You know, I am bothered a fair bit on how Israel handled this and have some issues.
But some on this thread want to bitch and whine about "disproportionate force"?
People tied to the GOVERNMENT in Palestine are routinely sending missiles into civilian areas of Israel....the outrage of "the world" and specifically the EU is negligible, mostly explaining it away as if its somehow warranted.
A "President" of a country who arguably stole an election (the likes of which should make those in the US bitching about "stolen" elections ashamed of themselves) and since then many of those leading the freedom movement seem to have "disappeared". All the while the country is known to be funneling money to various terrorist organizations and aquiring nuclear material, all being done with the most mild and tacit disapproval of "The world", specifically the EU, who the country primarily ignores.
North Korea creates nuclear weapons, keeps a entire horde of missiles aimed at a neighboring city, and actually sinks a vessel of another country seemingly purposefully and the outrage is mild at best.
Israel sets up a blockade and attempts to inspect a boat that is trying to breach it, and then responds with deadly force when attacked, and the "World" EXPLODES in outrage. This board explodes with outrage.
The amount of outrage, condemnation, and standards at which Israel is given or held to is so completely and utterly out of whack with what "The world" holds ANY OTHER COUNTRY to it seems. The sinking of another countries vessel is unquestionably an act of war but we hear next to nothing about it, yet a disputed "act of war" at best is being made out to be the most grevious thing to have happened in decades.
This is insane, and frankly this kind of absolutely idiotic and over the top response makes it difficult to actually hold Israel to blame for the mistakes they made and the things they did in error because at this point it'd be like trying to ground a child for sticking their tongue out at someone while at the same time they are being beaten with bats by a group of other kids.