The "Humanitarians" brought not only food to Gaza, but violence and hatred against Israel.

Hello Con, Readers. 3rd round: I would like to make the following point clear: Not only that I think, I'm sure, that most of the 600 people onboard the ship were good people, with good intentions, and only wanted to help the people in Gaza. Unfortunately, the group which led to the violence was a group of terrorists, who had different goals, Main points: 1) I quote from Con's 2nd round: "Why can Hamas not have weapons yet Israel is allowed to equip the IDF?" The reason is simple. Hamas is a TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. ("The governments of the European Union, Israel, Japan, Canada, and the United States classify Hamas as a terrorist organization" - http://en.wikipedia.org... ). It uses its weapons not only to defend its self, but also (and mainly) to attack civilians. I have given enough explanations and examples during the previous rounds, but if you hadn't had enough please see http://en.wikipedia.org... . Unlike Hamas, Israel (a sovereign state, not a terrorist organization) does NOT act for killing or harming innocent citizens. As I already explained, citizens being killed are those who unfortunately had Co-operated with Hamas, or were forced by Hamas to co-operate. (Co-operation means hosting missile launchers in their houses, hosting Hama's activists in their homes, etc) You see, this whole thing works like this: Hamas acts for harming Israeli citizens and army forces. Therefore Israel defends its self by killing Hamas's activists. These activists know they can use this for gaining sympathy by making Israel harm innocent population, ‘on the way'. They use babies and children as ‘human shields', shooting from homes, building their bases under the hospital, etc. Israel does its best not to harm population while attacking Hamas's activists, but some cases are unavoidable. Once Israel has no threats such as Hamas, there will be no need of an army and weapons. Israel uses weapon for defense, Hamas uses it mostly to harm civilians, as its targets. That's why Israel should equip weapons, and Hamas must not. "As mentioned in the comments, people's houses are being knocked down." That's not accurate. TERORRISTS houses are being knocked down. Get this out of your head, IDF is not a maniac, It does not ruin people's homes for fun, or to make them suffer. This is done as a warning for terrorists, just like I explained in the comment section. The goal is to make the terrorists understand this: You commit suicide and kill civilians -> your house will be destroyed -> you may be in heaven, but your family is more close hell. You care about your family, don't you? -> DON'T DO IT. you ask why harming his family? a) they let him suicide in order to kill civilians, they could prevent it. b) he's dead, you can't kill him. c) His family is important to him. The house destruction is done to warn the terrorists, not to punish their families. If the terrorist knows his family will suffer for his actions, (we hope) he'll think twice and wont kill innocents. Relating to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands words (see my Round 2, Section 1 - near the end) Dear Con. You claim the blockade was not declared properly, or was not known to the people in the convoy, am I right? - " ‘assuming that the blockade was properly announced' – Dancing on the head of a pin is the term, I think. This makes of breaks this quote." Dancing on the head of a pin: In modern usage, this question serves as a metaphor for wasting time debating topics of no practical value. (http://en.wikipedia.org... ) Well, this has a practical value. It shows that blocking the ships was legal. I understand you are "breaking this quote" by saying the blockade was not properly announced. Please watch the following video a few times, (though I've linked it to my previous round) and let me know if you still stand for "Dancing on the head of a pin". I quote from the video: Israeli navy: "Mavi Marmara, you are approaching an area of hostility which is under a naval blockade. The Gaza area, coastal region and Gaza harbor are all closed to maritime traffic. The Israeli government supports delivery of humanitarian supplies to the civilian population in the Gaza strip, and invites you to enter the Ashdod port. Delivery of the supplies in accordance with the authority's regulations will be through the formal land crossings and under your observation after which, you can return to your home ports aboard the vessels on which you arrived." Mavi Marmara: "Negative, negative. Our destination is Gaza." It was properly announced. They knew what they were doing, and what the sequences are. 2) as a respond to me saying the following: "One of the differences between terror and a military action is that terror is done without warning." the Con said: " Flanking – Attacking the enemy without warning from the rear/side. Military assassinations – Covert operatives attacking from an undisclosed location to disrupt the enemy by eliminating key members of the opposing force. I think both are done without warning." You could also say that shooting your enemy from behind without calling his mobile to tell him is "done without warning." – because, well, it is… but that's not what I meant. The convoy was warned that it's entering to Gaza strip is not allowed. I don't think Hamas warns every restaurant or coffee house before he sends his suiciders to bomb inside them. Con: "Since when is a pistol not a combat gun? Combat is engaging with an enemy/prey etc and trying to defeat them, simplest way in this era is to have superior weaponry." Pistol is a small and less effective kind of a ‘combat gun'. (M-16, Uzi, Ak-47 – these are ‘Combat guns'.) The pistols were carried, again, as a self defense device for a case things get so violent there is a threat of life. The soldier's lives were threatened, so they were forced to use their pistols. 3) "given the evidence of Israel's behavior in the past of allowing aid into Gaza, they would have held a lot of it back." Israel holds back only what could be used as a weapon, such as large knives, slingshots, a few electric generators or things that are not nessecery for the gaza population to survive and have a good chance to serve Hamas as a weapon tool. " The consumption of these raw materials into weapons is in a minority" - This is correct, I hope. and therefore Israel does not hold back every metal piece or electrical device. Only things with a high chance to be dangerous are held back. I would like to end my round here, and I'll refer to the last point in my final round.