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Well, one way or the other, the NGO would have won. If let through, Israel blockade would be challenged all the time. If they were arrested, it would attract attention on the cruel blockade.
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Would that have been better or worse than the attention they're currently getting?
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How do you competently and professionally keep a ship bigger than your intercepters from advancing?
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1. Send out an appropriately trained force.
2. I'm not an expert in the actual, technical methods, so I can't give you a blow-by-blow account, but whatever the Israeli equivalent of the GIGN is should be trained in doing precisely that. Other security forces manage to do it frequently, as I said, in the case of piracy, drugs and illegal immigration. If you want to ratchet things up a notch you could also compare it to hostage-taking situations which are more likely to go wrong, but it's still possible to make a good job of one if you know what you're doing.
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The videos in the article are quite interesting. It is indeed clear that the passangers there were willing to fight rather than just play passive resistance stuff.
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I could say the same about a football riot. The best solution for everyone involved still isn't to show up and shoot a bunch of people. As I've said before, in this case backing off and letting them through would still have been a better outcome than what actually happened.
I'm presuming that the guys in charge failed to elaborate clear ROE for the different situations they might encounter, so the people actually involved just fell back on self-defense when things got difficult.
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