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Goliath : life and loathing in greater Israel / Max Blumenthal.

by Blumenthal, Max, 1977-

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Nation Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group [2013]

956.94054 B658g

Blumenthal, Max, 1977- -- Travel -- Israel.

Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993-

Palestinian Arabs -- Government policy -- Israel.

Israel -- Politics and government -- 1993-

9781568586342 (hc.)

1568586345 (hc.)

xvi, 496 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-473) and index.

The campaigns -- Laws of the land -- Pirates of the Mediterranean --Outcasts -- What lies beneath the forest -- The year of democracy -- Feeling the hate -- Indoctrination mills -- This belongs to the white man -- The big quiet.

"A journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine -- a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens. Beginning with the Israeli national elections during the war with 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. 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. 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. Max Blumenthal is an American author, journalist, and blogger"--Provided by publisher.

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