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why did Israel take the bait? Here is the answer:
Israel cannot allow ships to go directly to Gaza for security reasons. Innocent Israeli families are threatened daily with missile attacks launched from Gaza, and Israel must make sure weapons are not being smuggled into Gaza in humanitarian cargoes. Israel offered to offload all humanitarian supplies on board this ship and deliver them to Gaza.
These Turkish ships know that the U.N. will deliver any and all humanitarian supplies after first examining shipments to make sure they contain no weapons. Thus it appears they deliberately provoked this incident for propaganda purposes.
Israeli commanders were attacked and beaten by the humanitarian workers on this ship who were armed with iron bars and knives. One soldier was thrown off an upper deck and fell thirty feet to the deck below, sustaining significant injuries to his head.
Israeli soldiers repeatedly told each other Dont shoot! Dont shoot! as they rappelled to the surface of the ship. They fired only as a last resort and in self-defense.
According to the Weekly Standard, the organization behind this flotilla belongs to the Union of Good, which was created for the specific purpose of transferring tens of millions of dollars a year to Hamas-controlled entities in the Gaza Strip and whose leaders have been designated by our State Department as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
If you could read the posts before you would understand that all the arguments that you have put forward have been nullified.