Turkish journalist: Flotilla controlled by jihadists, planned attacks

[JohnOfSheffield]

Exactly. Knowing you are on a boat that Israel is just itching to drop in and shoot people on, you have to be prepared.

If you are prepared to fight to your death, you're going to war.

 

[SamurAchzar]

If you are prepared to fight to your death, you're going to war.

If we're on the subject; you've made references to being SAS in the past. If you are indeed, what do you think of the Israeli operation against the flotilla?

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

If we're on the subject; you've made references to being SAS in the past. If you are indeed, what do you think of the Israeli operation against the flotilla?

It was against international law, there is no question on that matter, you cannot board and take over a ship in international waters without breaking international law.

I've made this clear before, if the intention would have been a daylight boarding search mission then yes, they would be well in their rights to do so, boarding and taking command of a ship in international waters is not legal though. Not according to international law and not according to naval law.

It was a mistake, they had warned them, they should have waited until they passed the border and then just sunk them, no one could say sheit about that.

I used to work under UN command, i have a great deal of respect for UN's work, even though i might not always agree on various councils decisions or condemnations.

It's never as black and white as foolish people try to paint it, unfortunantly.

 

[SamurAchzar]

And tactically?

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

And tactically?

Same, they should have just let off the warning and then blown the out of the sea if they entered.

But i assume you mean tactically as with the bordering?

Well, they didn't expect a struggle so it looks like they did it by the book, having the same intelligence (unarmed protestors) i would probably recommend the same thing and have done something similar (on ground) not too long ago, we used 870's with bags for crowd control though.

Yeah, they did it right.