Israel gave 'licence to kill' on Gaza ship: Israeli Arab MP - Polidicks

[quote] AMMAN — Outspoken Arab Israeli MP Haneen Zuabi on Tuesday told a UN human rights inquiry into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that its commandos had a "licence to kill." "I told the UN investigators in Amman that the Israeli attack was violent from the start and that the Israelis had a clear licence to kill, and they did not even try to avoid the bloodshed," Zuabi told AFP. She was a passenger on the Mavi Marmara ferry trying to bust Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip when nine Turkish activists were killed on May 31 in an Israeli commando raid. "I sensed that the investigators were serious about the probe. They asked clear questions and I gave them clear answers. I stressed that the Israeli commandos wanted to kill the activists, who were unarmed." Israel says its naval commandos only resorted to force after being attacked as they reached the deck of the ferry, but the activists insist the soldiers started firing first. Zuabi, an MP with Balad, a left-wing Arab nationalist party, sparked outrage in Israel for taking part in the pro-Palestinian protest flotilla. In July, Israel's parliament voted to strip Zuabi of her diplomatic passport and parliamentary funding for legal defence. The UN investigators arrived in Amman on Sunday to interview most of the 33 Jordanians on board the ship. The mission is to report back to the UN Human Rights Council at its next session on September 13-October 11. The three experts mandated by the UN rights council have already interviewed unspecified witnesses in London and Geneva, and have met the Turkish and Israeli ambassadors in Geneva. Israeli officials have rejected the council's mission as biased. [/quote] Source: [url]http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jyceUnR-4-dcM58DbwD_5vfpFmuA[/url]

Well to be honest I'd have the urge to kill people who attacked my workmates and close friends, but still no excuse for what happened :colbert:

The only new evidence is the testimony from someone who isn't really unbiased and this is supposed to be convincing? Don't we already have footage of the commandos going onto the ship showing they didn't use lethal force initially and thus didn't go onto the ship with the intent to kill immediately?

Every soldier has a 'license to kill' if the enemy is deemed an opposing threat. Amazingly stupid comment from the Member of Knesset. [editline]10:58PM[/editline] And they did try and "avoid bloodshed"... They didn't use lethal force when first boarding the boats.

She was in the lower decks anyway, she doesn't know shit about what happened in the upper decks when the commandos came.

NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN Jesus, if they had a "licence to kill" why not just blow up the entire ship?

[QUOTE=A Dead Guy;24565536]NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN Jesus, if they had a "licence to kill" why not just blow up the entire ship?[/QUOTE] Cause it was a politically tense situation involving a flotilla of ships filled with civilians, and the entire world watching them, blowing them up would have been suicide for Israel.

[QUOTE=bravehat;24565662]Cause it was a politically tense situation involving a flotilla of ships filled with civilians, and the entire world watching them, blowing them up would have been suicide for Israel.[/QUOTE] They could have tried to blow up the propellers and tow the ships back to the shore but there was a greater risk that it would do a lot more damage so they sent in commandos, putting them at risk as well.

*james bond theme music*