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

"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 ...