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Originally Posted by Rochard
I've never researched the "no fly zones". I don't believe there is an "international law" about no fly zones, and there's never been a ruling for or against them. However, it was part of the peace treaty Iraq signed, and thus, it became fucking legal.
I have researched international law a bit being as it's coming up in this thread. You should do some research to.
According to "international law", or the "United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea", you have what's called an "exclusive economic zones". This is two hundred miles from the coast of the host country. In this zone, all nations have the right to transit this area, but is "subject to the regulation of the coastal state". In perfect English, it means if your 200 miles off the coast of Israel they can order a ship to stop, board it, and inspect it.
This is exactly how the United States and the US Coast Guard deals with drug runners. Don't they call it a "safety inspection" or something like that, and if they find drugs or something illegal they arrest them all?
Israel was exercising it's legal right to board and inspect a ship. Israel legally boarded a ship that refused to stop, and was attacked them as they boarded.
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As even TheKing said, the " no-fly zones " werre not part of any agreement of any type :
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The Iraqi no-fly zones were a set of two separate no-fly zones (NFZs), and were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south. Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. The policy was enforced by US, UK and French aircraft patrols until France withdrew in 1998. While the enforcing powers had cited United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 as authorizing the operations, the resolution contains no explicit authorization. The Secretary-General of the UN at the time the resolution was passed, Boutros Boutros-Ghali called the no-fly zones "illegal" in a later interview with John Pilger[1][2].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_no-fly_zones
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So much for your justification for war " they were shooting at our planes " ...
As for the boarding ( not mentionning killings ) of ships in International waters ,
I still am waiting for your backup on that . It should be easy for you to provide it as you are so adament that it is normal, legal and done daily ... by ... some unnamed other countries ...
Finally, for the UN, it should be
dismantled. It is rendered useless by the non-stop protection from a security council member of one of the worst offender in the post WW2 era, and only serves as a smoke screen when needed to " justify " so called operations that are in fact not even sanctionned ( as in the no-fly zones article ).