Israel would have been better off to simply sink the ships at night, with torpedoes or missiles, and be done with it. That this was a propaganda excercise designed to discredit Israel was widely known well before the ships set sail, otherwise why object to unloading in Ashdod or Egypt?

Israel, if she wants to survive, must stop acting like a feminized Western nation (Whiskey is quite right about that) and start acting more like Russia or China. You don’t see anyone proposing aid convoys on land to Chechneya or to the Muslims in China, do you?

The USA could learn a lesson from this as well. Coddling your enemies only hurts you,and people will condemn you no matter what you do, so you might as well act in your own interest.