Flotilla attacks.

Hell of an incident, both in terms of loss of life and the political damage to the region.

Another BBC article gives more facts and analysis about the boarding itself. It's going to take a while before all the conflicting accounts resolve into some kind of coherent narrative.

Obviously Israel stormed the boats because they were preparing to illegally enter their coastal waters, but their unnerving inability to mount a proportionate response has not served them well here.
 
I despair every time I hear something like this, not only because of the physical suffering but the extra damage it does to the reputation of Israel, and sadly by extension in the minds of many, the Jews as a whole. Each individual case is barely worth commenting on alone, so inextricably linked is every act of aggression ordered by the government (and I stress government not people) of that state. As it stands, Israel's national personification should be a paranoid gun-nut who was abused as a child and is never going to let anybody hurt them again, no matter what the cost... and stories like that never end well.

Man of the hour? Alexei Sayle. Though surely enough the hard-liners will be tearing into him soon; Because if you don't like whatever Israel does you're an anti-Semite, and if you're Jewish then you're self hating. :roll:
 
Israel is the single biggest threat to the stability of the Middle-East. Ideally I'd love to see Iran get nukes but have the restraint (or fear of reprisal) to never use them because at least then Israel would have something to fear in retaliation for their bullying of the other Islamic states like Palestine, and perhaps they would learn their place and return some of that which they have taken. The problem is that Israel is the annoying little kid that bullies the other kids in the playground because he has some bigger friends who gave him a hammer. I want to see the odds evened so that for every violent action Israel takes, there is an equal retaliation, not just a few scuds causing minor collateral damage and the odd civilian casualty.
 
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