Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 15:00:16 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: chamish@mail.netvision.net.il Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Henika From: barry chamish Subject: Raviv

RAVIV DEFENSE IS THE TRUTH by Barry Chamish

Since the Avishai Raviv trial is being held behind closed doors, or putting it in more accurate terms, since the Israeli public is being denied the right to know what is going on at Raviv's trial, I will do my best to follow the proceedings via the flimsy summations released to the public weekly. After the first two hearings, which began on Feb. 22, it is clear that the prosecutor Moshe Shiloh, as I previously predicted, is running the government's coverup. Raviv's lawyer Eyal Shomroni-Cohen complained bitterly that the state prosecutor is not releasing most of the documents requested for Raviv's defense. No surprise so far...but look at what Shomroni-Cohen is requesting!!!! I quote from the weekly newspaper Makor Rishon: Attorney for Shabak agent Avishai Raviv, Eyal Shomroni-Cohen has demanded a copy of the State Pathologist's Report on the death of Yitzhak Rabin. He also demanded copies of the other medical reports. He announced, "Until I see these reports, until I examine the actual murder, I won't sleep at night and will disbelieve the murder." The prosecutor has charged Raviv with not preventing Rabin's murder and Shomroni-Cohen observed that his client cannot defend himself unless the murder itself is examined. Although he has not claimed there was a conspiracy, Shomroni-Cohen stressed that, "A major question is raised within the documents." He added that the documents he is demanding challenge the accepted version of the Rabin murder. He pointed out that Rabin's daughter, the Knesset member Dahlia Rabin-Pelosoff stated that there is a clear contradiction between the State Pathologist's Report and those of Ichilov hospital. He accused the state prosecutor of denying him the documents based on the protection of personal privacy. He noted that the right to defend oneself in a court of law takes precedence over personal privacy. Well, well, well, well, well. Look who has discovered the Rabin assassination conspiracy thesis! And give Raviv's attorney credit for defending his client properly. If given access to the very same documents I have published in the Hebrew and Russian versions of my book Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin, Shomroni-Cohen will prove his client is innocent of not preventing Rabin's murder because Amir didn't commit the murder. If he wants copies of said documents, all he has to do is call me. We wish him good luck and some of us are going to press and press and press for this trial to be opened to the public and media. Please do your part. My good people, based on my recent experiences, the Jewish people are waking up and are demanding to know the truth. In the past two weeks I gave three lectures in the NY/NJ area to packed houses. Hineni House in Manhattan was filled to its back corridor, while 250 inquiring souls heard me at the Bnei Yeshurun Synagogue in Teaneck. I got on a plane home and a day later 250 people arrived for my lecture in Gush Katif. Since then, I have given my speech non-stop to audiences up and down the length and breadth of Israel and the invitations to speak keep pouring in. The court may be hiding the Raviv trial, the media may be covering it up, but the people want to know the truth already. Raviv's trial may be hidden but the issue of how Rabin really died will not go away until the facts are known. I leave you with two brief items recently relayed to me:

1. Edgar Bronfman is paying millions to send American Jewish college students to Israel for free under a program called Operation Birthright. He is selling the plan as a charitable gift to the Jewish people but many of the first 6000 who arrived in Israel are reporting that they were subjected to a sophisticated propaganda exercise designed to instill a love of the Israeli left and the unpopular "peace" process. Students complained that their requests to visit Judea and Samaria were turned down. One tour guide told me that the vast majority of the guides hired by Bronfman were from the far left and touted the "Peace Now" line to their trapped students. Bronfman is a leading member of the Council On Foreign Relations. He and two other CFR members, Lawrence Tisch and Henry Kissinger provided the initial funding for Ehud Barak's political career in 1995.

2. While it is known that Yitzhak Rabin's deal with Hizbollah after Operation Accountability included the right to kill IDF soldiers, it was widely reported that shelling Israeli towns or dropping Katyushas on them was forbidden by the pact. That is not precisely the case. Hizbollah agreed not to bomb almost all towns including Metulla, Nahariya, Rosh Hanikra, kibbutzim such as Dan and Daphne, etc. which support the Labor Party and whose residents are mostly Ashkenazi. However when Katyushas had to be launched, they were restricted to the mostly Moroccan, right wing city of Kiryat Shmoneh. Hizbollah has stuck to the deal and only Kiryat Shmoneh has borne the brunt of the rockets for nearly the past decade.

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