Secrets Of Street Survival - Israeli Style: Staying Alive In A Civilian War Zone

203 Pages·1995·94.17 MB·English

by  Eugene Sockut

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Contents
Introduction
I
The Correct Mind-Set
Secrets of Street Survivallsraeli Style: KnowThine Enem
Staying Alive in a Civilian War Zone
by Eugene Sockut
Copyright O 1995 by Eugene Sockut
ISBN 0-87364-819-6
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Warnirg Introduction
ome of the techniques and drills, armed and unarmed, e live in frightening times, some say cata-
clysmic times-times when street survival
that are depicted in this book are exrremely dangerous.
It is not the intent of the author or publisher to encour- becom"s an increasingly needed skill' The
world has undergone massive changes
age readers to attempt any of these techniques and drills
without proper professional supervision and training. since the so-called "normal' decade of the
1950s, when life was so much simpler'
Attempting to do so can result in severe injury or death.
Do not attempt any of these techniques or drills without Street survival in those days meant keeping
clear of well-known bad neighborhoods'
the supervision ofa certified instructor,
Most people didn't lock the doors of their
The author and the publisher disclaim any liability
homei and most certainly not their cars'
from any damage or injuries of any rype that a reader oi Crime, if present, was mostly of the petty
user of information conrained within this book may
type, without violence. Murder was so
encounter from the use of said information. This book is
,r.r.orn-ott it was the stuff headlines were
for infonnation purposes only.
made of. An old double-barreled shotgun
loaded with bird shot or a .32-caliber auto-
matic filled with round-nose jacketed bul-
lets was considered state-of-the aft by most
civilians and was usually more than ade-
q-u ate for protection of home and hearth'
Alas, those daYs are as dead as the
proverbial dodo bird. Today, we face the
'craziest
armed drug gangs who would
rather kill than rob you' dope addicts who
commit murder and then forget the reason
they did it in the first place, seemingly
insane sex killers who murder their inno-
cent victims in bizarre rituals of devil wor'
ship. And suddenly, rising like a phoenix
fro-m the ashes, Islamic fundamentalist
The Correct
fanatics, spiritually fueled from Iran, doctrinal brothers of the
infamous Moros of the Philippine Insurrection, seeking the
Mind-Set
slaughter of the accursed infidel in the n'visted belief that thJcool
waters and lovely damsels of a heavenly paradise await their self-
infliaed martyrdom for Allah.
Paladin Press encouraged rny idea about bringing to its
worldwide readership the secrets of street survival learnid here
in Israel, a nation where street survival is a way of life (or death). play Hatn'let'there is a.
The lessons learned here are not set forth as being the only way n Shakespi.e.atrte.' s wherein the Prince ot
to "skin a catrn nor are they considered the ultimate wisdom on fba.mrro-uas. k stares at a human skull and
the subject, for there are no absolutes in the field of self-defense. u"ty basic question of survival:
Those of us who are self-defense specialists by profession strive ";iJ"t U" . or.rot to be, that is the question'
to_be objective.'We are consrantly learning and many times pub- \d.;i;;ir in the mind to suf-
slibitc pesldiyhrI a ooeblufaie nlttdlihign eebg ve deit,mh o setwmhi nwecnee o dI risoindarustatore e w clfaieru a 'evtdfuxeta pr isesre kp,ar oinaeak nbaefucynrttse uaas rni nsewdd u thwnhneoariirqtite stuaee enase,c.lm liaeA tsnchn ctedtieno .tgf heb aaeat rs ssi sal o^t hhtweoalswytt fiooefrr t,Trtohohreure b.s sloeleinrs g liioasnn ea'tdoasn k bbdecy l ao tuor'up prlo pdawo rsmasi lnssog ofa ogehnauaditnrv astehgt eebamo esueet'san-
nightmares are made of suddenly spring to life. written to express the deep pf-ascyech wolhoegin-
tsheavIte tr weis i alml nybd e c utornnigptegrenectrieeoddn ebtnhyte em dwo sonorelcdtia arflay, c pceoso lllhiatiipscstaoelr.,i cTaahnl idsd isewlcoiolcl nacotaiomunsisce ccsoaunld fddroeilenntlmye dmr eawa liiszthoe m tdheea aPtd etlhyo ePfyol erac ree amnedn wtahlloy
chaos. Alread6 depression and inflation are rearing their u-n prepared.
