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,
“... to that border impossible. It is clear from Gorenberg’s account, and from Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar’s comprehensive survey of the settlement project, Lords of the Land, that the issue dividing Israeli governments has not been the presence of settlements in the West Bank. Shimon Peres of the Labour Party played a key role in launching the ... ”