"Israel is now a lunatic state," Norman Finkelstein tells RT TV.
This is "The Madman Theory" championed unironically by Nixon in Indo-China, which Chomsky has described; "The concept was apparently devised in Israel in the 1950s by the governing Labor Party, whose leaders "preached in favor of acts of madness," Prime Minister Moshe Sharett records in his diary, warning that "we will go crazy" ("nishtagea") if crossed, a "secret weapon" aimed in part against the U.S., not considered sufficiently reliable at the time. In the hands of the world’s sole superpower, which regards itself as an outlaw state and is subject to few constraints from elites within, that stance poses no small problem for the world."
Especially, as Finkelstein points out, because Israel is now a nuclear state.
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