Are you saying the ship has no right to self defense when pirates board on the high seas? Or that IDF, boarding in the middle of the night, was not acting as pirates, or both?
The IDF could have come along side, during daylight hours, sent a lightly armed inspection force on board as the US Coast Guard does for drug control in the Gulf of Mexico. More force, but only as needed, is then used if the requested inspection boarding is refused. Israel does have the right to keep weapons from arriving, but not to kill 19, critically wound 27 and injure >60 with a night time boarding.
That is not realistic as "international authorities" lack the will or ability to punish Israel - for example the use of white phosphorus against cities. - Nothing has happened to Israel for that internationally recognized war crime (or many others).
Nothing has happened to Israel for the now nearly completed extermination of the Bedouins. (All still living are now confined in one of three concentration camp cities in the worst part of the Negev Desert. Israel's exterminations of them is more complete than Hitler's efforts as only about 10% of the pre-Israel number still live and essentially none can escape to live in their traditional way as a special Israeli "green force" surrounds the cities. "Green" as they are protecting the fragile desert from same use it had for more than 5000 years prior to the existence of Israel! ) Even other Arabs tend to regard the nomadic Bedouins as European regard the Gypsi, so no one makes much fuss about their extermination.
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