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Re: Israeli raid on Gaza flotilla
how about you put a link up next time?
And what a silly article it is. Divorce the facts of what the videos have shown from the potential of the weapon used, and then ignore the videos and focus solely on the small cache of weapons that IN ACTUALITY were used against the boarding team. "it's just a small armory" "maybe a lethal barometer". It doesn't matter what they used. They intended to kill that boarding team. And if they tried to use a lug wrench to crush a skull, that's a weapon. But, the author cries, presumably, "but lug wrenches are not intended to crush skulls, so it's not a weapon." And neither would a pick axe be used as a weapon...until it was used as a weapon.
I'm amused that he cannot adequately defend the fact that 1) there has been an astute blockade for THREE YEARS now, 2) the boats were warned well before they came remotely near the israeli water territory, 3) they were offered FREE PASSAGE of all the aid they had brought so long as they brought it through customs (like EVERY OTHER COUNTRY HAS) and then proceeded to IGNORE that amicable request, 4) they were warned several times when they got closer that they needed to stop the engines as they had ignored the reasonable request to go to the appropriate port for inspection, 5) and then five of the ships stopped, while the SIXTH tried to run. I suppose that this was not enough to the author to 'avoid violence.'
AND THEN, 6) the boarding team, thinking it was a group of peace activists, brought with them non-lethal paintball guns to control the situation which was ordered by their superiors in an effort to avoid any violence whatsoever, 7) but they were fortunate enough to have brought sidarms that remained holstered until shit really got real,
and then for several minutes they STILL did not use those sidearms until it was ultimately the only available option to protect themselves from the top deck gang trying to kill them.
But surely, Israel didn't do enough to avoid violence. I also LOL @ his pissy attitude towards the Israeli's dropping the team via helicopters. Presumably Israel has a teleport machine we don't know of? The activists indeed got what they wanted. Everything they did was one step closer to requiring violence to occur. Between the time they loaded the boat, and the time the first gunshot went off, they could have avoided this and acted like reasonable adults who "cared about getting aid to Hamas". But nobody is fooled by this. Which is why they have to make this seem like the Israeli's intended to kill everyone aboard from the very outset. Despite reality dictating the contrary position.
I'm wondering if any of the remaining kool-aid drinkers would agree that a police officer being beaten in the middle of a melee should not ever resort to using his side-arm to protect him.
Another wasted effort by another idiot leftist author.
how about you put a link up next time?
And what a silly article it is. Divorce the facts of what the videos have shown from the potential of the weapon used, and then ignore the videos and focus solely on the small cache of weapons that IN ACTUALITY were used against the boarding team. "it's just a small armory" "maybe a lethal barometer". It doesn't matter what they used. They intended to kill that boarding team. And if they tried to use a lug wrench to crush a skull, that's a weapon. But, the author cries, presumably, "but lug wrenches are not intended to crush skulls, so it's not a weapon." And neither would a pick axe be used as a weapon...until it was used as a weapon.
I'm amused that he cannot adequately defend the fact that 1) there has been an astute blockade for THREE YEARS now, 2) the boats were warned well before they came remotely near the israeli water territory, 3) they were offered FREE PASSAGE of all the aid they had brought so long as they brought it through customs (like EVERY OTHER COUNTRY HAS) and then proceeded to IGNORE that amicable request, 4) they were warned several times when they got closer that they needed to stop the engines as they had ignored the reasonable request to go to the appropriate port for inspection, 5) and then five of the ships stopped, while the SIXTH tried to run. I suppose that this was not enough to the author to 'avoid violence.'
AND THEN, 6) the boarding team, thinking it was a group of peace activists, brought with them non-lethal paintball guns to control the situation which was ordered by their superiors in an effort to avoid any violence whatsoever, 7) but they were fortunate enough to have brought sidarms that remained holstered until shit really got real,
and then for several minutes they STILL did not use those sidearms until it was ultimately the only available option to protect themselves from the top deck gang trying to kill them. But surely, Israel didn't do enough to avoid violence. I also LOL @ his pissy attitude towards the Israeli's dropping the team via helicopters. Presumably Israel has a teleport machine we don't know of? The activists indeed got what they wanted. Everything they did was one step closer to requiring violence to occur. Between the time they loaded the boat, and the time the first gunshot went off, they could have avoided this and acted like reasonable adults who "cared about getting aid to Hamas". But nobody is fooled by this. Which is why they have to make this seem like the Israeli's intended to kill everyone aboard from the very outset. Despite reality dictating the contrary position.
I'm wondering if any of the remaining kool-aid drinkers would agree that a police officer being beaten in the middle of a melee should not ever resort to using his side-arm to protect him.
Another wasted effort by another idiot leftist author.
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