And in the meantime elsewhere on the ship 9 peace-activists were killed, 6 of them at close range. The peace-activists didn't return fire while they could have done so to protect themselves against Israeli terror as some wapons had been confisquated from the attackers of the so called 'Jewish state'.
Hurriyet photos of disarmed Israeli commandos receiving medical care
(Photo via Ali Abunimah)
On the Mavi Marmara, the ship that Benjamin Netanyahu has dubbed “the hate boat”, Israeli soldiers who had been hurt were given medical aid. But some of the civilians who had been shot ended up dying because the Israelis refused to have them evacuated.
Given the terror that Israelis experience when faced with the risk of having soldiers taken hostage, it appears that one element in the over-reaction of the remaining armed commandos was that they thought it inconceivable that any of their comrades could be held without coming to further harm.
Was this the context in which enraged soldiers decided that they would then set about teaching their adversaries a lesson?
Were the deaths on the Mavi Marmarathe result of a few soldiers demonstrating their military muscle in a desperate effort to restore their tattered pride?
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Police the wor4ld over are given to “punishing” when they should be doing “law enforcement.” Soldiers, too, it seems. This is well-known and should be especially well-known in Israel.
Therefore, the orders are especially important, to see how well the officers directed the soldiers toward (or away from) restraint. The fact that there were “kill” orders given to the soldiers means that the whole action was within a context of “punishment” or “war” rather than ‘police action”. The soldiers were pre-programmed to misbehave. The night attack (the previous day or next day were surely available for ship interception, after all) and the assassination list, along with the confiscation of the activists’ videos, taken together, make it seem an operation deliberately directed toward unnecessary (and unlawful) violence.