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  Back to the point. As David H has pointed out the 'commando's sent in were not elite troops and the amount of camera coverage they were met with shows that the organisers of the "aid convoy' were expecting them and were prepared to make a propoganda point out of it.
  No Brian they were not 'peacefully going about their business', they were preparing to run a well known and well publicised blockade. That the Isreali blockade goes far too far in the things it prevents getting to the Gaza Strip is clear but so to is their reason for fearing the importation of weaponry under cover of 'aid convoys'.
  
  Had the Isreali's meant to do more than stop and deter this convoy then the past history of their military and Mossad would show that they would have done a better job. Had it not been as much a propoganda exercise as an aid mission there would probably have been less camera's ready and the response to armed boarders would probably have included knives as well as iron bars. Being a natural cynic, if I was an Isreali I would really want to check out the Irish ship that held back from the convoy and then headed in.
  
  Questions do need to be raised about the whole fiasco, but of both sides. The Isreali's need to be persuaded that their criteria for the blockade needs serious investigation, partucularly on the basic food and medical supplies they are preventing from getting through. At the same time the motives of the organisers of the convoy could do with some intensive scrutiny.
  
  Rant over.

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