Lol, this thread made me die a little inside...are you guys really a bunch of nazis or something?! Their move, and demonstrated by Megaraptor and Eglaerinion, was clearily justified. The scenerios you guys compare this too isn't anything close to the situation Israel is in. The Israeli Cammandos arn't pirates or robbers as you seem to like to compare them to. Instead they are more of a policing force which come onboard with the intention of everyone's safety as long as you don't try to harm them; after all...there safety is more important than the possible criminals. Therefore, if you pull out some knives and shit on them, they are going to fire, no shit. However, if you were doing nothing wrong, don't pull out the knives...let them search the ship...they find nothing...your good to go. This just seems like propaganda to promote the demolition of Isreal...which is EXACTLY what Palistine's plan is. Israel has been more than cooperable with Palistine, but they just wont give an inch and continue to antagonize Israel. If anyone needs to be prosecuted, it's the Palistines!
Ah, of course, anyone who criticises Israeli policy is a Nazi. Sorry, I thought people on this board were more intelligent than such idiocy.
And it's spelt 'Palestine', and the people who live there are 'Palestinians', not 'Palistines'. Your constant insistence that you are above most of the people on this board or are absolutely right and therefore entitled to laugh at a thread and tell those who posted in it that you laughed at them as if this is some sign for them to feel ashamed is starting to wear thin, in light of your gross ignorance.
As for my take on the story, I think both sides are heavily at fault. The people on the ship for responding to armed forces involvement with violence, in doing so they endangered any innocent bystanders on the ship. The Israelis too, it seems, while of course obliged to defend themselves, became trigger happy once again.
A real sorry mess.
Okay, since A.) there has been a lot of misunderstanding of why I said nazis, it's because people were seeming to sympathize with Hitler and his propaganda...such as "Anyway, that German anti jewish propaganda from WW2 is getting more to the truth every day."...maybe it was said jokingly but yeah....whatever....
B.) Ooooh, I spelt a couple works wrong, want to file a lawsuit? I'll be your lawyer.... Anyways... you got the jist of my squeel, so the point still got apart. Lets leave it at that shall we? Or do I have to tear up your grammar...however I feel you did that simply because you could find anything else to come back with... 
Once again you demonstrate an offensive level of ignorance. In response to B), you attempt to belittle my pointing out of your wilful ignorance of the peoples of the Middle East as grammar Nazism - this is not the case. To say 'Palistines' smacks of idiocy and a deliberate attempt to show no respect, something typical of your attitude in posts across these forums.
You also, puzzlingly, imply that I attacked your 'grammar' (spelling is not grammar, although your grammar is, I admit, appalling) because I had nothing else to 'come back with'. As I have demonstrated above, my attack on your spelling was an attack on your wilful disrespect to other cultures, not an attempt to skirt the issue. As for finding something 'to come back with' - I could perhaps cite the fact that the aim of 'Palistine' is not the destruction of Israel. On the contrary, even the most right wing of commentators on the area are aware that Hamas' real aim is the preservation of the status quo, for it is this that allows their black market dealings and gangster operations that they rely upon for their real powerbase. The 'destruction of Israel' would obliterate their plutocratic control over Gaza and destroy the sympathy they rely upon for money to spend on arms and food to sell at extortionate rates. Fatah were little better - Arafat rejected a comprehensive offer by Netanyahu in the late 1990s that would see 99.8% of Palestinian territory returned to them with full sovereignty, and the 0.02% that was missing would be made up for by other Israeli territories Israel was prepared to cede. But ultimately the people in power in Gaza don't want either the destruction of Israel or an end to the status quo, because it would destroy their monopoly on power that they use for their own gain.
To conclude my outright rejection of your assertion that 'the Palistines' want to destroy Israel (something I admit I should have done earlier), I will cite my own experience in the West Bank three years ago. I met a number of Palestinians and community leaders therefrom, and I can assure you (as can countless journalists and interviewees) that the vast majority of ordinary Palestinian people simply want a two state solution and an end to violence.
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you'll respond again, you can't resist...has Meadow been sending you PMs? 
... lol, @ Meadow, Ignorant, nah.....arrogant, perhaps...