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Amid censorship, Israeli media does its part
In the end, Israel's makeshift prison camp at Ashdod got its money's worth.
Though the victims of last night's attack on one of the aid ships were quietly ferried to Haifa amid secrecy, the Israeli press had already arrived at Ashdod, and their they remained, dutifully covering the five ships that were captured without a massacre.
The massacre ship has been placed under the sort of stringent military censorship one has come to expect from Israel, with the only information about the slain and the injured passing through Israel's chief military censor, and only "approved" photos and videos made available to spin the Israeli attack in as positive a light as possible.
Faced with an official story from the military that flies in the face of all reason and a domestic population so jingoistic that there are now calls for boycotts of Turkey for complaining about the massacre and reports of Israelis flocking to the coast to "support" the attack, Israel's media has chosen the low road, the one carefully couched in patriotism and praise for the right-far-right coalition government.