A Slog reader alerts the occupants of Slogger’s Roost to this neat bit of photo-cropping by Reuters to remove knives and pools of Israeli blood from the original ship boarded by Israel, the Marva Marmara

The site Little Green Footballs spotted this trick not once but twice…and has also unearthed (like us) that the vessel is owned by Hamas-linked Turkish anti-Israeli organisation IHH.

This isn’t so much conspiracy theory as conspiracy in practice.

I’m indebted to comment threader Ethan for bringing this to the attention of our global readership.

Meanwhile, in Turkey crowds took to the streets in several cities to vent fury after the storming of a Turkish passenger boat in the flotilla that left at least nine dead, most of them believed to be Turkish nationals.

“Damn Israel!”, “A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye, revenge, revenge!” yelled protesters in Istanbul where about 10,000 people converged on the central Taksim square after marching from the Israeli consulate.

“Turkish soldiers to Gaza,” shouted some, as others torched Israeli flags.

“I call on the government to expel the Israeli consul… And if necessary, we are ready for war,” Seref Mangal, 40, told AFP. A banner carried by the crowd read: “Close down the Zionist embassy.”

In the capital Ankara about 1,000 people gathered outside the residence of Israeli ambassador Gabby Levy and shouted “Damn the Zionist murderers!” and “Israel will drown in the blood of the martyrs!”.

And these folks want to be in the EU……