Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

Product Information

The same sentiment was recorded by Ben-Gurion on other occasions, such as at a meeting of the Jewish Agency executive in June 1938, [5] as well as by Chaim Weizmann. The first, found in Genesis 15:18–21, seems to define the land that was given to all of the children of Abram ( Abraham), including Ishmael, Zimran, Jokshan, Midian, etc. As Blumenthal reveals, Israel has become a country where right-wing leaders like Avigdor Lieberman and Bibi Netanyahu are sacrificing democracy on the altar of their power politics; where the loyal opposition largely and passively stands aside and watches the organized assault on civil liberties; where state-funded Orthodox rabbis publish books that provide instructions on how and when to kill Gentiles; where half of Jewish youth declare their refusal to sit in a classroom with an Arab; and where mob violence targets Palestinians and African asylum seekers scapegoated by leading government officials as "demographic threats. The author more than makes his point, that the very corrupted Israeli government and their vaunted military primarily used on defenseless Arabs and in many cases visiting journalist and peace nix leads most often to a deadly conclusion. I interviewed David Rotem, who is the author, or co-sponsor of most of these laws, at his home in Efrat, the Israeli settlement, mega settlement, in the West Bank.

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’. Ultimately, Goliath is more about Israel than it is about Palestine, though it is difficult to untwist the two. And after Dayan’s blitz into the city, an embedded reporter from the New York Herald Tribune surveyed the damage. Currently, the most common definition of the land encompassed by the term is the territory of the State of Israel together with the Palestinian territories. I have always wondered how such a sophisticated and cultured society as Germany could slide into fascism and was enlightened by Hannah Arendt's coverage of the Eichman trial and her observation about 'the banality of evil'.What I found when I went on my first sustained reporting trip in May 2009, by immersing myself immediately in the key institutions of Israeli life, was an attempt by these right wing forces to bring apartheid out in the open, to strip away the veneer of democracy, and get it over with. This kind of thinking may be held by Rabbis that are considered extreme – but it has seeped into the thinking of the IDF and allows them, to bombard and exterminate, cripple and destroy on the kind of industrial scale witnessed in ‘Operation Cast Lead’ and ‘Operation Protective Edge’. This is because this increase in possession is of consequence not only in itself, but because through it we increase our strength, and every increase in strength helps in the possession of the land as a whole.

Dieses Buch beschreibt die Politik und Geschichte Israels sowohl aus der Sicht der Zionisten als auch der vertriebenen Palästinenser und der nichtjüdischen Israelis.On September 14, 2008, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, formerly of Likud, remarked that "Greater Israel is over. Other definitions, favored by Revisionist Zionists, included the territory of the former Emirate of Transjordan and the Sinai Peninsula. added, in interviews that he gave in the past, that the two blue stripes on the Israeli flag represent the Nile and the Euphrates. One blog after another took whacks at Alterman’s credibility: He misspelled the name of novelist Yoram Kaniuk (true).

Als jüdischer US-Amerikaner, der Hebräisch und Arabisch versteht, hatte er dabei persönlichen Zugang zu erzkonservativen, kriegerischen Politikern und als linker Aktivist auch zu arabisch-israelischen Demonstranten und Bürgerrechtlern. Our possession is important not only for itself … through this we increase our power, and every increase in power facilitates getting hold of the country in its entirety. And she was held and interrogated at the airport for well over two hours in a humiliating interrogation that really was a form of poetic justice.None, however, have addressed the actual irrefutable evidence of past and present ethnic cleansing that the book documents. Blumenthal's book is packed with remarkable vignettes illustrating the dangerous path Israel is currently following. The more the world allows Israel to get away with what it’s doing, the more this becomes a possibility. The debate revolves around an unpleasant book published October 1 by Nation Books, titled “Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel.

Blumenthal hat viel Zeit in Israel und Palästina verbracht und unterschiedlichste Menschen interviewt. Early Revisionist Zionist groups such as Betar and Irgun Zvai-Leumi regarded the territory of the Mandate for Palestine, including Transjordan, as Greater Israel. This is an unflinching, unprecedented work of journalism which depicts a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly conservative authoritarian politics. Quote from a meeting of the Jewish Agency executive in June 1938: "[I am] satisfied with part of the country, but on the basis of the assumption that after we build up a strong force following the establishment of the state, we will abolish the partition of the country and we will expand to the whole Land of Israel. Rice managed to resolve these contradictions in her own mind by accepting the idea that there was something singular about a Jewish state that made these distinctions and their enforcement acceptable.Blumenthal shows how these divisions have been manipulated to create support for repressive measures against Palestinians and the recent wave of non-Jewish immigrants.