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Entertainment Education Goliath Audiobook Israel Max Blumenthal

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Book Summary
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In Goliath, New York Times best-selling 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 2008/9, 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 hard-line 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 he 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.
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Chapters (Book Playlist @ https://rumble.com/playlists/UhN6ZQrt8iI)
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Opening Credits ◄◄◄
Dedication and Epigraph
Preface: Covering "Goliath"

Part I: The Campaigns
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1.1: To the Slaughter
1.2: The Peace Camp
1.3: Blood for Votes
1.4: The Hill of Shame
1.5: Hooligans
1.6: Pawns in the Game
1.7: This Man Is Clean
1.8: The Salesman

Part II: Laws of the Land
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2.9: Number 1
2.10: Settling in the Hearts
2.11: Banning Books
2.12: The Fortress of Democracy
2.13: Cut Off from the Tribe
2.14: The Robbed Cossack
2.15: Judaization
2.16: Homogeneity
2.17: At the Heavy Gates of Gaza
2.18: Beethoven for Gaza
2.19: The Zionist

Part III: Pirates of The Mediterranean
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3.20: Dark Forces
3.21: The People, United
3.22: The Enemies
3.23: By Right and Not Grace
3.24: The Silence of the Lambs
3.25: Defensive Democracy
3.26: Caliber 3: "The Values of Zionism"

Part IV: Outcasts
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4.27: A Lesson in Israeli Democracy
4.28: Just Being a Guy
4.29: Leaving Haifa

Part V: What Lies Beneath the Forest
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5.30: The Days of ’48 Have Come Again
5.31: The Blue Print
5.32: The Summer Camp of Destruction
5.33: Preparing the Land for Jesus
5.34: There Are No Facts

Part VI: The Year of Democracy
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6.35: These Things That Were Done to Us
6.36: The Forbidden Tour
6.37: Bleeding over the Party
6.38: A Date with the Devil
6.39: Delegitimization
6.40: The Explainers
6.41: The Real Government
6.42: It Is No Dream

Part VII: Feeling the Hate
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7.43: Riding the Ass
7.44: The Revolutionaries
7.45: Zion Square
7.46: The Israeli Experience
7.47: Ultras
7.48: The Best Time of Their Lives
7.49: The Base

Part VIII: Indoctrination Mills
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8.50: The Prophets
8.51: Change from Within
8.52: The Insiders
8.53: The Hunted
8.54: Canceling the Other Narrative
8.55: The Beauty Brigade
8.56: Lifelong Draftees

Part IX: This Belongs to the White Man
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9.57: How to Kill Goyim and Influence People
9.58: The Daughters of Israel
9.59: Children Whose Hearts Were Unmoved
9.60: When Kahane Won
9.61: This Belongs to the White Man
9.62: The Concentration Camp
9.63: The Night of Broken Glass

Part X: The Big Quiet
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10.64: The Big Quiet
10.65: The Joint Struggle
10.66: My Mother Before Justice
10.67: The Crazy Village
10.68: Night
10.69: The Children’s Court
10.70: The Lovers’ Camp
10.71: A Wet Dream
10.72: The Shadows and Mirrors Game
10.73: The Exodus Party

End Credits

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