Grab more hills, expand the territory
Henry Siegman: The History of the Settlements, 10 April 2008
The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-77
by Gershom Gorenberg.
Holt, 454 pp., £16.99, March 2007,978 0 8050 8241 8 Show More
by Gershom Gorenberg.
Holt, 454 pp., £16.99, March 2007,
Lords of the Land: The War over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007
by Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar.
Nation, 531 pp., $29.95, October 2007,978 1 56858 370 9 Show More
by Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar.
Nation, 531 pp., $29.95, October 2007,
“... The title of Gershom Gorenberg’s book is somewhat misleading in its suggestion that the establishment of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza was ‘accidental’. While Gorenberg, an American-born Israeli journalist, notes that no Israeli government ever made a formal decision about the future of the West Bank, his account of the first decade of Israel’s occupation leaves no doubt that the settlements were deliberately founded, and were intended to create a permanent Israeli presence in as much of the Occupied Territories as possible (indeed, the hope was for them to cover all of the Occupied Territories, if the international community would allow it ... ”
