Greater Israel ( Hebrew: ארץ ישראל השלמה, Eretz Yisrael Hashlema) is an expression, with several different biblical and political meanings over time. Riding into Lydda in an armored car he dubbed the “Terrible Tiger” at the helm of the 89th Commando Battalion was a little known career soldier. I interviewed David Rotem, who is the author, or co-sponsor of most of these laws, at his home in Efrat, the Israeli settlement, mega settlement, in the West Bank. According to the UN, at least 700,000 Israeli settlers live in illegal settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, territories that are intended for a future Palestinian state as per the internationally-supported two-state-solution.

Alterman, he wrote, is just the latest in a long line of “self-appointed enforcers” who have been trying—“especially since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin” — to “suppress an honest, free and full debate. This law did not pass, but it has been reintroduced by Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked, who is his deputy from the Jewish Home party, which has done very well in recent municipal elections. They cannot be absorbed into the state because as Benjamin Netanyahu said, “They threaten the Jewish chara

Rice managed to resolve these contradictions in her own mind by accepting the idea that there was something singular about a Jewish state that made these distinctions and their enforcement acceptable. He observes, “while Israel had always discriminated against its Palestinian minority as a matter of national policy, the ascent of [far-right party Yisrael Beitenu leader Avigdor] Lieberman and a rightist-dominated Likud faction signaled a collective vote in favor of stripping away whatever remained of the country’s democratic patina” (p. Max Blumenthal's Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel is the most important political and investigative journalist book of 2013. Through his far-ranging travels, Blumenthal illuminates the present by uncovering the ghosts of the past,the histories of Palestinian neighbourhoods 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. Der US-amerikanische Historiker, Journalist und Bestsellerautor Max Blumenthal hat sich insbesondere mit der Politik der Republikanischen Partei und Israels auseinandergesetzt.

Kach, [12] [13] Tehiya [14] [15] and the National Religious Party [16] [17] are parties which supported the idea of a Greater Israel.What sets in eventually is a highly militaristic society who are totally controlled by fear of another holocaust which is always left hanging over their heads. First, to the extent that “self-appointed enforcers” tried to limit debate on Israel, it was much worse in the 1980s. Goliath is not a linear narrative; it tells multiple stories—more detailed than vignettes, but not quite sagas, either—that present for readers a compelling understanding of the daily realities of Palestinians and the mentality of segregation among many Israeli Jews.

Blumenthal interviewed a huge number of people for Goliath and incorporates into his analysis a vast range of commentary, reportage, legislation, and personal narrative. The author more than makes his point, that the very corrupted Israeli government and their vaunted military primarily used on defenseless Arabs and in many cases visiting journalist and peace nix leads most often to a deadly conclusion. A Chicago Sun Times reporter wrote of the Israeli forces, describing Operation Danny as a “blitzkrieg.And now it’s up at over a quarter of a million views, and people who have been exposed to this issue for the first time are incredibly shocked, especially African-Americans. Goliath is worthy of consideration as a serious work of journalism, and, to a lesser degree, historiography. Blumenthal's new book offers an unflinching look at the racist reality of Israel that America's establishment media simply does not have the guts to confront. a b Finkelstein, Norman (2005), Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-semitism and the Abuse of History, University of California Press, p. There are those who say the entire region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is the Promised Land of the Jews, and is theirs by divine right regardless of who lives on the land and their rights to self-determination.