I have to agree. This was one of the worst planned military actions I have ever heard of. Why they did this, and in this manner, was absolutely baffling.
One question: if this was a military target worth assaulting, then why not send in commandos with better weaponry? Because it looks to me like the Israelis didn’t really think there were a lot of guns on board, which takes away justification for the raid in the first place.
Sounds like we need a ‘Free Constantinople’, ‘Free Cyprus’, and ‘Free Persia’ movements to pick up steam.
Actually they should have been better armed even without there being any guns on board. The idea of commandos dropping into a sea of club-wielding nuts or ‘peace-activists’(as evidenced in the youtube video) is absurd. There is no real answer to being outnumbered at close range and the IDF planners should have realized that. The best way to avoid being clubbed at close range before you can even draw any weapon is to not be there in the first place. What happened to those days of stealthily boarding a ship, I always figured that was the commando-MO. With an escalating war on all fronts and reduced support from the US (thank you Barry), this is not the best time for the IDF to be getting stupider...