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The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 (2006) (edit title/settings)

by Gershom Gorenberg (Author) (edit contributors)

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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:... read more

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One day in early May 1967, General Uzi Narkiss stood in the shade of pine trees on the breeze-stroked hilltop of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, at the edge of Israeli West Jerusalem, and looked out past the armistice line at Bethlehem and the Judean Desert in the Jordanian-held West Bank.

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  1. Gershom Gorenberg (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Times Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 080507564X
Page Count: 480

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