ufogrl ys threeeatd ste hrrigohr earn adn cdr ihmigeh. eI rh. oTphei st hwaitl lg p-orvoevren mfeerntitlse *gi-lrlo .rrinrd. ti'i,r, .T,-rhrJr'to"- tai.nP.d""irtvehidd u catooln wufrshoeon d tiaes atpidoslynYc hfiosor lacoeglm icinoa sl-at
to the occasion and protect us all. However, I have always ..it"ittty doomed to failure' since he
mbealtiee vmeda sttherast oref aolu sr efactuer.i tVy eb eagrein tsh ea tc ahpotmaiens.' Wofe oaurre sthhiep .ulii- i-;fr;i..;" t.frfr ot orr. but two adversarwiehso- ll
This book represents a lifetime of study and experirienta- and his enemy' an enemy
tfsritoounmd y a tanhndods i ese awxpnhe oer ixmhrareavncett a stoeiofe nnth tech oebn ewtsinot ulifde easan asds tcIh oaanptq pIu rhoeaarecvdhi g[mia-yr.n seTirxehtid-. atiall.mkriiron"sg"t, .htc iesis r ltilafoeisn. tl"yT hahepap soli elndso a inqdu asagpleam d*seh sea w bwohh,euont
eth year, for the threat to the innoccnt changes daily and a streHeta svuirnvgiv anl oisw t hwe oorrkdeerd o ifn t hwe edaaPyo' ns
keen eye must be kept open so as to conquer it. Sitting at my
Jdeersuks ianl ethme, Ip iwneo-rfko rewsittehd t hhiisll sth oouutgsihdtc ino f nthrien d. ta.rnnd "h[uitmyb loyf tir;";itr;riinifg" -f Jr amzeod'e a ttthhaen n tuhmrebee rd eocf- aindedsi-'
offer you this book: Secrets of Street Suruiual-lsraeli-Styli: uidoul, who Purchase a handgun and
Staying Aliue in a CiuilianWar Zone.
tbh-oe.nd tip Ir oiucslta wima ntot rao Is caanrde tshuenmd.riy :T h*eI sdeo inn'dt ivwidaunat lsto uknidllo aubnty_- oi;ft dthbeste." vt"icrttimrosp whaes dtehnati awl-aths eu nrfeofuldsianlg t ob ebfeolrieev eth ethira tv ethrey
oedplhyy f.eTehl ethya ta ltmheoisr te anesmsuieres dsthya are" th. sacm'er hiu#mialnfifsiti:c# ph;:'o"s.- ;;;;;;;""rry happening'.Ih:v learned the hard wav
this contention. ".r. it"i."if lurks on this Ilaia then, and it most certainly
"arth.
g3cSarhsvo: aem^wSr ng:eet roe leth leaqaaetgusev caaewprif sanitdmey)serrcti , nchaaiaogd lpdaesair,dna t hstwnets nr oJrh otpcar,viih"sre tt; osU;",.ii. *dr i"-n."r"pd-iaJinvpfr.i dr'r_r.u,r. arr"Jrrrr"s,; a. rlb ,t-iaehrrdres.. yJepi r"iekrl "xi#opJrnre;r *c1dit rt<iuallgni","sd".., do;*;io.Jh;ed;.tLs;rJG r,eto;poc;- dtii.u"a.rri;ryi"ain.nt"gt.oog tt f o* f v"d*Ikise vr.ntiad hieat "hlpli' es"ic",m. nttIuo d rmo"e uulsa ts ke eooex ffp a aetb h brpreiureo utnwiantcalote -lrm o lofdfou f trroeadmf le lpid nreoesgrfn's issotahhunle obabmcsly kta i ostttuthefa toctichnhwkeg--'
be nMaatunrya lh-baovern t riveicdt itmo ru, nvdrerrfs tJan"idm wyh y some people seem to ;;;;;Ui:;;;;;.;";t.a;;l.l y i finintdo tiht ea wmoarzldin gotfh tahte esvteren eht'e wreh einr eI scrraueell'
victims? psychiatrists claim ,".1, "r_orir,i .rJii;;;*"rg_ after the Holocaust, there are still many who practice denial'
tially caused by somethi"g th.f .;f" "l*'",r"rri...a. "ri;r
Case StudY: Jerusalem Bus Attack
RecentlS I.was paii a visit by an individual who went
DENIAL
thro,rgh the e*petience of a terrorist attack and has since
p"Isfy DIc hmeonaloikagel i cibsae lb liacesovenedc t eohpnti stcha,ent e hburemi aba"lnrJ. rt;ri;ua;i;.ti* o inf slaeylfm_daenl,us stieornm. sT haiss: rtdheoaswot lntvh ebedu wt'n eweaavpseo ran n" g oinn.is rhtrri.us' mLbeieknlett wmoafa srn etyat olpitto ypl'icoet tohfefircee rtos' whee ilgeha rhneimd
then it will cease to be happe";;;J;. happening ro me,
away.n
Many individuals simily,.il;;1; D- ebriefing
onewnnc ed. eoaft ha papt rtohea chhainndg-s ionfi"uory-. 9or, i!irn, .,rLn.. b,preoaliestovseirb .i inlit yth eo fi mthmeii_r -.;J;;ot" "ttia"nnd (Ie dx-eUb-rSie. f RTahnomgears, s, taregee t3-c5o, pa' raencedn St 'iWmAmTi.gteraanmt
tthoe vyie wwo huuldm anno tb beeh acvaiopra bthlero ugh thli, o*r, eyesM aandn,y stiennced from North America.
