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well at least its only 10 people.  Leauki, they have a minyan or maybe this was a minyan.

I do understand what your point is, though. 

I think you'll appreciate this joke :-0 Well, I hope :-/

Oh yeah, Happy Memorial Day, yes I know that you folks across the pond don't celebrate 'memorial day' on this day.

p.s. thanks for the karma.  I was getting depressed at my low karma level.

The NASPAs thought they could lynch a few IDF soldiers. That went horribly wrong.

What's interesting is that Turkey allowed them to sail under their flag. Turkey apparently decided to join the war on Hamas' side. That won't make things easier with the EU membership because those in Europe opposed to Turkey's membership are mostly supporters of Israel.

Incidentally, the Islamic party currently ruling Turkey is dropping in the polls. The secular Kemalists are ahead. And Turkish television actually showed the video that proved that the "activists" attacked the IDF and not vice versa. (Al-Jazeera showed the same video with that part missing.)

Apparently, there were weapons on board.   More than just the pistols they're reporting over here.  There was a man who was a holocaust survivor, who is this is individual? 

I can envision three scenarios:

1. The IDF will find lots of weapons and ammunition among the goods. This would explain why the NASPAs attacked the IDF instead of being pure "victims". OTOH they must have known that the IDF would always be the bad guys regardless of how the event proceeds. But if the NASPAs had reason to believe that Israel wouldn't stop their fleet, they could have had weapons for Hamas on board. That would be excellent for Israel. But it would just have been too stupid for the NASPAs. Most likely the weapons were on the second fleet supposed to arrive later.

2. Israel will now transport the goods to Gaza using the normal way.

3. Israel looses track of the goods or the ships with the goods return to Turkey (or the occupied part of Cyprus).

European Jews sometimes think they are better than middle-eastern Jews.

Whether there are significant numbers of weapons or munitions on that Turkish-flagged ship or not, it was almost certainly a test run.  Israel had no choice but to stop them.

Of course, AP headlines the story "Israeli commandos storm aid flotilla; 9 killed".  They always extend the presumption of innocence to Palestinians and the presumption of guilt to Israel.

Is it not an act of war for Turkey to allow ships openly allied with Israel's enemies to use Turkey's flag?

Obviously.

In the Pacific, the situation was reversed, with US submarines hunting Japanese shipping. By war's end, U.S. submarines had destroyed over half of all Japanese merchant ships, totalling well over five million tons of shipping. British and Dutch submarines also took part in attacks on Japanese shipping, mostly in coastal waters. Japanese submarines were often ineffectual, and by doctrine concentrated on attacking warships, rather than more-vulnerable merchantmen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_warfare#World_War_II

Hunting down merchant ships with submarines and sinking them is legal.

Boarding "aid transports" is against international law.

His sentence on unrestricted submarine warfare was not assessed, because of similar actions by the Allies. In particular, the British Admiralty on 8 May 1940 had ordered that all vessels in the Skagerrak should be sunk on sight; and the statement by Admiral Chester Nimitz, wartime commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, that the U.S. Navy had waged unrestricted submarine warfare in the Pacific from the day the U.S. entered the war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doenitz#Nuremberg_War_Crimes_Trials

The United Nations must have found this new "international law" after the war.

I finally wrote about the event on my personal blog, in order to save time ofline in case someone asks my opinion.

http://web.me.com/ajbrehm/Home/Blog/Entries/2010/6/1_A_Tragedy_in_the_Middle-East.html

I was wondering how you were going to comment on this.

In a way, Turkey and Israel provided cover for Europeans (and Obama).  They set up a Kobayashi Maru scenario for Israel.  Now they can drop all pretense of impartiality and just be the racist anti-semites they actually are.

Are you kidding?

In a region where black Africans are killed by the hundreds of thousands I totally realise the immense importance of 19 white victims, regardlfess of how the got into this situation.

This certainly warrants a UN investigation.

Where would we be if Israel could treat white people like Arabs and Turks treat black people, Kurds and Jews!

This brings the count of "innocent" civilians killed in the match between Israel and her allies and Hamas and their allies to 419 to 400,000. From now on I cannot claim any more than the others killl a thousand times as many. Not that anybody ever cared.

This is becoming the international equivalent to the US reaction to Arizona's immigration law - all hysteria & deliberate ignorance, facts & truth be damned.

When it comes to Israel, that has always been the case.  The only thing "surprising" about this time is the Obama administration went along with it.  But that is only surprising to people who have not been paying close attention to Obama.

Actually, Obama was quite neutral, probably because Americans are not as interested in the matter as Europeans.

What surprised and disappointed me was Merkel's reaction. A few hours after the event was a bit early for blaming the Jews, I thought.

The main discussion now is about the new fact that boarding an enemy merchant ship during a war is against "international law".

Apparently no country has ever done that before.

Anyway, turns out the Zionists do control the UN, or at least what "international law" is.

If we ever want green apples to be declared illegal per "international law" we just have to get Israel to produce them.