Man in the Shadows: Inside the Middle East Crisis with a Man Who Led the Mossad
 
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From Publishers Weekly Never mind the dramatic title and jacket: readers expecting fireworks from the former head of the Israeli secret service will be disappointed. Written with the dispassion of an intelligence report, Halevy's memoir turns out to be a 20-year political history that includes much secret maneuvering but little skullduggery. Born in London in 1934, Halevy joined the Mossad in 1961 and quickly moved up to become a deputy division chief. His book opens in 1988-89, when the end of the Iran-Iraq war and the invasion of Kuwait suddenly changed the terms of Mideastern politics. The U.S. increased pressure on Israel to settle its Palestinian problem, and the first intifada heated up. Diplomatic progress was glacial; most of it involved careful political negotiations, dully detailed. The text perks up when Halevy becomes head of Mossad in 1998 and al-Qaeda enters the world stage by blowing up two U.S. embassies in Africa. Halevy delivers insightful and often acerbic portraits of world leaders and shows a surprising sympathy toward the Arab point of view. He also describes several operational fiascoes that made the news, but he writes as a loyal Israeli bureaucrat, so secrets stay put. (Apr. 18) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Book Description Efraim Halevy joined Israels secret police in 1961 and eventually became its director. For the first time, Halevy writes about the turbulent Middle East from his powerful vantage point at the top of the Mossad. Having served as the secret envoy to Prime Ministers Rabin, Shamir, Netanyahu, Barak, and Sharon, Halevy was privy to the regions most sensitive information. Informed by his extraordinary access, he writes candidly about the workings of the Mossad, the Prime Ministers he served under and the other major players around the world: Yasir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, Hafez Assad, Muamar Qadaffi, Presidents Clinton and Bush, and former CIA directors Jim Angleton and George Tenet. Looking forward, he writes frankly about how the world might achieve peace. Much of what he has to say will surprise and shock even those readers well-versed in the complexities of the region. Sure to be one of the years most talked-about books, this fierce account of the Middle East will be a must-read for those seeking a functional and intelligent roadmap to peace in the Middle East and the world. For the first time, Halevy will open his private dossier on: What the Mossad did and did not tell the CIA before the attacks of 9/11 Giving George Tenet the information about weapons of mass destruction and his feelings about Tenets dismissal A candid discussion of his misgivings about the report of the 9/11 commission, the new structure of intelligence services in the United States, and his feeling that we have not seen the worst of what the radical Islamic terrorists are capable of The assassination attempt by the Mossad on the life of Khaled Mashal, now the leader of Hamas The Israeli-Jordan Peace Accord His criticisms of the road map that is currently being followed by the U.S. and Israel for peace in the region The negotiation that brought the Jews of Ethiopia to Israel.

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09 Sep 2007

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Halevy, Efraim

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