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New York Times best seller. The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF's targeted killing programs, hailed by The New York Times as "an exceptional work, a humane book about an incendiary subject."
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in History.
Named one of the 10 best books of the year by Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times.
Named one of the best books of the year by The Economist, The New York Times Book Review, BBC History Magazine, Mother Jones, and Kirkus Reviews
The Talmud says: "If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first." This instinct to take every measure, even the most aggressive, to defend the Jewish people is hardwired into Israel's DNA. From the very beginning of its statehood in 1948, protecting the nation from harm has been the responsibility of its intelligence community and armed services, and there is one weapon in their vast arsenal that they have relied upon to thwart the most serious threats: Targeted assassinations have been used countless times, on enemies large and small, sometimes in response to attacks against the Israeli people and sometimes preemptively.
In this pause-resisting, eye-opening audiobook, journalist and military analyst Ronen Bergman - praised by David Remnick as "arguably [Israel's] best investigative reporter" - offers a riveting inside account of the targeted killing programs: their successes, their failures, and the moral and political price exacted on the men and women who approved and carried out the missions.
Bergman has gained the exceedingly rare cooperation of many current and former members of the Israeli government, including Prime Ministers Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, and Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as high-level figures in the country's military and intelligence services: the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), the Mossad (the world's most feared intelligence agency), Caesarea (a "Mossad within the Mossad" that carries out attacks on the highest-value targets), and the Shin Bet (an internal security service that implemented the largest targeted assassination campaign ever, in order to stop what had once appeared to be unstoppable: suicide terrorism).
Including never-before-reported, behind-the-curtain accounts of key operations, and based on hundreds of on-the-record interviews and thousands of files to which Bergman has gotten exclusive access over his decades of reporting, Rise and Kill First brings us deep into the heart of Israel's most secret activities. Bergman traces, from statehood to the present, the gripping events and thorny ethical questions underlying Israel's targeted killing campaign, which has shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the entire world.
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Audible Audiobook
Listening Length: 25 hours and 58 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Random House Audio
Audible.com Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English, English
ASIN: B0797LD93S
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It's a long, often repetitive book, perhaps best read along with a couple of others to break the monotony. It is also a well-documented book and a thoroughly interesting read; a real eye-opener to the dirty world of nation-sponsored assassinations and the inevitable repercussions such acts demand of an enemy, any enemy.What Immediately comes across is the great difficulty and rarity of performing successful operations, which is a good thing because they apparently got a lot wrong before Meir Dagan restructured Mossad . The tit-for-tat vengeance reaped by one side and then the other is the endless, self-destroying regional legacy that we still see today. These pages of stories of death bear remarkable resemblance to the phrase: "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." In that, the book is a frustrating read, much like the realities of life in that region with no end in sight to the miseries that that long-bloodied land beholds.The post-September 11th chapters are especially interesting, and should be mandatory reading for every world leader.Great men have tried solutions. None have yet been found. And so it continues.
