Yes; I was wondering if you'd notice.
Is this evidence of some more hysterical hand wringing from you?
They may. I hope it won't come to that. Or there may be reason for it. It's very unlikely that all the deaths were reasonable; but then again, the reports may be false. So far I've detailed a fair amount of evidence for a more even partitioning of the blame for this tragedy, and look what's happened.
*Snort*
Your evidence does not pass the mustard.
Really? Fascinating. I am a hypocrite because I object to a personal insult? How so?
You are a hypocrite because you feel no qualms about personally attacking others while complaining about attacks upon yourself.
I don't know. I suspect that it may not paint the Israelis in a very positive light. Then again, the uncensored eyewitness accounts correspond to the story the IDF is giving out, as I've illustrated above.
Actually, no it does not.
So you admit that the journalists who were on that ship, impartial journalists only there to cover a story, may have captured the IDF in an unsavoury light because of the way the IDF acted and stormed those ships?
So where are those videos and audio tapes that they have confiscated? I know the Australian journalists lost thousands of dollars worth of equipment because it was confiscated by the IDF who have thus far refused to return any of it.
And guilt and premeditation. Bells, it doesn't help your case to engage in weasel-wording here: we've discussed the significance of the iron "sticks" (now upgraded to "poles", I see, which is commendable progress) and the hate-rally (which I see is still relegated to a happyfuncampoutsingalong; well, Rome wasn't built in a day). You can't now dismiss the previous argument in that way; we've all seen it, and we know what it was about.
Guilt and premeditation?
Okay. You keep harping on and on about this.
The facts, as they are, had the IDF shadowing that flotilla for hours prior to their storming it. The ships were in international waters. I would imagine that if the activists were intent on causing harm, and it was premeditated, they would have gone down to the kitchens to arm themselves better than with poles that hold up the railing from the deck. Premeditation would be evident in their actually planning their supposed "attack" on the armed forces that stormed their ships illegally in international waters. What part of that don't you quite understand yet? The people on that boat were well within their rights to defend it against armed invaders in international waters. Is it that hard for you to grasp?
Really?
Now, you want to talk about anti-Israeli singing and show premeditation? The evidence, as is plainly evident in their having to resort to using support poles for the deck railing and plastic chairs, shows that they grabbed what they could when the IDF initially attacked their boats with smoke and stun grenades while they were in their morning prayers on the deck. The premeditation is on the part of the IDF who had planned the storming and attacking of those ships in international waters for weeks prior.
So where you go paintballing, the paintballs themselves have shards of glass embedded in them? You paintball with the IDF for fun?
But the real message of this fact is about Israel premeditation, care and intent. The supposition from your "side" has been that the IDF came in with guns blazing, and that the story about the paintball guns was a sham. But they didn't come in with machineguns blazing, and the paintball gun story was true. They really brought them; modified for riot control, seemingly, but paintball-riot-guns nonetheless. The story that you and Sam and pj have been pushing is that the IDF came in loaded for bear, rather than quail - machineguns blazing as they descended; but this is apparently false. There was a tragedy afterwards, yes, but the IDF doesn't appear to have been trying for one. What happened afterward, if massacre it be, seems more like the work of individuals than a concerted goal planned by Israel. As such, it falls into the area of domestic justice which - it is to be hoped, if unlikely - will be fair.
Oh really? So tell me, what "care and intent" and their premeditation (since you know, they admitted to planning their actions in storming that flotilla for weeks) do you see when they have pieces of glass embedded in the paintballs they use? Having claimed to have gone to paintball before, you would know of the type of protective clothing you need to wear and it still stings like a bitch. Now imagine no protective clothing and pieces of glass in the paintballs?
Also, on that note, why don't we have a single image of the activists with any paint on them? What we have are dozens of people injured having been shot. Now, either their paintballs had very little paint and more glass to cause damage or they fired very few and switched to live rounds straight away, which is what the passengers on those ships have claimed.
What we have is 9 people confirmed dead, 5 with bullet wounds to the back of the head and the back, along with other bullet wounds to the rest of the body. We also have several people missing. So tell me, are you going to use the "care and intent" line with me about the IDF?
I appreciate your stand on Gaza - it is highly principled. But you do justice a disservice when you disown the facts, such as hate-rallies (which I am certain you would condemn at the drop of a hat otherwise) and mob violence.
And you do yourself a disservice in finding what was sung at a hate rally more important than what actually happened on that boat. You do yourself a disservice when you attempt to justify shooting people in the head and executing them while harping on and on about the "rally". What you cannot seem to grasp is that no amount of singing or its contents can excuse or explain the execution of at least 5 people. Nor does it explain how it is acceptable to execute someone because the passengers decided to defend their ships against armed invaders in international waters.
Similarly, when you resort to personal attacks - all falsified - and bile, you do me a disservice as a poster.
Really? So when you question my abilities as a lawyer, when you question my intelligence by calling me stupid, dumb and not to mention my ability to read and comprehend, you're doing what exactly? How about when you kept making fun of my attempted rape? What disservice does that do to me or others? Or when you tried to say that I would attack your family, when I have never once even mentioned them in our debates, as if trying to goad me into doing something you know I would never stoop to, while you have with me and others? Do not project yourself onto me, Geoff. I am not you. I don't attack your family, nor do I make fun of things that may be painful for you to remember. I also do not go onto other websites and stab you in the back. That is you. Not me. So when you accuse me of resorting to personal attacks, be careful to remember what your actions have been.
/Sneer
You are pathetic.