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Summary: Talk about gullible readers!
Review: Boy, what a bunch of gullible readers there are out there! The litanny of achievements by the Mossad listed in this book are highly suspect. And the shear willingness of readers to just take Ostrovsky at his word with no 3rd part corroboration is mind-boggling. One can't help but wonder if all these "true believers" are just plain brain dead, possessing no common sense faculties with which to separate the credible from the ridiculous, or if they are just giving in to an already existing inner bias.I mean, cmon! Nobody is this good! Nobody could pull off half the stuff claimed by Ostrovsky! And even if you could pull off a few of them, some just don't make any sense. Assassinate Bush! Yeah, right! Why would Israel risk permanently alienating it's only ally, not to mention permanently putting an end to the huge aid packages it gets from Congress each year (matched only in amount by what goes to Egypt)? Doesn't anyone find it suspect how Ostrovsky casts himself in the role of the hero trying to thwart the evil-doers? Hardly makes for an objective perspective, in my opinion. How about the fact that if the Mossad is as absolutely ruthless as Ostrovsky tries to make it out to be, how is it that he was allowed to survive and devulge all this sensitive and damaging material. If the Mossad took out Robert Maxwell because he threatened to uncover their exploits, why didn't they then off Ostrovsky? Where's the consistency? Where's the logic? Golder
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Summary: Critical Reading for those who care about the US in 2004
Review: For a thinking person, the revelations in this book should spawn probing questions about the Mossad's part in geopolitics from pre-9-11 to 2004. Ostrovsky outlines how the Mossad, unlike any other secret intelligence service in the world, uses the vast Diaspora as "assets" to do their bidding. It is organized so that the Diaspora (over 50,000 strong) become temporary Mossad agents on an as-needed basis. This structure accomplishes two things:
(1) By playing on the 'help the homeland' aspect of requesting help for Israel from the Diaspora through whatever the 'asset's' position or job skill can produce, it naturally compartmentalizes the significance of a job, and reduces costs. The Mossad has only 1200 agents worldwide, but calls on the considerable PR skills of the B'nai B'rith, JDL, and ADL to advance its aims on an as-needed basis. Ostrovsky shows in event after event how this is by design. (2) The Mossad can get away with meddling in the politics of foreign countries by labeling as "anti-semitic" any objection to its methods; or similarly, by labeling as "anti-semitic" any objections if its gets caught. Again, Ostrovsky shows in example after example how this is by design. The recent 2004 scandal in New Zealand is a case in point. This involved Mossad agents caught stealing New Zealand passports from paraplegics. Or the more disturbing US-based AP reports from Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida in the last five weeks in which Israeli agents were caught near nuclear sub and fuel stations, or trying to enter federal installations. The only reporter willing to follow up these stories is Daniel Hopsicker, a respected journalist, of online MadCowProd News. When you realize that these agents caused an entire Navy Sub station with nuclear missles to close down (May 20, 2004) because sniffing dogs discovered bomb material in their moving trucks, it makes Ostrovsky's detailed warning about what the Mossad is doing in the US all the more alarming. I think the information I found the most distressing was how the Mossad uses US national print and broadcast media and reporters as assets. This a propaganda machine that at this time can only lead to more US sons and daughters coming home from Iraq in body bags. I say this because Ostrovsky is adamant in this book, published in 1993 or 1994, that it has been the Mossad's express policy for years to get the US into war with Iraq.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I am writing about "By Way Of Deception". I think that the book was right on the money. The Isreal goverment denied all accusations of course but we all know that this stuff really happen and that it's about time that this surface.. I believe that all goverments conducts these types of misdeeds from one standpoint or another. The questions is! Is which one of these goverment would you rather live under. I know that my own goverment "U.S". has committed there share of atrocities over time on mankind "Hiroshima, Tuskogee" but I'll still take it over what some other goverments have done.... Donald Smith
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Summary: Best espionage book I ever read
Review: I could not put the book down. It proves that reality is by far more dateline then any fiction. A must read for any espionage buff.
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Summary: Very REAL...SCARY...TOUCHING.....SHOCKING........
Review: I have read many books on espionage regarding Mossad, MI 5, FBI & Mr Ostrovosky is very courageous to come forward to "inform" everyone of the truth. Unfortunately, I have not been able to obtain his first book - By Way of Deception. I felt a real sense of danger when he has to travel to Jordan & Egpyt.., I am sure he still "dream" about those operations. Struggling to live a normal life after leaving Mossad can be difficult and besides telling us the details of many operations, he also describe his emotions,feelings & aspirations - all of which helped to sustain him and you can't help but feel that he too like everyone else deserve a second chance in life.
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Summary: Very REAL...SCARY...TOUCHING.....SHOCKING........
Review: I have read many books on espionage regarding Mossad, MI 5, FBI & Mr Ostrovosky is very courageous to come forward to "inform" everyone of the truth. Unfortunately, I have not been able to obtain his first book - By Way of Deception. I felt a real sense of danger when he has to travel to Jordan & Egpyt.., I am sure he still "dream" about those operations. Struggling to live a normal life after leaving Mossad can be difficult and besides telling us the details of many operations, he also describe his emotions,feelings & aspirations - all of which helped to sustain him and you can't help but feel that he too like everyone else deserve a second chance in life.
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Summary: A chilling look at the guardians of the Jewish State.
Review: If what the author writes is true, then I grieve for the State of Israel. Mr. Ostrovsky's writings gives a chilling insight into an agency that is acting more like Hitler's Gestapo and Honacher's Stasi than what it is supposed to be: a protector of all of the people of Israel.
The fact that the book is rather convoluted reading actually give me a better feeling for Mr. Ostrovski and why he felt it important to blow the whistle. Calling this man a traitor would be wrong; he plainly loves Israel and is willing to do the right thing by it.
I strongly recommend this book to those who belive that no secret agency should be given absolute power. It's plain to see that it has corrupted the Mossad absolutely.
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Summary: A BETTER NAME WOULD BE "THE OTHER SIDE OF ENTEBBE"
Review: Israelis like to be known by sucess stories, but reading this book they will know the dark side of security and army high rank personnel, up to this book be available to the public, the only way to acknowledge failures and weaknesses was at Yom Kippur war, news of Mossad agents being arrested in Switzerland, Jordan and others bad news. Israelis read the book and make a better job.
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Summary: A REALITY CHECK FOR "TRUE BELIEVERS"
Review: Ostrovsky is not just another short term intel employee who was bounced, bitter, and then became a book author. For anybody who has served in intelligence, it rings true. It's a dirty business, whether HQ is in Virginia or Tel Aviv. It has to be. The few detractors in the amazon reviews of Ostrovsky's book just plain don't know. Having written an espionage expose myself, and having been eviscerated by some readers who barely can read, I'm not surprised by the negative reviews, but by how few there are. Read The Other Side of Deception, not just for an inside view of the Mossad, but for a parallel to what's going on now in America and it's intelligence services.
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Summary: A shocking book which demands the world's attention.
Review: Ostrovsky's Other Side Of Deception is a shocking book which at first is hard to believe but leaves the reader as convinced of Israel's criminal foriegn policy as I am now convinced Zionist organizations have conspired to keep it out of print. The book uncovers the organized crime type flavor of the Mossads trecherous workings on the international scene. From Ostrovsky's description, the reader will feel that the state of Israel has made the mistake of responding to Nazi Germany's terrorism by mimicing it. A reader of this book will never see the world in the same light. If it was not conveniently out of print I would personaly buy a copy for every member of the US Congress.
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