I think that correct as I saw in brief video one swing what did look like a piece of pipe at one of the Israeli commandos coming down a rope to board the ship, but clearly that was an improvised last minute effort at defense. Anyway it is certainly OK to try to prevent pirates from boarding your ship on the high seas, even with fire arms, but they obviously did not have any as were forced to improvise a feeble defense.I'm not at all sure that some of the flotilla passengers didn't attack. In fact, it looks as though some of them did. ...
Perhaps the guy with the marble shooting sling shot got off a few marbles too?
Before the commandos broke his "weapon." (CNN Video showed it broken, laying on the deck.)
BTW it is fun to try to shoot flying sea gulls with slingshot. I did it every lunchtime when working for CGS Labs in Stanford Connecticut. (A summer job while I was an undergraduate. I never hit a bird. - They see marble coming and dodge it - I think it was fun for us both.)
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