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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, 2003
Two independent polls this year show that a vast majority of the religious and right wing communities of Israel believe that there was a conspiracy surrounding the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
In July, the Arutz Sheva radio station polled its listeners and 79% answered "yes" to the question, "Do you feel there are serious open questions about the Rabin assassination?" Then, on October 31, the right wing Makor Rishon's readers responded to the question, "Do you believe in the conspiracy theory of the Rabin murder?" with a resounding 73% "yes."
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Peres spoke of the "three bullets which pierced Yitzhak Rabin." Of course, the Shamgar Commission concluded that Rabin was shot twice and Peres was the prime minister who adopted the findings as the official version of the murder.
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What is fueling this growing belief is a continuing stream of compelling evidence. From the very night of the assassination, there were reports that one of Rabin's bodyguards was murdered and examined at Ichilov Hospital. Members of Jerusalem's Givat Shaul burial society told friends and family that they were called in the middle of the night of Nov. 5/95 to bury a secret service officer but no one would put his name on record as having participated in the ceremony.
Amos Ben Dov, who was manager of Ichilov Hospital's security company, on duty the night of Rabin's murder, wrote that he saw something then that has haunted him to this day. He wrote:"I was called there on the night of the murder. Rabin's Cadillac was parked outside the entrance to the Trauma Center. I approached the car and looked inside. I identified a large bloodstain in the middle of the backseat. I also saw a not very small bloodstain on the front passenger seat next to the driver's seat."
"That evening I thought it came from the wounded bodyguard, Rubin. But in time I learned Rubin entered the backseat with Rabin and never came into the front. On top of that, Rubin's wound was relatively mild and couldn't explain the very large bloodstain. So whose bloodstain was it?" Ben Dov asked, and signed testimony as to what he saw that night.
The issue of when Amir was arrested was finally proven this year. The Shamgar Commission Of Inquiry ruled that Rabin was shot at 9:50. Yet Amir's arrest warrant has him in police custody at 9:30. Someone had to be lying. On a photo of Amir's arrest, a closeup of the arresting officer's watch is clear visible: it reads 9:30. Shamgar changed the time of Rabin's assassination by 20 minutes and now we have the proof.
The accumulation of evidence is having an impact on my standing in the country. It is not eight years ago when I stood very much alone and ridiculed by the mainstream media. This year my new book Save Israel! was published in a handsome Hebrew edition and received widespread media coverage, including cover stories in the conservative Makor Rishon and the left wing Kol Ha'ir of the Haaretz chain of newsmagazines. The Left of Israel, as judged by media coverage, became almost as interested in my work as the Right. And their tone has mellowed to a state of grudging respect.
All this culminated in my first television appearance in Israel since 1996. It was on a talk show highly regarded by the secular Left called Pini Hagadol. I explained the Rabin evidence rationally, even accusing Carmi Gillon and Shimon Peres of being prime suspects in the hatching of the crime. The news, after years of total blockade, was fast flowing into the thinking of all sectors of Israeli society.
Even Peres seems to have mellowed this year. At the Rabin memorial rally on November 1, Peres spoke of the "three bullets which pierced Yitzhak Rabin." Of course, the Shamgar Commission concluded that Rabin was shot twice and Peres was the prime minister who adopted the findings as the official version of the murder.
But Peres was finally telling the truth, Rabin was, in fact, shot three times -- and not by a lone killer. And Peres went on to make an even more startling revelation that shocked Likud Knesset member Gilad Erdan, who wondered: "Why did Peres refer to the 'murderers' of Yitzhak Rabin? As far as I know, there was only one murderer...."
This year, with his "murderers" and "three shots" slips, Peres suggested that he knew very well that the real assassination was a conspiracy.
By next year, he might even be ready to confess.
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