That’s kind of Orwellian isn’t it? Armed paramilitary forces are merely “securing” Turkish boats in international waters, while the Turkish sailors are to blame for “attacking first” and “violently opposing” the armed soldiers who are in the process of hijacking their boat?
That’s how propaganda works. It’s all about choice of words.
If anybody attacked first, it was Israel by hijacking the transport vessels in international waters. The Turkish sailors on board had every right to defend themselves against this act of piracy with any means necessary.
War in the Middle East? That’s as normal as drugs in South East Asia.
As with pretty much everything in this pathetic conflict, both sides (or all three sides, now that “peaceful activists” joined in) are being childish and are trying to provoke reactions.
Just nuke that entire zone, eradicate both sides.
And I suppose you would still say that if it was Belgium and the Netherlands?
No, because that would involve me, silly man.
I’d rather not be nuked because my (incompetent) government ordered such an attack. I’m fine with a precision strike on the parliament though, good riddance.
…so I assume if some dumb jock got into your house at night and you welcome him with hugs and kisses…how typical
Ehm… The jock told them to stay the fuck away (blockade and all). They ignored that warning and went there anyway (under the flag of peaceful activism). The jock rushed outside to tell them to get out. They react by attacking the jock en mass, and then cry that they ended up with some missing teeth and a black eye because the jock happens to be a black belt?
Sure, the jock is in fault for putting up a blockade despite international protest, but the “activists” are in fault as well for ignoring the blockade and opening an aggressive attack.
To be fair, this is the same kind of situation as with Georgia and Russia a year (was it not?) ago. Small boy pokes a bear, bear mauls the kid, kid cries and screams for international retribution.
Exactly.
am in nobody’s site if that what you’re thinking all I care is about giving some food to gaza people
Sad fact: the people are always pulling on the shortest end of the rope when governments fight a war.
So a couple of dead people equal missing teeth and a black eye?
Then how come they’ve never managed to live in peace over there?
I was merely taking Shadi’s version of the story and changing it to one that resembles realism.
But to make you happy:
Israel told them to stay the fuck away (blockade and all). They ignored that warning and went there anyway (under the flag of peaceful activism). Israeli soldiers rushed to the boat to tell them to get out. The activists react by attacking the solders with rods, chairs, anything they could throw, and then cry that they ended up with casualties because the soldiers happen to have weapons.
But yea, you’re right. When soldier tell someone to turn around and go away, and that someone starts attacking the soldier with a steel rod, the soldiers is not entitled at all to react. He’s to sit there and get beaten until further orders.
Time for another analogy: I don’t go to a zoo, enter a cage with a lion, kick the lion in the nuts and then sue the zoo because the lion ripped me a new a-hole.
Your analogies suck.
How about: Cuban soldiers board your yacht in international waters as you sail to Puerto Rico, and they demand control of your ship, and you try to keep them from coming over the edge by swinging a hockey stick, and as a result they shoot your cousin to death[COLOR=‘Black’] because you’re rich enough to have a hockey rink on your yacht you capitalist pig-dog.
Question is, when is there not war in the middle east? 
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If the Cuban soldiers told me from the start that they put up a blockade and that they won’t let anyone pass, then I wouldn’t be surprised that they boarded my yacht. I’d probably fight as well, seeing as I was too retarded to ignore their blockade anyway (so might as well be retarded enough to start a fight… against soldiers… with guns…), and I’d probably cry as well. But that doesn’t mean that all of that couldn’t be prevented and/or wasn’t provoked.
The defense of the soldiers may have been disproportionate if you look at the means of the activists, but that doensn’t take away the fact that the activists ignored a blockade, ignored a request and started the attack.
Oh, and by the way, at first I backed the activists in this story, but as more evidence and footage pops up, showing that the activists started the assault, I turned around. It’s sad that people died, but Israel was in its right to defend themselves, imho.
Everyone is reading too far into this. The main cause for middle east conflicts is in the name of one thing:
Revenge.
Every attack and retalitation is in response to some percieved injustice that happened last month or last century. There will never BE peace until both sides apologise openly to EVERYTHING that they’ve done, which won’t happen because they are solidly convinced that they are right.
As long as war in the past is mentioned war in the future will go on.