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'''Ronen Bergman''',  
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'''Ronen Bergman''' is an [[Israeli]] [[investigative journalist]] and [[author]]. He is a senior political and military analyst for ''Yedioth Ahronoth'', [[Israel]]'s largest-circulation daily.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/2018/01/31/582099085/journalist-details-israels-secret-history-of-targeted-assassinations "Journalist Details Israel's 'Secret History' Of Targeted Assassinations"]</ref>
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==Career==
 
==Career==
Ronen Bergman has written for The ''[[New York Times]]'', the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'', and ''[[Newsweek]]'' in the [[United States]], and for ''[[The Times]]'', ''[[The Guardian]]'', the ''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]] and the ''[[Sueddeutsche Zeitung]] in [[Europe]].  
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Ronen Bergman has written for The ''[[New York Times]]'', the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'', and ''[[Newsweek]]'' in the [[United States]], and for ''[[The Times]]'', ''[[The Guardian]]'', the ''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]'' and the ''[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]'' in [[Europe]].  
  
In 2018 he was the intelligence correspondent for ''[[Yediot Aharonot]]'' newspaper.  
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==Publications==
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Bergman's "explosive"<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-25/explosive-allegation-israel-planned-blow-passenger-plane-arafat-assassination-plot</ref> book ''Rise and Kill First: The secret history of Israel’s [[targeted killings]]'' details such [[Israeli]] plans as the assassination of Palestinian leader [[Yasser Arafat]] which included a plot to [[blow up passenger planes]] and football stadiums. Bergman persuaded many agents of [[Mossad]], [[Shin Bet]] and the military to tell their stories, some using their real names. The book strongly suggests that Israel used radiation poisoning to eventually kill Arafat, an act its officials have consistently denied.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-25/explosive-allegation-israel-planned-blow-passenger-plane-arafat-assassination-plot</ref>
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===Problems with official narrative===
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[[Israel Shamir]] is very critical of the book:
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{{QB| Bergman willingly submitted his study of Mossad assassinations to...Mossad censorship. While this prudence saved Bergman’s neck from the fury of the [[Kidon]], as the Mossad assassination unit is called, it certainly had made his mammoth book much less useful. A book on assassins censored by an assassin committee is an exercise in [[hagiography]], not a critical appreciation of history...There are practically no new revelations in Bergman's book. So many cases, so much detail, and not even one big case previously unknown...Bergman does his best to obscure By ''[[Way of Deception]]'', the scary book by [[Victor Ostrovsky]]...the word [[sayan]] does not even appear in the index of Bergman’s book.<ref>https://www.unz.com/ishamir/the-assassins-are-back/</ref>}}
  
==Publications==
 
Bergman's "explosive"<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-25/explosive-allegation-israel-planned-blow-passenger-plane-arafat-assassination-plot</ref> book "'Rise and Kill First: The secret history of Israel’s [[targeted killings]]" details such [[Israeli]] plans as the assassination of Palestinian leader [[Yasser Arafat]] which included a plot to [[blow up passenger planes]] and football stadiums. Bergman persuaded many agents of [[Mossad]], [[Shin Bet]] and the military to tell their stories, some using their real names. The book strongly suggests that Israel used radiation poisoning to eventually kill Arafat, an act its officials have consistently denied.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-25/explosive-allegation-israel-planned-blow-passenger-plane-arafat-assassination-plot</ref>
 
 
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Latest revision as of 08:36, 6 April 2024

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(investigative journalist)
Ronen Bergman.jpg
Born16 June 1972
NationalityIsraeli
Member ofMunich Security Conference/Young Leaders
Israeli journalist who published Rise and Kill First: The secret history of Israel’s targeted killings - in reality a very flattering limited hangout.

Ronen Bergman is an Israeli investigative journalist and author. He is a senior political and military analyst for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's largest-circulation daily.[1]

Career

Ronen Bergman has written for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and Newsweek in the United States, and for The Times, The Guardian, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Europe.

Publications

Bergman's "explosive"[2] book Rise and Kill First: The secret history of Israel’s targeted killings details such Israeli plans as the assassination of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat which included a plot to blow up passenger planes and football stadiums. Bergman persuaded many agents of Mossad, Shin Bet and the military to tell their stories, some using their real names. The book strongly suggests that Israel used radiation poisoning to eventually kill Arafat, an act its officials have consistently denied.[3]

Problems with official narrative

Israel Shamir is very critical of the book:

Bergman willingly submitted his study of Mossad assassinations to...Mossad censorship. While this prudence saved Bergman’s neck from the fury of the Kidon, as the Mossad assassination unit is called, it certainly had made his mammoth book much less useful. A book on assassins censored by an assassin committee is an exercise in hagiography, not a critical appreciation of history...There are practically no new revelations in Bergman's book. So many cases, so much detail, and not even one big case previously unknown...Bergman does his best to obscure By Way of Deception, the scary book by Victor Ostrovsky...the word sayan does not even appear in the index of Bergman’s book.[4]


 

Quotes by Ronen Bergman

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2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/October 7“Last year, after Israel obtained the Jericho Wall document, the military’s Gaza division drafted its own intelligence assessment of this latest invasion plan.

Hamas had "decided to plan a new raid, unprecedented in its scope," analysts wrote in the assessment reviewed by The Times. It said that Hamas intended to carry out a deception operation followed by a “large-scale maneuver” with the aim of overwhelming the division. But the Gaza division referred to the plan as a “compass.” In other words, the division determined that Hamas knew where it wanted to go but had not arrived there yet. On July 6, 2023, the veteran Unit 8200 analyst wrote to a group of other intelligence experts that dozens of Hamas commandos had recently conducted training exercises, with senior Hamas commanders observing.

The training included a dry run of shooting down Israeli aircraft and taking over a kibbutz and a military training base, killing all the cadets. During the exercise, Hamas fighters used the same phrase from the Quran that appeared at the top of the Jericho Wall attack plan, she wrote in the email exchanges viewed by The Times. The analyst warned that the drill closely followed the Jericho Wall plan, and that Hamas was building the capacity to carry it out. The colonel in the Gaza division applauded the analysis but said the exercise was part of a “totally imaginative” scenario, not an indication of Hamas’s ability to pull it off.

“In short, let’s wait patiently,” the colonel wrote.”
2023New York Times
Hannibal Directive“The IDF instructed all its fighting units in practice to follow the 'Hannibal Directive', although without clearly mentioning this explicit name. The instruction is to stop 'at all costs' any attempt by Hamas terrorists to return to Gaza, using language very similar to the original 'Hannibal Directive', despite repeated assurances by the security establishment that the procedure has been cancelled. It is not clear at this point how many of the abductees were killed due to the activation of this [Hannibal] order on October 7.”6 September 2024

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Munich Security Conference/201431 January 20142 February 2014Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 50th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/20156 February 20158 February 2015Germany
Munich
Bavaria
"400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts."
Munich Security Conference/201812 February 201814 February 2018Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 54th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/201915 February 201917 February 2019Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
Munich Security Conference/202014 February 202016 February 2020Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers."

 

Event Witnessed

EventLocation(s)Description
Munich Security Conference/2016Munich
Bavaria
Germany
The 52nd Munich Security Conference
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