Turns out ten people died this morning in the Middle-East.

No big deal, right? Deaths happen in the Middle-East all the time, right? Just think of the Darfurians, who are being slaughtered by the tens of thousands or the remaining Jews in Yemen whose houses were regularly firebombed until they escaped last year. So what's different this time? Why would I even mention ten deaths?

Well, turns out today people died.

Not blacks, not Jews, but people.

I expect this tragedy to be well-covered by the regular media so I won't have to comment much.

Update:

The Jews are even craftier than I thought.

The distance between Cyprus and Israel is 227 nautical miles (apparently some 260 land miles).

International waters start 200 miles off the coast. Maritime borders are otherwise drawn roughly between the adjacent countries.

There are no "international waters" in the Mediterranean:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/Internationalwaters.png

But the Israelis somehow managed to board a ship in "international waters". That's extremely nasty.