alexa
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Once again, you're basing your objections on the fact that this happened in international waters, which is (IMO) not really the important issue.
Say that this entire incident had occurred 24 miles from Israel's border. Israel follows your advice and tries to prevent the ships from entering the water by blocking them or asking them to reroute. The ships refuse to be stopped and continue on their course.
How should they prevent them from going forward?
The problem then is on what happened. There is nothing wrong with civil disobedience. There is nothing wrong in even deliberately trying to get publicity by your actions. This as well as going with humanitarian aid seems to be what most people were doing.
The problem comes from the killings. Did the Israeli army go into all ships by helicopter? Could it be said that they provoked the people? It is something everyone is going to have to wait and see.
Could the deaths have been avoided is going to be something that lots of people are going to want to know.
A number of people on this forum have claimed that this was to be expected, that the aid bringers were terrorists and so on. This seems extremely unlikely to me. More likely is that there were the odd one or two who turned violent in the moment. You always get that sort of thing from a minority on almost any protest.
People are questioning whether Israel dealt with this in the best way. Whether these deaths and injury's to passengers and Israeli soldiers could have been avoided.
Here's some pictures on the boat and protests against Israel's actions.
Israel condemned over raid on aid ships | The Daily Telegraph