Norm Finkelstein Calls Israel "Lunatic State"

It is truly amazing to watch the reaction of the "world community" to Israel's interception of the Gaza flotilla and the killing of a bunch of pipe and knife-wielding "humanitarian activists". Here we have the UN Security Council calling an emergency session so they can issue yet another condemnation of Israel. What else is new? Over the years, the UN has condemned tiny Israel more than all other nations combined.

Of course, in Europe, everybody is running out on the streets to protest against Israel. It seems Europeans have learned how to say, "Death to Israel" in Arabic and Farsi.

Then there is Grease, (yes Grease)that old country in the Mediterranean with a great past, miserable present and no future. As we speak, thousands of Greasers are joining with their foreign panhandlers in the streets to protest Israel-now that they have spent themselves complaining about their own lousy country. Here you have a nation that cannot run its own affairs and they are telling Israel how to run theirs.

Then there is the Great Independent Scholar with a PHD from Princeton, Norman Finkelstein, last seen two weeks ago at UC-Irvine making a fool out of himself. Guess who is seeking out his views on the issue? None other than Russia Today out of Moscow, who interviewed Finklestein from New York.



Note how Finkelstein, whom many consider a "lunatic", now calls Israel a "lunatic state". Note how he talks about Israel "threatening its neighbors, Iran and Lebanon". Excuse me, but isn't Iran the nation whose leader has threatened to wipe Israel off the map? As for Lebanon, isn't that where Hezbollah is firmly entrenced? Didn't Hezbollah's leader recently state that all Jews should gather in Israel so they wouldn't have to hunt them down world-wide?

But I digress.

Isn't it also ironic that Finkelstein is relating all this to a Russian TV audience. If I remember, Russia has quite a history of "threatening its neighbors". If you talk to people in Georgia and Ukraine, they will tell you that Russia is still a threat to them.

Oh, the righteous indignation of the "world community"-whose moral compass has been turned upside down. Here you have a tiny country the size of New Jersey, surrounded by some twenty Arab nations with hundreds of millions of people who want to annihilate them. But as soon as Israel engages in any self-defense, the "world community" is outraged.