Thursday, November 02, 2006

WHO MURDERED YITZHAK RABIN? Chapter Four: Television Sets Up Amir

"WHO MURDERED YITZHAK RABIN?"

Chapter Four: "Television Sets Up Amir"


Today, 11 Cheshvan, 5767/Thursday, November 2, 2006,
is Yom HaZikaron L' Retzach Rabin (Rabin Assassination Memorial Day),
according to the Hebrew calendar


copyright (c) 1998, 2006, by Mr. Barry Chamish
www.thebarrychamishwebsite.com


R&B Editor's Notes:

Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?
: The Root & Branch Information Services is serializing the book Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?, by Mr. Barry Chamish, with permission of the author, to commemorate the eleventh anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin (November 4, 1995 -- November 4, 2006).


The Bible Says:

"How is the faithful city [Jerusalem] become a harlot. She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. Your silver is become dross, your wine is mixed with water. Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; every one loves bribes, and follows after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Therefore, says the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I will ease Me of My adversaries, and avenge Me of My enemies; and I will turn My hand upon you, and purge away your dross as with lye, and will take away all your allow; and I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning; afterward you [Jerusalem] shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city. Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and they who return of her with righteousness.

But the destruction of the transgressors and the sinners shall be together, and they who forsake the Lord shall be consumed. For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the garden that you have chosen. For you shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water. And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them".

[Yeshayahu/Isaiah 1:21-31]

YERUSHALIYIM, Israelite Tribal Territories of Judah and Benjamin, Kingdom of David and Solomon, United Israelite Kingdom of Judah and Joseph, Day 11, Eighth Month ("Cheshvan"), 5767; Yom Chamishi (Fifth Day of Week/"Thurs"-day, November 2, 2006), Root & Branch Information Services [mailto:rb@rb.org.il] [www.rb.org.il]:



Chapter Three: "Television Sets Up Amir"


The American political assassination formula sometimes includes creating a believable patsy on television. Lee Harvey Oswald went out of his way to cause a televised stir on a New Orleans street while he was distributing leaflets for Fair Play for Cuba, a committee created by C.I.A. operative Guy Bannister. Gerald Ford's attempted assassin, Squeaky Fromme, was televised constantly as a prominent member of Charles Manson's murder cult. Televising an upcoming assassin serves as later proof that he was an unstable radical and thus provides a motive for murder.

The same tactic was used in Israel. Just as Fair Play for Cuba was a front with one member, Oswald; Eyal -- an acronym for The Organization of Jewish Warriors -- was a Shabak [Israel General Security Services] straw group with one member, Avishai Raviv. One of Raviv's assignments was to create the most radical anti-"peace" group of all and to publicize it widely. Originally, the purpose of Eyal was to attract extremists and set them up for arrest. Later, Raviv was ordered to prime Amir for an assassination. It was essential for the assassination plot that Eyal was well known by the public for its extremism, ensuring that Amir's association with it would be motive enough for murder.

To achieve this goal, Raviv needed help from the television media and he got it in the form of Eitan Oren, a documentary director employed by the state-run television station, Channel One.

I assume that Oren was working for the Shabak [Israel General Security Services], but associates of mine in the film industry insist he was just a willing stooge for the station's director-general, Moti Kirschenbaum. If so, then Oren had no journalistic ethics whatsoever.

The same charge could be leveled at Moti Kirschenbaum. After being appointed by Rabin, he bankrupted Channel One by eliminating hours of entertainment programming and replacing them with political shows, all heavily pushing the "peace" process. One example of his slant occurred in March, 1994, and was reported widely. Channel One News covered an anti-Rabin rally, much to the prime minister's displeasure. His [Rabin's] wife Leah phoned Kirschenbaum and related, "How upset Yitzhak is that the protesters received so much coverage". Kirschenbaum took the hint and initiated a policy change drastically reducing coverage time of legitimate protests.

Instead, his [Kirschenbaum's] "news" department sent Oren time and again to cover the most illegitimate protest group of all, the marginal Shabak-front Eyal. I interviewed Eyal "members" Eran Agelbo and Arieh Oranj and instead of the hotheaded extremists I expected, I heard two young kids, terrified of Shabak threats to prosecute them if they went public with what they know about Raviv and Amir.

