Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

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Anyone who thinks he knows what is happening in Israel and its occupied territories will think again after reading this great work. But at the same time, Yousef mentioned my last book which was a best seller, and it was a best seller because I was able to get fresh air in the main stream media. Goliath lifts the carefully maintained veil concealing the reality of Israel as it actually is today, a reality that is elided in most reportage from the region. One blog after another took whacks at Alterman’s credibility: He misspelled the name of novelist Yoram Kaniuk (true).

The 1977 elections, which brought Likud to power also had considerable impact on acceptance and rejection of the term. The corpses of Arab men, women, and even children were strewn about in the wake of the ruthlessly brilliant charge. It is not merely a specific condemnation of Zionism, an extended commentary, or investigative reporting. The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Forward. You will have Israel with democracy for Jews and votes for Palestinian Israelis but with institutionalised discrimination against them in areas such as property rights or army service (only Jews are allowed to do national service which is mandatory, with Bedouin recruits used for the ‘grunt’ jobs: there is no role for Palestinians).When you fly there you fly to Tel Aviv, it says “TLV” when you fly in, but you are not actually flying into Tel Aviv. And so, I think we have been looking at these laws, a lot of these laws are opposed by liberal groups inside Israel like the Associations for Civil Rights in Israel.

There’s an unpleasant little debate sloshing around the Web lately that tells you all you need to know — and perhaps more than you want to hear — about the current state of relations between Israel and the left. Exposure to the impressions from his journey through the Land of Israel-Palestine might be outrageous, unsettling, often heart wrenching. Blumenthal shows how these divisions have been manipulated to create support for repressive measures against Palestinians and the recent wave of non-Jewish immigrants. And now you are seeing an active Students for Justice in Palestine chapter really defining the atmosphere and debate around this issue. What sets in eventually is a highly militaristic society who are totally controlled by fear of another holocaust which is always left hanging over their heads.Petra Marquardt-Bigman (February 17, 2014) Free speech and antisemitism: Max Blumenthal's Goliath The Jerusalem Post; accessed February 14, 2016. But he did not annex the West Bank and Gaza to Israel after he took office, reflecting a recognition that absorbing the Palestinians could turn Israel into a bi-national state instead of a Jewish one. He is from Lieberman’s party but unlike Lieberman, who’s an atheist, he’s a religious nationalist who was one of the original Gush Emunim settlers, he was a lawyer for the Gush Emunim. The reason isn’t because they are immigrants, they are not citizens, the reason is because they are not Jews.

The Israeli’s are indignant that anyone should object, arguing that in Gaza civilians are used as human shields by Hamas, and that many were actually deliberately killed by Hamas, or, more crudely, ‘there are no innocents in Gaza’. Greater Israel ( Hebrew: ארץ ישראל השלמה, Eretz Yisrael Hashlema) is an expression, with several different biblical and political meanings over time. Because the mood of the Israeli public, particularly young Jewish Israelis was one of frustration with an endless peace process. A] bold and shocking book, presenting persuasively a major theoretical and polemical argument about Israel almost completely at odds with the image most Americans have of it.THE seed was sown in 1977, when Menachem Begin of Likud brought his party to power for the first time in a stunning election victory over Labor. In Deutschland wurde Max Blumenthal durch das sogenannte Toilettengate bekannt, als er im Deutschen Bundestag zusammen mit dem Israeli David Sheen den Linken-Politiker Gregor Gysi bedrängte, um Antworten auf tatsächliche oder vermeintliche Diffamierungen zu bekommen.

nonsense about the blue stripes on the flag, which was designed according to the colours of the traditional tallit (prayer shawl) . These are the terms used by Jewish and Palestinian activists to describe the situation in Israel and the occupied territories. He catalogues a long list of discriminatory legislation—some passed into law, others under deliberation—meant to marginalize Palestinian citizens of Israel as a permanent fifth column. This can only end in a bloodbath, may be not tomorrow but eventually unless compromises are made by the leaders of Israel and those of the Palestinians. His book, Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party, was a New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller.Riding into Lydda in an armored car he dubbed the “Terrible Tiger” at the helm of the 89th Commando Battalion was a little known career soldier. He personally witnessed improper and outrageous behavior by Israeli citizens and their soldiers and he brings the Israeli Knesset into full perspective. shows in forensic detail the reality of the Israeli mainstream's embrace blatant racism against Arabs and Africans. Annexation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip was part of the platform of the mainstream Israeli Likud party, and of some other, often more extreme Israeli political parties.