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Originally Posted by blankall

I can't confirm these pictures as real, but they seem to show the "protestors" taking soldier as hostages:

http://fotogaleri.hurriyet.com.tr/ga...id=36575&rid=2

We also know at least some of them were armed, as the soldiers were shot twice. So when armed men take a soldier hostage, they cease to be out of control rioters and become full fledged military combatants.

Can anyone really say in a situation where armed men have hostages on their way into Hamas controlled territory, lethal force is not absolutely necessary?

Edit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/mid...t/10251805.stm

These pictures are confirmed as real.

More pictures released, also confirmed to be real, show the captured soldiers being treated with first aid by the passengers aboard the Marmara. Hardly seems fits with the theme of the angry mob looking to lynch as many Jews as they can.






What really happened to those captured commandos, according to American eyewitness Ken O'Keefe

I said this straight to Israeli agents, probably of Mossad or Shin Bet, and I say it again now, on the morning of the attack I was directly involved in the disarming of two Israeli Commandos. This was a forcible, non-negotiable, separation of weapons from commandos who had already murdered two brothers that I had seen that day. One brother with a bullet entering dead center in his forehead, in what appeared to be an execution. I knew the commandos were murdering when I removed a 9mm pistol from one of them. I had that gun in my hands and as an ex-US Marine with training in the use of guns it was completely within my power to use that gun on the commando who may have been the murderer of one of my brothers. But that is not what I, nor any other defender of the ship did. I took that weapon away, removed the bullets, proper lead bullets, separated them from the weapon and hid the gun. I did this in the hopes that we would repel the attack and submit this weapon as evidence in a criminal trial against Israeli authorities for mass murder.

I also helped to physically separate one commando from his assault rifle, which another brother apparently through into the sea. I and hundreds of others know the truth that makes a mockery of the brave and moral Israeli military. We had in our full possession, three completely disarmed and helpless commandos. These boys were at our mercy, they were out of reach of their fellow murderers, inside the ship and surrounded by 100 or more men. I looked into the eyes of all three of these boys and I can tell you they had the fear of God in them. They looked at us as if we were them, and I have no doubt they did not believe there was any way they would survive that day. They looked like frightened children in the face of an abusive father.

But they did not face an enemy as ruthless as they. Instead the woman provided basic first aid, and ultimately they were released, battered and bruised for sure, but alive. Able to live another day. Able to feel the sun over head and the embrace of loved ones. Unlike those they murdered. Despite mourning the loss of our brothers, feeling rage towards these boys, we let them go. The Israeli prostitutes of propaganda can spew all of their disgusting bile all they wish, the commandos are the murders, we are the defenders, and yet we fought. We fought not just for our lives, not just for our cargo, not just for the people of Palestine, we fought in the name of justice and humanity. We were right to do so, in every way.