Our discussion with Israeli investigative journalist Ronen Bergman, author of a stunning book on the long secretive history of Israel’s extra-judicial killing program, Rise & Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations. It’s a book that Israeli Intelligence desperately tried to prevent Bergman from writing. Democracy Now! Youtube 19.13, 2018
Israel which has assassinated more people than any other country in the western world since World War II. ibid.
‘The hunt for person who was codenamed The Head of the Fish, Yasser Arafat, was the most extensive and long term in the history of Israeli intelligence’. ibid. Rise & Kill First
‘Israel tried to kill Arafat numerous times … The peak of that was 1982.’ ibid. Bergman