[mojito]

“Upon boarding the ships, the soldiers encountered fierce resistance from the passangers who were armed with knives, bats and metal pipes. The soldiers used non-lethal measures to disperse the crowd. The activists succeeded in stealing the weapon from one of the IDF’s soldiers and reportedly opened fire, leading to an escalation in violence.”

“It was like a well-planned lynch,” one IDF officer said. “These people were anything but peace activists.”

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=176970

[Dallas59]

Fools and idiots on these boats...Of course Egypt is in on the Gaza blockade too. Not many protests from the left over this.

[CitizenUSA]

Apparently five of the IDF’s own soldiers died in the exchange.