What is their big rush to leave? I think they should spend more than 4 days with their Hamas "brothers" in Gaza. Don't let them for out for 6 months... see how they like living under an oppressive Islamist regime.

Your ignorance is amazing!

A mere 25 years ago ,these brave boat people would never have dared to come anywhere near Israel or Gaza coast,they would have been terrified by the mere thought.Today,alas ,they know Israel is governed by a two-bit rag-tag bunch of cowardly opportunists afraid of their own shadows.Why, the Boat people are even talking of setting up a regular ferry,they know Israel can be humiliated by a rag-tag bunch in Lebanon and by two dozen bleeding hearts in a Boat with nothing better to do.All israeli Navy had to do was show up with a Megaphone and shout" Get lost you Bums if you Don't want to swim" and these brave souls would have legged it pronto.As for Israel,How are the mighty fallen.

The other Cheek.Sad...A once mighty country growing weaker and more pathetic every Day.

The denial and inversion of law and history has singled out Israel for vilification applied to no other country. Scapegoated for crimes of which it is in fact the victim, Israel has become the Jew of the Western world. This is a victory for the Arabs in the new type of war in which they are engaged. Asymmetric warfare, whose principal battlefield is the mind, uses ostensibly powerless people (the Palestinians) who are in fact backed by powerful state actors (Iran). Such an inversion of strong and weak and the systematic use of deception are vital to the principal strategic goal of asymmetric warfare: to confuse and demoralise its victims and suborn world opinion to its cause as described at : http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-war_01.html

the transport and acquisition of arms by Hamas - We've been there before and caught them red-handed several times - (when Arafat was still around). I have nothing but contempt for this group of no-gooders (especially the Jews amongst them) and hope in the future they will be prevented entering Gaza by sea.

I thought Israel was not going to let them thru. Israel is a paper tiger

if the aim of the naval blockade is to block the dispatch of military equipment, not for collective punishment of 1.5 million Gazan civilians, then why Israel gave up its right of inspecting the boat? the answer is because Israel has no right for collective punishment?

The first time they threatened to stop the boat but they let it enter Gaza. The second time they threatened to stop the boat but they let it enter Gaza. There are going to be many more of these boats and if Israel doesn't start showing a little nerve then nobody is going to belive anything and everybody will start doing what the hell they like because they all know this government is full of nothing but bullshit. If we made threats and kept them our enemies would fear us, Gilad Shalit would have come home long ago because we would have hurt Hamas rather than agreeing to truces while they rearm and demand the release of thousands of terrorists Olmert summed it up perfectly We are tired of fighting We are tired of being courgeous We are tired of winning We are tired of defeating our enemies This is the image of Israel that anybody is supposed to take seriously. If this cowardly attitude continues Israel will not be here in 60 years and will we even deserve to have kept it. If your not willing to fight to defend your interests you dont deserve to win. The arabs are willing to commit suicide to take Israel from the jews by force and Israels answer to this is make concesions so maybe they will have earned the destruction of Israel. In Nazi Germany we sa what happened when jews surrenderd rather than try fight back. Learn from history dont allow eductaion ministers to replace our history books with ones that teach our children enemy propoganda is the truth.

Small correction The banners should be saying free Gilad we will pay ANY PRICE you demand ... as long as its going to be a stunt that helps Livni win an election by saying look I delivered Gilad. Next boats can congratulate me for my stupidity in my desire to win an election.

Now you're down to 35%. Kol HAKAVOD Tzipi!! Kol HAKAVOD Barak!

shouldnt the Palestinians then agree on somesort of peace? Why do they care so much about the refugees and Jerusalem? Are they perhaps prefering the occupation because they do not wish a peace under which Israel can survive as a Jewish state?

He could swallow up this whole motley crew of useful idiots. Moby Dick could ram the boat, and Jaws could eat it. Calling all marine life friends of Israel!

made me smile :)

And make an issue of the siege Egypt has placed them under? Pack of moronic hypocrites!

Sudanese & Darfurians, FLA & Mexicans.