Nothing Could Be Easier

Than getting the government of Israel to make itself more enemies. Here, Nadav Tamir (a Consul-General for Israel in the USA) Hamas, Israel, and the Gaza flotilla: seven facts you need to know explains how Israel was defending itself from the well-known terrorists in Gaza. Unfortunately, the world at large doesn't see things exactly in the same way.
This is not at all an unusual occurrence. The state of israel seems to be almost wierdly tone deaf when it comes to the view of people who are actually sympathetic to the Palestinians. OF COURSE the "Aid Fleet" was intended to make Israel look bad. Thanks to the actions of Israel, it succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of the instigators. Haaretz, the pretty-much mouthpiece of the Israeli government, op-edded that the United States acted like a turncoat for not unconditionally supporting any- and every- thing Israel does. It's one of the hazards, of course, of being a client state of the US. Eventually, the boss will decide you're interfering in it's agenda, causing too much trouble. And it's not as if Israel wasn't warned. But, in their resolute tone-deafness, they didn't hear the warning.
Conclusion: the Israelis are a bunch of knee-jerk chumps: Pavlov would be pleased.
Conclusion 2: the terms Middle East and Peace should not appear in the same article.
Unless you're telling a joke.