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[meanfreepath]

Why does Israel have to be put on the defensive internationally after its commandos use limited force in response to being attacked with potentially deadly weapons? Would anyone be complaining if the men and women of the US Navy were to use lethal force to defend themselves in the course of interdicting Somali pirates?

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[ccommack]

Various corners of the internet also point out that it ought to be easy for a modern navy with precision gunnery and/or frogmen to simply disable a merchant ship and then tow it into port at leisure. They say this assuming that the IDF had this option and deliberately chose not to take it; given how many stories I hear about the IDF involve rank incompetence at the institutional level, I wouldn't even assume that much.

[meanfreepath.livejournal.com]

Not necessarily. Operations with frogmen, to say blow off a propeller, are fraught with risk for the attacking side. Modern naval gunnery is precise, but there's an even greater risk of a shell/missile missing its intended target and causing more loss of life than a boarding party, or rendering the entire ship unseaworthy.

[ccommack]

Like I said, I don't necessarily trust the IDF to know how to pull off basic tasks.