Emerging

Per the Israeli inspectors:

• the actual humanitarian aid found on the flotilla ships consists of items that are not in short supply in Gaza;
• the ships also contained sacks of concrete and metal rods, which are among the materials Israel strives to keep out of Gaza as they are routinely confiscated by Hamas and used to build bunkers and manufacture weapons;
• the materials were loaded onto the ships in a haphazard manner, in violation of accepted international safety and operational standards such that they would "not be accepted in any port."

These are minor details in the larger scheme of things but they're indicative of something more important, which is that the "peace activists" clearly felt no need to make even a pretense of being on a legitimate humanitarian mission.  They were that confident in the gullibility and the rush to judgment of the "international community" that they didn't bother to worry about the window dressing.  Facts just weren't likely to get in the way.

Best question (and one of the best essays) of the day:  Don't members of the press ever resent being so used?  (Read it all.)