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"UN Resolutions mean nothing to Israel." - but they seem to mean something to the rest of the world, no? Last I checked, Lebanon is not Israel. So if you give Lebanon the right to ignore the UN demarcation, then you better shut up if Israel does the same.

"Seriously, raiding a ship in International waters killing 9 people? Thats a huge violation of international law" - actually, only people ignorant of what international law says still believe that. To wit, former minister of justice and expert in international law Hikmet Sami Turk, who said that the Mavi Marmara should have taken upon itself to procure the proper documents authorizing it to sail in international waters. It did not, however, because the Turkish government, citing the large number of passengers, would not provide the ship with the necessary papers. Thus, he said, the organizers of the flotilla appealed to the Comoro Islands (off the east coast of Africa), whose policy of providing documents of authorization is more liberal and where any document of authorization can be had for the right price (June 4, 2010). [...]According to international naval law, a ship is suspected of not sailing under a national flag, it is legitimate to board [forces] on such a ship, even in time of peace. If a ship flies two or more flags and exploits them for its own interests because it does not belong to a specific nationality, it will be considered a vessel without nationality. The Mavi Marmara was flying the Comoros flag, but [de facto] it was sailing under the Turkish flag. "Under international law, the situation created full legitimization for Israel to board it by force."

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@mweather
And when UN ceases being a mouthpiece of racists and hate mongers and starts fulfilling its mandate of being a honest and impartial international governing body, Israel will listen what it has to say. Deal?

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"If you want to play the game of who is killing majority of unarmed civilians" - again you and your ruler fixation? It's not a matter of who's killing how many. It is a matter of who's doing the killing. Why, look how apropos:

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=183846
"camp residents told The Media Line that Hamas was using the house to store weapons. Neighbors said that in the past they had appealed to Hamas to cease their activities in the camp, but were quickly silenced."

"but its the IDF who has the ability to avoid civilian casualties" - oh, do tell us how to do it and I am sure we'll implement it right away. Do you think we have some kind of "Hamas-only-searching-smart-bomb" ? Thanks for the credit, but unfortunately for the Gazans (who are smarter than you and know that Hamas close by puts them in danger not of their choosing), that is not part of the IDF arsenal.

Interesting that none of the "children" your site mentions was near the border at the time. But let's see how Hamas likes their own children:

http://newsblaze.com/story/20081229092838zzzz.nb/topstory.html
"A Hamas representative in the PA legislative council this year expressed pride in the fact that women and children are used as human shields in fighting Israel. He described it as part of a "death industry" at which Palestinians excel, and explained that the Palestinians "desire death" with the same intensity that Israelis "desire life."
The following is the full text of the comments by Hamas representative Fathi Hamad: "For the Palestinian people death became an industry, at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad fighters against the Zionist bombing machine, as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: We desire death as you desire life.""

Don't blame Israel for Hamas' own murderous 'tactics'.

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