Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

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The same sentiment was recorded by Ben-Gurion on other occasions, such as at a meeting of the Jewish Agency executive in June 1938, [5] as well as by Chaim Weizmann. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. My own country, Australia, has recently elected a bunch of 'tea party' conservatives to govern our nation who are now taking a wrecking ball to our formerly egalitarian society. Racism is always present throughout the society as a whole and mimics everything the Jews themselves went through in Europe. Early Revisionist Zionist groups such as Betar and Irgun Zvai-Leumi regarded the territory of the Mandate for Palestine, including Transjordan, as Greater Israel.

And so, I think we have been looking at these laws, a lot of these laws are opposed by liberal groups inside Israel like the Associations for Civil Rights in Israel. This speech has led to tensions with Jordan, while his spokesperson attributed the symbol's presence to the organizers of the event, which was dedicated to a man connected to the Irgun (see above for Irgun emblem). Blumenthal illustrates the continuity between the actions and attitudes of the past and the occupation and settlement policy of the present.

nonsense about the blue stripes on the flag, which was designed according to the colours of the traditional tallit (prayer shawl) . Goliath: life and loathing in Greater Israel and Shattered Hopes: Obama's failure to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace". This can only end in a bloodbath, may be not tomorrow but eventually unless compromises are made by the leaders of Israel and those of the Palestinians. The first, found in Genesis 15:18–21, seems to define the land that was given to all of the children of Abram ( Abraham), including Ishmael, Zimran, Jokshan, Midian, etc. But once you get past spell-checks and gotchas (for the record, Blumenthal refers to poet Allen Ginsberg as “Alan”; mentions the Canaanite god Moloch, from a Ginsberg poem, as “Mollock”; describes the moshav, a small-holders’ farming village, as a “collective farm,” and much, much more) the critics’ main complaint seems to be that Alterman’s review is the only one that’s appeared in print so far.

From a letter from Chaim Weizmann to Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, High Commissioner for Palestine, while the Peel Commission was convening in 1937: "We shall spread in the whole country in the course of time . 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.You have the master race – Israeli (ethnic) Jews; you have the ‘untermensch’, the Palestinians; you have the need for ‘lebensraum’ (living room) in a country so small that it has led to the creation of walled off settlements, Jewish only highways and ongoing military occupation. None, however, have addressed the actual irrefutable evidence of past and present ethnic cleansing that the book documents. This is coupled with a status quo that maintains an Israeli military occupation over Palestinians and a system of apartheid as recognised by the world’s leading human rights organisations, including Israel’s own B’Tselem, whilst also encouraging and solidifying the establishment of Israeli settlements. They deem it a threat to the principles of justice, equality and human rights and – by default – an obstacle to peace. Blumenthal doesn’t know the history and ignores the inconvenient bits of the present, which is one reason his book has flopped.

In March 2023, the Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the far-right National Religious Party–Religious Zionism, spoke at a Paris memorial behind a podium featuring a 'Greater Israel' map including Trans-Jordan. Main article: Promised Land The "Royal Grant" to Abraham consisting of all the land east of the Brook of Egypt and west of the Euphrates, north of Kadesh and south of Hamath, from a 1919 book by Clarence Larkin. 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. You will loose all your false allusions of our Middle East democratic ally, falsely claiming it is surrounded by hostile countries who wish to drive it into the sea on any given day.

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. 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. Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book AwardIn 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. Readers of his book will not wonder about his sympathies, a fact that helped generate so much controversy. Other definitions, favored by Revisionist Zionists, included the territory of the former Emirate of Transjordan and the Sinai Peninsula.

Goldberg is editor emeritus of the Forward, where he served as editor in chief for seven years (2000-2007). The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Monitor.Even those generally well-informed about Israel and its occupation of the Palestinian territories will have their views challenged by Blumenthal's sharp eye and deadpan factual presentations. 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. The New York Times solicited a video, I might have time to show later, a documentary I did with David Sheen. Palestinians will live in walled-off settlements with as little contact as possible with the outside world and, if they disturb the Israeli ‘quiet’, as they did in Gaza an excuse will be found to go in to ‘mow the grass’ (kill as many as possible; destroy as much as possible).