Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel


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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and one of the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the Year. The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel’s recent history, and one that fundamentally altered the trajectory for both Israel and the Palestinians. In Killing a King, Dan Ephron relates the parallel stories of Rabin and his stalker, Yigal Amir, over the two years leading up to the assassination, as one of them planned political deals he hoped would lead to peace, and the other plotted murder. "Carefully reported, clearly presented, concise and gripping," It stands as "a reminder that what happened on a Tel Aviv sidewalk 20 years ago is as important to understanding Israel as any of its wars" (Matti Friedman, The Washington Post).




The Last Days of Israel


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"Barry Chamish is changing Israel's perspective as no other journalist in his field. His previous books: 'Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin', 'Traitors and Carpetbaggers in the Promised Land', and 'Israel Betrayed' have documented Israeli leadership controlled by dangerous, secretive European and American power brokers, using murder to push "peace" down an unwilling Israeli public's throat. His research has been accepted in Israel and worldwide. Chamish's Hebrew work has climbed to the top of the Israeli bestsellers lists, while his editions in English, Spanish, French, Russian, and German are impacting readers on 3 continents. In 'The Last Days of Israel', Chamish goes farther than ever before. He names names. He identifies Israel's hidden enemies and shows readers who really murdered Rabin. This book puts all of his previous research into highly focused perspective. When widely understood, this perspective has the potential of saving Israel. This book is a powerful tool for Israel's defense." -- from the cover










The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin


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The assassination of Israel's prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, in November 1995 was a blow to the country's social body. In this book, 15 contributors from a range of disciplines—history, psychology, anthropology, political science, and cultural theory—survey the various reactions to the assassination and analyze its ramifications and repercussions.




Return of the Giants


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Black Wind, White Snow


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A fascinating study of the motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin's government in Russia "Part intellectual history, part portrait gallery . . . Black Wind, White Snow traces the background to Putin's ideas with verve and clarity."--Geoffrey Hosking, Financial Times "Required reading. This is a vivid, panoramic history of bad ideas, chasing the metastasis of the doctrine known as Eurasianism. . . . Reading Charles Clover will help you understand the world of lies and delusions that is Eurasia."--Ben Judah, Standpoint A powerful strain of Russian nationalism now lies at the heart of the Kremlin's political thinking: "Eurasianism". But how did this dangerous ideology, once a fringe theory, come to dominate Moscow's elite? Promoted most notably in recent years by Alexander Dugin, this theory has become the driving force behind the invasion of Ukraine and the perplexing manoeuvrings of Putin's Russia. In this fascinating investigation, Charles Clover, an award-winning journalist, traces Eurasianism's origins in the writings of White Russian exiles in 1920s Europe, through Siberia's Gulag archipelago in the 1950s, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and up to its steady infiltration of the governing elite. Based on extensive research and dozens of interviews with Putin's close advisers, this eye-opening account is essential reading to understand Russia's past century - and the dangers of our present political moment.







Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?


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Chamish has carefully reviewed both the official government position on the Rabin assassination and collected a huge amount of information connected to the event and carefully cross checked it. The Israeli government's official position, supported by a special government commission, is that a lone gunman, Amir, assassinated Rabin. Now learn the truth behind Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin's assassination. Read about ballistics reports and an amateur film of the assassination which was doctored to hide the truth, but helps reveal it. Conflicting testimonies by over a dozen witnesses, including trained police personnel and bodyguards, is presented on how many shots were fired, and where exactly the shots came from; cries that the bullets fired by Amir were blanks, hence harmless, came from these police and bodyguards. There was little attempt to contain the shooter, Amir, before or after the shots were fired; the chain of evidence to the guns and the bullets that reportedly killed Rabin is broken. Rabin's wife was taken to secret service headquarters rather than to the hospital to her husband. Autopsy reports that first indicated the fatal wound was to Rabin's chest were later changed so the bullets came from the back where Amir, the convicted murderer, was standing. The strong possibility is that the fatal shot was administered in the car going to the hospital or in the hospital. Read testimonies that changed over time from the event to the trial of Amir. Chamish reviews the evidence relating to all these details, and more, surrounding the assassination. A far more sinister truth than the official version unfolds. This newly expanded edition reveals the conclusive evidence that dramaticallychanges one's views of the assassination.