Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
By: Ronen Bergman
4.40
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from…
Want to Read $ 8.99"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which Meir Dagan's life came to its end. ch 35 [paragraph 10] p.631"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among those who knew him best, without being identified, he was deemed capable of operating in a hostile nation of strangers."-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures. Toward the end of his life, Dagan, like Sharon, understood this. He came to the conclusion that only a political solution with the Palestinians—the two-state solution—could end the 150-year conflict"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
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3. No Mission Is Impossible: The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces
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4. Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
By: Dan Ephron
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5. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
By: Michael B. Oren
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6. 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War
By: Benny Morris
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Format: None pages,
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7. The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
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4.29
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12. Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
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13. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
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4.40
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14. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
By: Ronen Bergman
4.40
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