The inquiry is not independent.
Actually yes it is, it is fully an independent inquiry, the government is not involved in its management nor in its research and result.
The video which was released blamed the activists
Videos don't 'blame' people. They present evidence, they present what was going on there. It is we who are forced to make the right conclusion, and in this case, the way too obvious one, and blame the activists for their crimes.
but it was an untimed video which was released before all the video could possibly have been looked at and obviously had been edited.
It was cut out, not edited.
Edited would mean it was messed with, and it obviously wasn't, they've just presented a very specific duration of time. It's a footage after all.
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That along with the basically lie that people on the MM were giving antisemetic insults is the evidence against the Flotilla.
A lie? Says who?
IIRC the video tape was released, then there were the usual claims for propaganda, so the unedited tape was released, and it was found out that there was no relevancy at all in the full audio tape, and that the editing didn't change a thing.
That the flotilla participants including journalists and a retired US Ambassador give different descriptions of what has happened matters not one bit.
It's irrelevant what they say, they were already caught lying with their initial account of "we didn't attack any soldiers, no soldiers were harmed".
The Lara Lee footage already gives a different interpretation.
Like it or not it's merely one of the evidence that supports the Israeli version.
I don't think Israel meant to kill people. I think she meant to scare the hell out of them like when she was playing chicken with Challenger 1 and was going to ram her and like she has apparently rammed similar boats.
I think that's a very surreal and bizarre 'analysis'.
Having told them there was going to be lethal consequences and approaching the MM in an extremely fierce way
In other words, following international procedure.
It's only hateful propaganda to single Israel out on such procedure, as if it's not known to be the procedure of every freaking nation under the sun to say "stop immediately or we'll open fire".
Even police officers say that and point a gun at the suspects when they arrest them, does that mean the suspects are threatened? Not at all, not if they react appropriately.
with stun grenades, tear gas, rubber bullets and within a minute or two live bullets
Axes, knives, crowbars, slingshots, live bullets. From the 'peaceful activists'.
by just about every account from the flotilla, she was surprised that the people there believing they were about to die, did not just sit their and wait for it but did what little they could to fight back.
The same people who were preparing to become martyrs for Allah, who have chanted 'Allah hu'Akbar' during their assault on the Israeli soldiers, who have got themselves ready for an incoming fight even before the soldiers have got near their ship.
Yes, those are the people who were believing their going to die, not the soldiers who would have been murdered on that ship were they not reacting and defending themselves.
[quoet]As far as I have been able to gather the by the time Israelis were trying to make the descent from the helicopters flotilla passengers were already dead or dying.[/quote]According to the activists. Irrelevant.
Do not be surprised in such circumstances if people are not too friendly.
Do not be surprised when you shoot at a soldier and he shoots back at you.
That is what it looks like from my study. It is my hunch from my study, it is only my hunch but it certainly is at least as valid a hunch as yours has been blaming it all on Turkish terrorists since the beginning.
You can't call it a study really, not while placing agenda above the truth.
Israel's to be frank less than honest dealing with this has not helped.
Israel was absolutely honest in its statements, it is the 'peaceful activists' who were caught lying countless of times, and are obviously attempting to fool people into believing that they have not just tried to murder soldiers, and that it just happened that the Mavi Marmara was the only ship with casualties on it, and that the only casualties were Turkish.
Those are all part of one big coincident, don't you know?
