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Three facts about the IDF attack on the aid ships:
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1) Israeli soldiers invaded these ships in international waters, breaking international law, and, in killing civilians, committed a war crime. The counter-claim by Israeli commanders that their soldiers responded to an imminent “lynch” by civilians should be dismissed with the loud contempt it deserves.
2) The Israeli government approved the boarding of these aid ships by an elite unit of commandoes. They were armed with automatic weapons to pacify the civilians onboard, but not with crowd dispersal equipment in case of resistance. Whatever the circumstances of the confrontation, Israel must be held responsible for sending in soldiers and recklessly endangering the lives of all the civilians onboard, including a baby.
3) Israel has no right to control Gaza’s sea as its own territorial waters and to stop aid convoys arriving that way. In doing so, it proves that it is still in belligerent occupation of the enclave and its 1.5 million inhabitants. And if it is occupying Gaza, then under international law Israel is responsible for the welfare of the Strip’s inhabitants. Given that the blockade has put Palestinians there on a starvation diet for the past four years, Israel should long ago have been in the dock for committing a crime against humanity.
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1) Israel has been at war with Hamas for decades. They still receive weekly (if not daily) rocket attacks on their civilians.
2) Israel has a right to blockade Gaza as the location for which the majority of rocket attacks are launched from.
3) Regardless of the incidents, Hamas and the PLO have 60 years of smuggling in weapons through "peaceful" supply lines.
Not really as I've pointed out.
Look I'm not saying it's possible that the ships were completely empty of weapons. Israel has a history of doing things for which they believe is in their defense which appear to not make any sense (including their navy sinking one of our intelligence ships).
However to point fingers before the truth falls out is bullshit.