Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

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Been denied work permits, they are not allowed to work, and so many of them are living in desperate conditions, in south Tel Aviv, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Tel Aviv, one of the poorest areas in Israel, many of them are sleeping in Levinsky Park, because they can’t make a living.

They cannot be absorbed into the state because as Benjamin Netanyahu said, “They threaten the Jewish chara Max Blumenthal's analysis is informed and insightful, leading to the conclusion that the only just solution to the injustices in Israel/Palestine is a bi-national state where everyone is treated equally, regardless of their ethnicity or religion.The capture of the West Bank and Gaza Strip from Jordan and Egypt during the Six-Day War in 1967 led to the growth of the non-parliamentary Movement for Greater Israel and the construction of Israeli settlements. Der US-amerikanische Historiker, Journalist und Bestsellerautor Max Blumenthal hat sich insbesondere mit der Politik der Republikanischen Partei und Israels auseinandergesetzt. On September 14, 2008, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, formerly of Likud, remarked that "Greater Israel is over. He observes, “while Israel had always discriminated against its Palestinian minority as a matter of national policy, the ascent of [far-right party Yisrael Beitenu leader Avigdor] Lieberman and a rightist-dominated Likud faction signaled a collective vote in favor of stripping away whatever remained of the country’s democratic patina” (p. Masalha, Nur (1992), Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948, Inst for Palestine Studies, p.

You'll find yourself instantly immersed in an engrossing family romance-one part tender, one part train-wreck-and wish you had the entire day to keep reading. But, more than this, an ever increasing justification of the brutality they deal out to the indigenous occupants.Goldberg is editor emeritus of the Forward, where he served as editor in chief for seven years (2000-2007).

Blumenthal gives a convoluted answer that comes down to this: “There should be a choice placed to the settler-colonial population” (meaning the entire Jewish population of Israel): “Become indigenized,” that is, “you have to be part of the Arab world. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The debate revolves around an unpleasant book published October 1 by Nation Books, titled “Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel. And, the thing is, they really believe this garbage in the way that mothers can never contemplate that their sons may be guilty of horrendous crimes.

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. You will loose all your false allusions of our Middle East democratic ally, falsely claiming it is surrounded by hostile countries who wish to drive it into the sea on any given day. He stipulates that Israel’s “brutal occupation” inflicts “daily humiliations” on the Palestinians, but says Blumenthal “proves a profoundly unreliable narrator.