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Originally Posted by Azure
These people are simply looking for a problem, and Israel doesn't need to get caught in the middle of another situation like the other day.
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Why? What does Israel really have to lose here. I doubt the internation condemnation is going to get any louder and really their key ally who has been critical of other things they have done lately ain't gonna say jack crap about it.
If I was Israel I play ball with them, invite out the big news networks, BBC, CNN to put the whole thing on camera, pull up alongside the ship with one of their warships and get on the loudspeaker advising them they have to submit to inspection to continue on to Gaza, if they refuse to stop drop the commandos in and make sure you do nothing to provoke the violence. hopefully(from a PR perspective), the protestors put up a bit of a fight but the commandos don't have to use lethal force. This time instead of the videos of the injured protestors, you trot out some bloodied up Israelis for the big boy networks and confiscate any video equipment found on the ship.
To me it was quite obvious last time one side was prepared to trot out their version of events on camera while the other side hastily tried to toss out some grainy black and white videos to counter after the damage was done.