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by Alex Cohen on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 01:04
The world should take this opportunity and more closely scrutinize Israel.
My gut reaction when I heard about the deaths on the flotilla was disgust, but I knew that Israel should be given the benefit of the doubt just like anybody else. It's always better to act with sanity on the facts, rather than on the anger within your heart.
I waited for the right piece of information to become available before coming to a conclusion about what the IDF had done. The information my decision depended on, had to come from the right people too. This one fact is so important that the whole burden of guilt is determined by it.
It's the circumstances under which Israel killed the people on the flotilla that makes Israel guilty. The fact is that the Israel Defense Force boarded the ships in international waters, and that fact alone makes the IDF pirates and even terrorists. It doesn't matter that the IDF is the defense force of a sovereign nation, they weren't in their nation's jurisdiction when they acted against the flotilla. The IDF should have waited until the boats were in Israel's waters before they boarded the ships, and had they done so, the guilt would have shifted to the people on the flotilla.
There's no doubt that Israel has a right to defend herself, but boarding any ship in international waters, no matter what Israel thinks the ship's intention is, isn't an act of self-defense. Boarding the ships in international waters is clearly an act of piracy and terrorism.
While in international waters every boat has the right to defend itself against threats of piracy and terrorism. Even though Israel seems to think different, the people on the flotilla were themselves the ones who acted in self-defense against their aggressors.
The IDF seems to think the whole thing may have been planned. The IDF are saying that the people on the flotilla were armed and ready for them to board the ships. If this is the case, and the flotilla did have the intention of taunting the IDF into boarding their ships, it doesn't change the fact that the IDF boarding the ships in international waters is illegal.
In this case there is no doubt that Israel is in the wrong. The world should take this opportunity to act in harmony and more closely scrutinize Israel. It may be time to remove some of her teeth.
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A scenario: An aircraft Carrier is sailing in the middle of the ocean (international waters). From a distance, a small ship is making its way to the aircraft. What do you think the navy has to do? For most certain and absolutely never let the small ship get close to the aircraft without an examination.
I think it’s about time, Arab Muslims abandoned their violent whys, and take example from leaders such as Martian Luther King. If back then, Malcolm X was only leader fighting for black civil rights, in his violent ways, Blacks would have been stigmatize from American life and never achieving equal rights.
Too bad this article is another pro violence observation. When I watched the video when the soldiers came on board, I saw how barbaric the so called demonstrators acted. These were not demonstrators but violent people. You do not want this people as neighbors in your apartment building. They belong in prison where all outcasts belong till they get rehabilitate. I am not saying that all the demonstrators were violent, but they sure were naive.
Good luck to all of us, in making our environment happier.
What if is was North Korea boarding the ship? How about Canada, or Russia, or Venezuela? Do you expect that any country's military should be able to board the ships just because they are in international waters? The fact is that it happened in international waters which is outside the jurisdiction of the IDF and Israel. What the IDF did is a crime, it is terrorism, it is piracy.
It sounds like you also back violence, bur just not by regular everyday people. Be assured though that backing the violence of a military force or other official organization is still backing violence. Why don't you just blow the ships out of the water with a Pre-Emptive Strike? Maybe someone could send in a drone? Just because the IDF is boarding your ship doesn't mean that they're bringing you milk and cookies!
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