Israel seem on their own here.
One wonders what position Obama will take on this.
I suspect he'll play cagey.
Your take.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/...e_eu/gaza_ships_protest

Dude, if you were surrounded by neighbours who believe it is their sworn religious duty to dispatch you to the next world, you would react in a similar manner.

Er...being a nyeuthi, your reaction would probably make the Israelis envious.

B timer,

The aim of the humanitarian organizers was not just to deliver the aid to Gaza.

For along time, the enemies of Israel have largely been depicted as the bad guys - bomb totting terrorists ready to use children to deliver bombs to Israeli towns. I think the organizers knew just how Israel would react. They know the Israelis never compromise of security. This may have been a plan to provoke Israel into some action which would alienate it from its strongest supporters and paint Israel as a blood thirsty neighbourhood bully, ready to kill unarmed civilians trying to deliver aid to a territory already made desolate by the same neighbourhood thug.
Though they lost lives, I doubt the organizers consider the incident a total failure given the international furore it has generated.

On this debate, I support Israel 100%. And they should take on the next flotilla that is provocatively being prepared.

Israel has a right to protect itself. If they lift the blockade, missiles find their way into Gaza and into Israel. Israel has done nothing more gross than the noisy nations to deserve the lashing.

I was surprised to see David Cameron disparage Israel - forgive him he was born recently he may not know what his country did to the Mau mau freedom fighters.

If Israel asked me to join their army, I would.

Israel - senseless Zionist.
When Ahmadinejad suggested wiping them out, I disagreed but now He can go ahead.cant bear Pain and tears of Palestinians women and children

@Tokyo. Its painful to see innocent civilians killed. however do not prompt Ahmadinejad to action. Pray that what you are advocating doesn't happen. Ever heard of 'The Samson Option'? The world cannot handle a third world war fought with nuclear, hydrogen and neutron bombs.

Another flotila coming.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/...n_re_eu/eu_turkey_israel

Mtu wa Raha,

The unfortunate fact is that Hamas are no angels. Indeed they are thoroughly loathed by most arab regimes, wacha Israel and most nations of the world consider them terrorists. They have resolutely refused to accept Israel's right of existence, and have rejected the two state solution long favoured by most international arbitrators. Much as the actions of the Israelis are abhorrent, if I lived next to a neighbour who thinks its a religious duty to kill me and my kids, I would be pretty paranoid.

@Robinhood, you can also check this out:

http://www.nation.co.ke/...4/-/5qwevx/-/index.html

..a landline phone rings and a man seated at a desk in a secret Gaza office picks it up asking 'hello?'
No one replies, instead there is a click as the person on the other end hangs up.
Seconds later a missile slams into the office, killing the man - a key Hamas commander - leaving his office blood-spattered. His secretary just outside his office is shaken, but unharmed.
The phone call was just a way of Mossad confirming the man was actually in his office before an Israeli copter gunship lurking nearby fired the missile...
This is a true story. It reveals the quality & reliability of
Israeli intell. Si kama ile fake ya US & UK about WMD in Iraq.
Plus the Israeli's got away with it.

Recall the recent Dubai debacle in which its agents stole the identities of its citizens in carrying out the assassination of a key Hamas commander? Good intell, plus they got away with it despite the condemnation from a few European & Arab states.

Didnt they use banned ordnance (phsophorus bombs)in Lebanon? They did, and got away with it.
Havent they been decimating the underground Hamas leadership over the years? Yes, because of good intell. Plus they get away with it.

So am thinking they had good intell on this flotilla too.
Just like they know weapons are being smuggled through underground tunnels form Egypt/ Iran & Syria.
Of cos its a foregone conclusion they will get away even now.

Because America will always be on its side...because Jews have played a critical role to put the US where it is now and they dominate virtually all spheres of US life..
'Forty-five percent of the top 40 of the Forbes 400 richest Americans are Jewish. Twenty percent of professors at leading universities are Jewish. Forty percent of partners in the leading law firms in New York and Washington are Jewish. Thirty percent of American Nobel prize winners in science and 37 percent of all American Nobel winners are Jewish. An estimated thirty percent of Ivy League students are Jewish' - wikipedia

Israel is surrounded by foes who are only kept at bay by its nuke
arsenal, but Ahmedinajad acquring a nuke would change this balance kabisa hence why Israel & US are keen to prevent this.

You have to understand Israel is paranoid about security since the
holocaust & will go 2 great lengths & unconventional ways to defend itself, and give a rat's a*se to what the world thinks of its actions - because the feeling lingers dat the the world abandoned it during the holocaust...whn asked if they have a nuke they are evasive and say: Israel will not be first to use nukes in the ME.
Palestinians have no chocie by to negotiate, because how do u fight such an adversary with stones? Iko sida.