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Title: Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network by Ari Ben-Menashe ISBN: 1-879823-01-2 Publisher: Acacia Press, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 January, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Mixed Feelings...
Comment: For those who are interested in MidEast affairs (as myself) this covers a fascinating topic and is written in a fluid style, which adds up to a truly gripping read.
The only reason for which I am not awarding this book 5 stars (and were it possible 6 or 7 stars) is the fact that many of the claims are indeed extreme...
Too much of the book simply adds up to bill this as complete fiction. Several other books (amongst which "The Samson Option", written by a renown journalist) have been based on Ben-Menashe's knowledge. Investigations have sprung up in the US and in Australia. Of course, these haven't lead far, but this is a serious case of the poeple in power charged with investigating the people in power - so what would you really expect?
Whilst I was reading this book I kept my copy of "Israels Secret Wars" at hand to verify events, facts and dates, and together with a bit of searching around the net, the essence of it all seems to add up.
Right from the start the author makes his embitterment with the "system" clear, so accusing him of having an axe to grind is pretty lame - add to that the fact that amongst his sworn enemies (at the end) was the media mogul R. Maxwell (who unleashed the full weight of his media empire to destroy his credibility) and you end up without much of a case...
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TO SUM IT UP: You have to be deeply cynical, but alas perhaps realistic, to accept all that is stated in this book. In the end, however, I am one who believes that where there's smoke, there's got to be some fire as well, and this book discloses a hell of a lot of smoke!
Rating: 1
Summary: Better Spy Fiction Than Ian Fleming
Comment: After reading this book I didn't know how to react to much of it. Many of the claims are plausible, many are wildly implausible, and some of the information is just plain factually wrong. Sharon left the IDF in 1973, not 1970 as Menashe says. Shamir retired or "was retired from" the Mossad in 1965 not the "early 1970s." Ben-Menashe is the first person who claims that the IAF has B-52s--two squadrons no less--but he doesn't say where Israel hides these massive eight-engine bombers. He also claimed that the murder of an old American Jewish cripple by Abul Abbas' organization on the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro was an Israeli plot to discredit the PLO. Ben-Menashe doesn't really document any of his claims but asks us just to trust him. His first whopper is to claim that Shimon Peres had been paid millions by Lockheed while defense minister. Since all of Israel's American fighters were built by McDonnel Douglas or General Dynamics this seems highly unlikely. Israel does use the Lockheed C-130, but the Lockheed scandal in Europe at the same time was to get the Belgians, Dutch, and Italians to purchase F-104 Starfighter interceptors. This is typical of Ben-Menashe--he seems to take bits of news and spin it into a plot like a Hollywood screenwriter.
Rating: 4
Summary: Ari Ben-Manashe's experience
Comment: An excellent well documented book by a high level Israeli agent. I have to give Sheridan Square Press's publishers Ellen Ray & Bill the Credit for the content as the author did the same. Most of us out of the publishing, or, media business are not skilled writers. Sheridian Square Press out of N.Y., N.Y. did the same service for the deceased Jim Garrison in his book "On the Trails of Assassins" documenting events leading up to the events of the Kennedy asassination that Oliver Stone made a movie of.
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Title: By Way of Deception by Victor Ostrovsky ISBN: 0971759502 Publisher: Wilshire Press Inc. Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Robert Maxwell: Israel's Superspy : The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul by Martin Dillon, Gordon Thomas ISBN: 0786710780 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services by Ian Black ISBN: 0802132863 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Woman from Mossad: The Story of Mordechai Vanunu & the Israeli Nuclear Program by Peter Hounam ISBN: 1583940057 Publisher: Frog Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Gideon's Spies : The Secret History of the Mossad (Updated Edition) by Gordon Thomas ISBN: 0312252846 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 18 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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