Why shouldn't they board it Azure? IMO not boarding is akin to admitting they never should have boarded the others in the first place.
Board it, search it and expidite the transfer of the legitimate aid to Gaza.
Whether the blockade is legit or not isn't for me to sa , and the list of prohibited items looks like someone was playing a drunk game of darts at a pub, but US and Canada would do the exact same thing for boats headed to Iraq/Afghanistan(yes i realize Afghanistan is landlocked but if it wasn't I am sure that would be standard op) hell the US bombs targets in Pakistan if they think they're connected to anything going on in Afghanistan.
To me what we have is a very well executed PR move, I'm not going to say that certain people were hoping some of the activists died, but it certainly hasn't hurt the amount of publicity, would we still be talking about it now if they surrendered peacefully? Well we certainly aren't about the other boats in the flotila are we?
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