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Originally Posted by ElProximo

Get real!

You do not believe.. not for 1 second... you do not believe that they were 'Pirates' or 'Murderers'.

You know full well that the reason the Israelis stopped this boat was because they did believe it was entering their waters,
and,
they did believe (rightly or wrongly) this boat was carrying illegal weapons, illegal cash and terrorist supporters,
and,
they stopped it with every hope and intention of arresting those involved and confiscating the weapons.

Nobody believes Israelis were just marauding the ocean and decided to pirate this boat or start 'murdering' anyone.

I think the Jews are extremely unhappy about this because this is the last thing they ever want anyone to see,
but,
they WERE hoping they would not only find a big cache of weapons intended for terrorists,
and,
to look very cool marching off with a few known terrorist types in handcuffs.

But nobody thinks they were pirating that boat and certainly not there to murder anyone.

In this case - I don't believe THIS boat was shipping weapons to terrorists (unless we see more later),
and,
so far I haven't heard any 'big names' in terms of who they arrested or killed although lets see.

Here again the Palestinian side loses all my support by playing a propaganda game which assumed we are all stupid and gullible.

Nah I think you need to "get real" as you put it, last week all the boats were inspected by Cypriot authorities, its something they do when vessels from another country dock or even lay over in their waters, something lots of countries do.

Similarly when the boats were loaded they were loaded under an inspection team, from Turkish customs, Turkey was relatively friendly with Israel until fairly recently.

You honestly believe that Mossad didnt honestly know exactly what was on each vessel, if they didnt they are really slipping, they are without doubt the best intelligence operatives in the world. It wouldnt surprise to learn in a few months or years time they even had operatives in amongst the crews or the blockade busters.

You will notice I use the words 'boats' and 'vessels' whereas you use the singular "boat" "this Boat" etc at least 7 times in the above post. Just to correct your misapprehension the relief florilla consisted of 6 ships not one boat.

Incidentally the boats were not entering Israeli territorial waters they were over 3 hours sailing from that. And regardless of what you now think of Israeli forces it was no map reading error, they have some of the best equipment money can buy, plus they are one of the few other countries that have full access to the US military Sat Nav systems.

The Israeli national mindset isnt looking to be seen as cool, they just do what they want, what they consider necessary to achieve their aims, legal or not. Look at the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai earlier this year.