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In Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens.
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."
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. As his journey deepens, he painstakingly reports on the occupied Palestinians challenging schemes of demographic separation through unarmed protest. He talks at length to the leaders and youth of Palestinian society inside Israel now targeted by security service dragnets and legislation suppressing their speech, and provides in-depth reporting on the small band of Jewish Israeli dissidents who have shaken off a conformist mindset that permeates the media, schools, and the military.
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.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781568589725 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | PublicAffairs |
| Publication date: | 10/01/2013 |
| Sold by: | Hachette Digital, Inc. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 512 |
| Sales rank: | 480,042 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
| Age Range: | 13 - 18 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Preface: Covering "Goliath" xi
Part I The Campaigns
Chapter 1 To the Slaughter 3
Chapter 2 The Peace Camp 6
Chapter 3 Blood for Votes 9
Chapter 4 The Hill of Shame 11
Chapter 5 Hooligans 15
Chapter 6 Pawns in the Game 17
Chapter 7 This Man is Clean 20
Chapter 8 The Salesman 28
Part II Laws of the Land
Chapter 9 Number 1 37
Chapter 10 Settling in the Hearts 43
Chapter 11 Banning Books 53
Chapter 12 The Fortress of Democracy 56
Chapter 13 Cut Off from the Tribe 64
Chapter 14 The Robbed Cossack 69
Chapter 15 Judaization 78
Chapter 16 Homogeneity 85
Chapter 17 At the Heavy Gates of Gaza 89
Chapter 18 Beethoven for Gaza 92
Chapter 19 The Zionist 95
Part III Pirates of the Mediterranean
Chapter 20 Dark Forces 101
Chapter 21 The People, United 116
Chapter 22 The Enemies 122
Chapter 23 By Right and Not Grace 125
Chapter 24 The Silence of the Lambs 128
Chapter 25 Defensive Democracy 132
Chapter 26 Caliber 3: "The Values of Zionism" 140
Part IV Outcasts
Chapter 27 A Lesson in Israeli Democracy 145
Chapter 28 Just Being a Guy 153
Chapter 29 Leaving Haifa 158
Part V What Lies Beneath the Forest
Chapter 30 The Days of '48 Have Come Again 165
Chapter 31 The Blueprint 170
Chapter 32 The Summer Camp of Destruction 176
Chapter 33 Preparing the Land for Jesus 179
Chapter 34 There Are No Facts 183
Part VI The Year of Democracy
Chapter 35 These Things That Were Done To Us 193
Chapter 36 The Forbidden Tour 199
Chapter 37 Bleeding Over the Party 201
Chapter 38 A Date with the Devil 206
Chapter 39 Delegitimization 208
Chapter 40 The Explainers 213
Chapter 44 The Real Government 219
Chapter 45 It Is No Dream 224
Part VII Feeling the Hate
Chapter 43 Riding the Ass 229
Chapter 44 The Revolutionaries 234
Chapter 45 Zion Square 237
Chapter 46 The Israeli Experience 244
Chapter 47 Ultras 247
Chapter 48 The Best Time of Their Lives 250
Chapter 49 The Base 255
Part VIII Indoctrination Mills
Chapter 50 The Prophets 263
Chapter 51 Change from Within 269
Chapter 52 The Insiders 272
Chapter 53 The Hunted 278
Chapter 54 Canceling the Other Narrative 285
Chapter 55 The Beauty Brigade 292
Chapter 56 Lifelong Draftees 295
Part IX This Belongs to the White Man
Chapter 57 How to Kill Goyim and Influence People 303
Chapter 58 The Daughters of Israel 313
Chapter 59 Children Whose Hearts Were Unmoved 321
Chapter 60 When Kahane Won 325
Chapter 61 This Belongs to the White Man 330
Chapter 62 The Concentration Camp 336
Chapter 63 The Night of Broken Glass 342
Part X The Big Quiet
Chapter 64 The Big Quiet 351
Chapter 65 The Joint Struggle 359
Chapter 66 My Mother Before Justice 365
Chapter 67 The Crazy Village 372
Chapter 68 Night 378
Chapter 69 The Children's Court 384
Chapter 70 The Lovers' Camp 391
Chapter 71 A Wet Dream 397
Chapter 72 The Shadows and Mirrors Game 403
Chapter 73 The Exodus Party 407
Acknowledgments 411
Notes 413
Index 475