Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

Journalist Blumenthal (formerly, senior writer, Daily Beast; Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party) presents the Israel-Palestine conflict as the result of a colonialist endeavor to displace an indigenous population and establish a racist, militaristic, theocratic state on its land. Though he focuses on the past 20 years, Blumenthal seeks to convince the reader that Israel has become a fascist society and that neither Greater Israel (including the West Bank) nor Israel proper (the territory behind the 1948–67 Green Line) could ever be Jewish and democratic. His contention—that the current right-wing government is different in degree but not in kind from all previous Israeli governments in its persecution of Palestinians within and outside the Green Line—is supported by references to the Palestinian narrative that cites public and private statements of Jews and Arabs and through descriptions of public reaction to demonstrations by and in support of Palestinians.