Stopping to search a vessel is one thing, ordering special forces to raid it and kill civilians is not even a comparison.
But that sort of response should have been expected of Israel considering it's treatment of Palestine.
And no fuckwad,
no reasonable cop is gonna
shoot you in AUS for coming at them with a bat or pole. That's why they're issued with batons & tasers in addition to a firearm.
IDF commandos were either ordered to kill a good couple of civies or are a bunch trigger happy N'Yahoos who just love killing. The later is not synonymous with the term commando.
Activists aboard Mavi Marmara speak of shock at rapid attacks and deny assaults on Israeli commandos this report has more credibility than anything the IDF puts out.
"[The attack] was a surprise, because it happened in the middle of the night, in the darkness, in international waters, because we knew there would be a confrontation but not in international waters. Their first tactic was to cut all of our satellite communications and then they attacked. All I witnessed first hand was the shooting. They came on board and started shooting at people."
"We expected them to shoot people in the legs, to shoot in the air, just to scare people, but they were direct," she said, in a separate interview with the Folha de São Paulo newspaper. "Some of them shot in the passengers' heads. Many people were murdered – it was unimaginable."
Maybe we'll just treat number of dead like the Palestinian body count you refer to as