
The Gatekeepers
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Imagine the following situation: You have just received a tip that six suicide bombers are making their way into the heart of Israel's major cities, each one to a different city, to set off an explosion in the most crowded centers of population. How far would you go to stop the attack? How would you sleep at night if you failed and one of the six terrorists reached his target and murdered dozens of innocent people? What would you do the next morning to extract your country from this murderous vicious cycle? For six former heads of the Shin Bet (Israel's internal security service), these were not hypothetical questions, but the realities and tormenting way of life for decades.
In The Gatekeepers, which is based on extensive and lengthy interviews conducted to produce the award-winning film of the same name, six former heads of the Shin Bet speak with unprecedented candor on how they handled the toughest and tensest moments of their lives; on matters of life and death; on the missions they were involved in; on the historic opportunities for a better future that were missed by the leaders under whom they served, and the scars each of them bears until this very day.
The Gatekeepers is a piercing and cruel self-examination of Israel's security establishment and of a nation that has lived by its sword for so many years but has lost its faith in its ability to lay it down.
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Ambassador Dennis Ross (Preface) is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Prior to returning to the Institute in 2011, he served two years as special assistant to President Obama and National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Yael Schonfeld Abel (Translator) is a literary translator whose English-to-Hebrew translations include novels by Hilary Mantel, Joyce Carol Oates and Terry McMillan, among many others. She has also translated a variety of nonfiction books on topics including psychology, personal growth and spirituality.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Avraham Shalom
- The Capture of Eichmann
- 1967-The Palestinian State Was Our Idea
- The Head-Chopper from the Security Division
- The Appointment
- The Bus 300 Affair
- Bus 300: The Cover-Up
- Bus 300: "The Cleanest People"
- Bus 300: The Day After
- Ya'akov Peri
- Handling Agents-The Art of Persuasion to Betray
- The Bus 300 Affair: The Take-Off Point
- Death in the Interrogation Room
- How We Didn't Foresee the First Intifada
- Oslo Days
- Carmi Gillon
- The Jewish Division
- The Appointment
- Suicide Attacks and the Dilemma of the Ticking Bomb
- The Writing on the Wall
- The Assassination of Rabin
- Getting Even: The Engineer's Last Cell Phone Call
- Ami Ayalon
- The Battle over Green Island
- The Yom Kippur War, Leading the Commando
- Submarines, Second Strike, To Be or Not to Be
- A New Middle East?
- From the Navy to Heading the Shin Bet
- The Era of Netanyahu
- When Arafat Orders to Cease Terrorist Activity
- Understanding the Enemy
- The Era of Ehud Barak-Dawn of a New Day
- Avi Dichter
- To Be or Not to Be: Complications across the Border
- Hamas, Jihad, a Different Culture
- The Cake Isn't Baked Yet-Why the Camp David Summit Failed
- A Riddle Named Yasser Arafat
- The Suicide Attack Period
- He Who Rises to Kill You: The Era of Targeted Prevention
- Yuval Diskin
- The Assassination Doctrine, or Lunch with Chirac
- Days of Disengagement
- The Hamas Coup: We Didn't Believe It Would All Be Over in a Week. Neither Did They.
- Last Conversations, After the May 2011 Retirement
- The Future
- Index
- Back
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