Some people will believe israeli propaganda and ignore facts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKOmLP4yHb4&feature=related
The criminals would be the ones attacking a humanitarian ship in international waters.
Yet you dismiss the criminality of an entity, any entity, trying to run a lawfully erected blockade which is an act of war. You consider the goods on board the ship as justification for the ship, regardless of load or manifest, to run a military blockade. By your standard, there should be nuclear armed missiles in Cuba to this day because the United States should not have erected the Cuban blockade.
You also
seem to believe that the borders of a country are not sacrosanct; and anyone who damned well pleases should be able to simply violate that border with impunity based on good intentions.
The fact is that the blockade was erected because there were 4,000 rockets fired from Gaza in a one year period which rained down on Israeli towns. To this there were but three choices:
A forward defense;
An active defense;
A passive defense.
Charles Krauthammer explains these defenses quite well in
THIS ARTICLE where he also shows why the ships were not humanitarian aid but simply blockade runners. The Israelis offered to accept the aid at an Israeli port. If the goods were truly humanitarian aid the blockade runners would have anchored at the Israeli port and allowed the Israelis to get the humanitarian aid to the Palestinians in Gaza.
Oh, but weren’t the Gaza-bound ships on a mission of humanitarian relief? No. Otherwise they would have accepted Israel’s offer to bring their supplies to an Israeli port, be inspected for military materiel and have the rest trucked by Israel into Gaza — as every week 10,000 tons of food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies are sent by Israel to Gaza.
Why was the offer refused? Because, as organizer Greta Berlin admitted, the flotilla was not about humanitarian relief but about breaking the blockade, i.e., ending Israel’s inspection regime, which would mean unlimited shipping into Gaza and thus the unlimited arming of Hamas.
Here is what Berlin said from alarabiya.net:
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Gal suggested the organizers should voluntarily head to Ashdod to unload the supplies so Israel or humanitarian agencies can deliver them to Gaza overland.
Flotilla organizers rejected the offer.
"We are taking 10,000 tons of material that Israel refuses to allow into Gaza," Berlin said, adding the cargo includes water filtration units, pre-fabricated homes and crayons for children.
"This mission is not about delivering humanitarian supplies, it's about breaking Israel's siege on 1.5 million Palestinians," she said.
So the people you so fervently defend admit that their mission is not to deliver humanitarian supplies. Their mission, in their own words, is the criminal running of a legal blockade which is an act of war.
