As long as their best mate America keeps supporting them, they'll carry on doing exactly as they please.

It'll be interesting to see how Obama handles this one.. very non-commital comments from the US so far .

I read it was in international waters? If so, more barbaric behaviour from the Israelis,as you say Deman they have got their "Big Brother" America to back then up in any rule breaking etc they do.

Bloody shocking behaviour, again!

Not brilliant on PR, are they?

As long as they have rich and powerful friends to sell them weapons and stay on their side, they couldn't give a crap about PR.
Remember the forged UK passports used during what was almost certainly a Mossad hit? Israel's reponse? Not that they didn't do it, but that no-one could prove they did. So two fingers up to the lot of us!

I was having my Daily look at the MoPo and Bild online and the German press appear to be suggesting that Henning "Wallander" Mankell was onboard one of the ships.

Well we chucked out their ambassador( I think) over their subterfuge etc,using British passports for their Mossad agents .I don't believe a word the Israelis say.There are so many UN sanctions against them,which they totally ignore in their "Right" to their so called promised land etc.

It remains to be seen how many of the casualities were Turkish, but considering that relationships between Israel and Turkey (which used to be Israel's main Muslim ally) have been deterioating recently, these will get even worse.
I see from the BBC that Greece has cancelled its joint military exercises with Israel in protest. This is particularly significant given Greece's and Turkey's historic problems between them and may help to improve relationships between them.

Israel think they are above international law.  And to be honest, they are!!

No other country could get away with such acts of aggression without facing sanctions and other punishment.  As others have said, it is due to USA refusing to ever condemn Israel's cowardly actions.

USA and Israel enjoy a similar friendship as China and North Korea.

What they did  would be called piracy ,if any other country did the same.

Censures would be a better word.

It's just madness, bloody aid ships fgs

Piracy in my book.
They can say what they like about their troops only having Paintball guns' initially and its laughable them going on about how the people on the ship were armed with knives and sticks/batons etc., but if you were on a ship in international waters and were being boarded in the middle of the night by abunch of people waving guns, are you going to stop and ask if they are Paintball-guns or real ones?
I doubt it. You're going to arm yourself against the invader (with whatever comes to hand) first....and ask questions after.

We recognise Israel as a regional superpower in place to fight a proxy war against Iran. It's a secular democracy and is a huge market for western goods. That's the sort of place we like.................  apparently.

That's the irony.