Reply #63: And they were justified to knock the shit out of anyone illegally boarding their boat

[Chulanowa]

They did so.

Door gunner didn't open fire because it would have been an blatant attack from the Israeli navy on a flotilla of international civilians in international waters, rather than just an "incident" that we currently have.

Don't try to paint this as "Israeli restraint" - first, "Israeli restraint" involves child rape and chemical weapons, so this clearly isn't such a case - second, Israel could have waited until the flotilla entered Israeli waters, and then there would be no argument as to who is in the right. Israel did not. Israel fucked up. Nineteen people are dead because Israel conducted an illegal operation that was planned three weeks in advance.

Those Israeli soldiers are, frankly, fucking lucky that the assumptions of these activists' intentions were completely wrong. Else these soldiers would be fucking dead, rather than just bruised.