Israel Kills 10 in Palestinian Aid Convoy

Carpet bombing in Vietnam 3 to 4 million killed

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Carpet bombing in Vietnam
Carpet bombing in Laos and CambodiaOf supply lines and trails in the jungle.

What about the Vietnamese cutting of the arm of children that had ben innoculated under the "hearts and minds" program ? The Vietnamese use of women and children as soldiers ? Clearly you are picking and choosing which side to attack.

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Nuclear bombs against Japanese

Just how many people do you think would have died otherwise ? But we cant use Nuclear weapons because it has nuclear in it and low brow fools like you dont know what it means.

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My Lai Massacre

Did the Vietnamese ever put any of their people on trial for war crimes ?

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Fire bombing in Tokyo

Of all the war crimes committed by the Japanese you choose to attack the allies.....why is that ?

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Nicaragua
El Salvador
The Philippines

The Cold War was a war.

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US official documents that have been recently been declassified show that......

What documents ? More left wing bullshit.

You have no morals just an anti-US stance that is a sign of considerable mental disorder and a need for help.

Freedom of Seas dictates that any civilian ship may pass through international waters unobstructed.

Israel was not at war at the time of the ship incident.

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Freedom of Seas dictates that any civilian ship may pass through international waters unobstructed.

Freedom of the Seas doesnt dictate anything.

Blockades have been around since time in memorial. You run them at your own risk.

If the Israelis are that bad how come the only ones killed were on the ship that attacked them ?

Why didnt they shoot anybody on any of the other ships ?

Why did the press attack the Israelis ??

Why didnt that ship run around in Somali waters till they got boarded if Freedom of the Seas is the issue ?

They never made it to the blockade.

There own reports declare they fired shots and dropped grenades prior to boarding.

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Why didnt they shoot anybody on any of the other ships ?

Perhaps they hoped to. Perhaps this is exactly what they (thought) they wanted. They wanted to try and make these groups look dangerous, and when they didn't successfully get the reaction they desired, they decided to escalate the situation on the 6th boat first.

Why did the press attack the Israelis ?? Because the IDF made a huge mistake, and things got bloody. Really bloody.

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Why didnt that ship run around in Somali waters till they got boarded if Freedom of the Seas is the issue ?

So now you recognize the Freedom of Seas?

"Israel has a right to know – they're at war with Hamas – has a right to know whether or not arms are being smuggled in. It's legitimate for Israel to say, 'I don't know what's on that ship. These guys are dropping ... 3,000 rockets on my people." ~ United States Vice-President Joe Biden

Moral matters and 'who shot first' aside, I would like to point out that Freedom of Seas dictates that any civilian ship may pass through international waters unobstructed.

The law is on the side of the protesters.

oralloy wrote:

I focus on the targeting of civilians because that is the element that makes terrorism so objectionable.

Phosphorus bombs in Iraq

Nuclear bombs against Japanese

UN Convention on the High Seas, 1958

Article 2
The high seas being open to all nations, no State may validly purport to subject any part of them to its sovereignty. Freedom of the high seas is exercised under the conditions laid down by these articles and by the
other rules of international law. It comprises, inter alia, both for coastal and non-coastal States:
(1) Freedom of navigation;
(2) Freedom of fishing;
(3) Freedom to lay submarine cables and pipelines;
(4) Freedom to fly over the high seas.

These freedoms, and others which are recognized by the general principles of international law, shall be exercised by all States with reasonable regard to the interests of other States in their exercise of the freedom of
the high seas.

http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/8_1_1958_high_seas.pdf

besides, israel was not at war at the time of the ship incident.

Ionus wrote:

Blockades have been around since time in memorial. You run them at your own risk.

They never made it to the blockade.

Ionus wrote:

If the Israelis are that bad how come the only ones killed were on the ship that attacked them ?

They attacked the ship first. There own reports declare they fired shots and dropped grenades prior to boarding.

Ionus wrote:

Why didnt they shoot anybody on any of the other ships ?

Perhaps they hoped to. Perhaps this is exactly what they (thought) they wanted.

Ionus wrote:

Why did the press attack the Israelis ??

Because the IDF made a huge mistake, and things got bloody. Really bloody.

failures art wrote:

Ionus wrote:

Blockades have been around since time in memorial. You run them at your own risk.

They never made it to the blockade.

That is incorrect. The blockade is what boarded them and seized their ship.

failures art wrote:

Ionus wrote:

If the Israelis are that bad how come the only ones killed were on the ship that attacked them ?

They attacked the ship first. There own reports declare they fired shots and dropped grenades prior to boarding.

That does not answer the question of why the only people who died were the ones attacking Israeli soldiers.

failures art wrote:

Ionus wrote:

Why didnt they shoot anybody on any of the other ships ?

Perhaps they hoped to. Perhaps this is exactly what they (thought) they wanted.

It is futile to try to prop up your unwarranted demonization of Israel by pretending that "maybe they secretly wanted to commit a crime".

failures art wrote:

Ionus wrote:

Why did the press attack the Israelis ??

Because the IDF made a huge mistake, and things got bloody. Really bloody.

No mistake on the Israelis' part. They successfully prevented the smugglers from breaching the blockade.