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Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman

It may bill itself as a history of Israeli assassinations, but this incredibly well-researched history functions surprisingly well as a fact-focused and unbiased cross-sectional history of Israel from before its founding to much more recently, and I have finished it with a much deeper understanding of the regional geopolitics. 

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