Liability
Locked Account.
Turkey is responsible for trying to force a bunch of extremists into Israeli territory.
They are the ones responsible for the injuring of the Israeli soldiers.
Fail.
If soldiers invade your boat in the middle of the night while in international waters, you get to fight back. Its not their fault they were invaded. Sheesh, personal responsibility, anyone?
Israel Forces Fired On Sleeping Civillians Under Cover Of Darkness
Heavily armed soldiers “began to shoot the moment their feet hit the deck”
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Monday, May 31st, 2010
While the Israeli government is praising itÂ’s soldiers as heroes and saying they were acting in self defence by firing on unarmed civilians flying a white flag in international waters, one group involved with the Freedom Flotilla has a quite different story.
A spokeswoman for Israel Defence Forces (IDF), Avital Leibovich, claims that Israeli officers gave several warnings before boarding the the Turkish boat, the Mavi Marmara.
Somehow, according to Leibovich, when the soldiers did board the boat, they were then attacked by unarmed activists and relieved of their guns – a claim that is not backed up by video footage of the ambush.
Leibovich told reporters “We found ourselves in the middle of a lynching,”
“We didn’t look for confrontation but it was a massive attack,” she said. “What happened was a last resort.”
This story is on its face ridiculous.
The following press release came from Freegaza.com , one of the aid groups involved in the flotilla, in the wake of the attack:
Under darkness of night, Israeli commandoes dropped from a helicopter onto the Turkish passenger ship, Mavi Marmara, and began to shoot the moment their feet hit the deck.
They fired directly into the crowd of civilians asleep. According to the live video from the ship, two have been killed, and 31 injured. Al Jazeera has just confirmed the numbers.
Streaming video shows the Israeli soldiers shooting at civilians, and our last SPOT beacon said, “HELP, we are being contacted by the Israelis.”
As things currently stand 20 people are thought to have been killed in the attack.
While the IDF and the Israeli government claim that their soldiers were attacked by violent political agitators wielding knives, several videos of those on board the boats and scenes from their voyage reveal that they are peaceful civilians that could not possibly constitute any threat to one of the most powerful armies on the planet.
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The video puts the lie to the report. As the Israeli soldiers came down those ropes BEFORE the soldiers even tried to fire their weapons, they were ATTACKED. The shooting came later.
Propaganda that is immediately exposed as dishonest BY real time video is pretty damn pathetic.
One can side against the action of Israel on the ground that it was premature to board the ship while still in International waters. but he claim that they came in firing is just pure dishonest self-serving Islamist propaganda. It's a lie.