desertdude desertdude:
Hmm...let me see. Board a ship without its permisiion in international waters, kill few of them and then detain them.
Your right its not a hijacking. Its a hijacking, murder and kidnap on the high seas
You haven't even read anything anybody has said to you have you? First of all, it was proven that the whole International waters thing was legal as the ship was heading towards Israel territory. It would have been played more smart if they waited for them to get to Israel waters but they diddn't and they doesn't make there boarding any less justified.
What makes there boarding justified is they are blockaiding Gaza, what makes the blockaid justified is they are facing a threat that very much wants to kill them and they cannot allow and of these aid groups who as of now apparently let on nutjob terrorists, to bring in any supplies that can be used by Hamas. Which was also stated that Hamas regularly steals aid bound to Gaza citizens. In which in the past has been used against Israel.
As for the murder, they were met by extreme hostility. They were all jumped, beaten, stabbed and shot at before they could even be aware of what was happening. A lot of them were armed with nothing more than paintball guns and riot control guns. There is evidence here of these same activists before this fight going on record shouting violence against Israel and wanting to die in a clash against IDF. You know, the whole typical terrorist speech? As well, there is more than enough evidence of them expected to get boarded and them prepared to assault these commandos. Amung all the pipes were knives, in which there is also a video recording of one of these "activists" stabbing a commando who was just trying to get away from all guys trying to beat him.
There were guns reported however it was reported they were thrown overbored so cannot comment on that however I imagine a upcoming ballistics reports will give credability to that being some of these soldiers do infact have bullet wounds. Amung that is firebombs, obviously stuff you cannot make in a split second and was prepared amung with the materials needed to create it. These activists had hostile intent way before Israel even decided to board them. The commandos shot these "activists" in self defense to save there own lives and that of there comrades. That is hardly murder, the only murder here is if one of those commandos died or a innocent activist was shot in the crossfire (if there are any). It seems unlikely as all the people on the top were all participaiting in the beatdown and in reports stated all the innocent activists all moved to the bottom when the fighting broke out.
As for kidnapping, wtf are you talking about? Those on the boat were arrested sure, for obvious reasons of them being on a boat full of dozens of crazy lunatic terrorists who just tried to kill there commandos. Though, I also guess you diddn't hear that Israel courts let them go despite this? Seriously, put down your hate for Israel and go look at everything people have been trying to say to you. Use goddamn common sense. Tired of trying to explain this to you.