Many ways exist to disable vessels without effecting seaworthiness.
Many.
Next time they shouldn’t board, just stop the boats dead in the water.
Next time they should torpedo the ship and chum the water with “activists”. Sharks gotta eat.
Of course they would have to board eventally to check the cargo.
Nope - make the boats and anyone on them dead, and underwater. Jam all communications, completely destroy and sink any such ships. Destroy anything left floating so it sinks. Deny involvement. Let them keep sending artificial reefs. No PR, no acknoledgement, nothing but dead terrorists and their finances sitting on the ocean floor...
After that - offer to send out out search and recovery vessles to assist with finding the missing ships at cost plus 10%.
Isreal will never win the PR war. Their only option is to elimiate or at least minimize potential PR from their enemies while they defend themselves...
Interesting op/ed in today's WSJ says that the reason Israel handled it the way they did is "siege fatigue." They are isolated and condemned by the world no matter what they do, so they just don't give a crap anymore about doing things to smooth their image.