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Originally Posted by eskachig

Well, google brought me to your fine forum, true.

The people in the aid convoy have the right to defend themselves against violence, true, but in this case they initiated it.

Those fine folks did start the violence first you know. They can be described as war casualties, I suppose. Soldiers are shot to death by invaders for legally defending their countries all the time. Still legal. Not that I'm saying the boarding wasn't legal in the first place, which I think it was.

North Korea can do whatever it wants, but its actions, just like Israel's may lead to war with other sovereign states. Does anyone wish to go to war over this? Who?

Thanks mr internet tough guy. A pipe is a pretty decent hand weapon actually, as the legions of folks who've clubbed to death will attest to. Getting hit with a metal pipe is something I'd really like to avoid myself. Of course, if they had firearms we wouldn't even ben talking about this in the first place, and the Israelis would've machine-gunned the ship before touching it.

Well of course they messed up, the operation clearly got out of their control. But at the same time, the people up on deck got the battle they wanted, and I don't feel bad for them, nor do I feel their rights were violated. I do expect some careers taking a hit here though, clear failure to control the situation.

Of course not, but that's not what happened either. Cops in mine, or any other country, would respond with lethal force when faced with same - which these soldiers were. Indeed, cops in US are a good deal more trigger happy.

I don't know whether this blockade makes sense, but while it's in place of course the Israeli military needs to interdict vessels.

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