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April 29 - Apologize For Repression?
April 19 - A Tale of Two Centers.
April 10 - Forty Days At Sea.
March 1 - Last Thoughts Before I Travel.
April 29 - Apologize For Repression? |
I received a letter from my friend Joel Bainerman today. He just had a phone conversation with our mutual friend Gemma Blech, an activist for Women In Green, who informed him that the Israeli Right was angry at me for my stance on Margalit Har Shefi, who is serving a nine month prison term for "not preventing the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin." He, better than anyone, should know that I do not serve the Right, I serve the Truth. You see, the Women in Green are campaigning to have her released and they think I am opposing them. Nothing could be further from the truth. I want to see her free but I know unless she and her family start telling what they know about the Shabak and its provocateur Avishai Raviv, she will not be released no matter how many pleas for mercy are sent the Israeli President. Look how well that strategy worked with Jonathan Pollard. His people are also too frightened or lazy to hire a professional and find out why he is REALLY sitting in prison for life. No, Pollard did not work alone. No middle level Navy Intelligence employee could have possibly sifted through the billions of files in the Navy Intelligence archives to fish out the data that Israel needed. He had high-level guidance and he is sitting while someone else, someone high up, is being protected. And those supposedly fighting for Pollard refuse to go looking. Pollard will not be released out of pity; it's war out there and his advocates had better, finally, start looking for some ammunition. No different with Har Shefi. Her uncle, Benny Elon was the first public figure to finger Raviv as a Shabak plant. He knew him, he was apparently tricked into working with him, I have witnesses to this fact, and he's keeping his mouth shut while his niece wallows in prison. Am I supposed to admire that? Joel should know better. Because you see, two days ago Joel and I took our kids on a camping trip. When he got home, he found that his house had been broken into and trashed. The only thing stolen was his computer. He knows the robbery was an intelligence-gathering operation and surmises it resulted from his having financed the Hebrew translation of my book The Last Days Of Israel. Funny, we did a lot of talking about intelligence gathering operations during the camping trip because of an incident that happened to me the day we left. Our upstairs neighbors suddenly abandoned their new home and took a five month trip abroad. I was sitting on the patio with my kids when we heard the blinds open above us. My son was shocked, "No one's supposed to be living there, so why did the blinds open?" he asked. I have two phone lines; one downstairs for the computer, two upstairs for the home. The next day, one of the upstairs phones stopped ringing, yet you could dial out. We called the phone company, and an hour before I left for the camping excursion, a technician came over to repair the problem. He discovered that the upstairs phone now shared the line with the computer phone downstairs. He explained, "Phones don't switch lines by themselves. The only way that this could have happened is if someone tapped your phones and mixed the lines up afterward. To do that, he'd have to have a key to your building." Our efficient Shabak leaves its mark again. If Margalit Har Shefi thinks she is the only victim of repression in Israel, she'd better think again. The newspaper Makor Rishon this week reported the police investigation of Tzahi Zweig, the brave post- graduate archaeology student, who did far more to expose the PLO's illegal digging under the Temple Mount than our government. He is now being investigated on trumped up charges of stealing artifacts. Then here is the gutsy investigative journalist Dell Griffin, arrested and handed deportation orders for reasons he isn't sure of yet. The guesses being sent to me range from his advocacy of a less than popular theological position to his past personal acquaintanceship with Avishai Raviv. Zweig's crime was exposing the PLO, Griffin's is not understood yet. However, what is indisputable is that he is a reputable writer, a former reporter for the Jerusalem Post and he is being deported from his home. But he is fighting back. He is seeking out the facts. He is talking, writing, informing. So why isn't Margalit Har Shefi? Why is her only defense that she didn't take Yigal Amir seriously? The implication is that Amir was the murderer, which he was not. Her stance is undermining all the years of hard work of those, alright including me, who labored to expose the truth. She is hurting me by her silence, she is perpetuating the lie that the religious Right murdered Rabin but most of all, she is destroying her own life. And I'm supposed to thank her for that? Talk, and I'll support her with all I have to give. Otherwise, don't expect anything from me with what I have to go through. Fine, I'm not in prison...yet. The authorities won't dare the hand me a public forum by allowing me to defend myself in court. I would like nothing better than to subpoena Rabin's assassins to my trial. But look what else is going on besides mere surveillance. My family received a notice that we owed the income tax authority $80,000. I was accused of not submitting my annual income tax statement in 1998. I