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Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977
Owl Books
June 2007
On Sale: June 6, 2007
480 pages
ISBN: 0805082417
EAN: 9780805082418
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Non-Fiction | Historical
In The Accidental Empire, Gershom Gorenberg examines
the strange birth of the settler movement in the ten years
following the Six-Day War and finds that it was as much the
child of Labor Party socialism as of religious extremism.
The giants of Israeli history—Dayan, Meir, Eshkol, Allon—all
played major roles in this drama, as did more contemporary
figures like Sharon, Rabin, and Peres. Gorenberg also shows
how three American presidents turned a blind eye to what was
happening in the territories, and reveals their strategic
reasons for doing so.
Drawing on newly opened archives and extensive
interviews, Gorenberg calls into question much of what we
think we know about this issue that continues to haunt the
Middle East.
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