Israel has every right to monitor what is coming in on those ships. In fact they would be crazy not to do so. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to deduct that some of the activists (see radicals) on board became aggressive. members of the boarding (policing) party were attacked and even disarmed. Under any circumstances and involving any group or groups this is asking for the use of deadly force, and justifiably so. A 60 year old can kill you just as dead as a 25 year old. I see no room for any argument other than a necessary and justified use of deadly force. Any court in this country would see it that way too. Just check the records for police deadly force cases.

Israel has as much or more of a historical claim to that land as anybody.

Anyone who actually believes that Israel is as "corrupt" as countries who sanction the beating of women for allowing modest attire or sentence women to death because they were raped is either blinded by hatred or an idiot.