Since when are school books and crayons a terrorist threat? Why aren't they and hair conditioner allowed in? Why are only 100 trucks allowed into Gaza, when the daily MINIMUM needed is 425 trucks per day? Why don't jews obey the commandment " Thou shall not bear false witness" ?

There are laws that allow Israel to take action

they could unload the stuff in israel, while the passengers stay on the ship, and then let them proceed to gaza ? why do you want to detain them ? when hamas promises to let her visit gilad, his mother could sail with them to gaza ! this would be truly dramatic and emotional...

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Why are quoting the Jew's own Bible? They know it off by heart and yet you and your liberal hacks are trying to point out the supposed errors of their ways? Seriously, you guys are bearing false witness by ignoring the fact that Hamas rules Gaza with an iron fist of terror which not only targets Israelis for being Jews, but also their own people for being on the opposite end of the political spectrum. The sooner the world wakes up to the lies and treachery people like you spill out day in and day out, the better.

If you can show how 15,000 tons can fit into 100 trucks....I'll eat my words that you're a skeptic nutcase. By the way, please show how Gazans can smuggle in all sorts of food, electrical appliances from Korea, cars totally intact, zoo animals, viagra, etc. to such an extreme that prices have fallen and putting tunnel operators out of business.... and they can't seem to smuggle a few books and crayons??

However, the bottom line is that a siege exists around Gaza...for a very good reason...and the entry points are denoted for all to enter through with the right permits. That doesn't include sea-based entry. Allowing these scum-holes to proceed to Gaza would be breaking our own military and intl laws. Now, impounding the ships and placing the travelers in jail for a week or so....that's following the law. The most correct decision is to take the aid, do a security check, and allow it to pass through the normal channels. Israel will show the system works and all future aid can be sent through Israel, and it should make a huge PR issue out of this. Anything to take the wind from the sails of these nuts (pun intended).

Yesterday Hizbollah announced it will sink not only Israeli warships but also civilian ships in and around Israel. In light of this threat, it is only proper that all civilian ships be removed from any area close to Israel. It's the best way to protect the civilian passengers from disaster at the hands of Hizbollah.

JUST DONT. IF ISRAEL TRY TO GIVE HARD TIME EVEN TO ONE TURKISH MAN ! ALL ISRAEL PAYS IT BACK ! *** gaza will win this round. than to winn all rounds .)

This is the typical leftist, anti-semitic propaganda. The Palestinian thugs have no problem to smuggle thousands of rockets into Gaza. Why don't they transport products of everyday life instead? Oh, you mean like "doing something useful" or even "working for your living instead of relying on international welfare" is so, uh, un-islamic? Bad luck. And, by the way, this very moment the Pals are building new restaurants and Olympia size swimming pools in Gaza. The siege seems not to so cruel for them.

(Gazan Islamofascist Terror Republic). This was a poor area even in time of Egyptian Rule I read about and have seen pictures of stores groaning with goods in Gaza Its all a big bluff ,but not manty want to know the truth . . UNWRA should go and do good in many other places in Africa. But working in Gaza "buys the Whiskey"

YOU ARE NOT ONLY A PERSON OF TURKISH EXTRACTION, BUT YOU ARE ALSO A TURKEY, IS THAT CORRECT?

THEY ARE ALSO IN NEED OF HUMANITARIAN AID? I SOOO DON'T GET IT!

Obviously, # 10 is an idiot. If this isn't an idiot, then "it" is a poor comedian. Turkey? This bunch of turkeys will go the way of the last wars with Israel. That means they'll lose their heads as most turkeys do and pass themselves as total fools.

Israel just trucked in a million pounds of aid into Gaza last week. Much more than what these so called Humanitarian aids are carrying. This flotilla only serves the Hamas propaganda machine, not the Palestinian people

You crack me up. you should become a professional comedian instead of wasting your time here. Israel doesn't have to "Think Mess" with Turkey. Turkey is already a mess !!

The last thing those posturing fools want is a repeat of the Israelis going after them again. An empty threat if ever there was one.

the supplies should be used given to israelis. the boats should be sold or scrapped and least of all turned into reefs. the passangers should be detained for 60 days and returned to thier countries. crew and organizers should be jailed for 3 years. if any resistance occurs then the boats need to be sunk.

What a logical & kind solution -Not unlike the wisdom of Solomon. "If your enemy is hungry, give hime food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you." Proverbs25:21

Hamas international terror organization of course - is not to deliver goods to Gaza but rather to generate a confrontation with Israel. If they really cared about the people of Gaza, they could have delivered the very same goods through the existing channels, either through Israel or through Egypt, both of which countries border with Gaza and through both goods, e.g. food, clothing, hardware, electricity, water, petrol, are passed regularly. But going through the proper channels would not generate the TV pictures these "activists" seek, thus the "flotilla" that would connect with those whose goal has been the annihilation of the nation-state of the Jewish people and with it all traces of Jewish life in it.

and sold a lot of weapons to apartheid south africa.

In the first place, Israel is a terrorist state that insists on terrorizing the over one million civilians of the Gaza Strip by running their lives as if they are prisoners. Not only is the flotilla necessary to break this total smashing of international law, it is critical. Israel has no right whatever to control what goes into or comes out of Gaza. Gaza has no right whatever to control what goes into or comes out of Israel. The only difference: the Gaza government obeys the law. Israel doesn't.

And it could not happen to a nicer bunch of people.

Will they protest Hamas' destruction of palestinian homes?

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Protocol II is a 1977 amendment protocol to the Geneva Conventions relating to the protection of victims of non-international armed conflicts. It defines certain international laws that strive to provide better protection for victims of internal armed conflicts that take place within the borders of a single country. As of 14 January 2007, the Protocol had been ratified by 163 countries, with the United States, Israel, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan and Iraq being notable exceptions. However, the United States, Iran and Pakistan signed it on 12 December 1977 with the intention of ratifying it. Gaza is not sovereign state, but it is not part of Israel. Israel is illegally imposing the blockade. The guilt of WW II is already over!

after damaging the unloaded cargo in Ashdod, the usual stuff done by the thugs.

ARE YOU A "hunni"?:) SO WHAT THE HELL YOU AND YOUR KIND(OTHER BARBARIANS) ARE DOING IN TURKY? THIS IS NOT YOUR LAND AND ISTANBUL IS ,AS FAR AS WE ALL KNOW FROM HISTORY,CONSTANTINOPOL! GIVE BACK TO THE CHRISTIANS THE GREAT CHURCH IN ISTANBUL,OOPS,SORRY,CONSTANTINOPOL YOU THIEF'S! :) YNET,I REALY WANT TO SEE THIS TALKBACK ONLINE UNLESS OF COURSE YOU GIVE THE RIGHT OF SPEECH ONLY TO THE ATTILA'S AND THEIR KIND....(IF HE REALY A TURK OR NOT,WHO REALY CARES?) TO SUM IT UP! atilla you are not so great as you think you are.turkey is not an empire anymore.calm down,it will help you alot in life. SEE THE PROPORTIONS! Best Rrgards A PROUD ISRAELY JEW IN HIS HISTORICAL HOMELAND! p.s NO i'm just kidding with you,I'm pulling your leg,dont worry,you are really ATTILA:)