The piracy crap was a red herring from the beginning, the Helsinki Accords, the Hague Conventions V & XIII, plus the San Remo Handbook on International law, particularly around ss.100-110, demonstrate that.

A blockade was being enforced, this was primarily a board and search operation, as happened with 7 other ships in total. Only on this one was there any problem, which started with the IHH Terrorists beating & stabbing troops as they boarded the vessel.

Turkey has chosen to lay down with Iran, so be it. Let's see what comes of that shall we?

Oh, for the sufferer's of AIPD, get help...

By extinguishing I meant Israel should be disbanded and its citizens returned to where they came from. That way they couldn't again amass a huge military, the fifth most powerful in the world, then use it to tyrannize their neighbours.

To all the Israeli-apologists on this thread let me suggest you have a look at: http://desertpeace.wordpress.com

The blog is run by an American Jew who lives in Israel. If you go back over the archives, you'll soon realize that racist, militaristic Israel has been fooling you, that your loyalty to it is misplaced, and is based upon a series of gross lies and duplicity.

Israel is a rogue state and its leader makes Saddam look like a choir boy!

Wait until all the evidence is revealed.We have reports of a young teenager being shot in the stomach and then four times in the back of the head at close range.

There is no doubt that Israel is giving far more than it takes.There is no doubt that it is practising genocide against the Palestinians.That they cannot deny.Israel must change it's ways and the USA must stop funding it's terrorism.

This whole article was nothing more than a running demonstration of Godwin's Law.

David G? What planet do you come from? Do your history.

If they were to replace citizens from Israel, they wouldn't be all those
proclaiming Jewish religion. Arabs too. Where would you put Palestinians, in Jordon, Syria, Egypt?

You are one of those ignorant people that deem to make profound ignorant
statements that have no basis. Just to make a loud empty statement.

Like Americans should go back to their original country and leave the indigenous people with it....

Bush Bunny, I reckon that your ill-informed comment demonstrates that most rabbits have more intelligence than you. Like a few others on this thread you show how clever Israeli propaganda is.

Helen Thomas, a veteran journalist in America, has said, "The Jews should get out of Palestine." That's the most sensible thing any American has said for a long, long time.