in the world to know.
To top it off, they are sending out another boat to run the blockade. It's amazing.