Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

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added, in interviews that he gave in the past, that the two blue stripes on the Israeli flag represent the Nile and the Euphrates. Goliath is a particular kind of exposé-minded, documentary-broadside journalism whose place we generally recognize and respect.

Allerdings sind einige Kapitel-Überschriften bewusst provozierend gewählt: „The Silence of the Lambs“, „How to kill Goyim and influence people“, „The Concentration Camp", und Zitate wie „Judeo-Nazis“. 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’. Among other things, he’s interviewed “all sorts of people who are not the usual sources cited by much of the US media, including Israeli dissidents, Palestinian citizens of Israel, Bedouin villagers, Palestinian popular protest leaders, members of the Knesset from across the spectrum, and a host of right-wing Israeli officials, especially from the younger generation.Goliath is not a linear narrative; it tells multiple stories—more detailed than vignettes, but not quite sagas, either—that present for readers a compelling understanding of the daily realities of Palestinians and the mentality of segregation among many Israeli Jews. Der US-amerikanische Historiker, Journalist und Bestsellerautor Max Blumenthal hat sich insbesondere mit der Politik der Republikanischen Partei und Israels auseinandergesetzt. And finally the growing fears of the ethnic cleansing of the besieged Gaza Strip or large parts of it. Others are assigned a different number, like Nour Joudah, who had attempted to reach her students in Ramallah at the Quaker school she was teaching at.

The New York Times solicited a video, I might have time to show later, a documentary I did with David Sheen. Kach, [12] [13] Tehiya [14] [15] and the National Religious Party [16] [17] are parties which supported the idea of a Greater Israel.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'. Es beschreibt den Hintergrund und die aktuelle Situation Israels aus erster Hand und von allen Seiten. Blumenthal is a fantastic storyteller and has a gift for using subtle sarcasm to great effect—it is detectible without being overwhelming or gratuitous.

Ben Gurion’s closest friend, one of his closest friends, Nathan Alterman, who was considered the poet of the establishment, this hero of Labor Zionism, said that Toubi serves by right and not grace. For The Land and The Lord: The Range of Disagreement within Jewish Fundamentalism, by Ian Lustick, chapter V and chapter VII (accessed 12 October 2005). There was an Israeli imposed curfew and he was inside Lydda hospital, and he is overcome with horror at what he had witnessed. His host was political scientist Ian Lustick, author of the September 15 New York Times essay, “The Two-State Illusion,” which argued for a single Israeli-Palestinian state.

These are the terms used by Jewish and Palestinian activists to describe the situation in Israel and the occupied territories. The debate and criticism, however, usually missed the point: Blumenthal presents a preponderance of evidence that leads inevitably to a sort of judgment that surpasses the verisimilitude of balance. This cavernous glass and steel edifice that from external glance looks like any other airport in the Western world.