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The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra praised the book for tracing the history of Israeli settlements and how they reshaped the conflict, calling it an essential insight into current conditions.
And the third book I'd recommend, since we spent so much time talking about the West Bank, is a book by an Israeli journalist named Gershon Gorenberg called The External Empire. I love Gorenberg's boo...
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Episode: If Not This, Then What Should Israel Do?
Ezra praised the book for tracing the history of Israeli settlements and how they reshaped the conflict, calling it an essential insight into current conditions.
And the third book I'd recommend, since we spent so much time talking about the West Bank, is a book by an Israeli journalist named Gershon Gorenberg called The External Empire. I love Gorenberg's book because he really traces the history of how settlements emerged, the ways in which Israeli policy facilitated their development, and the ways settlers themselves pioneered this fundamental transformation to the conflict that was not necessarily - although at times it seemed like it was - part of Israeli strategic design. It's a really, I think, an essential insight into how things got to the point where they're at right now.