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Yigal Amir and Larisa Trimbobler (composite photo)
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| By israelinsider staff December 11, 2004 |
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Larisa Trimbobler, the fiancee of Yigal Amir, who was convicted of murdering of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, has been publishing a weblog in which she speaks of her meetings with Amir and about the murder of Rabin.
The blog, which appears in the multi-language website Live Journal, is written in Russian in a style described by native speakers as "high" and "academic." She analyzes her relationship with Amir and Rabin's murder, including the conspiracy theories around it.
She writes that the motives behind Amir's actions were both rational and religious. "The main reason for the murder was concern for reducing the number of victims of the peace process. As to religious motives, of course these were also present. From a certain viewpoint, they were even central."
"For Yigal, the significance was that it was a mixture of rational and religious motives. That is what brought him to do his actions. If a piece was missing, then a conflict would have emerged and he wouldn't have carried out his deed. It was also significant for him that the Oslo agreement did not get the support of the majority of the Israeli people. The agreement passed in the Knesset because of the Arab parties' votes."
Trimbobler seeks to explain Amir's motives: "Yigal is a very open and patient man (this may surprise some) but he is also a very religious person (that is what kept him going all these years.) So here it goes: he believes that a people that allows its soul, its holiness to be trampled upon, will get its punishment, sooner or later. And all the horrible terror attacks are the beginning of that punishment... that is unavoidable. His intent was to save lives. He said he did not hope to stop the Oslo process, just to lower the damage, to slow down the devastating process."
She mentions the Goldstein massacre as a decisive factor in Amir's decision to try to kill the Prime Minister: "Yigal was much influenced by the action of Dr. Goldstein. Not that he killed 40 (or how many?) Arabs, but that he sacrificed himself, that he knew he was going to certain death, leaving a wife and four children. Yigal went to Goldstein's funeral and heard someone tells of his gentleness and goodheartedness -- and such a person goes and does what he did? In the period after Goldstein, Yigal became a different person."
In her November 17th entry, she wrote that "around this story" --the conspiracy theory according to which Rabin was killed in essence by the Shabak [aka Shin Bet or ISA, Israel's Internal Security Agency, comparable in some ways to the American FBI] -- there are so many lies and half-truths, that if we're speaking about it -- let's speak. To start with, let's get three things straight. First of all, the existence of [the conspiracy theory] is a fact. And the efforts to give answers so far do not seem to me convincing, even though naturally I have read and heard a lot. All these speculations just add confusion."
"Second, I don't understand enough about ballistics to take my own stand concerning the results of the medical inquiry. Bullets, damage to the spinal cord, lung hemorrhages -- all this is not my expertise. Let those who know these subjects deal with them, and if they are dealing with this, let them do so the way they should: accurately and seriously."
"Third, did Yigal Amir kill Rabin? -- I don't know. I just know he wanted to and tried. If someone else wanted to and tried, then their missions were coordinated. Why exactly he wanted and tried, why did he think that this will help to stop Oslo or at least reduce the number of victims --that's a different matter. And why did Yigal need this? Maybe he has, like Arafat, billions in a Swiss bank, a billion for each year in prison? Or at least a million? Or that the Shabak looks after the conditions of his imprisonment? It seems to be that he has gotten special benefits? I especially liked the conditions that he received, via the Shabak, in the seven first years of his imprisonment in the Beersheba prison.
"Or perhaps we are speaking about threats: that they will kill him the moment he talks. It's not clear, why endanger themselves? Better to eliminate him, like the killer of Kennedy, so that he won't say anything because he has every possibility to do so. It's a complete lie that he is being held in complete isolation."
"For example, a year ago, before the news of our wedding, he had the opportunity, unofficially, to call on the phone anyone he wanted to, and he spoke with quite a lot of people. Anyone can confirm this. The Shabak started to listen to recordings of the conversations only after the fact, when they had to "sew" up "classified material" concerning our case."
"And during visits, that continued more than three and a half years, in which we could talk about all the state's secrets, if we had them: the guards sat a few meters away from us and didn't stop us from speaking in whispers."
Amir is aware of her blog, Trimbobler says, and approves: "I told Yigal about this. I tell everything to Yigal. He says its good that I have a way to speak to people."
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