NEVER miss submitting it so I contacted my accountant who admitted he forgot to submit it but refused to repair the damage. So we hired another accountant to get to the bottom of the matter. All he has to report is the first accountant won't answer his queries but I wasn't billed by him for my 1999 report either. Here comes another $80,000 bill. So someone is trying to get me on trumped up tax charges and now my family has a lien on the house and car. And if that doesn't work, a widespread disinformation campaign is being mounted against me. This time the claim is I am publicly accusing everyone in sight, people I have traded information with for years, of being Shabak agents. The smearing is spreading and I'm expecting a huge final smear to shut me up for good any day. I'm no angel, I've never claimed to be a saint and whatever form it may take, I've decided to just accept the consequences. I'm frankly getting very discouraged with my fellow Israelis. I tell them the truth and they are incapable of absorbing it. Tomorrow Shimon Peres is in Washington. Makor Rishon reported that he will be meeting with two of his biggest allies in the Bush Administration: Dan Kurtzer and Richard Haass. Both are high ranking members of the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR). Kurtzer, in fact, is the only orthodox Jew in the CFR, which means his orthodoxy is a sham.Haass, who as I have previously reported, is the most anti-Israel politco in the Republican Party, and this fact came from a politician who knows, Jack Kemp. Other correspondents sent me ample proof in the form of Haass' own writing which confirmed the fact. That they are both influential members of the CFR is not a coincidence. That Peres is meeting them is not a coincidence. That Sharon is sending Peres is not a coincidence. That Sharon appointed Peres Foreign Minister is not a coincidence. That Peres organized the murder of Rabin was a fact known to Sharon when he made his appointment. After presenting my proofs of Peres' complicity to thousands of people, the Israeli Right knows my case is solid. But they can't put things together to save their lives and their nation. Israel has an enemy in the United States; it is called the CFR. Peres will be meeting their stooges tomorrow in Washington. They will be plotting Israel's downfall. And as far as the Right is concerned, the core of the Middle East bloodshed is Arabs hating Jews. Well, that's not what's happening. The CFR exploits the hatred that exists through the Israeli and Arab leaders it has corrupted and that includes Netanyahu and Sharon. And while my nation bleeds, the Right refuses to listen to who is twisting the knife. And while the Rabin assassination has been exposed and proven, their biggest issue is Margalit Shar Shefi's release because she was a victim of injustice. Well get this, WE ARE ALL VICTIMS OF INJUSTICE. The whole state of Israel is under diplomatic siege by murders who rule us, the EU and America. The only solution I can think of to save our enterprise is to FINALLY expose the Rabin assassination and watch where the pieces fall. By doing so we can preserve our existence and as a bonus, free Margalit Har Shefi. After expressing all this deep-seated frustration with the people I care for most, why should I carry on? It's because of people like Miriam Samsonovich, a fine journalist, who faxed me the following report from Yom Hashishi (April 20, 2001): * * * INTERPOL DIRECTOR ARRIVES TO INVESTIGATE RABIN MURDER Israel police heads, and the commanders of Tel Aviv Police and Yarkon District Police spent an hour and a half in Rabin square demonstrating the Rabin assassination for the Director of Interpol. Also present was a reporter from Hashavuah who was informed of the event. The Interpol Director climbed up and down the steps where Rabin spent his last few moments alive, while checking various angles and recording them in his computer. He engaged in conversations with the police representatives which appeared to end in heated disputes. Citizens passing the site, were hurriedly directed elsewhere. The Interpol Director flew to Israel for a few hours, specially to investigate the Rabin murder. He was seen examining adjoining buildings. Police spokesperson Shulamit Herzberg confirmed the visit to Hashavuah. She added that it was an official visit but insisted it was unconnected to new findings about the Rabin murder. * * * There you go. After over five years of presenting the evidence, the head of Interpol, plainly against the wishes of Tel Aviv area police commanders, came to investigate the Rabin assassination. We don't know who sent him or why. I'd like to believe it was a leader of the Israeli Right. But I doubt it. They're too busy trying to arrange a pardon for the smallest cog in the murder. And I hope they succeed. But the only way they will is to become warriors for truth, the complete truth, the deep truth...already. |
April 19 - A Tale of Two Centers: The Criminal Mindset Of Shimon Peres Versus the Truth Seeping Out Of Rabin's Edifice |
