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| Secrets Of Street Survival - Israeli Style: Staying Alive In A Civilian War Zone | 
 enlarge | Author: Eugene Sockut
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
List Price: $30.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 267328
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0873648196
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.66
EAN: 9780873648196
ASIN: 0873648196
Publication Date: March 1995
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| Customer Reviews:
 Interesting Reading of an Old West Type of World December 24, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a book that one would have to call paranoid if the situations involved hadn't become so commonplace around the world. Here in the United States there are an awful lot of streets that I don't want to walk down. And there are times which seem to happen when going outside is downright risky.
This book concentrates on stories from Israel where a security expert, especially one working for the Government can get a lot of practice. This book talks about three aspects of survival in bad situations.
First it talks about mental attitude. The ability to enter a situation where people are shooting guns, throwing Molotov coctails, and the like is simply different for the average civilian, the new solder and the combat vet.
Second it talks about equipment, particularily knives and guns. Not only the equipment itself, but how to carry it, when to use it, what to do with it. The nature of the writing speaks of a lot of testing, a lot of practice in actually carrying weapons ready for use.
Third is a set of interviews where the author reports on the first hand experience of people actually engaged in situations where force, sometimes deadly force was used.
I certainly hope to never be in a situation like the ones described. Then again, I saw the pictures coming from New Orleans after the flood. And an article in the paper the other day said that the area in Houston where the majority of New Orleans refuges moved has become the highest crime rate area of the city. It's a strange time we live in.
There are some excellent lessons to be learned here December 14, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's difficult to find good self-defense information. That's probably because personal preferences/strengths/weaknesses play such a large part in determining what works for you.
It's also because many "experts" have not lived in the trenches and back alleys of life.
This author has been there and done that. There are some real gems to take away from this book.
I live only a mile from a "Civilian War Zone". June 9, 2005
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Ah ha! Now this book caught my eye in a way you wouldn't believe! Most of you already know that I live in a city called Ferndale in Michigan. I live by 9-mile road, which is exactly one mile from...you guessed it: the dreaded 8-Mile road. 8-mile is a very long road that spans a huge distance. On the north-side of it, where I live, it is relatively calm and easy-going. But on the Detroit side, Whoa man! Crime and homeless people EVERYWHERE! Apparently people can just come up to a building and paint their name on it, and break glass all over the street, and even come up to your car at a red-light and ask for money and rides and cigarettes. Basically it seems to me that there are NO rules and NO sense of order, thus making it: A Civilian War-Zone, just like the title of this book.
Basically this book has changed the way I look at the world now. I realize that I must constantly be prepared for immenant danger whenever I'm near the war-zone. I am aware of my surroundings much more now, and everywhere I go I am scoping out EVERYTHING and EVERYBODY. For example, if I take a walk now, or go up to a store, I look at every single item around me and think "I could get attacked RIGHT NOW, so how could I use this (any item in question) as a weapon?" I use this thought proccess now, not only when I'm close to 8-mile, but every single place I find myself during the day. I'm going to make a statement now that I am 100% confident in: I can find a way to make anything, and I mean ANYTHING into a deadly weapon if I so choose. If I can't find a way to smack you to death with it, or grind it into your pressure-points, I will find a way to gouge you in the eyes with it or put it down your throat or ANYTHING I want. Now believe me, I'm not trying to scare you guys AT ALL. I'm just preparing myself for the inevitable tangle with a mugger (a simple rope on the ground could be used to strangle him/her) or a car-jacker (try a hot-coffee to the face and then slashing at him/her with something as simple as a compact disc), things of that nature.
Other things I do that have become second-nature thanks to this book, are things like checking my VW Cabrio everyday for car-bombs. Also, whenever I'm around a crowd I size it up because this book teaches you "the psychology of a riot" so I will be prepared when one breaks out around me. It also teaches you sword-fighting and axe-fighting techniques which could be extremely useful, depending on the situation. The only thing I can't relate to is about how to conceal fire-arms on-you and in your car. I don't own any because I'm more of a close-quarters combat kind of guy (like Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse or Steel Dawn).
In conclusion, I feel much safer now that I am able to view every single situation in my day-to-day life as a likely threat to my life. Everyone I come across now is a potential enemy. Once again, not trying to scare you guys, but you probably don't live as close to the legendary 8-mile as I do. It's hard-living sometimes when you think about the urban crime zone that is right across the street from you (literally!) Sorry if this was hard for you to relate to, I don't expect you guys to understand. Check out this book if you do though. It will save your life someday, guaranteed. Later.
howardtuttleman.com
 For specific audience. April 26, 2005
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
Interesting book. Many ideas and techniques can be implemented in Israel only because laws will prohibit to use them here in US.
Basic principal of his teaching is to live your life as "alley cat" - the champion of survival. I'll mention however that you better have a stone cold nerves to live by author's advise
if you actually try to do this chances are you will become very weird outcast gun wacko if you live in good neighborhood and local police may sure keep a close eye on you.
Now if you were crazy or rather infortunate and live in ghetto this book would save you a lot of time and scars by providing
good survival info rather than gathering it practically by yourself.
For those of you living in low crime towns this book tells a pretty good story of how they had it in Israel and believe me after that book was written it got way worse as we all know.
It'd be interesting book to read if you're going to visit Israel
or you are training for armed security job or if you have
many guns in your house, wear camo at home and you're active (rather fanatical) member of NRA and dream about abolition of gun laws. Or you're just curios to find out what it takes to be tough but have a good understanding of reality and judge of character.
Unless you're fitting any of above profile this book would be a waste of money.
Entertaining and Educational April 15, 2005
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
There are two "must have" books I recommend to anyone wanting to buy and keep a gun for self defense: Secrets Of Street Survival-Israeli Style: Staying Alive In A Civilian War Zone, by Eugene Sockut, and In the Gravest Extreme, by Massad Ayoob. Both are common sense guides to people who want to protect themselves and their families in difficult times.
When Hurricane Andrew ravaged the South in 1992, the police were stretched to the limit and people suddenly found themselves reponsible for defending themselves and their homes and families from the sub-human predators that emerge in the aftermath of such tragedies.
These are not the times to learn, but to put into practice what you should have already mastered. What are your rights as a homeowner? How do you protect yourselves until order is restored? How do you keep yourself from being a target of other peoples' aggression?
Eugene Sockut offers sound advice on living armed in an urban war zone, covering weapon selection and use. His perspective is one that most Americans will not understand, though in coming years many may understand all too well.
In American society, a person can get away carrying just one gun for most situations, but in the urban war zone of Jerusalem and the Palestinian areas, Sockut carries two and he tells you how and why, harking back to America's old West. Limited to only a knife? Sockut tells you the type to carry and how to use it, showing all the arteries and tendons and explaining what will happen when they're sliced. Finally, Sockut lectures his readers on their state of awareness and when to elevate it and the consequences of not doing so.
People who think only the police should protect them may learn some things they'd rather not know, the first of which is their philosophy of life is dead wrong. If you find yourself somewhere where you can't defend yourself, even when you're armed, you probably shouldn't be there. Don't ever rely only on the authorities and don't be too quick to escalate a bad situation.
The book isn't intended to scare; it's intended to strip away the veneer created by society that all is well and that government alone can adequately protect you from the bad guys. After that, you begin to learn what evil people are capable of and how to deal with them.
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