Here is New York Times bestselling author MaxBlumenthal's devastating journey through Israel and an anatomy of the extremisttakeover of a nation. What Blumenthal finds is a country overrun by extremists,where the Jewish Right has hijacked constitutional protections for bothminorities and dissidents. Blumenthal investigates the roots of these culturaland political shifts, as well as the American right-wing funders who arebankrolling Israeli extremism. He finds that the country US officials regard asthe only foothold of democracy in the Middle Eastwith which President Obamahas said "[our] bond is unbreakable"is teetering on the edge ofauthoritarianism.