Dear Editor,
It’s okay for Arabs to live among Jews in Israel (20% of Israel is Arab), but it’s not okay for Jews to live among Arabs according to Gershom Gorenberg’s book The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967–1977 (review June 22, 2006). Gorenberg calls these few hundred thousand Jews living among Arabs the source of an Israeli empire. Even though Arabs now make up 99 percent of the Middle East, it is ironically the ones that control the remaining 1% which are accused of empire building. Israel won the disputed territories only after repeated genocidal attacks by its Arab neighbors. And this is empire building? The reviewer calls this book “brilliant.”
Michael Berenhaus
Potomac, MD
(http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19105)
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