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2009-07-01 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israeli navy commandeers Gaza humanitarian aid boat

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Posted by Fred 2009-07-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 In a just world, the headline would read "Israeli Navy intercepts and captures blockade runner ship"

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-07-01 00:17|| 2009-07-01 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Israel should keep (or burn) this boat, and any more from now on. And levy a huge fine on everyone aboard to cover the cost of their operations. Make life as expensive as possible for the bozos.

Posted by PBMcL 2009-07-01 01:21|| 2009-07-01 01:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Keep the boat or I like the idea of levying a fine of 10 times it's value. Quarintine the cargo for months and then have it conviently disappear, perhaps in a crime. Don't laugh it would happpened if the cargo had reached it's intended destination.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2009-07-01 04:52|| 2009-07-01 04:52|| Front Page Top

#4 "No shots were fired during the boarding of the boat,"

Too bad.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-07-01 06:52|| 2009-07-01 06:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Idiots. A cop commandeers a civilian car during a chase. A naval vessel *seizes* a hostile vessel. Commandeering is the act of taking a private good for public usage with the intent of reimbursing the owner, or otherwise making good the usage. Seizure requires no such representation, and offers no such expectation, as the property in question was taken from an actor, a criminal, smuggler, or purported enemy of the state.

English is a language with vast and contradictory dictionaries to its name, but remarkable few actual synonyms are found within their pages.

"The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-07-01 09:36|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-07-01 09:36|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm thinking that a double strand of marine det cord running the length of the bottom of the hull would be such a novel approach to scuttling the boat that it would be lucky indeed that an Israeli craft was there to rescue survivors.

If done properly, it would look like a structural failure.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-07-01 11:44|| 2009-07-01 11:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Next time we'll send Ellegon to burn them.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-07-01 11:47|| 2009-07-01 11:47|| Front Page Top

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