cold-blooded
T,H:f; f ::l;:,:T". d th e f a" cr t" ..ro, *i--i.r,rt,i.n, gJ d; ;il' ffi;, S--e Tqu muc"e* orf, rA..a,.i oTnhomas drives his car behind a bus in north
torieIns Ngaaszsie-do cmcuillpioiends Eouf rionpneo, cae vnats;t;" dnle;.tw ork of murder fac_ iI"etru.ts.a.l"ermto "l.r da nhde s".w, inthgrse eto s thhoet ss' idTeh'e T bhuosm aats t:h e*I tkonpe owf aa theirl-l
on theJews, since they o,.r. rt, fririip"fW ,e" t;einld; ;to. *fo;c;u;s in rorist attack -", t"king place"' The cars around the bus
besides the 5 millio' j"*, ,"h;;;;;;urdered, ariu. Thomas pulli over, draws-a '45-caliber STAR PD
also millions of others-*ho *eie if,.ir,ionr, there were ;;,;,il"i*"";yk. t a ia&eted ball round into the chamber' (He
of war, Gypsies, the handic";.d, ; ,; A;;l:li eidl fpir;is,o,ni,ers d-o-e s not carry any spare loaded magazines')
Hitler planned to depopur",. e"ri.r" i"aJ."fn rn. iro* door of the bus opens.and a body{alls
lions of poles, Slavs,;"4 i-urope of tens of m'- halfway o,ri. Tho-"s says he is approximately 50 yards from
One of the most com"m,ohn* h;,;l_i;"jr;,";t;rruoitsr . the bus. A man carryini a short^M15 rifle iumps out.of thc
shared by many b.r, runs from it."tiyi"g his rifle in a "rnilitary fashion'"
"rrd
This leads Thomas to the false conclusion rhat the man is an Thomas aims again and then stops, realizing he almost
Israeli undercover police officer. H. b.li*es the man with definitely will hit"someone behindlhe terrorist since his
the M16 is cha-sing after a terrorist armed with a handgun marksmanship ability is not very high. Thomas runs a few
who he thinks fired on the bus from nil. ,r.p, and is then.o.tfronted by an angry Israeli woman' who
. Tloma9 jumps out of his car and "s e"e.s" ttuhayt the man he had ,horr,r, "I7hy are you running?! Shoot the S'O'B'!"