Shimon Peres had a busy month. Not as Foreign Minister especially but as director of the Peres Center For Peace. You see, there is no real justification for this center's existence. Its stated purpose is to promote business ties between Israelis and Arabs and based on this worthy sounding goal, it has raised tens of millions of dollars from private donors and the World Bank. However, no such projects have been initiated by the center. Instead it hosts bi-annual meetings of cooperative regional thugs to talk about regional cooperation. The only project that got off the ground was an unmitigated fiasco called the Peace Cup. Here's how it worked. Last summer the center hosted a soccer tournament held in Rome. Perennial Italian champs, Juventus Rome and teams from Israel and its Arab neighbors were to play each other for the Peace Trophy. Though Israel sent a team, Betar Jerusalem, none of Israel's Arab neighbors but Jordan consented to participate. So the three teams played three 30 minute games one night in front of literally dozens of enthusiastic Italian fans in a stadium holding 60,000. First Juventus beat Jordan 11-0 in half an hour, then Betar proceeded to slaughter the Jordanians 7-0. Finally, to the disgust of all 57 Italian fans, Betar beat Juventus 1-0 for the championship. The Jordanians, beaten 18-0 in an hour felt anything but peaceful afterward. As far as they were concerned, they were lured into a trap designed to illustrate the total impotence of Arab sporting efforts. In fact, they better illustrated the total impotence of the Peres Center For Peace. As usual, its vision of peace just fueled more hate and hostility. In order for him to justify his center's existence, it is incumbent upon Peres to get a few more fiascoes rolling and that requires finally, funding economic co-existence. So he has spent the past month raising money for hi-tech ventures in the Arab sector of Israel, ventures, of course, doomed to fail since there are, without exaggeration, no original hi-tech projects in the entire Arab world. Like his Peace Cup joke, Peres's vision will result in an 18-0 loss because it is the vision of a diseased mind. And the result will be the same; more hatred and hostility. Nonetheless, Peres used his pal Benny Gaon, head of Koor Industries to raise $10 million for the doomed ventures, then took a trip to America with another buddy, Rabbi Michael Melchior to persuade American Jewish businessmen to throw their money away on Peres Center hopeless projects in the Arab sector. If they only knew the criminal mindset of Peres and his center, these starstruck Americans would have kept their wallets tightly in their front pants pocket where they belong. Let's look at just one example of how the Peres Center thinks. And this time, for a change, the convincing proof of Peres's central role in the Rabin assassination does not get even a passing mention. Instead, let us look at the construction of the new Peres Center headquarters in Yaffo. A major donor, the Peres Center refuses to give out his identity, agreed to build a sparkling new building to house the Peres dream, designed by an Italian architect. Yaffo municipality head Israel Peleg, a longtime Peres crony, invited him to build the facility in his town and offered a selection of suitable sites. None was good enough for Peres, he wanted a building in his name with a seaview. So he chose a plot of land on the previous site of a hospital and insisted it would be his. Here's where Peres's criminal mindset comes into play. It was illegal to build on the site but that never stopped Peres before. Just look who runs the Peres Center. The Chairman is Carmi Gillon, head of the General Security Services (Shabak) at the time of the Rabin murder and a proven conspirator in the assassination itself. The Director is Uri Savir, a chief negotiator of the Oslo Accords, whose deceit and lies to the Israeli public will someday lead to criminal charges. And sitting on the board is former Chief Justice Meir Shamgar, who headed the government commission of inquiry which covered up the truth of the Rabin assassination. The rest of the board includes a who's who of local and international greed mongers, who may be viewing the center's money laundering potential with unfettered lust. The Tel Aviv City Hall had designated the Yaffo site as a public park in its ordnance, Boardwalk Project 2236. The land was slated to be a continuation of the Yaffo boardwalk with a seaview for all residents to enjoy. Any construction which blocked the view was forbidden. Not that this little roadblock stopped Peres. His "experts" found another city ordnance which seemed to nullify the first. Because the land previously housed a hospital, another public building could legally replace it. That's the law at Tel Aviv City Hall and somehow Peres persuaded Tel Aviv's mayor and city council to buy the argument and give him over an acre of invaluable seafront property FOR FREE. Yup, you heard it right. Peres got the land for 49 years at 2% the real estate value of a public building or 2% of nothing. Only the Peres Center For Peace is not a public institution. It is entirely private. So how did Peres get around this nasty fact? Now watch this to better understand the criminal mindset. Because the Peres Center is a non-profit foundation, whose goal is to serve the public, it is by definition a public institution. The business newspaper Globes summed up the absurdity better than I could. It wrote, "By that definition, every one of the thousands of foundations in Israel are public institutions including The Foundation For Orchid Growers, The Foundation For The Promotion of Racing Horses and The Foundation For The Expansion Of Chocolate Drinks. They are all now eligible for the breaks that come with being government institutions." Such has Peres twisted the law that yes, all foundations in Israel are now public institutions if the Peres Center is ever used as a legal