Are these really humanitarian efforts?

[Rich Schroeder]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3899131,00.html

[J Scott]

Originally posted by Tom Cullen:

The following is radio traffic between the IDF Navy and one of the turkish "humanitarian" flotilla vessels:

I have no idea what happened (the truth is likely somewhere in the middle), but Israel has already admitted that they manipulated the released recordings (including the one you quoted):

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=289874

While again, I have no idea what happened (and don't want to argue speculation, as I have a feeling people here would be surprised by my opinions on this), I'm always skeptical when a government has to censor/doctor/manipulate evidence that it releases, regardless of whether I support that government or not...