Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel Audiobook (Free)

In Goliath, NY Times bestselling author MaxBlumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads ofIsrael-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under thesiege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of thePalestinians deepens.

Beginning with the country wide electionscarried out during Israel’s battle on Gaza in 2008/9, which brought into power thecountry’s most right-wing federal government to time, Blumenthal tells the story ofIsrael in the wake of about Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel the collapse of the Oslo peace procedure.

As Blumenthalreveals, Israel has turned into a nation where right-wing leaders like AvigdorLieberman and Bibi Netanyahu are sacrificing democracy for the altar of theirpower politics, where the loyal opposition largely and passively stands asideand watches the organized assault on civil liberties, where state-fundedOrthodox rabbis publish books that provide instructions on how so when to killgentiles, where half of Jewish youngsters declare their refusal to sit in aclassroom with an Arab, and where mob assault goals Palestinians and Africanasylum seekers scapegoated by leading government officials as “demographicthreats.”

Immersing himselflike few other journalists in the world of hardline political leaders andmovements, Blumenthal interviews the demagogues and divas in their homes, inthe Knesset, and in the watering slots where their young acolytes hang out, andhe talks with those political leaders behind the structured assault on civilliberties. As his journey deepens, he painstakingly reports on the occupiedPalestinians demanding schemes of demographic parting through unarmedprotest. He talks at length to the market leaders and youth of Palestinian societyinside Israel right now targeted by protection provider dragnets and legislationsuppressing their talk and provides in-depth reporting on the tiny band ofJewish Israeli dissidents who’ve shaken off a conformist mind-set thatpermeates the media, schools, and the military.

Through hisfar-ranging travels, Blumenthal illuminates today’s by uncovering theghosts of the past-the histories of Palestinian neighborhoods and villages nowgone and forgotten, how that history has collection the stage for the existing crisisof Israeli society, and the way the Holocaust has been turned into justification foroccupation.

A brave andunflinching account of the real facts on the floor, Goliath is an unprecedented and compellingwork of journalism.