"Humanitarians with knives"
Israel is under fire again. And so it goes. In brief, during the night of May 30th-31st, a flotilla of aid ships from Turkey carrying about 700 Palestinian supporters were surrounded and boarded by Israeli commandoes. In the end, 9 or 10 supporters were killed and 10 IDF soldiers were injured, 1 seriously. It's unclear how many supporters were injured. Before I go on, I should say the flotilla was made up of 6 boats, and that 5 were boarded without any injuries whatsoever. If Israel intended to murder the supporters, as many claim, they certainly would have opened fire against the first ship, or perhaps blown the whole flotilla out of the water, sinking any video recording onboard, not published their own videos, and hid the whole event, or said they sunk an enemy military ship. There are hundreds of alternatives, but as it stands, there is no way to reconcile the fact that 5 ships were peacefully boarded with the idea that the Israelis meant t...