Reply #63: Woah. That is definitely unusual, and a very bad sign for Israel.

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I am not emotionally involved in this issue. While sympathetic to the Palestinians I am also sympathetic to the historic reasons for Israel's founding. I do not care for the blockade of Gaza...or for Hamas. I have had a fairly cynical view of these relief flotillas as basically propaganda exercises.

But none of that excuses violence and killing. And what the Israeli government seems not to have appreciated is that a good number of the 'passengers' are lawmakers from various countries, the EU parliament etc.. You do not attack ships carrying members of a country's government and expect to get away with it. It is dangerously close to an act of war. In this case, against multiple states. The longer I think about it the more amazed I am by the epic degree of stupidity displayed by Netanyahu's government.