PERES TRAPPED BY HIS OWN WORDS
by Barry Chamish

Last summer, a faithful correspondent from the American Northwest
wrote to tell me, "I have a videotape of Shimon Peres agreeing with your
claims. He must be very sorry he made this tape." The correspondent, Kevin,
shipped me a videotape of a PBS documentary about the Middle East peace
process. Within, Peres implicates himself deeply in the Rabin assassination.

After viewing the remarkable evidence, I decided to wait before
showing it publicly. Wait for what, must be the readers' question. I
answer; wait until I had gathered enough solid evidence proving Peres

organized the murder of Yitzhak Rabin. Those who have been following my
investigation over the past year know the devastating proof I have
gathered. For those who haven't, here is the case summarized.

There are perhaps a dozen people in Israel with the power and
influence to have organized the assassination of the prime minister. By
1997, I had proven who was involved in the operational side of the murder
and they included Rabin's personal bodyguard Yoram Rubin, his driver on the
fatal night Menachem Damti, and the head of the General Security Services
(Shabak), Carmi Gillon. Of the most politically influential Israelis, Peres
and only Peres had appointed these men to vital positions.

On the very eve of the murder, Peres appointed his driver Menachem
Damti to replace Rabin's regular driver Yeheskiel Sharabi. I tracked down
Sharabi's testimony to the Shamgar Commission Of Inquiry, in which he
testified that Rabin called him ninety minutes before the rally and
cancelled his services. Not knowing that Damti had replaced him, Sharabi
told Rabin that he would remain on standby in case he changed his mind.

Not two hours after the murder, Peres appointed the "gallant" Yoram
Rubin to command his own personal security unit. In late 1999, Peres
appointed Gillon as chairman of his peace center and also appointed Meir
Shamgar to sit on its board of governors.

In due time, I traced the authorization for the murder and its
planning to the French government and its secret services. Half a year ago,
the Zionist Organization Of America released the terms of the Abu Dis
agreement signed in Paris less than two weeks before Rabin's murder. Peres
had agreed to divide Jerusalem and offered the PLO a state capital in the
city. With this agreement in hand, and withheld from Rabin, the French gave
the final go-ahead for the assassination. Carmi Gillon spent the
assassination night in Paris coordinating the post-murder program with
French intelligence officers.

Two months ago, I was forwarded an article written by Jean Frydman for
the Paris Match, two weeks after the murder, in which he details how he and
Peres persuaded a reluctant Rabin to attend their November 4th gathering
and how he paid for and organized the security for the rally.

Peres had worked closely with the head of the Shabak, Rabin's driver,
his bodyguard and the rally's financier, in other words, with all the main
murder conspirators and this could not possibly have been a coincidence. It
was after receiving Frydman's unintended confession that I knew Peres was
guilty. However, his guilt was by association and though the circumstantial
evidence was overwhelming, what was missing was indisputable proof.

I decided then to release the film publicly and just as publicly,
accuse Peres of murder. The right opportunity arrived in mid-August. I was
invited to speak nine times in seven days to yeshiva students, their
teachers and families who were on a brief vacation from their regimen of
studies. The average crowd was over 200. Twice the audiences exceeded 350.
I reached over 2000 people in a week and they saw the film clip in its
entirety for the first time. When the clip ended, most of the audiences
burst into impromptu, extended applause. Peres did indeed prove my case and
everyone understood the significance of his words.

The PBS Film

Stock footage of overhead shot of the rally. Rabin and Peres sing Song Of
Peace on the podium.

Announcer: On the night Syria and Israel agreed to renew talks, a rally was
held in Tel Aviv.

Peres: We sang, the three of us, the singer Miriam Aloni, Yitzhak and
myself. Yitzhak and I are not great singers. He had the words of the peace
song written on a sheet of paper. After we sang, Yitzhak folded it and put
it in the pocket of his jacket.

Peres opens the left side of his jacket and puts the imaginary sheet inside
the pocket.

Announcer: On the way to his car, he was shot dead by an Israeli extremist.

Peres: Three bullets went through his heart and through the songsheet.

Eitan Haber announces Rabin's death outside Ichilov Hospital. Yasir Arafat
expresses his condolences.

Peres: We went to the room where he was lying on the bed. His body was
covered in a sheet up to here.

Peres indicates to the chest.

Peres: On his face was an expression of peace and maybe irony. It was his
typical Rabin smile.

Peres chokes up.

Peres: I kissed his forehead and said goodbye.

Announcer: Peres was now prime minister.

The Significance

The Shamgar Commission Of Inquiry determined that Yigal Amir shot Rabin
twice in the back. This is the official version of history as accepted by
the government of Israel. I had collected Rabin's surgeon's report, his
operation summary, his surgical review, as well as taped interviews with
the Health Minister Ephraim Sneh and the Director General of Ichilov
Hospital, Prof. Gabi Barabash from the night of the murder, which all
indisputably stated that Rabin was not shot twice, but three times and not
just in the back, but once frontally. This led to the inescapable
conclusion that the Shamgar Commission issued a whitewash, this because
Amir did not shoot Rabin three times and never had an opportunity to shoot
him from the front. Hence, someone else shot Rabin.

