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The Russians Are Coming | 227 history dating back to the era of the czars, Russian intelligence had perfected the technique of false flag recruitment, through which it assumes an identity to fit the ideological bent of a potential recruit. Russian intelligence was well experien...
of our retaliatory fire. Some of the Shi’ite villages in the south even greeted our invading units with their traditional welcome, showering them with rice. But for anew Shiite militia calling itself Hizbollah — formed after the invasion and inspired by the Ayatollah Khomeini’s r...
/ BARAK / 106 there’s no doubt you’ ll decide to build this fence. But to your dying day, you won’t be able to look yourself in the mirror and explain why you waited for another 630 Israelis to die first.” He did eventually start building it, but only in the wake of an act of t...
showed how groups could suck power into themselves from networks, along invisible lines, and animate themselves as if by connection to electricity. The protesters and terrorists understood power that existed simply because of connectivity. They understood how easy it was to conne...
Ashkenazim — and their prominence and privilege had stoked increasing resentment among Israel’s disadvantaged Sephardi majority, with their roots in the Arab world and especially north Africa. Begin not only sensed this. While he’d never lost the formal bearing — or the accent —...
beginning I kept having this nagging thought: what is so bad about getting better from a placebo?” That kind of thinking, still hard for most doctors to accept, was heretical in 1990, when Kaptchuk arrived at Har- vard. “People kept saying, ‘Oh, this is just the placebo effect”...
/ BARAK / 104 I did regret being unable to rely on the support of two key constituencies that had helped deliver my landslide victory barely 18 months earlier: my own Labor Party and the Arab citizens of Israel. I had no trouble understanding the reasons many Israeli Arabs were...
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/ BARAK / 113 ill-fated Israeli war in Lebanon since 1982, was the reason I ultimately found myself back in the Israeli government. It began on July 12, 2006, when Hizbollah fired rockets from southern Lebanon as cover for an ambush of two Israeli Humvees on our side of the bor...
Acknowledgements 379 Traversing an Infinite plane with a Line Spear and Hunter Hilbert Hotel Video Link Holding Infinity in Your Hand Number Quiz 1 Number Quiz 2 Donate a Random Number Which Number is Random Smallpox Virus Smallpox Child Chapter 9 Donald Rumsfeld Kurt Géd...
A decade later, the idea would suddenly resurface. In my first meeting, as a newly promoted Major General, with our then Defence Minister Ariel Sharon, Sharon turned to me and the army’s Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan, and said: “Tell me. Why the hell is Arafat still alive?” He loo...
Unsteady Undertow As market observers attempt to explain the recent drop in US equities, the risks of geopolitical factors have garnered considerable attention. Potential US retaliation over the recent disappearance of a Saudi journalist has only added fuel to the fire of worrie...
…in F2015E Eliminate 250,000 non-defense service and staff augmentee contractors $18 billion Eliminate all earmarks' $16 Freeze federal salaries, bonuses, and other compensation at non- $15 Defense agencies for three years Cut the federal workforce by 10% (2-for-3 replacement rate...
200 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Central Intelligence Agency, the Treasury Department, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the FBI. With a multibillion-dollar “black budget” hidden from public scrutiny, the NSA’s technology director- ate invested in state-of-the-art equipment, i...