Israel kills to Maintain Blockade

[Andres]

This has been Israel's policy indeed.

It was unacceptable to the flotilla, whose goal was not to comply with the blockade, but to either break it or to go down in a showdown.

Aren't you allowed to be in international waters, then? Couldn't Israel have waited until the ships entered their jurisdiction? Was it that hard to wait?

Who has been the most provocative? The people on those ships or Israel boarding them in international waters, knowing damn well that that is an act of piracy, an international crime, no more no less, but also knowing that nobody will ever do something against them, because somebody else protects them, no matter what they do?

It shouldn't come as a surprise that the international community is outraged (and rightly so!).

Now, how to deal with this mess? To the international court of justice? If there are sanctions against Israel needed, will the UN apply them or will the US veto?

Or will this end very badly?

My guess: a lot of outrage, many condemnations, a lot of blahblahblah from "shocked" politicians and within a week or two, nobody talks about it anymore and nothing will happen. At best some lawsuit at the ICJ which Israel will lose inevitably, followed by nothing.