Israel kills to Maintain Blockade

[Furunculus]

Q: Is it locked in concrete, dead certain, everyone agrees, that this action took place in "International Waters", and not Israeli Territorial Waters, or its (Israel's) Contiguous Zone, or Exclusive Economic Zone?

All those zones, defined by international Maritime Law, represent various levels (and distances from the shoreline) of rights of sea control to sovereign nations. We should take care in throwing around the term "International Waters", and therefore asserting International judgment rights, when those jurisdictions are not clear in this case.

All that said: my condolences to the dead and their relatives. That better, less-violent methods of enforcing blockades couldn't be found is a shame. I had come to think that the Israeli military had come closer to conducting this kind of action casualty-free. Wishful thinking, I guess - not reality. If they were fired upon as they report, why do we not see Israeli wounded among the injured?

your question is looking remarkably prescient, it would appear that the boarding happened inside Israel's EEZ:

http://www.paltelegraph.com/columnis...kish-stand-off
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread577130/pg85
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_Economic_Zone

which may make the whole international-waters argument less clear cut.

to be honest, i would be surprised if israel made a mistake that elementary...........