Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

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According to the UN, at least 700,000 Israeli settlers live in illegal settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, territories that are intended for a future Palestinian state as per the internationally-supported two-state-solution.

It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. The New York Times solicited a video, I might have time to show later, a documentary I did with David Sheen. Many scholars of the Middle East know about this sort of discrimination, but to encounter it in such organized proximity can feel remarkably disconcerting. And now it’s up at over a quarter of a million views, and people who have been exposed to this issue for the first time are incredibly shocked, especially African-Americans. I just want to focus on one point in Shavit’s piece, which really relates to some of the backdrop that I set in my book, which is that Lydda was the “black box of Zionism.Das Buch ist in zehn Teile und insgesamt 73 Kapitel gegliedert, zum Teil chronologisch geordnet, zum Teil nach Themen. Immersing himself like few other journalists inside the world of hardline political leaders and movements, 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. 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 is] genuinely interested in the truth, and knows that the truth in politics often lurks in those dark caves of viciousness. But, more than this, an ever increasing justification of the brutality they deal out to the indigenous occupants. 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.Brash, gritty, personal and close to the ground, this is a report from an Israel and a Palestine we seldom see in the mainstream media. Zionists, and the State of Israel, have been accused of plotting to expand Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates. Lest anyone miss the point, many of his chapters have titles like “The Concentration Camp,” “The Night of Broken Glass,” “This Belongs to the White Man” and “How to Kill Goyim and Influence People. Yitzhak Shamir was a dedicated proponent of Greater Israel and as Israeli Prime Minister gave the settler movement funding and Israeli governmental legitimisation.

S.) government to continually strengthen its military capabilities while its settler population slowly devours what's left of Palestinian land by force, which includes assaults, murder and intimidation of Arab men, women and children regardless of age. the rules of war “permit intentional hurting of babies and of innocent people, if this is necessary for a war against the evil people”’. First, to the extent that “self-appointed enforcers” tried to limit debate on Israel, it was much worse in the 1980s. The Israeli response to all criticism is to allege the inherent anti-Semitism of the rest of the world.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.

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. Anyone who thinks he knows what is happening in Israel and its occupied territories will think again after reading this great work. Dabei ist der Autor weit von solchen unangemessenen Beschimpfungen entfernt, auch wenn er empört ist über die Verbrechen und Ungerechtigkeiten der Besatzung.That the IDF is ‘the most moral army in the world’ and that Israel is a lot better than Syria or Iraq or Iran, the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’. If his focus can be distilled to a singular theme, it would be the consistent mendacity on display across political, economic, and cultural strata in Israel vis-à-vis the inherent iniquities of the Zionist project. Alterman, he wrote, is just the latest in a long line of “self-appointed enforcers” who have been trying—“especially since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin” — to “suppress an honest, free and full debate. Exposure to the impressions from his journey through the Land of Israel-Palestine might be outrageous, unsettling, often heart wrenching. We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines.