[lbo-talk] more on lunatic state

[Dennis Claxton]

I just watched the Finkelstein RT interview and don't know if this 
has come up here but he appears to be taking the term "lunatic state" 
from Israeli policymakers themselves.  Does anyone know where he got this?

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=128748&sectionid=3510302

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Of course, Israel in part wants to convey the fact that it is out of 
control. For example after the Gaza massacre, several Israeli 
officials said that the reason they carried on the way they did in 
Gaza was because they wanted to show that they are capable of acting 
like a mad dog and capable of acting like a lunatic state. But the 
question now is... are they only "acting" like a mad dog and a 
lunatic or have they really "become" a lunatic?

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