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Rabin of Israel: Warrior for Peace [Paperback]

Robert Slater (Author)
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February 1995
Based on years of research and extensive interviews, this book explores Rabin the man, statesman, and the soldier. It also delivers an up-to-the-minute account of his assassination and its aftermath. This balanced portrait covers Rabin's varied and controversial political career. Original.

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  • Paperback: 640 pages
  • Publisher: Harpercollins (Mm) (February 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0061010669
  • ISBN-13: 978-0061010668
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #340,362 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Robert Slater was born in New York City on October 1, 1943, and grew up in South Orange, New Jersey. He graduated from Columbia High School in 1962 and graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, where he majored in political science. He received a masters of science degree in international relations from the London School of Economics in 1967. He worked for UPI and Time Magazine for many years, in both the United States and the Middle East.
Slater has written 16 books about major business personalities before his new book on Donald Trump:
' The Titans of Takeover (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1987).
' Portraits in Silicon (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987).
' This ... .Is CBS: A Chronicle of 60 Years (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988).
' The New GE: How Jack Welch Revived an American Institution (Homewood, IL: Business One Irwin, 1993).
' Get Better or Get Beaten! 31 Leadership Secrets from GE's Jack Welch (Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1994). This book made the business best-seller list in Japan.
' SOROS: The Life, Times, and Trading Secrets of the World's Greatest Investor (Chicago, IL: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1996). This book profiles superinvestor George Soros, and it appeared on the Business Week best-seller list.
' Invest First, Investigate Later: And 23 Other Trading Secrets of George Soros, the Legendary Investor (Chicago, IL: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1996).
' John Bogle and the Vanguard Experiment: One Man's Quest to Transform the Mutual Fund Industry (Chicago, IL: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1996). This book profiles the most important business figure in the mutual fund field.
' Ovitz: The Inside Story of Hollywood's Most Controversial Power Broker (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1997). This book made the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times business best-seller lists.
' Jack Welch and the GE Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1998). This is an updated look at the business secrets of General Electric's chairman and chief executive officer. It made the Business Week and The Wall Street Journal best-seller lists.
' Saving Big Blue: Leadership Lessons & Turnaround Tactics of IBM's Lou Gerstner (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1999).
' The GE Way Fieldbook: Jack Welch's Battle Plan for Corporate Revolution (New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1999).
' The Eye of the Storm: How John Chambers Steered Cisco Systems Through the Technology Collapse (New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 2003).
' Magic Cancer Bullet: How a Tiny Orange Capsule May Rewrite Medical History (New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 2003), co-authored with Novartis CEO, Dan Vasella.
' The Wal-Mart Decade: How a New Generation of Leaders Turned Sam Walton's Legacy into the World's #1 Company (New York, NY: Portfolio, 2003). A paperback version was published in June 2004.
' Microsoft Rebooted: How Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Re-Invented Their Company (New York, NY: Portfolio, 2004
' No Such Thing as Over-Exposure: Inside the Life and Celebrity of Donald Trump (New Jersey, Pearson, Prentice Hall, February 2005)


 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Account of Israel great statesman-warrior, January 24, 2007
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This review is from: Rabin of Israel: Warrior for Peace (Paperback)
Yitzhak Rabin was definitely a great man. He was the hero of the Six Day War : Under his command the IDF defeated the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq.
He also served as Israeli ambassador to Washington, and did sterling work to cement ties between Israel and her greatest ally,the USA.
Unfortunately he also made the greatest mistake in Israeli history.
Rabin, in a desire for peace, and under intense international pressure, signed accords with arch-murderer Yasser Arafat and his terrorist gang, the PLO, allowing the PLO to return to Israeli territory, and set up terror networks, with the aim of Israel's destruction.
Rabin miscalculated,not realizing that the PLO never had any intention of recognizing Israel, but saw territorial concession as just another step leading to the destruction of Israel and the genocide of her Jews.
Just three months after Rabin's murder at the hands of a far right zealot,Yigal Amir ( a horrible and execrable deed), Arafat made plain his aim of destroying Israel, at a secret meeting after a dinner of 40 Arab diplomats, on January 30, 1996, in the Grand Hotel Stockholm, Sweden:
"We of the PLO will now concentrate on splitting Israel psychologically into two camps. Within five years we will have six to seven million Arabs living on the West Bank and in Jerusalem. All Palestinian Arabs will be welcomed back by us. You must understand that we plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a purely Arab Palestinian State".
"We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not wish to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews.They are and remain Jews.
"We now need all the help we can get from you for a united Palestine under total Arab Muslim domination".

Rabin had seen too much bloodshed and had been put under intense pressure by the international community, who threatened to impose sanctions on Israel, when she deported 450 Hamas terrorists, with Jewish blood on their hands in 1993.

But it is still a mystery how a statesman and warrior, like Rabin, could be hoodwinked by modern day Hitler Arafat.

The book deals with key events in Rabin's life and career, as well as key events in Israel during the life and times of Rabin, such as the Arab pogroms against Jews in the Land of Israel, in 1920, 1921,1929 and 1936-1939.
Terrorist attacks across Israel's borders by the Fedayeen and later PLO, from the establishment of Israel, President Nixon's wise warning to Israel in 1968 to Israel to never return the Golan Heights to Syria, or to withdraw from disputed territories until there was a peace settlement and the Entebbe rescue raid into Uganda in 1976, under Rabin's premiership.
There are parts of the book when Slater is off the rails though such as his seeming condemmnation of Israeli actions during the First Intifada, not realizing the ruthless nature of Palestinian aims and strategies, and his naive belief that the First Intifada was not directed by the PLO, Syria. Iraq and Iran, and was somehow 'spontaneous'-rubbish.
Overall it is a great read of Rabin's millitary, diplomatic and political career, the latter giving an insight into Israel's vibrant multiparty democracy, which should be a model for the entire developing world!
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