Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

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Petra Marquardt-Bigman (February 17, 2014) Free speech and antisemitism: Max Blumenthal's Goliath The Jerusalem Post; accessed February 14, 2016. 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 .

It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. In a letter to his son later that year, David Ben-Gurion stated that partition would be acceptable but as a first step. Anyone who talks that way is deluding themselves", [11] making this statement just two days before privately reaching out to the Palestinian President with Israel's broadest ever peace offer.Anyone who thinks he knows what is happening in Israel and its occupied territories will think again after reading this great work.

More than 170 Palestinian Arabs instructed to take shelter in the Dahmash mosque near Ramleh were slaughtered by forces under Yitzhak Rabin and Yigal Allon’s command and then left to rot in the July heat. My book, I think, will have a long shelf life, it might be an evergreen book hopefully, even if it doesn’t get the attention it deserves.

The opposition Revisionist Zionists, who evolved into today's Likud party, sought Eretz Yisrael Ha-Shlema—Greater Israel, or literally, the Whole Land of Israel (shalem, meaning complete). Blumenthal is a fantastic storyteller and has a gift for using subtle sarcasm to great effect—it is detectible without being overwhelming or gratuitous. 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. Goldberg is editor emeritus of the Forward, where he served as editor in chief for seven years (2000-2007).

However, because of the controversial nature of the term, the term Land of Israel is often used instead. Blumenthal has made a sobering prima facie case that there are extreme forces [within Israel's current political-social dynamics] to be aware of, and reckoned with more fully that American discourse usually does.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'. The finished impact is one in which we see the idealism of post war Jews utterly destroyed with the rise in Israel of the same ultra nationalism that led to the Holocaust. Exposure to the impressions from his journey through the Land of Israel-Palestine might be outrageous, unsettling, often heart wrenching. A decade before, in the 1967 war, Israeli troops had in effect undone the partition accepted in 1948 by overrunning the West Bank and Gaza Strip.