The Accidental Empire: Israel And The Birth Of The Settlements, 1967-1977 - Plot & Excerpts
Look east or west from Kibbutz Gadot, and mountains point toward the sky. To the west, across the valley, rise the Galilee hills. On the east, the stark climb of the land is even closer, right past the creek, neither deep nor wide, known as the Jordan River. In June, the air is hot, quiet, and heavy with the stink from the cowsheds. The river marks a geological border between two plates of the earth’s crust, one bearing Africa, the other Asia, moving in opposite directions. The green valley is the bottom of a rip in the world. The clubhouse at Gadot was also ripped when thirty or so representatives of the farming communities of the valley and the Galilee hills gathered there in mid-June 1967 at Eytan Sat’s invitation. In normal days, a kibbutz clubhouse was the collective living room where members spent their evenings. At Gadot it was still torn by shells that had fallen during the war. There was no electricity. Were Sat a calculating politician, one might guess he chose the venue so that the reminder of the Syrian shelling would lend support to his proposal.
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