By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. First, to the extent that “self-appointed enforcers” tried to limit debate on Israel, it was much worse in the 1980s. And just by allowing one Arab family to purchase property inside one of these towns, inside of Israel, who are citizens of Israel, necessitated this law. This cavernous glass and steel edifice that from external glance looks like any other airport in the Western world. As his journey deepens, he painstakingly reports on the occupied Palestinians challenging schemes of demographic separation through unarmed protest.

There’s an unpleasant little debate sloshing around the Web lately that tells you all you need to know — and perhaps more than you want to hear — about the current state of relations between Israel and the left. His host was political scientist Ian Lustick, author of the September 15 New York Times essay, “The Two-State Illusion,” which argued for a single Israeli-Palestinian state. He can only say, “This is the reason why I was born and why I’m here, but it’s too big to deal with, so let’s just maintain the status quo. Dabei ist der Autor weit von solchen unangemessenen Beschimpfungen entfernt, auch wenn er empört ist über die Verbrechen und Ungerechtigkeiten der Besatzung. Unless otherwise stated in the article above, this work by Middle East Monitor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.

My own country, Australia, has recently elected a bunch of 'tea party' conservatives to govern our nation who are now taking a wrecking ball to our formerly egalitarian society. Blumenthal responded in another issue of the magazine, saying that the Alterman review was a smear, loaded with inaccuracies that are refuted by several authors. Blumenthal illustrates the continuity between the actions and attitudes of the past and the occupation and settlement policy of the present. What I found when I went on my first sustained reporting trip in May 2009, by immersing myself immediately in the key institutions of Israeli life, was an attempt by these right wing forces to bring apartheid out in the open, to strip away the veneer of democracy, and get it over with. Sein Vater Sidney Blumenthal war Assistent von US-Präsident Clinton, von daher ist der Sohn gut vernetzt in der politischen Elite der USA und auch Israels, aber ebenso in der alternativen Szene.

The New York Times solicited a video, I might have time to show later, a documentary I did with David Sheen. 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. Anyone who thinks he knows what is happening in Israel and its occupied territories will think again after reading this great work. 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.I just want to focus on one point in Shavit’s piece, which really relates to some of the backdrop that I set in my book, which is that Lydda was the “black box of Zionism. They deem it a threat to the principles of justice, equality and human rights and – by default – an obstacle to peace. One blog after another took whacks at Alterman’s credibility: He misspelled the name of novelist Yoram Kaniuk (true). Any American who reads this book and is not moved by the brutality of the Israeli state is missing a chip. Brash, gritty, personal and close to the ground, this is a report from an Israel and a Palestine we seldom see in the mainstream media.