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Then where are the guns that were onboard the ship? IDF claimed to have found them then said no they werent there, which is it?Ah, yes, that's why they shot people on all of the boats, and why they were under strict orders not to use anything more dangerous than a painball unless they were fired upon.
The IDF claims the people on-board the ship took away their guns? In what world is that happening? Peace activists with little or no military training disarming trained IDF commandos? I dont buy that for a second and frankly I think the expectation that anyone should believe that is insulting.
Again, watch the video. AlJazeera's cameras were there during the fighting as were their journalists.:rofl I'm not talking about Al-Jazeera's unnamed sources, I'm talking about the actual video of the actual events where you can see the activists attacking the IDF soldiers.
Yes, the protesters did resist the IDF, I was incorrect about that earlier. However, such resistance in international waters is legal as what the IDF did was an act of piracy.
From guns they never found.And again, they didn't fire live ammunition until they reported being fired on first. You can hear the conversations on the videos.
I do not trust the IDF. They lied through their teeth during Cast Lead, they're publishing the most ludicrous stories about what happened here. Their credibility is shot.Try watching the videos before you make demonstrably false claims like this. There are several videos that clearly show this. They've uploaded a dozen videos in the past day:
Damn straight I do. The IDF is highly trained to deal with EXACTLY this kind of situation and again any idiot knows that.Oh, well so long as you say so.
So what? Knives are used for a myriad of different things besides killing people.And yet it's not a kitchen knife.
They resisted because what the IDF was doing was ILLEGAL. You CANNOT board a ship in international waters with military force the way the IDF did.Yes, Israel shot people who could have easily surrendered. Why? Because they didn't surrender. The people surrendered on the other 5 boats and none of them were shot. Mysterious, that.
Care to point out where?This is simply incorrect, for reasons that have been rehashed ad nauseum on the large thread on this topic.
Israel's action is a breach of the 2009 UN International Maritime Organization Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation which Israel signed. According to the article 6.1 of the SUA, the jurisdiction over the offences that a ship might have committed lays in the State whose flag the ship is flying in international waters (in this situation, Turkey).If you'd like to try to show me where this is illegal, feel free to take it up there.
Israel did NOT have permission from Turkey or from any other ship's government in the flotilla to seize the ships in international waters.