Quote Originally Posted by boaz
Rusty, next time I'd suggest you keep your lables to yourself, otherwise you sound like a fox news parrot. :jointsmile:
It's ok to acuse, but not ok to label? How are you going to tow the leftist agenda with an attitude like that?
Regardless, I'd much rather be a fox news parrot, than a blog-plagiarising parrot. At least the former is armed with both sides of any given story, and has the ability to think for themselves.

Until you understand the history of the region, your accusations and insinuations are rediculous and unfounded. Almost laughable, in fact...

Anyone that has seen the video(s) and still believes that the boarding party was not attacked, I believe, has an acute case of optical rectitis. If the "humanitarian" mission was to truly deliver the goods, why then the attempts to run through the blockade? Their convoy could have just as easily delivered the cargo to the appropriate port untouched. Palestinian aid has been delivered there since the blockade started 3 years ago, and transfering the aid directly to the Palestinians (after a thorough search for weapons going to Hamas) has never been an issue.

Were I on a raiding party (what you seem to believe it was) I'd have gone in, guns a blazing, with not a single Israeli casualty. But short of that, it was a boarding party there to inspect cargo. I'm guessing if the Israelis intentions were to assault, there would be no "humanitarian" witnesses left standing. I also find it strange how no shots were fired till some of the "humanitarians" got ahold of a couple of the boarding party side arms. (while they were getting the crap beat out of them in a surprise attack)

Speaking of weapons, where do you think all the (non-weapon?) knives, clubs. pipes came from? And are you trying to say that the the strategy of waiting to be boarded before showing violence was a spur of the moment decision made by the entirety of crew and "humanitarians"...? (yet all the crew and "aid" workers were armed) They were in attack mode since the moment they left port in Turkey.

Do you believe that the Israeli's have no right to defend their nation and it's people from hostils neighbors? Next time...I say the Israelis should eliminate all doubt and put a torpedo through their hull, then prosecute any survivors.