<<A little BBC footage .>>
Yeah, a VERY little BBC footage. Barely 60 seconds worth. 45 seconds more or less of onboard action, if you don't count the shots of approaching speedboats and Palestinian flags. Covering maybe 15 to 20 feet field of vision of the camera, and that's being generous. Considering that if even 50% of the passengers had cameras there would have been hundreds of individual records of the events, ALL of them confiscated by the Israelis once the ship was seized and thoroughly searched, NONE of them released to date except the snippet we've just seen.
<<Still shows men with guns being clubbed .>>
We already knew that.
<<No sign that anyone was shot before the clubbing.>>
What? In the entire 45 seconds -20-foot field of vision, absolutely NOTHING? Well that's conclusive evidence alright. Nothing could possibly have happened before the film was shot or outside the field of vision of the camera. Nothing at all. Move on, folks, move right along.
<<I am a bit surprised tho that the incident happened 40 miles to sea, this is like stopping a shoplifter before they leave the store , they should have waited .>>
Yeah, how much better to kill innocent unarmed aid workers inside your three-mile limit, geeze in fact why not wait till they LANDED in Gaza, then kill them on dry land like the 1400 Gazans killed in the invasion of Gaza, there's nothing like legitimacy to make a massacre of unarmed people go down easy in the eyes of the world.
<<Can't fault the IDF otherwise , on the BBC footage it really looks as if the guy with the gun is attempting to avoid shooting the jerk that is smacking him with a stick.>>
LOL. Why do you think, of all the available footage taken by passengers, the IDF is releasing THESE particular 45 seconds' worth and no more? Because somebody just like you is going to think, jeeze, <<it really looks as if the guy with the gun is attempting to avoid shooting the jerk that is smacking him with a stick.>> Anything that even looks like someone with a gun is NOT trying to avoid shooting anybody else, with or without a piece of ship's railing in their hand, is not going to be released. Anything that even looks like unarmed people are being gunned down is not going to be released. You are seeing exactly what the IDF chooses to show you, nothing more. You are not seeing any other footage the passengers shot, because almost every second of it has been seized by the IDF and not returned until they've determined it's harmless.
Classic case of control and manipulation of information and you and millions like you swallow it hook, line and sinker.
<<Since this was a planned bit of theater there should have been more cameras around , perhaps there were but the pictures captured make the IDF look too good for publishing.>>
ROTFLMFAO. Yeah, that must be it. There is other stuff the IDF confiscated from the passengers but won't release now because, aw shucks, guys, we're just too modest. We don't want to look TOO good now, you folks will start to think we're just tooting our own horns a little too much.