“Rise and Kill First,†Ronen Bergman’s revelatory and astonishing history of Israel’s targeted assassinations, is a brilliant and prodigiously researched work. Readers will be riveted and amazed both by the scale of the killings carried out by the Israeli security services and by their tactical genius. They will likewise be appalled by the price in human lives, both innocent and not so innocent, at which Israel’s survival has been purchased. And they will be profoundly saddened as they comprehend how that survival has required the best and bravest of Israel’s young men and women to steel themselves against the fundamental moral precepts that govern ordinary life.Bergman bluntly tells us – and most readers will agree – that the targets of Israel’s assassinations deserve to die. They have planned andexecuted the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of Israeli civilians – men, women, children and infants – as they go about the activities of their daily lives. No cause, no grievance, can ever mitigate such atrocities. And in war, where there is no realistic possibility of arresting and trying the perpetrators, the justice of striking them down is, at least to this reader, not open to serious moral question.But things are not always so simple, even when the target of an assassination is a terrorist murderer. As in one instance recounted by Bergman, it may happen that, despite the best efforts of counter-terror forces to ensure that the target will be at home alone when the hit occurs, he must be shot in front of his wife and teenage daughter. Unpleasant, says the operative in relating the story to Bergman, but the job must be done. And he does not hesitate to do it.Infinitely worse, of course, is the loss of totally innocent life that is the virtually inevitable by-product of assassinations carried out from the air or by explosive. As detailed by Bergman, Israel does try to prevent this, and countless operations have been aborted because of the likelihood that unacceptable “collateral damage†will occur. But if no harm to innocents were deemed tolerable, many operations could simply not be carried out.And that would not be without consequence to innocent Israelis. As Bergman shows, in some cases where operations were called off because of the likelihood of harm to innocent bystanders, the terrorists thus spared have gone on to commit attacks in which dozens of Israeli civilians were killed. That causes one security officer to tell Bergman that although it causes him genuine pain when an Arab child is killed in an Israeli operation, if a child is going to be harmed, he would prefer that the child not be Israeli. Is it wrong, or natural, to care for one’s own people first?The Israeli government has no doubt about the answer. And although many innocent Arab lives were lost in the unprecedented number of Israeli assassinations that took place in response to the horrific wave of terrorism that struck Israel during the Second Intifada, those operations, together with the IDF’s Defensive Shield offensive in the West Bank, gave the lie to the familiar bromide that there is no military solution to terrorism. The Israelis found one, putting down the Second Intifada by force of arms. In winning that victory, Israel’s program of targeted assassinations played an important part.More recently, Israel has targeted Iranian scientists working on the country’s nuclear program for elimination. That caused a female Mossad agent to stand up at one meeting and declare that her father was a scientist who had helped develop Israel’s nuclear capacity and ask her colleagues whether they would consider him a legitimate target for assassination by the enemy. Her question did not receive much by way of an answer, but the killing of Iranian nuclear scientists continued.Unfortunately, the dazzling feat of groundbreaking reportage and riveting narrative achieved by Bergman in “Rise and Kill First†is marred in the book’s final pages by some unaccountable and highly misleading statements about the agreement concerning Iran’s nuclear program (formally known as the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Actionâ€(“JCPOAâ€))reached between Iran and six world powers in July 2015. Relating the prior clash between former Mossad chief Meir Dagan and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the feasibility and wisdom of an Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Bergman writes that the JCPOA , which mooted their debate, wasan Iranian capitulation to a number of demands that the ayatollahs had been rejecting for years. Iran agreed to dismantle the nuclear project almost entirely and to be subject to strict limits and supervision for many years into the futureIn view of the heated controversy then raging in the United States over whether the JCPOA would effectively restrain Iran’s nuclear program, or put it on a glide path to becoming a nuclear-armed power, Bergman’s characterization of the agreement as an “Iranian capitulation†is nothing less than startling. And while one might argue that whether the deal was a good one or a bad one is a matter of opinion, Bergman misstates the underlying facts on which his opinion is based.Thus, contrary to his assertion, the deal did not require Iran to “dismantle†anything, let alone its “entire[ ]†nuclear project; it only required that Iran mothball centrifuges that exceeded the agreement’s limits during its term. And the agreement provided that its restrictions on Iran’s enrichment of uranium to near-fissile purity would sunset after 15 years, hardly a prohibitive period to religious fanatics playing a long game.Further, the agreement placed no restrictions on Iran’s development of ballistic missiles, and its research on high speed centrifuges was allowed to continue. As to the latter, even Barack Obama acknowledged that, after the agreement’s sunset, high-speed centrifuges could “[shrink] breakout times [for Iran to construct a nuclear bomb] . . . almost down to zero.