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While the Israeli military is naturally still defending its actions there was one thing I found interesting:
Source: Irish Times
We all heard how the Israeli soldiers were only armed with pistols for self-defense, but when I read "Uzi" and "machine pistol" I naturally got curious and found the following picture of this machine pistol mentioned:
Apparently it is a common weapon used by Israeli commandos when repelling. Here is a picture of one holding it:
So in fact the Israelis did bring automatic weapons and there was nothing unusual about it. In essence they were not unprepared for anything. They went in intending for it to mainly be a crowd control action, bringing anti-riot weaponry devoted to that purpose, but circumstances led to them using lethal force with the weapons they would normally carry during such an operation. Notably the article only mentions "a" machine pistol, meaning one. Since it was an automatic that explains claims from soldiers of automatic weapons fire on their forces.
Seems my argument of this situation following the typical path of escalation during crackdowns on protests is much stronger.
Israeli commandos fired 308 live bullets aboard a Gaza-bound aid ship last May to repel passengers who attacked them with lethal weapons including a snatched Uzi machine pistol, Israel's top general said today.
In a sometimes testy second round of testimony before a state-appointed inquest, Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi insisted the navy's killing of nine pro-Palestinian Turks on the converted cruise ship Mavi Marmara had been unavoidable.
Source: Irish Times
We all heard how the Israeli soldiers were only armed with pistols for self-defense, but when I read "Uzi" and "machine pistol" I naturally got curious and found the following picture of this machine pistol mentioned:
Apparently it is a common weapon used by Israeli commandos when repelling. Here is a picture of one holding it:
So in fact the Israelis did bring automatic weapons and there was nothing unusual about it. In essence they were not unprepared for anything. They went in intending for it to mainly be a crowd control action, bringing anti-riot weaponry devoted to that purpose, but circumstances led to them using lethal force with the weapons they would normally carry during such an operation. Notably the article only mentions "a" machine pistol, meaning one. Since it was an automatic that explains claims from soldiers of automatic weapons fire on their forces.
Seems my argument of this situation following the typical path of escalation during crackdowns on protests is much stronger.
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