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Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

Blumenthal, Max

Paperback

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyIsrael & Palestine History

ISBN10: 1568589514
ISBN13: 9781568589510
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Published: Aug 26 2014
Pages: 520
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
From a New York Times bestselling author, a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under siege as the Palestinian occupation deepens.

An eye-opening and stunningly insightful book about the dramatic plight of a country central to America's political fortunes. --Glenn Greenwald, New York Times bestselling author of No Place to Hide

Beginning with the national elections carried out during Israel's war on Gaza in 2008-09, which brought into power the country's most right-wing government to date, Blumenthal tells the story of Israel in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo peace process.

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.

Blumenthal interviews the demagogues and divas in their homes, in the Knesset, and in the watering holes where their young acolytes hang out, and speaks with those political leaders behind the organized assault on civil liberties. As his journey deepens, he painstakingly reports on the occupied Palestinians challenging schemes of demographic separation through unarmed protest.

Through his far-ranging travels, Blumenthal illuminates the present by uncovering the ghosts of the past: the histories of Palestinian neighborhoods and villages now gone and forgotten; how that history has set the stage for the current crisis of Israeli society; and how the Holocaust has been turned into justification for occupation.

A brave and unflinching account of the real facts on the ground, Goliath is an unprecedented and compelling work of journalism.

Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book Award

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