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Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977
Times Books
March 2006
480 pages
ISBN: 080507564X
Hardcover
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The untold story, based on groundbreaking original
research, of the actions and inactions that created the
Israeli settlements in the occupied
territories
After Israeli
troops defeated the armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan in
June 1967, the Jewish state seemed to have reached the
pinnacle of success. But far from being a happy ending, the
Six-Day War proved to be the opening act of a complex
political drama, in which the central issue became: Should
Jews build settlements in the territories taken in that
war?
The Accidental
Empire is Gershom Gorenberg�s masterful and gripping
account of the strange birth of the settler movement, which
was the child of both Labor Party socialism and religious
extremism. It is a dramatic story featuring the giants of
Israeli history�Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Levi Eshkol, Yigal
Allon�as well as more contemporary figures like Ariel
Sharon, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres. Gorenberg also
shows how the Johnson, Nixon, and Ford administrations
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 reconstructs
what the top officials knew and when they knew it, while
weaving in the dramatic first-person accounts of the
settlers themselves. Fast-moving and penetrating, The
Accidental Empire casts the entire enterprise in a new
and controversial light, calling into question much of what
we think we know about this issue that continues to haunt
the Middle East.
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