>Would we say that Israeli commandos attacked the flotilla because
>Israel has an unusally high percentage of leaders ( people ?) who are
>lunatics ?
I wouldn't and I can't think of anyone who has. Finkelstein knows how to work television and he asked a provocative question. That's the story there.
>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?