[CaptainCrunch]

You see, I have a lot of problems with the Turkish flag thing. To me, its not the act of a friend (And Turkey is suppossed to be a friend of Israel), to allow the use of their flag or their flag registered boat to run a declared blockade. Turkey if they allowed this or gave permission for this, really stuck their nose in where it doesn't belong.

To me its fairly clear that this is a media effort by Palastine and particularly Hammas. They knew that they could try to run the blockade and when Israel interdicted they could run screaming to the press as usual. If Israel had stepped aside because of the media attention and let those boats through then they would open yet another way to get weapons through.

I get tired of the whole International Law debate. To me International Law ends when it effects the security of my nation. To me, Israel has a right to inspect those ships for possible weapons smuggling, since Hamas especially have shown that their very astute in keeping thier members heavily armed.

If this was about getting humanitarian aid in, then they could have coordinated through Israel who regularly ships in aid, or Egypt who also blockades but works to bring in Aid or even the UN.

I get why Ireland is pissed about their 7 civilians, but they were on a boat who's crew assaulted IDF soldiers, until their roles in this are acertained, there's no way that Israel should let them go.