On Dec 31, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: > > On Dec 31, 2008, at 5:10 PM, Jared ''Danger'' Earle wrote: > >> On 1 Jan 2009, at 01:07, Kevin Callahan wrote: >>>> when should they have rammed the ship? >>> >>> when should the US have bombed Iraq? >> >> >> Eh? That makes no sense. It's not at all the same thing. >> >> McKinney's ship was intending to enter Israeli sovereign territory. >> Should they have waited until they could legally kill her? > > well, if they knew the boat was not a military threat and that they > were bringing in medical supplies to save lives, should they still > have rammed the boat? or, should they have let it through ?
the point being: a) the Israeli's didn't have their facts correct (they acted on bad intelligence or no intelligence ?) - the boat was not a military threat, we know that. b) they attacked a boat in international waters So, they got two things wrong. And sadly, it was a boat trying to bring medical help to those in need. Of course, as the story unfolds, and the facts as presented are clarified or perhaps changed, then Israel may have had the right to ram the boat. I've not followed the story since that CNN clip -- So I don't know if more accurate info is available. I agree with you - if McKinney's goal was to shed some light on the blockade - she may have been successful. K _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
