of course the smuggle, what do you think, the live like animals in a ghetto with destroyed infrastructure, surroundet by the israely occupations force, not allowed to pass the boarder, this is facism!

have been fishing these waters from day one even before the bible adn we never smuggle weapons of anything the zionist just shoot at us for nothing, honest we was in palistine before the white man come to america adn the aboriginalians come to australia or the europeans come to europe, before aztac come to mexico, before africans come to africa, we the palistinians are the most original people of all the people of this planet, even before the bible just read books people and you know

One sad point that you're forgetting. There was no Palestine. Ever.

...an some people with cutters hijacked planes and flew for hours across america and i´m the king of china.......... we are victims! poor victims!

They were smuggling history books so Palistinian post #3 could get his confused head together. What do you think they were smuggling, Josh? Food perhaps? No, I doubt it. They were smuggling explosives or other arms. If you're so sympathetic to their cause, why don't you move to Gaza? I'd like to hear your posts telling us how interesting your experiences are among our peace-loving neighbors.

Leave these people alone. Let them smuggle whatever they want. Stuff is being smuggled into Lebanon and Syria but no-one in their right mind has thought of intercepting such shipments. LEAVE AZA'S WATERS AND AIRSPACE NOW!!

There are, in fact, German naval ships patrolling the waters of Lebanon in order to prevent weapons' smuggling by water. There are also UN troops along the Syria-Lebanon border to prevent such smuggling there. More importantly, how do you suggest prevent arms smuggling by leaving Gaza? The Egyptians certainly are not preventing arms smuggling. How do you suggest protecting Israel if we allow massive armament? And, please, spare me the 'let's make them love us and they'll have no use for weapons' rhetoric. As long as young girls in Hamas kindergartens are being taught songs about jihad, I feel that my evidence to express pessism about such rhetoric is solid and plentiful. Please, provide an alternative STRATEGIC solution to prevent smuggling and use of arms in Gaza. I have yet to see you expound any such strategic solution (about this or any other security issue) in any of your numerous talkbacks. Yelling 'be nice!' over and over is all well and good in theory, but in a reality when Hamas wants to take over Israel from the Jordan to the sea, seems a tad insufficient to ensure the lives of Israeli civilians.

I was asking myself the same question when I red this article. It looks like the shipment of "goods" made it to Gaza after all. I think they should have sank the darn boat but rescue its passengers (lets' stay human even in time of conflict)

that an article in the Jerusalem Post on this event never mentioned smuggling, but simply referred to these Pals as "fishermen". HAH!

Don't you have enough of your own Arab news reports to read and agree to? Leave the Jewish news stations alone. Who's interested in your despicable comments anyhow?

The people who invaded the land of Canaan were your ancestors, Hemites. Descendants of the shamed son of Noah, Hem. He and his descendants were cursed to be servants, I see nothing has changed, you work for Israel when you can find work. You have to have fish hooks and bait to fish, were they using Dupont spinners (a common term for dynamite for those of you from Gaza)? To the rest of you, Israel fires air burst shells over smuggling boats. They do not have to hit the boat and explode to wound all the people on the boats and harm all the illegal cargo. It is just a shame they didn’t target the large crowds on the beach waiting for the terrorist cargo.

Now go home to your goy arab mother and complain to her, she feels your pain.

You learn everyday a new lesson. I did not know Steiner's mom was a Christian Arab. That explain a lot of things coming from him. Poor soul, he has no identity. In his defense, I also would defend my mother against the whole world. # 3, I believe you are honest, but promise me to believe me when I say, I am the Queen of England. By the way, Islam dates back only from the 7th century (that is year 700, and we are now in 2007) So tha's pretty young for a religion...The Indians were in America long before that.