mistaken for an undercover porice officer ,..*, surprisingly Thomas turns and is shocked to find himself in a Mexican
:?l- as people run "rourri him ,.;;;;i;g ..terrorist!,, standoff with the terrorist who has the handgun. The terror-
Thomas wanrs to shoor, bur he sees "" ;iJirouse and inno- ist (Thomas knows this now) armed with the M16 screams
cent Arabs milling about. They begin ro urrd.rstand ;h;;;, ,-#.thi"g to the other terrorist. They run to an opening in a
*"it
iff| .hnele fniriensg aatn tdh e terrino rfiesatr,. *T!h.oo mit" I" oi, *" for";iJi;h ,eo -w eill 2hliyt athrdems sfrtoomne v*iaewl".l L5 yards away from Thomas and both disappear
away- He also realizes for the first time th. -orrumentar error Thomas walks back to the bus and sees the body of the
g3o'having any spare loaded -"g"ri".* H. himself man shot in the head. He is lying in the street' wounded. He
"'vfhat do I do afteiround numb.rfi*?" irr"-"",r ky,. rrl,^ c.i is not an Israeli, nor is he the bui driver, as Thomas had pre-
down!" to the innocent bystanders. He *"rrr, to fire a warn- viously surmised, but an Arab from Gaza'
ing shot (still unforfirn yity done in the Mideast) but decides soldiers and police arrive and ask Thomas for a descrip-
not to do this since he fears a bloodbath if i. the ter- tion of the twotirrorirts, who by now have escaped through
rorist. Then he hears more shots coming from t"hte"r .drirrse ction of some backyards and kidnapped an Israeli woman in her car'
the bus. He srares down at his pistol arri thirrks to himself, ,.I They have ,.fort.aly been spotted driving at high speed
am going to die. I don't have enough ,--o.,i- to*"td the south section of Jerusalem'
He sees people running in shocrlfrom the bus. some, recent ThepoliceorderThomastostaywiththem,sincethey
Ilussian immigrant women, are crying and screa*irrg rry"*i."[y.- still cannot ascertain if the two kidnappers are the same two
AMBUSHEDBUS: This particular bus was first disaltlul lry ttil ptwrnl
FoR TLIE coRREcrMIND-SET; carrying enrulirt rtxttlcd magazines onto the road, uthicb caused tbe driuer to lose contrtil iltttl (rdsl)' lI turts
on you helps alleuiate concerns of running out of atrtttt, irr a firefight. tben attacked.
terrorists from the bus incident or members of some other The man who was shot in the head and fell from the buIst
gang operating in the area. A report comes over the radio of wasSalah Othman, 2l,aHamas Moslem fundamentalist'
a shoot-out ben'een police and ihe nvo kidnapp.;;. il;;", ir raiif clear who shot him, whether he was a third terror-
soe-.'- yrth the police to the site of the shoot-out. He reports to ist, or "ift ,h is presence on the bus was a coincidence' He is in
us, 'There was nothing to identify, since the ;; t;;;;:r" ve- ry seriousLondition. (Fil9 still open')
burntto a crisp.. trr" terrorists had llft bombs in the area of the bus. All
Jeanette Kadosh-Dayanlay dead in the street, shot by were later disarmed by police sappers'
her kidnappers and thrown f.o- h., car. They;;r;;i. it . nvo dead ,..rorir,, were identified as members of the
two terrorists. Izadin Kassem military wing of Hamas'
TenorTimctablc
S onte Intuesting Consequences
-_ 7 e.u.-Egee{ bus No. 25 pulls away from Neveh A few y."r, Thomas was called upo1 to.idenftti:f-y a
Y"T9u, a neighborhood in northJirusalem. friendwho *"r r"rgro*,i .red with four others, ambushed "
7:13-Two terrorists board the bus carrying bags filled ;;;; in Hebron by terrorists using Carl-Gustav subma-
with weapons and explosives. c-h-ein"e" "giufnr"sr a nd grenades.
h. ea7rd: 3c5om-Ain gp ofrliocme ctahre pluasss.ing nearby reports that gunfire is 2""i, iormoneer" oAfm theer icmaunrd Verieedtn ammen wwaars vmeyte frraienn dw hEoli Hhaad-
7:35-The terrorists kidnap Jeanette Kadosh_Dayan out_ served ^tw o tours as a *tunnel rat.' An excellent professional
side her office and take her cat li1"ssive army poii.. r.i-rr- r"iai* *ft. had just visited me a fewdays before his murder'
forcements stream into the area to r."r.r, fJ.il"ittla;; . Eli carried a S6CV Model3g in thosi tunnels and had lost a
8:10-The kidnap vehicle races toward an thumb to a vietcong RPG. FIe was one of my s.hooting
block in southJerusalem.Kadosh-Dayan "ib_fylhlr;";a__ i"*r".*ts in the Isrlel Defense Forces (IDF). The terror
is shot
rorists and thrown out of the speeding car. sordierr ;p;;fir.. a"of. place under the window of the aPartment where
""".f.