Now we know that Shimon Peres agrees with me because he is on tape
saying that he was in Rabin's hospital room, viewed his body and, with his
own eyes, saw that he was shot three times, once from the front.

Thank you Shimon for verifying my work.

Now we must ask some hard questions. On the assassination night, Peres
announced to the cabinet that Rabin was shot through the songsheet, a claim
he repeated at the 30 day commemoration of the death. However, almost
everyone felt he was being literary, creating an image of peace being murdered.

However, in January 1995, now-Prime Minister Shimon Peres testified at
the Shamgar Commission and did not relate the story of the three wounds,
nor of the frontal shot. Worse, far worse, Peres, as Prime Minister
accepted the lying conclusions of the Shamgar Commission. If Israel's
leader knew Rabin was not shot only twice in the back, why did he allow the
commission's findings to be accepted as truthful by the Knesset? Why did he
permit a lie to become history?

The Trial Of Shimon Peres

Prosecutor: Isn't it a fact that we have you on tape stating that you saw
Rabin's corpse and that he was shot three times and frontally through the
chest.

Peres: Yes but I didn't mean it.

Prosecutor: You mean you lied?

Peres: No, I was being dramatic. I didn't mean to be taken literally.

Prosecutor: Which part was not to be taken literally: the statement that
Rabin put his songsheet in his jacket pocket?

Peres: No, I meant that.

Prosecutor: The statement that you viewed Rabin's body?

Peres: No, I saw it.

Prosecutor: The statement that he was shot three times? Was there some
literary meaning in the number three that you wished to convey as a metaphor?

Peres: Perhaps. Three has many meanings. The holy trinity for example.
Maybe I meant three figuratively, in a Christian sense. That's right. I saw
Rabin as crucified. That's why I said three shots. Or maybe I meant three
in the sense of the perfection of an equidistant triangle. That works too.
And don't forget that three's a crowd. There are lots of reasons why I
could have said three.

Prosecutor: So he really wasn't shot three times and a bullet didn't pass
through the songsheet?

Peres: No, I was just kidding. Can't you take a joke?

In other words, Peres, in a fair trial, could never explain away this
video clip in my possession. He is trapped by his own words. At a minimum,
he knew how the murder really happened and for some reason, decided to
allow a national lie to be propagated with Amir, the religious community
and the residents of Judea and Samaria taking the rap for a murder they
didn't commit.

Then there is the greater likelihood that he was covering his own
complicity in the murder.

The Songsheet

Peres states that Rabin was shot through the songsheet. This is a lie
and I'll prove it. Note the attached photograph of the songsheet and the
superb analysis by Arthur Vered. His main points are:

- The sheet has been repeatedly folded. Rabin folded it once; why
would he refold it over and over again?

- There is a round black stain, but no hole, in one corner of the
sheet. Since the sheet was folded into quarters, a real bullet would have
pierced the sheet four times.

- Had Rabin been shot through it, gravity would have pushed the blood
down towards the bottom of the sheet. Instead, the darkest stain is at the
center and the spread is even. Hence, the blood was poured onto the sheet
after it was removed from Rabin's pocket.

Vered concludes that the blood on the sheet is not Rabin's.
Surprisingly, that is the suspicion of attorney Eyal Shomroni-Cohen, the
lawyer for Shabak provocateur Avishai Raviv, currently on trial for not
preventing Rabin's murder. He told me that he is pursuing similar lines as
my own to prove his client's innocence and that he requested the songsheet
from the court to test if Rabin's blood is actually soaked into it.

What does all this mean? My faithful readers know that the hospital
records prove Rabin entered Ichilov with two back wounds, was revived and
then shot a third time, this time frontally. My initial suspicion, which
has been more than justified by later evidence, is that the plotters tried
to produce evidence of a frontal shot by creating a hole through the sheet,
in order to explain away Rabin's new wound. They started to make a fake
bullet hole, realized the futility of faking evidence and took a new tack:
threatening the doctors to change their public reports to two back wounds.
This coverup began at approximately 2 AM when the state pathologist, Dr.
Yehuda Hiss, wiped the third wound from his autopsy report.

The attempt to create a shot through the songsheet was known ONLY TO
THE MURDER TEAM. Unless Peres can come up with a viable explanation of why
he thought the bullet passed through the sheet, he must have been on the team.

Someday, in a better Israel, a prosecutor WILL ask Peres why he said
Rabin was shot through the sheet. If he answers that he was given wrong
information, the next question will be; BY WHOM?
If not by the murderers, then who else? There is not one record of any
doctor, nurse or police investigator who announced a shot through the
songsheet. Only those who tampered with the sheet knew of the attempt to
create a bullet hole in the paper and they had to have been in on the
murder plot.

I wish Shimon Peres a long life, until 120, so he will have the
opportunity to answer these questions in a courtroom and so will spend the
rest of his days in prison, hopefully atoning for his crimes against
Yitzhak Rabin and the Jewish people.

end

The new English-language edition of Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin went to
press this week. The publisher, Brookline Books, has informed me that they
are now taking orders for the book. In the US call 1 800 666 BOOK. Or
write brbooks@yahoo.com

The Zionist Book Club has completed the galleys for my new book The Last
Days Of Israel. Included is a long and detailed chapter on the Peres
evidence. In the US and Britain call 1 877 RABINYY. Or
write perkins@netvision.net.il

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