Gotta love the MSM coverage, though. 1% on the massacre itself, 99% on the reaction. One CNN caption referred to reaction to "the battle" on the refugee ships, oddly reminiscent of Lt. Calley, after lawyering up, invariably referring, not to My Lai, not to the massacre, but to "the Battle of My Lai." Some fucking battle - - unarmed Turkish relief providers versus heavily armed Israeli commandos.
The "reaction" was hilarious too - - very even-handed. On the one hand, mobs of Turks or Arabs jumping up and down and screaming incoherently in the streets, on the other hand, well-dressed, university-educated Israelis or their spokespeople speaking near-perfect English and speaking about rights of self-defence (self-defence in committing an act of piracy on the high seas!) and "terrorism" - - the story became the reaction, and not only the crime but the victims and their families were buried in an avalanche of "reaction" stories.
You gotta hand it to the Jews - - we have the best damned PR machine that money can buy. And the fucking morons that constitute the American public will eat right out of its hand time after time after time after time. If they could swallow the Gaza massacres without a hiccup, this little misunderstanding will go down like a pina colada on a hot day. Wanna bet what the net consequences to Israel will be for this cold-blooded massacre of foreign aid workers? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. The Great Satan and the Little Satan, BFF.