The New York Times Author: Rachel Nolan Article Mentions
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Ronen Bergman is a political and military analyst for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth and the author of, among other books, By Any Means Necessary: Israels Covert War for Its P.O.W.s and M.I.A.s. He is currently at work on a history of the Mossad. The story about Israels exchange of 1,027 prisoners for Gilad Shalit, who was abducted five years ago by Hamas in a firefight on the border of the Gaza Strip, is Ronens first cover article for the magazine.How did you become interested in this story?Over the years, I have seen time and time again that Americans are baffled by the attitude of Israeli society, its intelligence community and its military toward hostages, P.O.W.s and M.I.A.s in general and by the Gilad Shalit affair in particul...(read more)
... Ronen Bergman is a political and military analyst for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth and the author of, among other books, By Any Means Necessary: Israels Covert War for Its P.O.W.s and M.I.A.s. He is currently at work on a history of the Mos ...
... had not rebuffed him this deal could have been brokered and Shalit released years earlier? Or are those kinds of counterfactuals tricky, because all kinds of other factors have also shifted in the meantime?When I was studying for my Ph.D. at Cambridg ...
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