They described Raviv paying their expenses to appear before Oren's camera and how their every move and statement was stage-directed. To further understand how Channel One and Oren were used to prepare the public for Rabin's assassination, I turn to reports from the Israeli press, collected by Miriam Eilon [Mrs. Emunah Elon, wife of Knesset Member Rabbi Binyamin Elon] in one volume called "The Champagne File".


Ma'ariv, November 24, 1995

A young Haredi, no more than 18, explained, "I'm a yeshiva student and don't have money. Raviv paid all my travel and food expenses. He also promised me more money each time I got Eyal's name mentioned in the media".



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HaTzofeh, February 17, 1995

Over 500 people attended a memorial service in honor of Baruch Goldstein [who supposedly killed 29 Arabs in Hebron the year before]...Among the organizers was Avishai Raviv, head of Eyal. Many members of the media were also in attendance.


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Ha'aretz, February 17, 1995

Head of Eyal, Avishai Raviv, promised to get even with members of the Judea and Samaria Council who condemned his organization of the Baruch Goldstein memorial service, including Council Secretary, Uri Ariel and Council Spokesman, Aharon Domb. According to Raviv, "The loss of Goldstein wasn't equal to all the Arabs he killed".


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Ma'ariv, February 2, 1995

Head of the Kiryat Arba city council, Tzvi Katzover, is threatening to file suit with the Supreme Court to prevent the showing of a television report about Kiryat Arba. In a letter he sent to Communications Minister Shulamit Aloni, Katzover contends that the reporter Eitan Oren staged scenes opposite a poster honoring Baruch Goldstein. "We don't know what else he staged for his upcoming report", said Katzover.


In February of the year [1995] of Rabin's death, Avishai Raviv organized a memorial service in honor of the mass murderer Baruch Goldstein. The event was condemned by the Jewish territorial leadership. Not that it mattered after Eitan Oren got through with his report. For this report from Hebron, he planted a firm image of irrational Jewish nationalism in the minds of his viewing audience. His "news" program was broadcast on a Friday night when religious Jews are forbidden to watch television. That way he would elicit the desired response of repulsion from a naive secular population without exposing himself to the wrath and scrutiny of his subjects. To get the effect he wanted, Oren cheated by stage managing at least one extra-radical scene.

In his previous "report", Oren stage-managed the whole thing. Raviv dressed up 20 teenagers in tee-shirts bearing the name of the right-wing Kach movement, and Oren filmed them in the midst of mock guerrilla warfare.

Ha'aretz, May 8, 1994

Last Friday night Channel One broadcast a report about a Kach teenage militia training camp whose existence is illegal. Kach symbols and flags were filmed as well as youths wearing Kach tee-shirts. Shown also was a patrol in an Arab village and the youths' inciteful graffiti.

In light of the report, Police Minister Moshe Shahal had ordered an immediate investigation. The police searched for Avishai Raviv, but he disappeared. He later phoned the police and agreed to show up on Sunday for questioning. Yesterday, he [Raviv] told Ha'aretz, "We organized the camp to show our solidarity with the people of Hebron and Kiryat Arba. We trained in live weaponry, orienteering, took a hike to Baruch Goldstein's grave and participated in other youth group activities".


Raviv admitted that he and his friends initiated the media exposure in order to raise public awareness.

Ma'ariv, November 24, 1995

"We immediately knew that Raviv never studied at a yeshiva associated with Kach", said Kach leader Baruch Marzel. "His behavior towards Jews and Arab was inconsistent with our approach. We would never call another Jew a Nazi. He [Raviv] came to us and asked us to join in a national union of right wing groups. We turned him down. We would never cause the kind of damage to the community that he did".


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Ma'ariv, November 24, 1995

Kach member Tsuriel Popovich witnessed Raviv in action. "I saw him beat an old Arab senseless for no reason. If an Arab looked at him [Raviv] or his group, he [the Arab] risked his life. Raviv was causing a lot of trouble for us because we all suffered the stigma he was creating".


