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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Of course and it has worked beyond Hamas's wildest dreams, the IDF's response to almost anything has become predictably heavy handed, they have lost any sense of measured response which Hamas has used to further isolate Israel.
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I'm not sure what you mean by measured response here, and thats my problem with it, the whole thing stinks of the Kobyashi Maru to me, no matter what the response Israel was going to get hammered.
But thats the way of the world.
Nobody is asking the right questions.
Why was turkey allowing its flag to be used in this case?
Why is nobody questioning why 5 boats submitted by the 6th boat first tried to evade, then attacked the IDF forces?
Why are we not questioning that this effort seems to have been funded by a radical hate group for want of a better term. If the press found this out this quickly, then the Mossad knew about it earlier which explains their requirement to search this boat?
Why didn't this floatilla offer to deliver the aid through the standard Egyptian or Israeli ports, its seems to me that aid is going through?
Why were Irish and other nationallities willing to stay on a boat that at the start of the cruise had crew members chanting "Death to Israel"
There was no fricken way that a boat load with attachments to the IHH was getting through that blockade without being search.
Israel can't win, we talk about the evil of Israel, but with the distinction of some Western developed power, that whole region doesn't accept or recoginize that nations right to exist. They have neighbours that shoot rockets and send in suicide bombers, yet the real outcry comes when Israel responds to that.
And personally, in a lot of ways, I do blame the Palestinian people for putting Hamas in power, and at the end of the day thats going to be the mess that they have to clean up, but its going to be impossible.
I blame these activists on the boat for putting themselves in a stupid situation for a PR trick.
I believe that Turkey for whatever reason has poked their nose into this situation and stirring it up, probably to placate their Muslim majority.
And I blame Israel as well, but I understand why they have a bunker mentallity.