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The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977

The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977

Gorenberg, Gershom

Paperback

JudaismGeneral World HistoryIsrael & Palestine History

Publisher Price: $32.99

ISBN10: 0805082417
ISBN13: 9780805082418
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: Mar 6 2007
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Remarkably insightful . . . A groundbreaking revision that deserves to reframe the entire debate . . . It soars.
--The New York Times Book Review

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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