The question on my mind is regarding this ONE SHIP being targeted and not the others. After having researched a little, it has come to light, that this was the ship that had all the communications equipment, and was the control ship for the others. In other words, it was the 'strategic steer' as they normally refer to it in 'a fleet of ships'.
It has also been said that the other ships were not even boarded. If that is the case, then how much can we believe of what Mr. Regev says, and what he briefs the correspondants of the different media outlets.

the impunity of the zionists is incredible,it seems no matter how barbaric their actions they don't give a monkeys about international opinion

Jim - you're wrong. See my Twitter feed and you will see me mention the massacre of the Ahmadis. I've also criticised, in previous blogposts, the tendency of Muslims to condemn only Israel's atrocities and not those of Muslim states.

Of course, the key point here is that the terrorists in Pakistan do not claim to be a democratic, law-abiding nation-state, nor do they have the support and sponsorship of the west's leading governments, including our own.

Also - are you saying the BBC are "Islamist hypocrites" too, for daring to report this attack as their top story? And CNN too?

Kate - thanks for your comment and good point about the CMEC but please see Peter Oborne's Guardian piece, which I link to above, for further details about the CFI and Hague shifting his views between Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in 2009.

Good points in this article.

Another sad day, another senseless violent act in the history of this region. Attacking an aid convoy in international waters shows how paranoid and intolerant this country is. And contemptuous of international law and international opinion. (Regev is already doing his best to justify what happened - he's sounding increasingly unconvincing and desperate.) Will this now finally force our governments - including the all-important US government - to act? (I predict that it won't...)

It's the worlds largest military prison as I posted earlier but for some reason it wasn't put on the comment board.
Consecutive Governments since Balfour's day have failed to address the damage that the British Govt wreaked on the people of Palestine and their country. Successive Governments of the West have not acted to enforce UN resolutions of which there are hundreds against Israel.
Our foreign policy is shameful as is our ability to turn our eyes away from some violators of international law yet punish excessively smaller breaches by other countries.
Nothing will change, the usual platitudes will be issued, maybe even a UN resolution or two, but the status quo will remain.

William Hague needs to spell out clearly an unequivically where he stands in relation to the Palestinian question. The idea that a small group within the Cons. Party can dictate party policy is immoral and undemocratic.

Once again, my anti-Israeli comment has not been published. Same happened with Sholto's article. Am I being paranoid?
Abdul: Shut up!

@ Abdul Amir Hassan

Gosh, Abdul, how did you manage to get that posted? Virtually everything I've ever posted at the bottom of one of Mehdi Hasan's pieces has been pulled.

Is there some censorship going on with comments?

Matt asks ''Gosh, Abdul, how did you manage to get that posted?''

Im very glad you asked me that Matt, because my comments are genius, pure and simple, thats why they get posted.

Also I think they indulge me here on the NS website because I am such a fool and my comments are so mentally unbalanced that no one here really takes them seriously. Do they?

Meanwhile back on planet Earth.

Medhi squeels in fake indignation, this is a non story bit like '' dog bites man shock ,'' move along, nothing to see.

Daniele,

I don't know but I've made three other postings that haven't made it. All good points to air for debate, such a shame that the real debaters can't get on and yet the gremlins in the machine are letting diatribe to be dispensed freely.

By the way, does ANYONE think that "Abdul (look-at-me-posing-as-if-I-am-a-Muslim) A. Hassan" is his real name? As a relative newcomer to this site, for me he has runied a perfectly good debate.

The response to this convoy was totally disproportionate.

If they were really worried about the ships contents they could have legally requested the ships stop and searched the holds.

No they had to go bananas with gun totting thugs and shooting innocent people.

The answer to the question is yes. The country who cannot be named is it's own worst enemy.

Gaza is basically a big prison and this incident underlines the disgraceful policy that that state currently employs on peaceful activists.

It's because they're bullies and bullies always assume that the weak will yield to their agression.

All praise to the aid flotilla for standing up to them. I understand there's another ship still en route due in tomorrow, let's see what happens to that one.

The bottom line is that this incident would never have happened to a ship that was armed or under protection from a naval vessel.

Had they tried to board such a vessel they would have been fired on and rightly so.

International waters means just that. The response was disgraceful and they will pay.

I don't really see how anyone can defend what happened last night / this morning, so it makes me wonder whether there is more to this story than meets the eye.

As for Hauge casually calling on the country to comply with a UN resolution - which it is in clear violation of, and which we are unlikely to do anything about... doesn't this make a mockery of invading Iraq for failing to comply with a UN resolution, all be it a resolution about imaginary WMDs rather than a very real illegal blockade which has already resulted in a untold number of deaths and left approximately half a million people in poverty.

Shafeek luv

If you hate the country soo much,then bug off.

M Bloom,

using that logic what would you ascribe a special forces attack on a ship in international waters, which resulted in 10 deaths? crowd control? police action? piracy? or the most henious crime a state can commit - aggression?

They shouldnt have boarded the ship, nah.

They should have torpeoded the boat load of shit stirrers.

I am Spartacus!

Well I'm just a dickhead, wot wiv me bein the real AAH luv mate etc.

Blimey Abdul, you really have got a split peronality!, one minute you're full of honest self admissions; the next you're back to your ol bad self! You gotta see a doctor mate! And stop accusing me of using your 'name' (not that it's yours anyway); I've got better things to do with my time, tis the first time I've looked on this site today, and much to my surprise your still going strong!

Jeremiah: you may be right. It is the I word which stops the postings.
Shall we call this country "God's chosen people country" and see what happens.
After all that's probably why they get away with murder. They've got a direct connection with the Allmighty.
Seriously, this is frustrating.