One of the shooters had flyers for some of the protests, so it was assumed they could be targets if there were more than 2 of them.

I responded to a ludicrous claim that oil infrastructure wasn’t a military target. Iran is immaterial.

They have been since April last year so I don’t know what news you’ve been reading.

Never mentioned Iran.

You can filter for manually installed packages yes.

I made no justification of the current strike.

Oil refineries are military targets. Guess what militaries need to get anywhere or do anything. That’s why Ukraine is going after Russian refineries, as did Turkey in Syria. It’s why the Iraqis destroyed oil fields.

But they do.

Example.

Sooo if the Co-pilot is killed or incapacitated, everyone who would otherwise fly away to safety would die because….?

There’s a reason that almost every aircraft in the world can be flown by a single person.

Maybe stress is appropriate to people who kill people for a living?

Third time’s the charm

Then you have been reading shitty reporting. The BBC, and the major UK news sites have all reported the nationality of the accused, once that information was confirmed officially. Reporting in greater detail is illegal due to the age of the accused and the alleged victim, and the simple fact that the incident remains under investigation and pending legal proceedings so the police and prosecutors are not going to make any details public.

On a linguistic level yes. The ancient Greeks named the islands after the Prythonic tribes, who were active in Britannia and Hibernia (Ireland).

On a don’t-annoy-the-alarm-clock-aficionados level, nope. This guy isn’t with me. Never met them.

They’re still using the Nazi rockets so not really.

Don’t feed the trolls, don’t get the mogwai damp, and definitely don’t praise the Fr*nch.

And international law says they can sieze the boat.

Their twisted argument is that the terrorists live among the people therefore any action against the terrorists also harms the people, and any effort to aid the people aids the terrorists. So aid = terrorism.

Distinction isn’t made. A civilian ship could be conducting or supporting military operations (see Q ships, zelensky’s “civilian” container trucks etc).

As with many things, it basically comes down to who has the bigger gun. Until a naval power pulls its finger out and starts escorting relief ships, Israel is at liberty to seize them.

Do they think the floridly theatrical condescension makes them look like the good guys here?

All legal under the letter of international law pertaining to military engagement. That it is in international waters is irrelevant legally speaking. See the legal grounds for the sinking of Belgrano for a clearer example. As long as they can think of a halfway credible excuse that they think the vessel will cause aid to their enemy, they have the right to interdict it in international waters.