BBC News - Israeli army releases 'flotilla footage'

This video is pretty enlightening.

I think it clearly shows the idea that these Turks were just passive humanitarians is kind of bogus

I think Israel is in an intolerable position, a position like we cannot imagine. Yes it's hard for both sides, but they are technically at was with Palestine and with Hamas and are obviously not going to allow a flotilla of ships through their blockade to possibly arm the enemy.

The news reporting, and especially in this thread is one sided. Peaceful aid humanitarians.............unprovoked Israeli aggression....there are two sides to the story and everyone is just assuming the activist side is the truth.

No country would allow a nation they were at war with and blockading their ports to recieve supplies from ships from other lands.

They were told not to enter the waters and had to be restrained. They then turned violent on the Israelis, I don't see what else they could do.

If the police were attacked by a crowd like that attacking them with with axes, and weapons they would open fire, there is simply no other choice.

It's a wretched situation on both sides, but Israel as a tiny state surrounded by enemies on all sides, and whom have a civilisation spanning history of being attacked, oppressed and reviled are obviously a paranoid nation.