A Knock at the Door Audiobook Libro.fm

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The inside story of Israels secret negotiations to bring home their soldiers taken hostage by terrorist groups Suppose one day your son or husband while serving in the military or working as a journalist is taken hostage by a terrorist groupand you have no idea whether your loved one is dead or alive or how to even make contact with the insurgents holding him Its a nightmare scenario that has sadly taken place dozens of times in the past twenty years in the Middle EastHere in the US the government does not always get involved Instead it will engage the services of a neutral country to negotiate with the terrorists Unfortunately many times the terrorists insist on neverending demands in order to torment the family of the hostage Unlike Israel weve never had a central address for these types of scenarios But maybe after reading this book its an idea we could and should consider Ory Slonim the international door knocker was an invention of necessity by the Israeli governmentThere were many good and brave human beings involved in this matter Here for the first time is the story of the one man in Israel who for more than two decades was known as the door knocker He had been a private Israeli lawyer when he was asked to undertake on behalf of the Israeli government secret negotiations to find out the whereabouts of Israeli soldiers who were taken alive In his capacity as negotiator his story will take you into the worlds of the furtive Mossad the twisted minds of terrorists the forever traumatized lives of the parents whose children never came home from battle and into Orys own resilient compassionate and amazingly resolute negotiations when ordinary people would have easily broken downhostage by terrorist groups His ultimate mission was to bring them home dead oralive In his capacity as negotiator his story will take you into the worlds of the furtive Mossad the twisted minds of terrorists the forever traumatized lives of the parents whose children never came home from battle and into Orys own resilient compassionate and amazingly resolute negotiations when ordinary people would have easily broken down