Not Kol ha'kavod, but kol khara

1) Roll a few heads in our government, for putting our dear, brave, young soldiers at such deadly risks & subjecting them ill equipped to a lynch which could have ended much worse. Put measures in place for this to never happen again to our soldiers. 2) Explain again & again to the 'thick' world out there, how the blokcade has nothing to do with what those brutal mobs on that ship have attempted to do. They would have known that Israel allows enough food & humanitarian aid into Gaza every day. 3) Treat this situation as a declaration of war on us, which it was. 4) Keep those who are relevant amongst that brutal mob in minimal comfort prisons & do not relesae them until Gilad Shalit would be. 5) Remove the citizenship of every Arab-Israeli citizen who was on that ship, in particular that female Arab member of Keneset. 6) Remain strong Israel. God Bless us all & our dear, brave IDF.

Papsen sums it up nicely for you in post #18

Israel should stop 'explaining, giving interviews, etc. Doesn't work anyway, because the WORLD won't listen to a word Israel has to say. It's being 'tried and executed' without trial time and again, so why bother? These 'war activists (those who survived) should be prosecuted and not be treated with silk gloves. The 'WORLD will condamn it anyway, so do what has to be done.

sham on you Activists came for war Enough of a lie the Video showed us that activists beating up troops and showed us the soldiers as rats are fleeing into the sea and leave their weapons Therefore, the Israeli soldiers opened fire on the activists which indicates that the Israeli soldiers are cowards and stupid this process has been implicated and condemned for Israel worldwide over raid

The ship looked untidy...so we dropped down from our (unarmed) helicopters carrying only feather dusters and a spritzer of Fabreze. Then we were brutally attacked by bloodthirsty al queda fanatics. They hate us for our cleanliness.

Refer to number 18

French television 2 showed this video on the news tonight, also vide filmed by the activists. Both videos clearly shows how violent the humanitarian peace activists behaved. no inquiry needed. Soldiers acted out of self defence.

With Greek-Cypriot activists who seek to liberate their land from the illegal Turkish occupation. I wonder just how supportive Turkey would be of that.

How come they lowered soldiers from the helicopter one-by-one down to the raging mob? That seems like begging for panic solutions like killing the mobsters. Someone in IDF failed big here. A larger operation was needed.

15 soldiers boarding a vessel with 700 people is hardly an attack. And they were not armed for an attack. Israel had every right to board a ship that refused to heed their warnings. Particularly when the vessel is heading toward Israel with known terrorists on board.

What was the IDF expecting? Flowers upon embarkation on the boats?? The soldiers were provided with paintguns??? I am ashamed to have such an unprofessional military. No wonder we get pushed around.

Israeli commandos attacked and illegally boarded a civilian vessel in international waters. Of course the vessel inhabitants have the right to resist by all means available to them.

Oh yeah... They came for war - with bats, knives and glass bottles against the army armed with the most advanced killing machines. And they started the... war... with their bats, knives and glass bottles on the sea, 70 sea miles from Israel on international waters. What a war. What an enemy.

LOL. I notice you no longer live in Lebanon. Can't think why .....

in 1940 to aid their war and genocide efforts, was it illegal for the allies to try to stop those Swedish ships?

I believe that when the commandos had raided the ships by sea and air in the middle of international water and then started shooting at those people, the IDF was acting on the basis of self defense. It totally makes sense.

I am not military expert, but the tactic used to stop the foltilla seems the most stupid thing they could think off (maybe bombing the boats would have the same effect) !!

The truth will make no difference to most of the world that wants Israel to disappear. The world's agenda is: Israel-Bad, Arabs-Good. Israel has to do whatever it needs to do to survive. When the next flotilla of "humanitariars" arrives off Gaza, the IDF must act decisivly, firmly ,making it very claer that it will use extreme military force. The weak, half-hearted wishy-washy, look-at-me I'm sensitive Jewish nebish Woody Allan approach does not work. It only encourages the enemy.

shoot the propellers that would have worked. still i don't think that those where knives and swords as if they were with that amount of pounding on the soldiers you would have dead soldiers. Only the injuries of the soldiers will reveal the truth.

They also came with weapons packed away for distribution in Gaza. Not to mention other weapons-related contraband. How is that peaceful? How is that humanitarian? And .... for the record .... bats, knives, glass bottles can kill. 70 nautical miles? The United States claims a 200 nautical mile territorial limit. So does the United Kingdom. Assuming Israel does the same, those vessels were four-square in Israel's territorial waters. They were ordered to turn around and refused. They were ordered to heave to, and refused. Sorry. Israel acted well within its rights. Good thing, given the amount of illegal contraband found aboard those "humanitarian" vessels.

Who apologizes to who ??!!!!!, Don't u see what happens in Gaza !!!!!!.

What a biased report. Civilians without guns came "armed for war", IDF soldiers with guns were purely peaceful. If so why are they more than nine dead civilians. Funny how there's always a lot of dead civilians when the IDF is around. Bet the defence ministry won't release any videos of the passengers being killed!

firstly i know two person on ship they are my neighbour. and they have no guns knives or bullets. THeir aim is to help phalestines. and i saw that israels press giving wrong informations. they were defencing themselves like you defence from hamas. But it is seen that the day after day israel going down and prepare their last.

So far sky news failed to show this footage and also report the fact that the "live fire" which one of the activists claims being heard in the footage they do show were actually paintball shots. no mention of paintball guns at all actually. i guess the truth has no play in examining this horrific incident. Also there is no reaction to the savagery and brutality of the "peaceful resistors" and "pacifist" witch clearly being shown. they do bother to show idiot Israelis calling "boo" to Arabs ladies, reporting they're calling "death to Arabs", though. Nice...

67. Merchant vessels flying the flag of neutral States may not be attacked unless they: (a) are believed on reasonable grounds to be carrying contraband or breaching a blockade, and after prior warning they intentionally and clearly refuse to stop, or intentionally and clearly resist visit, search or capture;