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In Goliath, New York Times best-selling publisher Max Blumenthal will take us over a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling family portrait of Israeli culture under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the job of the Palestinians deepens. You start with the national elections completed during Israel's conflict on Gaza in 2008/9, which helped bring into electricity the country's most right-wing federal government thus far, Blumenthal tells the story of Israel in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo peacefulness process. As Blumenthal reveals, Israel has turned into a country where right-wing leaders like Avigdor Lieberman and Bibi Netanyahu are compromising democracy on the altar of their power politics, where the loyal opposition typically and passively stands apart and pieces the planned assault on civil liberties, where state-funded Orthodox rabbis publish books that provide instructions how and when to get rid of gentiles, where half Jewish young ones declare their refusal to sit down in a classroom with an Arab, and where mob assault goals Palestinians and African asylum seekers scapegoated by leading federal government officers as "demographic hazards." Immersing himself like few other journalists inside the world of hardline political leaders and actions, Blumenthal interviews the demagogues and divas in their homes, in the Knesset, and in the watering holes where their young acolytes hang out, and he talks with those political leaders behind the planned assault on civil liberties. As his journey deepens, he painstakingly records on the occupied Palestinians challenging techniques of demographic separation through unarmed protest. He speaks at length to the leaders and young ones of Palestinian culture inside Israel now targeted by security service dragnets and legislation suppressing their speech and provides in-depth reporting on the tiny music group of Jewish Israeli dissidents who've shaken off a conformist mind-set that permeates the press, classes, and the military services. Through his far-ranging moves, Blumenthal illuminates the present by uncovering the ghosts of the past - the histories of Palestinian neighborhoods and villages now ended up and neglected, how that record has established the stage for the existing turmoil of Israeli culture, and how the Holocaust has been converted into justification for job. A daring and unflinching bank account of the true facts on the ground, Goliath can be an unprecedented and powerful work of journalism.