Kach's spiritual leader, Rabbi Meir Kahane, was assassinated five years before Rabin (to the week) [November, 1990], and in equally suspicious circumstances. The campaign of incitement against him [Kahane] in the years leading up to his murder also duplicated the atmosphere leading to the Rabin assassination. But while Rabin was portrayed as a saint after his demise, by the Israeli media, Kahane continued to be vilified. Thus Raviv, by dressing his actors in Kach costumes, was simply exploiting an existing public image.

But Amir was not a member of Kach. Once the decision to assassinate Rabin was taken, probably in mid-September [1995], the conspirators went into full gear to turn Amir into a member of the meanest, craziest anti-government organization of them all, Eyal.

To do so, once again Eitan Oren was called into action. On September 22 [1995], a month and a half before Rabin's demise [November 4, 1995] , Channel One broadcast Oren's "report" of an Eyal swearing-in ceremony at the grave of Zionism's founder, Theodore Herzl.

Eran Agelbo told me, "Raviv's little play was so ridiculous we spent much of the time laughing. Oren filmed us for over 45 minutes and edited it down to ten minutes for television. My lawyer tried to get the uncut tape from Channel One but no one would hand it over and the police refused to confiscate it".

Ma'ariv, November 24, 1995

An 18-year-old Haredi boy who participated in the swearing-in ceremony recalls, "None of the participants were Eyal members because Eyal didn't exist except for Raviv and Agelbo".


In Eitan Oren's "report", a hooded boy holding a gun vows to kill anybody, Jew or Arab, who stands in the way of Eyal's objectives. The director, producer and scriptwriter were all Avishai Raviv.

Ma'ariv, November 24, 1995 (continued)

Said the Haredi boy. "I arrived at 7:00 in the evening and saw Raviv distributing ski masks to the others. He told us what to do, what to say, where to stand. Agelbo told me, 'You have a nice voice, you swear everyone in'".

"I don't know what Eitan Oren thought, but he knew the whole thing was staged. There was one scene where Raviv demonstrated how he beat new members to make them confess if they were with the Shabak [Israel General Security Services]. It looked so absurd that we all burst out laughing. It's no shock that Eitan Oren did not keep that scene in his film".


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Yediot Ahronot, November 26, 1995

Police arrested Eran Agelbo and Mosh Erinfeld for their participation in an Eyal swearing-in ceremony filmed by Eitan Oren and broadcast on Channel One on September 22 [1995]. In the ceremony, new [Eyal] members vowed to "spill the blood of Arabs and Jews who aren't Jews" as well as to break into Orient House in Jerusalem.


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Ma'ariv, November 24, 1995

During a previous [Eyal] swearing-in ceremony, Avishai Raviv left two minutes before two squad cars of police arrived to arrest the participants...


One question remains: How did Eyal get so much television coverage when it was totally out of proportion to the group's actual influence and strength?

A good question, never answered. Another one: How can we explain Eitan Oren's behavior if he wasn't working directly for the Shabak [Israel General Security Services]? An associate of Oren's believes, "He is such an ideologue that he got ethically unbalanced, believing he was doing the wrong thing for the right cause".

Perhaps, but someone at Channel One assigned Oren to create Eyal out of nothing, and Moti Kirschenbaum approved the broadcasts of Oren's raw, lying disinformation.

With just a few weeks to go before the assassination, it was vital that Amir himself be filmed. So...

Yediot Ahronot, November 20, 1995

A patrol through Hebron, which included Yigal Amir, made the news. The group first broke windows of Arab houses and then smashed the camera of a Palestinian news photographer.


After this little incident, and just two weeks before the assassination, Yigal Amir went to an anti-government demonstration in Efrat and made sure the cameras captured him being taken away by the police kicking and screaming. That clip was shown on Channel One less than four hours after Rabin was murdered. The station was ready with the evidence. And the next day, Channel One was prepared to blame the "anti-peace" community -- or more than half the country -- for Rabin's death.

The public immediately accepted that Amir assassinated Rabin because he was a member of the extremist Eyal group. What they were not told was that Eyal was created by the Shabak [Israel General Security Services] and Channel One. If they had been so informed, Amir's political motive would have become most suspicious.

Shabbat Shalom from Modi'in,

Mr. Barry Chamish

www.thebarrychamishwebsite.com
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