"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"-- Provided by publisher

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Avalon Publishing Group

Basic Books

United States, United States of America

1, PS, 2013

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

Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface: Covering "Goliath"......Page 16
PART I: THE CAMPAIGNS......Page 18
1. To the Slaughter......Page 20
2. The Peace Camp......Page 23
3. Blood for Votes......Page 26
5. The Hill of Shame......Page 28
5. Hooligans......Page 32
6. Pawns in the Game......Page 34
7. This Man Is Clean......Page 37
8. The Salesman......Page 45
PART II: LAWS OF THE LAND......Page 52
9. Number 1......Page 54
10. Settling in the Hearts......Page 60
11. Banning Books......Page 70
12. The Fortress of Democracy......Page 73
13. Cut Off from the Tribe......Page 81
14. The Robbed Cossack......Page 86
15. Judaization......Page 95
16. Homogeneity......Page 102
17. At the Heavy Gates of Gaza......Page 106
18. Beethoven for Gaza......Page 109
19. The Zionist......Page 112
PART III: PIRATES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN......Page 116
20. Dark Forces......Page 118
21. The People, United......Page 133
22. The Enemies......Page 139
23. By Right and Not Grace......Page 142
24. The Silence of the Lambs......Page 145
25. Defensive Democracy......Page 149
26. Caliber 3: "The Values of Zionism"......Page 157
PART IV: OUTCASTS......Page 160
27. A Lesson in Israeli Democracy......Page 162
28. Just Being a Guy......Page 170
29. Leaving Haifa......Page 175
PART V: WHAT LIES BENEATH THE FOREST......Page 180
30. The Days of '48 Have Come Again......Page 182
31. The Blueprint......Page 187
32. The Summer Camp of Destruction......Page 193
33. Preparing the Land for Jesus......Page 196
34. There Are No Facts......Page 200
PART VI: THE YEAR OF DEMOCRACY......Page 208
35. These Things That Were Done to Us......Page 210
36. The Forbidden Tour......Page 216
37. Bleeding Over the Party......Page 218
38. A Date with the Devil......Page 223
39. Delegitimization......Page 225
40. The Explainers......Page 230
41. The Real Government......Page 236
42. It Is No Dream......Page 241
PART VII: FEELING THE HATE......Page 244
43. Riding the Ass......Page 246
44. The Revolutionaries......Page 251
45. Zion Square......Page 254
46. The Israeli Experience......Page 261
47. Ultras......Page 264
48. The Best Time of Their Lives......Page 267
49. The Base......Page 272
PART VIII: INDOCTRINATION MILLS......Page 278
50. The Prophets......Page 280
51. Change from Within......Page 286
52. The Insiders......Page 289
53. The Hunted......Page 295
54. Canceling th Other Narrative......Page 302
55. The Beauty Brigade......Page 309
56. Lifelong Draftees......Page 312
PART IX: THIS BELONGS TO THE WHITE MAN......Page 318
57. How to Kill Goyim and Influence People......Page 320
58. The Daughters of Israel......Page 330
59. Children Whose Hearts Were Unmoved......Page 338
60. When Kahane Won......Page 342
61. This Belongs to the White Man......Page 347
62. The Concentration Camp......Page 353
63. The Night of Broken Glass......Page 359
PART X: THE BIG QUIET......Page 366
64. The Big Quiet......Page 368
65. The Joint Struggle......Page 376
66. My Mother Before Justice......Page 382
67. The Crazy Village......Page 389
68. Night......Page 395
69. The Children's Court......Page 401
70. The Lovers' Camp......Page 408
71. A Wet Dream......Page 414
72. The Shadows and Mirrors Game......Page 420
73. The Exodus Party......Page 424
Acknowledgments......Page 428
Notes......Page 430
Index......Page 492

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