If Israel wants to board and inspect, they'd better cooperate or they'll lose the ships and have to fly home empty-handed. Israel has every right to protect its territory from every enemy, including smugglers.

cruising for a bruising. Israeli navy should stop the ships and turn them around and as many others have said direct them to Egypt or back to sea. If the people in Gaza weren't so interested in kidnapping Israelis, firing rockets, smuggling weapons, and sniping then there wouldn't be a blockade. Remeber Israel left Gaza and the arabs had a chance to build a productive peaceful society there that would have led to more progress in the peace process but NOOOOO-it was turned into a hot bed of terrorism and totalitarianism. Par for the course

Anchor the vessels at sea and transport the people to some port in Egypt so they may peacefully go back home. When Giliad Shalit can come home, then Israel can see about what products on the boats can be delivered through Israeli crossing points.

Closing borders is legal but a blockade of sea lanes is a different matter but sometime bending or breaking laws it not as important as a nations security needs. The problem is how to stop Hamas without causing harm to people of Gaza. 52% of Gaza are refugees from Israel and are Israeli citizens under international laws but not under Israeli laws and there is part of the problem.

Stop playing the anti-semite card, it's not all about you. This is about humanitarian aid trying to reach people who are suffering in the worst of conditions.It's beyond politics and religion.

When Israel pulled out of Gaza, the world waited to see what the Palestinians would make of it, as a prelude to their having a full state including the West Bank. The first thing the Palestinians did was smash all the greenhouses the settlers had built, instead of using them to aid their economy. Then they turned Gaza into a mini-terror state, launching a war against Israel that continues to this day. And now they wonder why life in Gaza is so wretched, when it could have flourished. To those who say we should not isolate Hamas: Hamas isolated itself, with its aggression not only against Israel but also against other Palestinians. When the aggression will stop, the isolation will stop. But the aggression will never stop as long as Palestinian extremists continue to enjoy support from their self-righteous cheering section, which has chapters all over the world and in many universities and trade unions as explained at : http://xrl.us/bi7j5

Africa and see what suffering means. Maybe you give us a hand here in Australia to care for the natives, or what about the USA or Canada, plenty of natives who suffer because of land grabing, land stealing and all the lot you all accuse Israel of. The only difference, the Jews are the natives of Israel, Judea and Samaria!

where we watched for a full hour videos on the region from Al Jazeera, Al Arabyie, Al Manar, Maan and Fartur Hamas TV. This is how I have become an instant expert on Middle East affairs, running my mouth from the couch in my living room. What are your credentials?

Trust an Irishman to show an Israeli that the Israeli is hating the unseen and unmentioned enemy. Your comment also speaks volumes about the state of mind of the anti-Israel mob. Has Cormac ever looked at the hatred the Palestinians teach their children? Has Cormac ever commented on the hero status awarded Palestinian suicide bombers who do their best to slaughter as many innocent Israeli civilians as they can? Or is Cormac just giving us a taste of Irish "state of mind" where one side totally ignores the other's enmity and hatred? And, of course, Cormac invokes the term "Nazi" and lies through his teeth, showing Cormac's own putrid hatred of Jews. Cormac can't show us a single example of the "same vile hatred that the Nazis had" because it doesn't exist. Israel's government has never claimed racial domination like the Nazis did. The Israeli government never claimed that the Palestinians were the root of all evil in society. And the Israeli government never said it was going to solve any "Palestinian problem" by simply murdering every last single Palestinian on the face of the earth. So much hatred in Cormac's heart that s/he can't even see straight, and spits evil hatred at us from Dublin city...

S@#$T on! Hatred? you bet! you would too if for thousands of years you where tortured and left to die. How would you feel if everyone wanted to WIPE YOU OUT? Frankly I will protect my people before I do a damn thing for anyone else......especially an ignoramous as yourself

Debs (#36): did you read my post (#14) and really understand it? When I tell the truth, people like you say it's not about anti-Semitism! Uh? And you have the utter gall (I really don't want to put your intelligence down too much but you're stupid) when you say, "This is about humanitarian aid trying to reach people who are suffering in the worst of conditions.It's beyond politics and religion." So now here's the proof and just remember you asked for it! Go to: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/tony-blairs-sister-in-laws-gaza-media-show/ Lauren Booth is part of this insipid Free Gaza movement who are gullible useful idiots for Hamas who eat up Hamas' propaganda as the gospel truth! So then Free Gaza blames Israel for the awful conditions in Gaza, they organize these media flotilla events to bring in supplies and then once in Gaza these idiots get caught with their pants down! Hamas is a propaganda machine, when the hell will people like you give it a rest and stop indulging in your damn anti-Semitic sweet tooth by trying to live vicariously through the eyes of Muslims! Hamas knows exactly what it's doing, Israelis and Jews in the diaspora (such as myself) keep trying to inform the world of the lies of the Hamas and Fatah run territories but all you do is close your eyes to the truth! It's time for people such as yourself to wake the hell up! And before you even reply back to me, join this Free Gaza movement and go to Gaza on one of these media flotilla events. See for yourself the difference between reality and the fantasy that is portrayed in the Islamic propaganda that you read--then and only then get back to me!!!

The bombings stopped because of the separation wall. It simply works, but people like you who hate anything Jewish and Israeli on instinct now claim that it hurts them and denies their freedom, which they deserve because "no more suicide bombings". Just these last few days three armed balestinian squads tried to enter Israeli territory. They got killed. The wall works.

Let the 'freedom flotilla in, but NOT out, so they can stay with their 'friends untill SHALIT is freed. It's very simple AND humain. I'm sure these 'do gooders will enjoy the Gazan life style, their food, their dresscode, their freedom of speech, their humanity.

You can delay. You can stop one or two boats. You may wish death upon the Flotilla. It makes no difference. You are on the wrong wide of history. We will keep coming back with more and more and more. Half your navy is needed to stop 8 boats. We'll come back with eighty.

Like all POW's he will be released when hostilities cease as is legally required under the Geneva Convention. Technically that day is when the occupation stops. It's up to you Israel.

For sure, there are all kinds of weapons buried in those cement sacks and "supplies." Also for sure there are Iranian Republican Guard agents and military instructors to help the Hamas war effort. Impound the boats at sea. Anyone who offers resistance can swim home. It will be a headache to process 2,000 "prisoners," but they should all be beaten, and detained on minimal rations and deported after their families have paid substantial substantial fines. The leaders should be detained at hard labour until they die as spies and provocateurs..

Man, what a bunch of sheep are Palestinians! They need foreigners, women and children (cry babies too, like Rachel Corrie) to do the fighting for them! After so many years they still try to argue with the occupiers instead of doing to the occupiers what occupiers deserve.

to #4, Michael Steiner Are you alluding to the “unfortunate accident" on USS Liberty in 1967? in which an allied of Israel, US unarmed ship was attacked nine hours after it had been identified and followed by Israel aircraft , naval vessels and radar tracking, killing 34, wounding 171, and destroying the ship?

Hey wise guy, you can come back with 100 boats & a million people, lets see if you will be allowed into Gaza to distribute your candy,colouring books & cement, oopps & your love !!

Madam why dont you come teach the Palestinians how to be strong & do to us what we deserve.Dont forget to bring your Italian wine & cheese with you.

Of course the wall works & it will continue working for a long long time.

Perhaps I should have announced my mothers name, Levine to cut through the tribal insanity I see here. (but we all know Israel is a home for Zionists and not for all Jews anymore) So I doubt if my lineage would matter anyway. None of you have any awareness of the sheer cruelty and sadism of your words and deeds. Your 'ism, which was only designed for one little tribe has guaranteed a complete blindness that humanism still sees clearly. So you can only offer a totally self absorbed projection regarding international motives for Gaza. Unlike Nazi Germany where people could say they never knew. The internet will record your words for the future reckoning that will befall Israel. Their will be no escape. Consider the words of Albert Einstein.. "Should we be unable to find a way to honest cooperation and honest pacts with the Arabs, then we have learned absolutely nothing during our 2,000 years of suffering and deserve all that will come to us." I suggest you all go home and look after your children. Have a warm meal and tell them nice stories for bedtime. And leave the world to correct your tragic departure from humanity when the ships arrive in Gaza. And part of that world intent is people from the diaspora with a growing outrage that will soon forbid you to dare to speak for the rest of us. As Obama said. Time for some serious self reflection. Otherwise you will never know what you have become and the collosal departure from the humane that you glorify amongst yourselves.

Our government is just killing and oppressing. They make us paranoids and intolerants with other people attitudes and opinions. We live involved in a big lie, full of paranoia, repression, violence and ego. Thanks people of the world for showing us how wrong we are.

you are painting a picture in your sick mind that is the result of reading too much Jihadi propaganda If indeed you are of Jewish descent going back 3 generations, come to Israel to be given citizenship on the spot and all benefits for a newcomer as if you are 100% Jew Everything else you write is pure garbage if you haven't been to Israel to live there for a few years.

The name you stole from Jews and corrupted in your ugly language says it all.

A child born to a Jewish mother is considered a Jew. So your lineage would matter & you'd qualify for being able to make aliya to Israel where ALL Jews are welcomed & accepted. The rest of your post proves you havent a clue about reality here. I suggest you improve your knowledge about Israel by reading less propaganda material.

posts # 57 & # 58 are not Matty's posts but an imposter. (nice try)