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Ronen Bergman 出版社: Random House 副标题: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations 出版年: 2018-1-23 页数: 800 定价: USD 35.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9781400069712
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 wea...
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 page-turning, eye-opening book, 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.
Of all the means that democracies use to protect their security, there is none more fraught and controversial than "killing the driver" - assassination.
Some, euphemistically, call it "liquidation." The American intelligence community calls it, for legal reasons, "targeted killings." In practice, these terms amount to the same thing: killing a specific individual in order to achieve a specific goal - saving the lives of people the target intends to kill, averting a dangerous act that he is about to perpetrate, and sometimes removing a leader in order to change the course of history.
The use of assassinations by a state touches two very difficult dilemmas. First, is it effective? Can the elimination of an individual, or a number of individuals, make the world a safer place? Second, is it ... (查看原文)
With the establishment of the Mossad, Israeli intelligence services coalesced into the three-pronged community that survives in more or less the same form today: AMAN, the military intelligence arm that supplies information to the IDF; the Shin Bet, responsible for internal intelligence, counterterror, and counterespionage; and the Mossad, which deals with covert activities beyond the country's borders.
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In other words, Israeli intelligence from the outset occupied a shadow realm, one adjacent to yet separate from the country's democratic institutions...
In this shadow realm, "state security" was used to justify a large number of actions and operations that, in the visible world, would have been subject to criminal prosecution and long prison terms: constant surveillance of citizens be... (查看原文)
建议配合Thirteen days in September一起读,对巴以冲突乃至以色列和阿拉伯世界的冲突多一点了解。 听《九月里的十三天》(Thirteen days in September)的时候,觉得埃及的萨达特(Anwar Sadat)又臭又硬,顽固到令人憎厌的地步,后来一查wiki,才知道他因为参与和谈并签订了...
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2 有用 喜喜 2019-12-09 18:40:19
很高兴今年结束前看完年度最佳图书!信息量巨大,再结合小时候新闻里的阿拉法特,哈马斯,约旦河西岸,加沙,一个个名词就鲜活了起来,记忆也拉回了2015年以色列+巴勒斯坦地区22天的旅行,地点人物也就都对上了。作者文笔非常吸引人,摩萨德的能力情报财力可以概括为“暗杀、爆炸、投毒、监听、男扮女装”,整个过程让人叹为观止。
1 有用 … 2019-05-08 07:16:46
看这本书和跑马拉松一样的感觉。前十公里(前200页)觉得真喜欢,节奏也不错,对后面充满信心。第二十公里(第350页)开始有点绝望:这怎么才到一半啊。最后的十公里一直处于“放弃吧 -- 都已经过了一大半了 -- 放弃吧”的循环当中。等到最后结局了竟有点依依不舍,至于读了啥也已经忘了一大半了。
0 有用 Baristina 2020-02-02 22:13:54
白左习惯性站巴方,读完书觉得都不干净但是以方略好吧。凶悍都是被逼出来的
2 有用 iAudioBook 2018-03-12 21:25:16
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0 有用 西西莉亚 2023-07-26 09:45:57 广东
每天累成狗,实在数据对不起人,月末冲数据,凑个数吧
0 有用 西西莉亚 2023-07-26 09:45:57 广东
每天累成狗,实在数据对不起人,月末冲数据,凑个数吧
0 有用 Baristina 2020-02-02 22:13:54
白左习惯性站巴方,读完书觉得都不干净但是以方略好吧。凶悍都是被逼出来的
2 有用 喜喜 2019-12-09 18:40:19
很高兴今年结束前看完年度最佳图书!信息量巨大,再结合小时候新闻里的阿拉法特,哈马斯,约旦河西岸,加沙,一个个名词就鲜活了起来,记忆也拉回了2015年以色列+巴勒斯坦地区22天的旅行,地点人物也就都对上了。作者文笔非常吸引人,摩萨德的能力情报财力可以概括为“暗杀、爆炸、投毒、监听、男扮女装”,整个过程让人叹为观止。
0 有用 Christina 2019-07-31 06:20:07
神秘、强势、铁腕的摩萨德 — 全球四大情报机构之一,这个题材一直深深令我着迷。书中跨越半个多世纪,涵盖了以色列的建国史、巴以矛盾、中东局势,小时候新闻联播里看的故事,全都鲜活起来,且大多是另一个角度和维度描述。看了太多二战犹太人被屠杀的故事,再看摩萨德打击敌人时的神勇、强悍、必胜的作风,好是赞叹。中东政治复杂,敌人的敌人就是朋友。前半部好看,后半部故事有些重复,太多人物名字根本记不过来。
1 有用 … 2019-05-08 07:16:46
看这本书和跑马拉松一样的感觉。前十公里(前200页)觉得真喜欢,节奏也不错,对后面充满信心。第二十公里(第350页)开始有点绝望:这怎么才到一半啊。最后的十公里一直处于“放弃吧 -- 都已经过了一大半了 -- 放弃吧”的循环当中。等到最后结局了竟有点依依不舍,至于读了啥也已经忘了一大半了。