Joel Greenberg writing in The New York Times notes: "At Israel's founding in 1948, the Labor Zionist leadership, which went on to govern Israel in its first three decades of independence, accepted a pragmatic partition of what had been British Palestine into independent Jewish and Arab states. The Bank of Israel denies this conspiracy theory since the coin is a replica of a historical coin dating from 37 to 40 BCE and the alleged "map" is actually the irregular shape of the ancient coin. A decade before, in the 1967 war, Israeli troops had in effect undone the partition accepted in 1948 by overrunning the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

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. Blumenthal doesn’t know the history and ignores the inconvenient bits of the present, which is one reason his book has flopped. Armed with a critic's eye and a sharp pen, Blumenthal sets out to document what he regards as the fulfillment of Yeshayahu Leibowitz's darkest prophecy regarding the Israeli occupation.

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. The New York Times solicited a video, I might have time to show later, a documentary I did with David Sheen. In an earlier version of this column, Max Blumenthal was misquoted to have said “The maintenance and engineering of a non-indigenous demographic population is non-negotiable. A Chicago Sun Times reporter wrote of the Israeli forces, describing Operation Danny as a “blitzkrieg.

Goliath's tone is frank and unflinching as it reveals how Israel's history of occupation has had a corrupting influence on its own citizens and politicians. 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.

She was on her way to a conference in Israel for university presidents, she was the president of University of Miami, on fighting BDS on campus. As Israeli leaders are becoming increasingly and publicly dismissive of the notion of an independent Palestinian state and the rights of Palestinians to their lands, and as illegal Jewish-only settlements continue to swallow Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, is the pursuit of a Greater Israel, whether explicitly or implicitly, on the Jewish state’s political agenda? 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. The capture of the West Bank and Gaza Strip from Jordan and Egypt during the Six-Day War in 1967 led to the growth of the non-parliamentary Movement for Greater Israel and the construction of Israeli settlements. the rules of war “permit intentional hurting of babies and of innocent people, if this is necessary for a war against the evil people”’.

About 20 to 50 more Palestinian men, sent into the mosque by Israeli forces to extract the corpses and bury them, were shot dead in the graves they had just dug. One simply needs to enjoy dogged, committed journalism, unafraid to express a point of view based on evidence that demands such expression. Been denied work permits, they are not allowed to work, and so many of them are living in desperate conditions, in south Tel Aviv, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Tel Aviv, one of the poorest areas in Israel, many of them are sleeping in Levinsky Park, because they can’t make a living.There was the Anti-Incitement law which was proposed by the Jewish Home party, during the last Knesset, which would have imprisoned people for one year for convincing another person to be disloyal to the Jewish state. Immersing himself like few other journalists inside the world of hardline 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 speaks with those political leaders behind the organized assault on civil liberties. In a letter to his son later that year, David Ben-Gurion stated that partition would be acceptable but as a first step. Blumenthal came to Israel looking for racists, bigots, Zionist extremists, Arab haters, land stealers, settlers, crazed rabbis, Jewish supremacists, messianists, maniacs and near lunatics and by golly he found them, interviewed them and put them in his book.