Entebbe: A Defining Moment in the War on Terrorism--The Jonathan Netanyahu Story Summary and Reviews

Entebbe: A Defining Moment in the War on Terrorism--The Jonathan Netanyahu Story
by Iddo Netanyahu

Entebbe: A Defining Moment in the War on Terrorism--The Jonathan Netanyahu Story
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Author: Iddo Netanyahu
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-11
ISBN: 0892215534
Number of pages: 223
Publisher: Balfour Books

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Book Review: "It'll be all right"
Summary: 5 Stars

A phrase Jonathan Netanyahu repeated over and over to his loved ones and the men of his unit who took part in the hostage rescue in Entebbe, Uganda. Operation Jonathan, for which the rescue at Entebbe would forever be called, was an extremely daring and dangerous mission which claimed his life and that of three other hostages. The Israeli unit under Jonathan went through many many practice runs and much planning went into the short hour it took to stop the terrorists and the Ugandans who backed them and to get the 103 hostages safely aboard the plane that would bring them back to Israel. The first chapter dragged a bit for me, but once the background for the story had been given, and the story began, I couldn't put it down. The story is told by his youngest brother Iddo who also served in the Sakeret Matkal for a time as well as brother Bibi. Sure there are always stronger, smarter, better people around. Who's the best? But that's not the point. His love was wonderful/extraordinary to me....II Samuel 1 What an incredible story. His fame shall live forever, the eulogies never cease. Read the story.

True the binding is a bit weird, but I LOVE the cover, front and back! "...A hero from (Israel's) past", "a new race of Maccabees". Some of the best books I've ever read are in shreds and tattered and torn. I once nearly read Crime and Punishment in college, read it to the end which was missing many pages. I could not put it down and I had more pressing books to study. This book is another one like that. What's most important is the content. I can't help but think of the zealots of Masada who carefully covered under dirt the worn pages of scripture in the makeshift synagogue and Mikveh they made on that rocky balcony of Herod's nearly 2000 years ago.

Yoni loved his brothers, that's obvious from his letters which can be found in Self-Portrait of a Hero, compiled by his brothers. I enjoyed Iddo's telling a story from their childhood when Bibi presented Jonathan with a "Talmudic dilemma": "You're in the desert with another person, you have one canteen of water. Either of you would need to drink the water to save himself. You can't split it. What would you do...?" Jonathan answered, "It would depend on who the other person was. (Good answer, my thoughts!) If it were Iddo, I'd give him the water." Iddo writes, "I looked at my big brother, who was then 15 years old, and I knew: He'd do it."

My favorite quote is from the publisher who writes in the afterword: "Terrorists die so that other people can die. Yoni died so that other people could live." Amen.

Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever. Daniel 12:3

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