The Israeli Commando who is credited with saving the lives of many of his fellows is due a medal apparently.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7144099.ece
As for those who say that there was no justification for lethal force as a response....
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As he landed on the ship’s top deck, he said he saw three of his superior officers who had landed ahead of him lying wounded, one with a bullet wound to the stomach, another shot in the knee and the third beaten unconscious.
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And a British passenger who witnessed the deadly pre-dawn encounter in international waters said that some of the more peaceful activists on board had tried to protect captured Israeli soldiers being set upon by a hardcore of passengers, most of them believed to be Turks linked to an Islamic charity accused by Israel of having links to extremists.
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Gee - why is it that one of the actual PEACEFUL people had to try and protect a soldier from other "peaceful" passengers?
The truth is coming out slowly but surely - and its proving even more that the use of lethal force was appropriate as a response.