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Israeli journalist and author Ronen Bergman advised readers to avoid a new Persian edition of Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations, which he said was an apparently false and distorted version of his 2018 book. “I strongly recommend NOT TO READ this edition: I have never received a request from this publishing house, never gave [license] to publish Rise And Kill First in Persian, and never received, certainly not approved, a text of it in Persian,” the author tweeted Wednesday. “[F]rom what I read- it’s false and distorted!” I strongly recomm...

By Richard Walker The brazen murder of an Iranian nuclear scientist shows once again that Israel cares little for international law and stands alone as a country that has assassinated more people than any other Western nation since World War II. That achievement is confirmed in a book by Ronen Bergman, an Israeli investigative writer. In Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations, an analysis of Israel’s history of eliminating its enemies, he says Israel has liquidated 800 “targets” since the end of the Second Intifada in 2005. He unashamedly makes th...

Image zoom Credit: William Morrow (2) Brad Taylor writes novels that are not only ripped from the headlines, but inspired directly what is happening in the world at the exact moment he's writing. The author, who served in the U.S. Army Infantry for more than two decades and taught at the Citadel, has penned over a dozen installments of his Pike Logan series, which uses his own knowledge of the special forces to create thrilling tales. His latest, American Traitor (on shelves this week) came across a literary speed ...

Historical Figures Who Survived The Most Assassination Attempts Print Collector/Getty Images By Marina Manoukian/Dec. 18, 2020 9:56 am EDT Throughout history, prominent figures have been targeted for assassination. And if it occurred during the 20th century, it's more than likely the CIA was involved somehow. But some historical figures were able to survive numerous assassination attempts, some through skill and others by dumb luck. Some survived dozens of assassination attempts while others survived hundreds. Some people, like Rasputin, have gone down in history as being not...

Before it even began. “History,” the writer Philip Roth observed, “is where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable.” Certainly, many failed to predict Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, forty-one years ago this month. But the ouster of the imperial government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and its replacement with a theocratic totalitarian government led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini wasn’t inevitable. Indeed, it’s entirely possible that Israel, the country for whose destruction the Islamic Republic has called since its founding, could have st...