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The world is up in arms at Israel attacking the ship or boarding the ship attempting to carry aid past their blockade. Nothing was ever mentioned about why the blockade was necessary. The articles do say that the Israeli soldiers were attacked by those on board as they boarded the ship which was borne out by cameras on the Israeli helicopters and ended in the soldiers firing on those attackers.

First of all Israel said that if the ship continued it would be stopped, when, in history, has Israel failed to do just what it said it would?

Israel took the steps it did to protect it's citizens from the rocket attacks that were being launched at it from it's north. One wonders if there are any weapons among the aid that is on the ships? Maybe, maybe not, time will tell if they have ability to inspect the cargo.

My take on it is that Israel had a blockade that others knew was in place and that Israel said it would enforce yet they crossed it or attempted to. Once Israel was attempting to stop the ship by boarding it they were attacked and responded to squelch the attack. Israel is justified in their actions and if we (US) acted so forcefully and determined I wonder if we would be attacked so frequently? Wait we did act after 911 and there was a very long time period before attacks were attempted. Obama and the Democrats took office and attempted to patronize with the militant muslims and now we have several attempts to attack us again.

Whose policy is right? Ours or Israels?

Be as the Bereans ( Acts 17:11 )

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Back in 1948 when Israel was re-established the area was basically a wasteland. The Israeli's developed the land and made it a decent place to live which is when the Palestinians started moving in. Israel was established as a homeland for the Jews, not the Palestinians or anyone else but now much of the world is crying foul as Israel develops more settlements for their people that dislocate some of the Arabs who have mostly moved in since 1948.
Israel is a very small country in a region of the world that is very hostile to non-muslims, for their country's continued existence they have to take a lot of aggressive action to protect themselves and it is arrogant of anyone to expect them to just lay over and take all the crap they get. Israel is a constant target for terrorism and if they were not so aggressive about protecting their interests they would have been wiped out years ago additionally if they do not step it up a little towards countries like Iran then their future is pretty grim.
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Israel took the steps it did to protect it's citizens from the rocket attacks that were being launched at it from it's north.


Gaza is in the southwest. You're thinking of Hezbollah in Lebanon, though rockets have also been launched by Hamas from Gaza.

Anyway, it looks bad for Israel that the convoy was apparently in international waters when they boarded the ships and ended up killing more than a dozen civilians. Even worse if it's true that they were carrying nothing more than humanitarian aid like they insisted. Obviously Israel can and should defend itself, but somehow I doubt Israel will be any safer tomorrow because of this.
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Israel took the steps it did to protect it's citizens from the rocket attacks that were being launched at it from it's north.


Gaza is in the southwest. You're thinking of Hezbollah in Lebanon, though rockets have also been launched by Hamas from Gaza.

Anyway, it looks bad for Israel that the convoy was apparently in international waters when they boarded the ships and ended up killing more than a dozen civilians. Even worse if it's true that they were carrying nothing more than humanitarian aid like they insisted. Obviously Israel can and should defend itself, but somehow I doubt Israel will be any safer tomorrow because of this.


Israel offered to deliver the aid and they did warn them to not try and breach the blockade, sounds like they should have listened and got out of the way so they might have perhaps been alive today and the aid would have delivered to the intended recipients.
Not to nitpick, but Israel did not attack the ships. If they had, those ships would be on the bottom of the Med. The Israeli’s boarded the ship in violation of their legitimate blockade and defended themselves when they were attacked by ship’s party. It strikes me odd that given the ship was carrying humanitarian needs which the Israeli’s themselves said was okay if they were checked out first, the ship’s party would attack legitimate boarders unless they were setting the Israeli’s up as many of you have pointed out.

Point in case, the US Coast Guard boards vessels in American waters suspected of carrying narcotics. What do you think would happen if such a boarding was resisted?

The Turks were fine when we [USAF and coalition AF] maintained Northern Watch [Iraq northern “no fly zone”] out of Turk air bases. No telling how much $$ they made. But the Turks refused permission to let ground forces invade northern Iraq through Kurdish territory. I didn’t keep up with the situation after I retired, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the majority of American/Coalition forces abandoned those bases and took their $$ with them. Honestly, I don’t know what the US/Turk relationship is like now, but obviously not good.
Defending themselves and attacking for no good reason -- 2 different things...I'm glad the Isrealis were on their toes and acted on this threat and I pray they will do it again and again and again. If our President needs to get a clue and remember our priorities and protecting Israel is one of them -- lip service won't cut -- actions speak louder than words.

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