How do you view those who tried to get around the blockades of WW2 or even the blockade by the USSR of Berlin? (Both times, US forces were heavily involved in getting supplies through the blockades)
I don't know...
Did Germany or the USSR give them options of allowing them to peacefully take the cargo past the blockaid after a check to make sure there was nothing other than truly humanatarian aid was present?
Did they go about it expecting to be shocked and create an incident if the blockaid was enforced, or did they come prepared for that situation and fully acknowledged it?
From my understanding, neither was the case. In both cases the US was attempting to bring items that those countries did not want in the country, so the option of peacefully doing it is negated. However, knowing they're bringing things that are unwanted through the blockaid they sent people with either the proper protection should the blockaid be enforced or with understanding that they weren't innocent bystanders if the blockaid was enforced.
Here's the funny thing...
I have little issue with the other 5 boats on the surface of what we know (without delving into assumptions). They wanted to get past the blockaid to prove a point and/or to deliver their aid, but once they were stopped...as they had to know they were going to be...they submitted to the authority and to the result they knew was extremely likely. If they had somehow managed to "sneak" through and actually make the drop and it was legitimate humanatarian aid you wouldn't see me shed a tear or speak a bad word about them.
My issue is with the boat whose intent was clearly first and foremost proving a point and making a international incident to embarass Israel far more than it was to provide any kind of "aid". The boat who intended to break the blockaid and knew that there was an extremely high likelihood of being bored and that, upon that likely action happening, decided to instead of owning up to their attempt and the inevitable results chose to attempt to kill IDF soldiers who were doing their job, all with the seemingly obvious purpose of starting an international incident.
Which, leads me to why they're morons.
If you're attempting to run a blockaid that is routinely successful at what it does and you expect that you're not going to get caught, that you're not going to get boarded, and action isn't going to happen to you...and more so that they're not going to open fire if you start attacking them with metal clubs and knives...then you're an absolute moron.
Somehow, I don't imagine any of the US blockaid runners of WWII or during the cold war were running the blockaids with the notion that they wouldn't be stopped (or just gunned down without anyone even boarding). And I don't remember any of the same kind of pathetic publicity stunts aimed at simply creating an international incident purposefully happening from those incidents, giving no indication that the U.S. was just trying to be douches attempting to enflame a situation for the sake of enflaming it like those here.
As I said...
The people on the ship that is at the heart of this are either Morons who didn't realize they'd get stopped or shot at if they attempting to break the blockaid or attack the soldiers; or their Douches who knew full well that's what would happen and did it specifically to cause an international incident and to make Israel look bad by putting them in a no-win situation.