Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

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He misrepresented Blumenthal’s substantive assertions about Israeli “fascism,” “racism,” “militarism” and more (entirely untrue). Meir Kahane, an ultra-nationalist Knesset member, who founded the American Jewish Defense League and the banned Israeli Kach party, worked towards Greater Israel and other Religious Zionist goals.

Another, also at Mondoweiss, questioned The Nation’s judgment for assigning the review to a “liberal Zionist” known for “impassioned devotion to Israel. Jonathan Jeremy Goldberg (October 31, 2013) "Israel Book That Makes Even Anti-Zionists Blush", The Forward; accessed March 20, 2016.

Kach, [12] [13] Tehiya [14] [15] and the National Religious Party [16] [17] are parties which supported the idea of a Greater Israel. When you fly there you fly to Tel Aviv, it says “TLV” when you fly in, but you are not actually flying into Tel Aviv. Es beschreibt den Hintergrund und die aktuelle Situation Israels aus erster Hand und von allen Seiten.

Because of the curfew, he couldn’t bury her, so he went out in the yard with his bare hands and dug a grave for her. 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. Goliath is worthy of consideration as a serious work of journalism, and, to a lesser degree, historiography. The book also discusses social and class divisions amongst Jewish Israelis with the privileged Ashkenazi community (who gained the most from the confiscation of Palestinian lands and property at the foundation of the state of Israel) at the top of the social pyramid and people with Mizrahi, Russian and Ethiopian Jewish origins at the bottom. Masalha, Nur (1992), Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948, Inst.But, more than this, an ever increasing justification of the brutality they deal out to the indigenous occupants. Haneen Zoabi, the most visible representative from the Balad party which advocates a state for all of its citizens, was banned by the Israeli Central Election Committee from running again.

The Acceptance to Communities Law was a new law proposed in the Knesset, which passed, allowing discrimination on the basis of religion or ethnicity, or sexuality, in communities of under 500. 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. He unfairly ridiculed Blumenthal’s descriptions of the long-dead Israeli philosophers Berl Katznelson and Yeshayahu Leibowitz (arguable). The other two definitions are: a narrower one, found in the Book of Numbers ( Numbers 34:1–15) and the Book of Ezekiel ( Ezekiel 47:13–20), which refers to the land that was divided between the original Twelve tribes of Israel after they were delivered from Egypt; and a wider one, as given in the Book of Deuteronomy ( Deuteronomy 11:24, Deuteronomy 1:7), indicating the territory that will be given to the children of Israel slowly throughout the years, as explained in Exodus 23:29 and Deuteronomy 7:22). 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.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. 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. 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. The Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying unto thy seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt [the Nile] unto the great river, the River Euphrates. We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines.