Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations in SSG: Spy/Spec-Ops Group

Apr 03, 2018 Samuel rated it it was amazing

The Badass Israeli Assassin....this is an archetype that has glued itself to the public imagination. More cunning, more professional, more stylish than their bumbling goody two shoes gentile counterparts, there are many grains of truth in this image. Since its creation, the state of Israel has developed a highly sophisticated paramilitary capability to annihilate the enemies of the Jewish people from Buenos Aires to Damascus and those who decide out of ideology, greed or callous disregard to giv ...more

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Jun 19, 2018 Samuel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

A CLOSER LOOK:

Among general pop culture, there are some perceptions and stereotypes of spies by nationality. The British are either suave and smooth talking, or morose, depressed arse covering beuracrats, but ones who take gathering useful intelligence seriously. The Americans are either the Christians In Action who can’t help but make a bad situation worse, or are blundering and violently jingoistic and incomptent with their militarized approach to the gentleman’s game. The Russians are the gl ...more

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Dec 29, 2021 Jarrod rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: espionage, audio-book, history

"Defense Minister Arens took the trouble to go to the studio to appear on the news. “This is a message to all terrorist organizations,” he said, “that whoever opens an account with us, that account will be closed by us.”
That is, until another one is opened and it, too, needs to be closed."

This is a great summary of the book in short form. The Jewish people and Israeli state goes to all lengths to defend itself. I really enjoyed this book as it spoke about all facets of state security - the polit ...more

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