Gershom Gorenberg is the author of The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of Settlements, 1967-1977. Based on the previously unpublished documents, the Accidental Empire sheds new light on Israel's post 1967 history and Israel_US relations. A senior correspondent for The American Prospect, Gorenberg has also written for the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Mother Jones, The Jerusalem Report, The New Republic, and in Hebrew for Ha'aretz