The ships also have rockets on them and long range rockets that can hit dimona and tel aviv airport. 2010 is horrible year and the leftist leaders in the u.s and around europe need to be voted out before sanity returns.

Hamas and Nasrallah's support for these is best that could happen to Israel as it shows that they are not peaceful. This is great PR for us.

With assistance of Hussein Obama.

No Hamas, No Nasrallah, it is wickedness

It is actually Israel that is isolating itself from the rest of the world with its policy of disproportionate violence. Wasn't it Moshe Dayan who once boasted that "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother"? Well guess what nobody likes mad dogs, in fact everyone avoids them. If Israel continues on the path of violence it has created it will destroy itself without any help from Hamas/Hizbollah. Only the path of peace will help save Israel from itself.

What path of peace do you mean? Do tell. Look around Israel, what do you see? Terror organizations that want Israel's annihilation. Do you really think peacefulness will make them stop? No, the only way to stop radical organizations like those is a military way.

Maybe I should go protest outside the UN and beat them nonviolently with clubs and knives...

I know that many groups still want Israel's destruction but this is a better tactic than blowing up buses.

Ghandi is now Hamas' role model? Yea, right.

i thought it would be a good message that terror groups stopped sending rockets and suicide bombers to kill civilians.

Your bogus Zionist quotes are sooo boring. And while you're at it, get an eye exam. You missed the 4000 katyusha rockets from Hezbollah, the 8000+ kassams from Hamas and the Turkish IHH jihadis stabbing, beating and trying to lynch Israeli soldiers. And let's not forget the "mad dog" in Iran. Where's the love?

Firstly, Hamas admits that 10,000 rockets were used against Israel (which the world conveniently forgets and certainly does not condemn). Secondly, Hamas now believes that "civil disobedience" tactics will harm Israel more then violence (forgetting conveniently that all civil disobediences end in violence) and thirdly, Hamas believes that a PR spin is going to fool everyone so that Israel becomes even more isolated. This is so ludicrous. I hope that people around the world will be smart enough to see through the dishonesty. First let Hamas renounce their charter (First Principal "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it."), then, we can start talking. Everything else is just spin.

It also shows that they now realise that fighting back is not helping them. They cannot defeat the worlds 8th largest weapons exporter with home made rockets. They have found Israels biggest weakness, humanity toward those who refuse to conform. This will lessen the casualties, and is a diplomatic approach to the situation.

but the destination is the same. The PalArab war against Israel is a war of aggression against a soverign state. Whether the tactics include terrorism, war, propaganda or activist made for western media ambushes, the goal is the same - to conquer Israel. And it will continue to fail.

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll Slithy Toves writes: "Only the path of peace will help save Israel from itself." Perhaps Slithy Toves refers to the peace of the grave.

..and everybody will focus on that.

Can someone tell me why didn't Israel damage the ships' engine and then tug it to Ashdod first instead of boarding it? We are smarter than this. Why do we keep falling for the same stupid tricks? I hope someone can correct me here.

Calling peaceful resistance a form of terrorism is crazy, and calling an organization that is changing to the use of peaceful resistance a terrorist organization is psychotic. Terrorism is simply harming noncombatant civilians for political purposes. When you are not doing that you are not a terrorist. To call such an organization a terrorist organization means that you are no longer in contact with reality.

I have never before heard that 10,000 rockets were used against Israel. But perhaps this is true, or perhaps the real number is 1,000, and of course the rockets were very unsophisticated and caused very, very few casualties. How many bombs, artillery shells, cluster bombs, phosphorus shells, machine guns, illegal arrests, have been used against Pal civlians? How many years has Israel illegally occupied the West Bank, E. Jerusalem, Gaza? Might that have something to do with the Pal resistors firing back with the only ammo they have against Israel?

HIZBOS SHOULD LISTEN TO NASRALLA AND GET ON THE CRUISE SHIPS. AND THEY SHOULD ALL CROWD TOGETHER AS MANY THOUSANDS AS POSSIBLE ON SHIPS AND SAIL TO GAZA. THEN, ISRAEL SHOULD SHOOT A FEW MISSILES AT THE HIZBO SHIPS AND FINNISH OFF THE " PEACE LOVING " HIZBO TERRORISTS AND MURDERERS.

THESE TERRORISTS SHOULD DO PEACEFUL SUICIDE BOMBINGS IN PRIVATE AND AMONGST THEMSELVES ONLY. THEY SHOULD IGNITE THEIR SUICIDE BOMBS AMONGST THEMSELVES AND NOT BOTHER ANY INNOCENT PEOPLE. THIS WAY THE " RIGHT PEOPLE ", LIKE THE TERRORISTS GO STRAIGHT TO THEIR MARTYRDOM PEACEFULLY AND DON'T BOTHER INNOCENT PEOPLE.

As for the number used by Israeli forces, the figures are so high that data would be difficult to collect. During the 22 day Gaza war - Israeli forces carried out 2,360 air strikes, Israel artillery fired approx 7,000 rounds. Compared to the 565 rockets and 200 mortars fired by Palestinians.

they just admitted that they directed 10,000 missiles towards israeli population centers (not army bases, mid you). and yet, you do not call them terrorists and have not seen any such actions by hamas, as you claim in your report. think again, goldstone. you were a spokesperson for hamas. its propaganda machine, its useful idiot jew. hamas has just incriminated themselves in front of the world by admitting that they targeted 10,000 missiles to kill israelis. now, they are shifting their propaganda to more "peaceful means" yea, right! hamas, responsible for war crimes and a terrorist organization. yes, goldstone. are you hearing hamas now??? you looser.

mr. cohen, i believe the saying goes....please close your mouth before you prove the entire world how immature and stupid you are.

are you sure do you have the long run patience to get what you are saying done? try to think seriously about the 2-states solution arab and moslems are increasingly become updated , qualified, and the have all the facilities to make what we are scaring from usa , uk and all the proisrael are unable to sustain israel 4 ever moreovere if you arogant and can say we can overlook others we can depend on ourself , then that is the beggining of the end israel is very weak from geography, strategy, demography and inner- ethnic viewpoints and cant resist for ever. i guess you have to change your mentality, morality and you are asked to change the evil fought towrds the good thought