Irish Gaza ship prisoners claim they were abused by Israeli commandos

Your claims of being a military historian do not change the fact they were in International Waters when the vessels were boarded illegally. Or the fact that the blockade is illegal. There were three UN reports conducted and two out of three found the blockade to be illegal and the third one Palmer found the 9 dead to have been extrajudicial executions and israel used excessive and disproportionate force on the mavi marmara in INTERNATIONAL WATERS. And it was 67 NOT 68, and israel attacked Egypt first because of the closure of the straits of tirhan to israel so perhaps just a military historian with a bad memory? And losing a war does not equate to losing land any more with the creation of the Gevena Conventions to which israel is a signatory. And israel as the OCCUPYING POWER of Gaza (despite their denials to the contrary) DOES owe them what the Geneva Conventions says they do as a signatory.The argument presented by israel is not accepted by the international community and international lawmaking bodies, virtually all of whom regard Israel's activities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as an occupation that denies the fundamental principle of self-determination found in the Article One of the United Nations Charter, and in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Further, UN Security Council Resolution 242 notes the "inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war" regardless of whether the war in which the territory was acquired was offensive or defensive. I guess you need to finish that military history degree of yours,

Shuvonn, I am a military historian. Those protestors were not kidnapped International Law allows every country to arrest people entering their territorial waters. These protesters were in Israeli waters and therefore under International Law they can be arrested. The Palestinians should know that when you lose a war there are consequences like losing your rights and your land. The arabs attacked Israel in 1968 and again in 1972 and lost both wars, so losing wars does have consequences. Israel owes them nothing, but are willing to work with them to reach some sort of accomodation as long as they agree to not make war or commit terrorist acts against Israel. So far they have not done so. On his last day in office Bill Clinton talked to his predecessor George Bush for half an hour about Yassar Arafat and the Palestinians. Clinton told Bush "don't trust that man he is an outright liar" So Irish Peace groups should not become become "usefool fools" for Arab terrorist groups bent on the destruction of the only democracy in the Middle East.

I find joycean a weak debater he never posts any factual information.His maudling adulation of the terrorist Israeli state is bemusing to say the least.

the sad thing is that when the world is finally had enough of this parisite and iran sends in a nuke to rid the world of them, it will probably result in the loss of more innocent americans having to try and save there sorry cult from wipe out once again!

right is right,wrong is wrong,these guys maintain they are the chosen of god,so i guess they can do no wrong,the usa certainly doesnt think so or the uk.funny if you look at what they are doing to the palestinians it bears remarkable similarities to what the nazis did to them,and that was pretty wrong..?surely there must be a reasonable compromise in there somewhere because what is being done to the palestinians is plainly WRONG..

What's your point joycean? All you have done is brag about how wonderful you think jews are....and that's YOUR opinion.

Isreal is one of the US's staunchest allies, and we will never let her down. The US has a strong connection to Isreal. There are more Jews in the US (about 6.5 million) than there are in Isreal(approx. 5.5 mil). Many Jewish Americans hold dual US and Isreali passports or qualify. Of all US ethnic groups, the Jews are the wealthiest and the best educated. Jews tend to belive that their children should be professioals and many of our professoinals (doctors,lawyers, polititians) are Jewish.

Gee gornish perhaps they do not go to syria, sudan or somalia because none of those places are currently having an illegal blockade like israel is on Gaza. And FYI it was NOT just Irish people who were on those vessels. Bravo? For blatant violation of INTERNATIONAL LAW?? It everyone minded their own business and stayed home, what kind of world would it be? You can call them losers, I consider them honorable people for standing up against israels treatment of the Palestinians. You'd be the type to piss and moan if you had a problem and no one would help you....

I can only say that these losers have caused me to shed tears. Why don't they go to Syria, or Sudan, or Somalia, or Iran.or Iraq, or Libya,or China? I know, its the Meditteranean climate!

It is amazing how losers can milk the system and get away with it! If they were "abused by the commandos, too bad, but I assume certified idiots do not know ant better! And, irealand has so many internal problems, they should (i.e. the losers) consider helping out their own country! Bravo Israel!

"The Ship of Fools" Hitler sent a boat load of Jew, and no country would take them in. When the Muslim get their way and distroy Isreal will Ireland take the Jews in? Mind you own business.

I love how they always force them to go to Israel and then deport them for illegal entry. What odious claptrap! Gazans suing in Israeli courts are treated as foreign citizens, so Israel recognises that Gaza is not Israel. They have never declared war on Gaza because they don't want to recognise Palestine as a state, but with no declaration of war the blockade is illegal.

Nothing will be done about such abuse by god's chosen - such a tribe calls the shots worldwide - notice obama and his uk ilk partners scouring in their pants as they be prodded to do right for mighty oligarchical caball mavens whom they weasels serve.

Joycean gives the Israeli's a "leave pass"for their toughness, tell that to the families of murdered Palestinian children or to Palestinian families who watched their homes bulldozed. The collective punishment of the Palestinian people is an international disgrace.They(Israelis) are very tough when facing unarmed civilians,they were not so tough a few years ago when Hezbollah beat the crap out of them. The terrorist Israeli states answer was to collectively punish all Lebanese including christians.Yes Joycean real tough.

joycean drones on about israeli toughness THAT TOUGHNESS comes at a BILLIONS of dollars to the US price tag yearly so spare me your tripe, they never intended to enter israel, they were taken there against their will. The idf were founded by jew terrorists and the dregs of illegal militias (irgun, palmach, stern gang, lehi, etc) that the hypocrite Ben Gurion declare illegal and then absorbed them same illegal militias into the foundation of the idf....