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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

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In the public's imagination, usually the Israeli air force is the tip of the sword protecting the Jewish state. This time it was naval intelligence and commandos who saved the country from a hail of fiery missiles that would have spelled catastrophe in the days before meaningful missile defense. --Adm. Yedidya Yaari (Res.), former chief of Israeli Defense Forces Navy--Adm. Yedidya Yaari (Res.) This is the riveting and untold story of the behind-the-scenes intelligence and operational heroes who overcame tremendous obstacles to capture a massive weapons smuggling ship, which permanently and fundamentally altered U.S. policy in the region regarding the Palestinians and Iran. --Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz (Res), former Israeli defense minister and Israeli Defense Forces chief of staff --Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz (Res) 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 --Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser (Res.) 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 --Douglas J. Feith

This is the riveting and untold story of the behind-the-scenes intelligence and operational heroes who overcame tremendous obstacles to capture a massive weapons smuggling ship, which permanently and fundamentally altered U.S. policy in the region regarding the Palestinians and Iran. --Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz (Res.), former Israeli defense minister and Israeli Defense Forces chief of staff--Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz (Res.) In the public's imagination, usually the Israeli Air Force is the tip of the sword protecting the Jewish state. This time it was naval intelligence and commandos who saved the country from a hail of fiery missiles that would have spelled catastrophe in the days before meaningful missile defense. --Adm. Yedidya Yaari (Res.), former chief of Israeli Defense Forces Navy--Adm. Yedidya Yaari (Res.) 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--Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser (Res.) 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--Douglas J. Feith

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Brig. Gen. Amos Gilboa (Res.) is a former head of the Analysis and Production Division of Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence and military attaché in Washington. For more than a decade he was a special advisor for methodology in military intelligence and teacher of various intelligence and technology-related courses at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and the Technion University. He is the author of several books, including Israel’s Silent Defender: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Israeli Intelligence and Mr. Intelligence: Arale, the Biography of General Aharon Yariv. Yonah Jeremy Bob is an intelligence, terrorism, and legal analyst as well as a literary editor for the Jerusalem Post. He is the author of Justice in the West Bank? The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Goes to Court.  

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