While the UN report speaks of disproportionate force being used in the boarding, it acknowledges the legitimacy and legality of the naval blockade on the Gaza Strip and the legitimacy of the boarding of the vessel. It also acknowledges the fact that Israeli soldiers have reacted in self-defense to attacks from IHH members who were part of the Mavi Marmara crew.
It did not acknowledge any kind of piracy, and indeed there was no piracy involved in the act that was meant to inspect a ship destined to the Gaza Strip of weapons.
Since the convoy has declared its purpose to be to breach the blockade on the Gaza Strip the Israeli soldiers did not violate any law by boarding the vessel away from Israeli waters as the fact that their declared destination is the Gaza Strip's port is enough, as the San Remo manual declares.
Bla bla bla.. funny how you suddenly are quoting UN reports, when other UN reports were dismissed off hand as propaganda..... Not to mention you are not truthful as usual...
The report stated clearly
"Israel's decision to board the vessels with such substantial force at a great distance from the blockade zone and with no final warning immediately prior to the boarding was excessive and unreasonable,"
In other words.. doing what Israel did, where it did it was excessive and unreasonable. Very diplomatic speak but the intention is very clear.. Israel was in the wrong doing what it did where it did it and how it did it.
On top of that the report had been delayed several times in an attempt to make "peace" between Turkey and Israel, and the fact it was not given full access by Israel to documentation to come with a more full conclusion on several aspects of the report.
Yes, the report states that the blockade is legal as it is to prevent the influx of weapons into Gaza, and I fully support that in fact. Hope that does not shock you too much.
Your support of that act of war to be committed by Turkey points out the fact that you completely support and promote warmongering when it is directed towards a certain nation, or rather certain nations as I am sure it would have been the same was it the US we were speaking of. There's no point hiding it.
What act of war? Have Turkey or anyone else attacked IDF or threatened to attack IDF forces in Israeli sovereign territory? No, they have stated they will defend their ships against aggression.. which is fully their RIGHT to do so in international waters.
You have no backing to those claims as even the UN acknowledged the soldiers' use of force as a self-defense against attacks from the IHH members of the Mavi Marmara crew who attacked soldiers with lethal weapons. That's a blood libel motivated with pure hatred towards Israel coming from an immoral point of view.
Again, you misrepresent the findings. Have you even read the report? And why on earth are you escalating the tone of this thread by bringing "blood libel" into the picture?
For one.. the report correctly states that the soldiers met with some what organised resistance to the boarding. Now the report also states that the IDF gave no warning or attempted no non-violent methods in stooping the convoy.. and in fact broke its own rules of engagement... ups. It also states that the situation was very chaotic since the IDF used stun grenades and smoke when they attacked the ships...and are you seriously saying the people dont have the right to defend themselves against armed attackers now? How do you explain the multiple people being shot in the back, or shot multiple times? How do you explain the reports of live gun fire coming from the helicopters before any IDF troops were even aboard? There are many questions Israel have yet to answer fully... their lack of cooperation is a well known fact.
But the report finds serious problems with how the Isrealies conducted themselves... like shooting people in the back, multiple times and even in the head. Funny how you forget to mention that bit... lets take a small snip from the report
The Panel questions whether it was reasonable for the Israeli Navy to board the
vessels at the time and place that they did. There are several factors to be weighed in that
equation. The boarding commenced at approximately 4.30 a.m., before dawn had
broken.
The distance from the blockade zone was substantial—64 nautical miles.
There were several hours steaming before the blockade area would be reached. Then
there is the fact that the boarding attempt was made by surprise, without any immediate
prior warning.
The last radio warning had been transmitted at some point between
12.41 a.m. and 2.00 a.m.—at least two and a half hours prior to the boarding
commencing.
The vessels were never asked to stop or to permit a boarding party to
come on board. No efforts were made to fire warning shells or blanks in an effort to
change the conduct of the captains. While it must have been clear to the flotilla captains
that the Israeli Navy had been shadowing them for some time, nothing was
communicated about the immediate intentions of the IDF to board the vessels by force.
Just one of the many comments on how the IDF conducted it self before and during the attack. And yes for the record the report also states the actions (or supposed actions) of some of the passengers and the precautions taken beforehand on the ship. But to be brutally frank, the report does not comment on such things in detail and that is a problem. Is it reasonable for people to prepare themselves for casualties when the IDF is involved in actions? Considering the IDF history of the last 20 years... yes very reasonable... in fact it would be near criminal not to prepare for casualties when the IDF is involved. Yes that is a personal opinion, but again.. considering the history of actions by the IDF and the casualties involved almost every time... it is not an unreasonable opinion.
In this case Turkey has no right to stop Israel from fulfilling its right to self-defense by inspecting a ship destined to a territory from which terror attacks are being constantly launched at Israeli civilians. Israel has every right to inspect those ships. As such was Turkey to attack Israel over inspecting a ship as you promote here it will be a declaration of war where Turkey is the aggressor and Israel the defender.
Turkey has EVERY right to defend its citizens and ship in international waters... if Israel attacks said ships in international waters, then yes Turkey is fully justified in defending those ships. Now when the ships are in Israeli waters, then I agree, Turkey better keep their noses out or suffer the consequences. Are you seriously saying that the IDF has every right to attack any boat anywhere in the world that says it will or might break the blockade of Gaza... even ships in US harbours or ships carrying the American flag? Are you seriously saying that only Israel and the USA have a right to defend its citizens and ships in international waters?
Israel will live in peace in the region the day when the anti-Israeli ideology you represent here would cease to exist, the ideology that declares Israel has no right to self defense and that it shouldn't be allowed to inspect ships that are destined to the Gaza Strip of weapons, and thus it shouldn't be allowed to prevent terrorism directed towards its civilians.
Clearly when you take to that blood libel of Israeli soldiers boarding a ship just to murder the poor peaceful civilians on board of it even after the UN has declared that self-defense was the reason behind the use of force by Israeli soldiers against the hostiles on board of that ship only exposes your true agenda.
..... tsk.
