From Gaza to YouTube

I would have wished for more detail, but it does seem pretty clear from this IDF video that there was a quite a riot aboard that Turkish-sponsored cruise ship trying to run the blockade off Gaza. One of the Israeli marines was almost certainly "thrown to a lower deck," as it's generally phrased--thrown off a roof onto a parking lot, in landlubber's terms. Nobody seems to be asking the obvious question: whatever happened to passive resistance? "They are people who seek martyrdom for Allah, as much as they want to reach Gaza, but the first is more desirable," in the words of one admirer. 

Max Boot has some sensible thoughts on this debacle. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford