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Israel's Sacred Terrorism: A Study Based on Moshe Sharett's Personal Diary and Other Documents (Aaug Information Paper Series) Paperback – January 1, 1985

by Livia Rokach (Author)
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Moshe Sharett, one of Zionism's chief diplomats before 1948 and Israel's first foreign minister and prime minister from 1953 to 1955, kept a personal diary in which he candidly recorded how key Israeli policy decisions were made, including his own doubts and opposition to the strategies pursued by Isreal's "security establishment," men like David Ben Gurion, Moshe Dayan and Arik Sharon. The diary reveals how in the early 1950's Israeli leaders deliberately provoked Arab states by military operations and covert terrorist actions, stirred up mass hysteria in Israel, and began plotting the takeover of southern Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank. Rokach has selected from the diaries and other documents, and provided a fascinating commentary and analysis.
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  1. Print length
    63 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Assn of Arab-Amer Univ Graduates
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1985
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.25 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0937694703
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0937694701
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Assn of Arab-Amer Univ Graduates; Subsequent edition (January 1, 1985)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 63 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0937694703
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0937694701
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.25 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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  • anonymous
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2016
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    Everything as promised - excellent service
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  • Joseph Ryan
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Tragedy of Going Along
    Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2007
    The image that emerges from Livia Rokach's presentation of Moshe Sharett's diary is one of classical tragedy: a man who is basically good but who has one fatal flaw, which ultimately destroys him.

    Sharett, the humane face of Zionism, brought from the Foreign Ministry, where he has specialized in pacifying diplomats from civilized countries, to the Prime Ministership, where he will salvage Israel's image from the cumulative impact made over the years by David Ben Gurion, now supposedly retired.

    But can Sharett switch off the military machine and re-tool Israeli policy along the lines that he knows will give it legitimacy not only in his own eyes but internationally? Unfortunately, he cannot. The behaviors are too ingrained, and Ben Gurion is not really retired. And so, Sharett is forced out.

    There is one consolation: Sharett tells his diary that he has warned the Cabinet, the military, and everyone that if their activities become known, they will cause Israel tremendous damage. When that happens, as seems inevitable, Sharett's efforts will at least be justified morally.

    Then, tragedy strikes. As time goes along, all the tactical elements of Israel's constant aggression progressively become public knowledge, and -- nothing happens. The international community looks the other way and Israel goes from conquest to conquest.

    In addition to having been ignominiously fired, Sharett has to admit to himself that he, the wise man who knew the world, was wrong and that the irreflective killers who he looked down on, they were right. They would put his face on a postage stamp, where you can still see it, but he was humiliated in his life's work and his values.

    The U.S. and Israel have many like him, who go on feeding the beast while hoping they can contain it. As long as information sources like Ms. Rokach's continue, inexplicably, to be ignored, this must continue.
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  • Daniel Gavron
    1.0 out of 5 stars Zero stars for an appalling book
    Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2019
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    I am an Israeli who is extremely critical of his country. I believe we have earned our bad reputation. In the past three decades, I think we deserve most of the blame for our failure to reach a fair agreement with the Palestinians and for perpetuating the occupation of the Palestinian territories. At the same time, "Israel's Sacred Terrorism" is offensively one-sided, ludicrously selective, and ultimately a distortion of Moshe Sharett's admittedly critical views. Not worth publishing or reading!
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  • Rose Marie
    3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2014
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  • Joel Evans
    2.0 out of 5 stars Crude hatchet job on the State of Israel.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2005
    Livia Rokach so loathes Israel that she takes a good diary and twists it into a bad psuedo-history.

    For instance, she cites to Prime Minister Sharret's diary entries regarding the Lavon Affair and concocts, wholecloth, a conspiracy theory involving Ben Gurion, Dayan and Peres.

    No historian BUT Livia Rokach concurs.

    The author goes one step further and blood libels Israel with the most horrendous of accusations, namely, that rogue Israeli Activists, intent on creating a wider war with Jordan, murdered eleven of their fellow Jews at Maaleh Akrabim in 1955 and pinned the blame on Jordan. How low can you go.

    Again, no historian anywhere, (See Benny Morris, Israel's Border Wars) finds a shread of real evidence to support the author's wild-eyed slanderous lies.

    Sacred Terror is pulp fiction in the guise of history. I'll pass.
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  • andy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Important book on history of terrorism in Palestine
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2023
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    I learned so much from this book from an era which I wasn’t around. Highly recommended.
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