Raid on the Red Sea

The Israeli Capture of the Karine a

Raid on the Red Sea
Amos Gilboa
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 312pg
15 May 2021 US
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9781640123571
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A Raid on the Red Sea is a thrilling, real-life tale of illegal gun-running in the Middle East. Recounting the most successful Israeli intelligence operation since the legendary Entebbe hostage rescue, Gen. Amos Gilboa gives the harrowing details for the first time of the secret, close working relations between Israeli and American intelligence in the seizure of the Karine A ship. At 0400 hours, Thursday, January 3, two fast boats of Israel' s naval commando unit close in on the stern of the Palestinian Authority' s Karine A and board the ship. The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Corps clandestinely loaded its cargo: fifty-six tons of high-grade, long-range weapons destined for the Gaza Strip. The Israelis' plan to seize it goes awry when they find nothing but a confused group of Egyptians, Jordanians, and Palestinians. Have they boarded the wrong ship? Is there going to be an international incident disgracing Israel? The incident was the first time that Iran tried to alter the balance of power in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by providing the Palestinian Authority with rockets far more destructive than the ones they already possessed - an escalation of the Middle East conflict that is still continuing today. AUTHOR: Amos Gilboa is a retired leader of the Analysis and Production Unit of Israeli Defense Forces and military attache in Washington. He was also previously a special advisor for methodology in military intelligence and teacher of various intelligence and technology-related courses at IDC Herzliya and the Technion University for over a decade. 26 photographs, 2 illustrations, 5 maps, 3 appendixes
"Fiction and nonfiction literature on special operations have become highly popular in recent years. For anyone interested in the subject, this well-written, authoritative and fascinating account of a daring raid in the Red Sea is a must. "--Uri Bar-Joseph, Jerusalem Post-- (3/5/2021 12:00:00 AM) "For Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush, the Karine A affair obliterated the vestiges of Arafat' s reputation as a peacemaker. It was a decisive event in the history of U. S. -Middle East policy. It shifted the balance of bureaucratic power away from those intent on wooing Arafat to those determined to shun him. The ship' s capture is a story as thrilling as an episode of Fauda. General Gilboa gives a lively account--exciting, incisive, and historically valuable. "--Douglas J. Feith, former undersecretary of defense for policy and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute "The Karine A story exposed the cooperation between Yasir Arafat, Iran, and Hezbollah in their attempt to kill thousands of Israelis. The book depicts this and Israeli intelligence' s efforts, backed by its American counterpart, in a captivating fashion--from the first scent picked up by intelligence that there was trouble until the final diplomatic results. "--Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser (Res. ), former head of the Analysis and Production Division of Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence
Amos Gilboa is a retired leader of the Analysis and Production Unit of Israeli Defense Forces and military attache in Washington. He was also previously a special advisor for methodology in military intelligence and teacher of various intelligence and technology-related courses at IDC Herzliya and the Technion University for over a decade.
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ISBN-13: 9781640123571
Published: 15 May 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Potomac Books Inc
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 312

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