Tanhde ecxapr lroadceess ionutot offl acomntreosl t.o i zoy"iar, smashes i-n..trov aa tEreeev' my Tmhoet hbeurs ldivreivse irn Jirerrdu spaalsesmet.tger who attacked the terrorists
barehanded were cited fortravery. Their intervention
Morc Debils Emetge orrdooUtedly saved the lives of many passen-ger:' I have
, lasse.nger Olga Khaikov, 42, dies of gunshot wounds to il*6 the bls driver will be presented with a pistol.
her head when she is shot by the terroriits on the bus- She
qas a recentJewish immigrant from Russia and the;;rh.;
of an 1 l-year-old daughtei STREET SURVTVAL LESSONS
Jeannerte Kadosh-Dayanr 3grwas the mother of four She
was buried in a funeral attended-by hundreds 1) Neuer need.lessly endanger others' Both Jonathan
a_Yt_ote mUm-nTpaotervmd,3 e3tdo, .ow(hvaees r cpwooouwuldned rn etodht e ina g ftfhuoenr dt-h "iagi fg, ubny) apb tures.r urdo*rriitsvhte twrr hDJeran"v _hide "JioriaiJ. titi'rr"roggitt r.i"n"v tethh eaa uicTsleeh aoorf - fahieissl dwa coetafe pdfio rceno,, rllraaeccckkteleydd s tpianrccoetipc heaerl
sraughtermg-the passengers. He was ass"instie din this by another ["o*-["*, and did not have confidence in his
-
Israeli man from Nevetryaacov whose identiry i, ,rot krro*rr. ability to hit his target-
2) Don't practice denial. prior to facing the reality of THINK LIKE AN ALLEY CAT
a terrorist attack, Thomas had practiced denial.
*How
Even though he purchased a handgun (after view_ Many times I am asked by people, can I walk in the
ing his dead friend's body), he never really street and avoid becoming a victim?'My pat answer is to
believed he would ever have to use it. observe an alley cat foraging for food in a garbage bin or sunning
himself on top of a wall. Suspicion is its middle name. It trusts no
3) Haue enough ammunition on hand. The lack of one. The alley cat is on full alert even when squinting at you
even one spare loaded magazine (denial once through half-closed eyes. Make a move toward it and it is off for
again) caused Thomas to be fearful about running parts unknown. That's how alley cats have survived all these cen-
out of bullets in a firefight. These thoughts werl turies in a constantly changing and hostile environment.
swirling around in Thomas, mind,."urirrg him to Alley cats assume anything living is an enemy, and even
hesitate. He froze and became a mere bystander. when proven wrong, still keep a high state of alert just in
case. They know that the closer any living creature gets to
4) Accept tbe ase of de,adly force. you must accept them the more the danger increases. That's why they stare so
the unpleasant fact that you may be forced to t"k. intently, watching to see if you are closing the gap between
human life. Repetitive exerciies alone will not you and them- These are difficult creatures to sneak up on'
guarantee that you will perform. They must be these masters of street survival.
based on a correct mind-set based on yoo, prior Some of my students complain, "I can't live that way. I cant
acceptance ofthe use of deadly force. spend my life waiting to be attack..d-" My pat answer is,. "'We
t.tpottsible for how we choose to live and, many times,
"i.
how wi choose to die. If you choose to be protected only by the
laws of mathematical possibilities, you have a 50/50 chance of
ot"lililil,
Almost any same than no same plan..we not ever facing a criminal encounter. But if you do, remember,
cannot be absolutely certain how any of us rJiil ,eact in any you called the shots-you 'didn't want to live that way."'
and all circumstances, but forewarned is certainly for.".-.i. 'We cannot be on the street and act as if we were in our liv-
Thomas now knows that to have a gun does ,roi -"t . orr. ing room, safely behind locked doors and windows. The safe
gunfighter. He is diligently workingio change that. Like hun"- ,tlifi.i"l environment we have constructed for ourselves has
dreds of police officers and citizins befoie hi- *h; il;. no relationship to the street. Out on the street we wander
faced death in the street and somehow survived, he now has into the real world, a world filled with predators. Out there,
a good chance of becoming a formidable gunfighter. Ffe now any person, even one who looks utterly harmless, can be a
accepts the fact that the ability 'to be ot not to-be" lies most- morial danger to your continued existence. Here in Israel,
ly in his own hands. seemingly harmless-looking women walking in the street
Thomas is now practicing with his weapon in a serious have pulled long, razor-sharp butcher knives and attacked
combat shooting program h", vowed .r^.u.. orrrotp..ting individuals with deadly results. Looks can
"g"t";;;;
caught without some scenar"itot- dp lan when facing d."aly for... deceivi. The notorious Boston Strangler gained entry into
He also has vowed never to bi without spare ammunition unsuspecting women's apartments by pretending to b.e a
and has purchased extra magazines for tris Sten pO. good-natured repairman. He looked harmless. He wouldn't
have fooled an alley cat.