Summary of My Brother's Keeper by Ari Harow: Netanyahu, Obama, & the Year of Terror & Conflict that Changed the Middle East Forever

By Justin Reese

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My Brother's Keeper is a book that reveals the clash between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu over peace, war, and the Middle East's future. Obama aimed to end America's war against Muslim and Arab nations, while Netanyahu sought peace and acceptance of Israel as a part of the Middle East. In 2014, during a time of violence, war in Gaza, and a nuclear deal with Iran, the two leaders clashed, threatening the region's future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: jUSTIN REESE
• Release date: Jan 24, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224981359

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FOREWORD

Ari Harow, the closest advisor to Israel's longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been on the inside track of dramatic global events. His time with Netanyahu included the largest manhunt in Israel's history, Operation Protective Edge, and Netanyahu's opposition to US president Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran. These events changed the Middle East and had a worldwide impact, helping usher in the Abraham Accords and continuing Israel's struggle to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear capability. Harow's book, My Brother's Keeper, provides insights into these episodes that have never been made public.

The Israeli prime minister faces a tough job, grappling with 24/7 demands, negotiating one of the toughest political landscapes, and dealing with lethal threats from Iran, Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, and beyond. Harow's role as chief of staff included keeping the prime minister on the straight and narrow while balancing legislative agendas, volatile coalition politics, and unruly cabinet ministers.

Harow's political skill, intellect, and diplomacy allowed him to survive ve full years at the prime minister's elbow during some of the toughest days in Israel's history. The book reveals the indomitable spirit that drives each of them, as Harow felt a great honor being in the trenches alongside a man who was in many ways the leader of the Jewish world.

NOTE

The author, a pro-Israeli activist, moved to Israel with his family after their parents uprooted them from California. This decision was a dream come true for the author, who worked in various capacities with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party leader and the prime minister of Israel. The author had the privilege of witnessing historic events firsthand as bureau chief and then chief of staff to the prime minister. The critical period covered in this book is essential in understanding how Israel and the region got to where they are today. However, one year after leaving public service, the author was involved in police investigations targeting Prime Minister Netanyahu.

After being coerced into a plea bargain arrangement, the author was limited in what he could disclose publicly. The author looks forward to the day when these shackles are removed.

PROLOGUE

Two Palestinians in their early twenties began their day in Hebron, a city known for its Abrahamic religions and holy to Jews and Muslims. They settled their financial debts and visited the al-Sha 'i Mosque, where they recorded their last wills. They were taken to a safe house prepared by armed men to repel intruders. The man who coordinated the operation, who had assembled the cash to rent safe houses and buy weapons, supervised the transformation. He also acquired two vehicles: a stolen black-market sedan for the attack and another for the getaway.

The two Palestinians waited until darkness fell across the Judean Hills before heading out on their mission: kidnapping an Israeli soldier or civilian who would be held in a human bazaar for the release of hundreds of terrorist prisoners serving life sentences for murder. The commander of the operation kept his beard and stayed off his phone, aware that his communications were likely monitored by both the Israeli and Palestinian Authority security services.

The two Palestinians drove a beat-up white Hyundai i35 sedan with the yellow and black Israeli license plate 30-151-30 up and down Route 60, looking for a vulnerable target. They decided to turn back and try again the following day, fearing detection by Israel's Shin Bet. Hebron, a mixed city of Palestinians and Israelis, was a Hamas stronghold, and both men knew they would be protected in the safe house.

On June 12, two Palestinians improvised to seize a yeshiva student and a third boy from Alon Shvut, a community known for hitching rides. The car was stopped by a passenger who pointed a handgun at the boys and ordered them to be silent. One of the boys managed to dial 100, the police emergency number, and whispered that he was being kidnapped. Gunshots sounded as the car raced toward Gush Etzion Junction, Route 60, and the city of Hebron. Hours passed before the boys were reported missing.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent the day in Kirya, assessing threats to the Jewish state and reviewing ongoing operations vital to national security. The kidnapping of the three teens was the worst possible scenario, and Israel launched Operation Brother's Keeper to locate and rescue the seized teens. Hamas would unleash an opening fusillade of warheads, causing a ground, sea, and air conflict that would last 40 bloody days and weaken the alliance between the United States and Israel.

Book One

THE BEST OF FRIENDS

New Beginnings

The Hamas-built Qassam rocket was a powerful weapon designed to incite destruction and psychological pain. It was disposable, cost-effective, and could be built in a workshop or garage. The rockets were red from the Gaza Strip into Israel's south, and with Iranian assistance and Qatari money, they became larger and more advanced. In 2008, US presidential candidate Barack Obama visited the southern Israeli town of Sderot, a frequent target of Hamas Qassam rockets. He declared that threats to Israel's security began in Sderot, but they didn't end there.

Five months after Obama visited Sderot, the Israel Defense Forces launched an air, sea, and ground assault on the Gaza Strip, known as Operation Cast Lead. The conflict lasted three weeks and fell silent two days before Obama was sworn in as the forty-fourth American president. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for implementing the country's diplomatic, economic, cultural, and scientific relations with the 155 countries around the world that maintain ties with the Jewish state.

The relationship between the United States and the State of Israel is historic, religious, political, and militarily strategic. For the American president, maintaining good relations with Israel was