â€Bergman refers to none of this in characterizing the JCOPA as an “Iranian capitulation.†Similarly, while asserting (without much explication) that the agreement represented “a double triumph†for Meir Dagan, he fails to mention that the JCPOA was opposed not only by Benjamin Netanyahu, but also by opposition leaders Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni, in very strong terms.The result is that a not otherwise-informed reader could well come away with a false, or at best incomplete, picture of the issues surrounding the Iran nuclear agreement. To me that is a grievous fault, but one paragraph in a book of more than 600 pages cannot affect its overall quality.Bergman ends his book with a lament that Israel’s intelligence and security agencies have been so successful as to foster “the illusion among most of the nation’s leaders that covert operations . . . could be used in place of real diplomacy.†Toward the end of his life, Bergman writes, Meir Dagan (who is the deserved hero of this book) realized “that only a political solution with the Palestinians – the two-state solution – could end the 150-year conflict.†Ill with cancer, Dagan tried with his last energy to persuade the Israeli public to elect a leadership that would vigorously pursue that aim.But his efforts were to no avail. Despite the enormous adulation he enjoyed as the ultimate Israeli master spy, Dagan’s speech, as well as the calls of many other former heads of the intelligence and military establishments for a compromise agreement with the Palestinians. . . have all fallen on deaf ears.One can easily imagine what may animate the longing for peace of retired heroes like Meir Dagan. They have dedicated their lives to protecting Israeli civilians from the remorseless terrorists who would murder them, and that has required them to do terrible things. Reflecting on what they have seen and done, it would not be surprising for them to feel moral qualms and wish there was another way. As one former head of the security service observed in the film The Gatekeepers, “[w]hen you leave Shin Bet, you become a bit of a leftist.â€Being removed from the dirty business of targeted assassinations, the average Israeli voter may see things more dispassionately. What he sees is the Palestinians’ unremitting intransigence, their rejection without counteroffer of generous Israeli proposals for a two-state solution, the Palestinian Authority’s pension payments for the murder of Israeli men, women and children, and the Holocaust denial and gross anti-Semitism of Mahmoud Abbas, the supposedly moderate president of the PA.What exactly can be done to persuade such people to negotiate in good faith about peace? Ronen Bergman doesn’t say.
This is an amazing book, sometimes very disturbing but consistently providing a journalistic view of Israel and it’s fight for survival. The story is one I knew in broad outline but this book puts flesh on the basic bones. It let me understand the driving forces, and the people behind, many critical decisions made during Israel’s tumultuous history. Overall, I came away with the sense that, warts and all, mistakes (and there were many) and all, Israel needed to do what was done to survive. A must read for anyone interested in the history of Israel or just fascinated by deep insight into one of the worlds best secret services.
I anticipated this book would be bias and focused on exciting details of the various operations, but instead it was a non-bias and self-critical review of Israel's various covert operations against terrorists and state actors. The book is worth reading strictly to gain insights into the Israel's history and the broader dynamics in the Middle East and beyond. From a strategy perspective it provides details on the national level decision making process that went into many operations, to include cases where poor judgment resulted in undesired effects. At the tactical level, special operators will find a wealth of lessons based on the successes and failures of Israel's numerous covert operations. It is written well, and even the layperson will find it understandable.
Excellent and important book. Unbelievable access and research. When the head of an intelligence agency says he is disturbed by how a writer managed to get so much information, you know the writer is doing something right!
Beyond any thriller this book is terrifying and terrific. The reality of oppression and the supreme need to survive at all costs have informed the entire history of modern Israel. Each step to protect and prevent has been described with clarity and assessed as the deeds meet the present need to thrive and the ensuing counter attacks. Unless the hard won wisdom of Meir Dagan or Ariel Sharon prevails the cycles of killing and being killed will continue to the destruction of the region if not all of humankind. Brilliant.
This a book which gripped my attention from page 1. It is not a book for the faint hearted. As with all books that I have read by Ronan Bergman, it paints a vivid and realistic account of what I believe has to be done if Israel is to survive as a proud nation. You may agree or disagree with the contents that is your privilege, but it helped me considerably to comprehend what is happening in that part of our world. Thank you Ronen for a book the contents of which are very important. and needed to be written.
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