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Barry Chamish is most recently the author of "Save Israel!", and also "Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin", "Israel Betrayed" and "The Last Days Of Israel." His website is .
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By Barry Chamish
November 3, 2002
From the sixth to the seventh year anniversary of the murder, something remarkable happened in the way the public regards what happened on the night of November 4, 1995.
The turning point came on October 29, 2001, at the Windmill Hotel in Jerusalem, where 200 people gathered for the second conference on "The Truth Behind the Rabin Assassination."
Six years before, when I insisted that Yigal Amir could not have murdered Yitzhak Rabin, I had zero support in the country. But this night I wasn't the only one speaking. There was the former chairman of the Israeli Chartered Accountants Association, Yaacov Werker. He was followed by the Head of Vascular Surgery at Kaplan Hospital, Dr. David Khen, and Bar Ilan University professor, Dr. Hillel Weiss. Dr. Arieh Zaritsky, professor of genetics from Ben Gurion University, chaired the conference. I wasn't alone anymore.
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"I speak primarily about the Rabin assassination because Rabin himself still awaits justice, as does the half of the country which was falsely implicated
in his death."
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A few months later, the nation's largest circulation newspaper, Yediot Aharonot, published a six-page cover story in its weekend magazine about the phenomenon of highly respected doctors and professors researching the Rabin murder and supporting my once derided conclusions.
My book, Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?, has sold over 30,000 copies in five languages in Israel, making it one of the local bestsellers of the past decade. When once only the religious Right invited me to speak, now the entire political spectrum, including kibbutzim and the far left media, book me for lectures and interviews. And the disturbances of the past are a fading memory; all audiences are polite and respectful.
I speak primarily about the Rabin assassination because Rabin himself still awaits justice, as does the half of the country which was falsely implicated
in his death.
But to me Rabin is really just the key to opening the whole box of horrors that has been inflicted on Israel. I'm now speaking of the cabal of hidden American and European rulers out to get Israel and corrupting our leaders to get their way. Such talk was unacceptable even two years ago, but now Israelis are willing to try and understand that what is happening to their country is the result of a deep, international conspiracy of evil.
In May 2001, my previous book, The Last Days Of Israel, was published in Hebrew. For the first time, I not only named Rabin's murders but spelled out the plan for global domination called The New World Order.
Already in its second printing and heading for lots more, the most common reaction among its Israeli readers is, "I knew it." Israelis know the truth when it is presented to them but the mainstream media is utterly controlled by the ruling establishment and any truth that would threaten our corrupted leaders is censored out.
So I created my own media, utilizing a combination of the internet, my books and lectures and the sale of those books at rallies and fairs throughout the country. And the strategy is having a profound effect. Look at the proof:
Last November, on the anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin's murder, all three of Israel's big newspapers, as well as the television news, ignored the fact that much of the country no longer believes the government's version of the murder. But literally every major religious and conservative newspaper devoted huge articles on the unanswered questions and likely truth of the assassination.
Then the bombshell of October 26: The Voice Of Israel conducted a survey, the results of which were broadcast on the popular Dahlia Yairi radio show. 29% of Israelis believe Rabin was murdered in a conspiracy, with an equal number unsure. Half of Israel believe or suspect Rabin was murdered in a political conspiracy. It took six years, but my work had swayed the nation.
Now, in year seven since the murder, the nation has assumed that the conspiracy thesis is fact. In the week leading up to the assassination anniversary I lectured to the Likud Party Cultural Convention, The Lions Club, a WIZO-Canada aliyah center and at the home of one of the country's most successful businessmen. The truth of Rabin's murder has gone mainstream.
Which led to the most remarkable change ever. For the past six years, the mainstream weekend newspapers like Yediot Aharonot, Maariv, Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post devoted their pre-Nov. 4 editions to lengthy articles about Rabin; the man, his legacy and his murder. This year, there was not one article in any of these papers.
The new policy is not to remind the public of the assassination lest they start asking pesky questions and demanding truthful answers. Those who really murdered Rabin are running scared and so is the media they control. That's what's new in 2002.
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