[lonster]

it seems to me that this is more of a “botched flotilla” than a “botched attempt”. send ships to violate a u.n. approved blockade involving a country under attack? sounds pretty botched to me.

[Palter]

Botched, yes.

Israel will lose the PR war.

If Israel saw the 'flotilla' as a imminent threat, they wouldn't have conducted the raid with their primary weapon being a paintball gun.

No mater how this turns out, it won't be in Israel's favor, even as they were avoiding force from the beginning.