precedent. Israeli law insists that public buildings be open to the public. The Peres Center will be surrounded by guards and only the invited allowed in. The Peres Center counters, "We are building a museum of peace, a meeting place and an auditorium. We will be inviting the public to our functions no matter what their political leanings." Of course, only the most gullible of the radical left will ever want to visit the center but the explanation skirts the issue; public buildings by law are open to the GENERAL public and the Peres Center will not be. It will serve almost no one in Yaffo and will interrupt all boardwalk traffic. The building is, simply, breaking the law by its existence; but there is more. Israeli environmental law now bans the construction of buildings closer then 100 meters from the sea. The law is vital since so little seafront property remains open in the country. The Peres Center parking lot is situated much closer to the water than 100 yards. It was okayed without submitting the plans to the Environment Ministry as is dictated by law. No problem for the Peres Institute. They explain that a parking lot isn't a building and everything is right as rain. Only, those who choose to stroll along the beach will be blocked by the lot's fence and have to take a detour around it. There is nothing legal about the new Peres Center For Peace building in Yaffo, just as there is nothing legal about its criminal namesake. RABIN CENTER EMPLOYEE OPENS HIS MOUTH ABOUT THE ASSASSINATION Now speaking about peace centers, look what is happening across the street at the Yitzhak Rabin Center For Israel Studies. A paid employee of the center is talking truth about the assassination of that center's namesake. And the story is culled from no less than Haaretz, certainly the most extremist left of the country's news outlets. Read on: * * * Ha'aretz: Rabin Center sponsors work criticizing the Left, questioning assassination The new and improved Rabin By Uriya Shavit Ha'aretrz Magazine 13 April 2001 In January 1995, 11 months before Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated at the end of a peace rally in Tel Aviv, Rabbi Yaakov Meidan from the Gush Etzion bloc of settlements in the West Bank sent a sharply worded letter to Ha'aretz. Five years later, in one of those ironic twists with which Israel's short history is studded, the salary of Rabbi Meidan is being paid by the center that was established to perpetuate the slain prime minister, the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies. That fact might have aroused no more than sad irony were it not for the fact that Meidan is the author of the center's official keynote document, together with Hebrew University professor of law Ruth Gavison. Entitled "Foundation for a new social pact between religiously observant and nonreligious in Israel," the document was written within the framework of the Shalom Hartman Institute and was adopted by the Rabin Center in September 2000. And it didn't come cheap: In the last four months of 2000, NIS 186,749 was invested in work on and promotion of the pact; in 2001 the center will invest a further NIS 600,000 in it. Rabbi Meidan and Prof. Gavison enjoy a stipend which costs NIS 6,000 a month each. And the center intends to convene a "national congress" to discuss the document. Meidan's introduction to the document, at the top of which a photograph of Yitzhak Rabin appears, is fascinating: "In the past few years a shift has occurred which I believe calls into question the adherence of the secular community to humanism," he writes, and continues with a withering attack on the road pursued by Yitzhak Rabin, as well as on the police and the Supreme Court. "A series of matters - the undemocratic behavior of the police in their activity against the demonstrators over the blood that was shed, the doubts that have begun to surface about how much the Supreme Court has contributed to the entrenchment of democracy, the fact that there is hardly anyone from the secular public who is demanding that Avishai Raviv, who flagrantly incited Yigal Amir to assassinate Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of blessed memory, stand trial, and more recently the fact that negotiations were conducted by a transition government which does not enjoy public backing, and the fact that many intellectuals from the top level of the Israeli elite are now saying explicitly that they will not forgo the opportunity of making peace with the Arab nation only because of democratic principles and are ready to trample deliberately whatever interferes with them - all this raises questions, which are not necessarily easy to answer, about the contention that secular culture is the bastion of democracy." Revelations undisclosed "What I write is the truth," Rabbi Meidan said this week, "but I can't tell you that it seems to me directly logical that a passage like this should appear in the Rabin Center." What is there that the public doesn't know about the Rabin assassination which is important for it to know? "A great many things. A great many things. You are asking me for bombs which I am not ready to give you at this moment in this press interview." Maybe you could explain the main points. "There are three things you people don't understand. First, the impossible corner you pushed us into. The left pushed the people who had to run between bullets day and night in order to bury their dead. Second, you did not understand the influences that affected Yigal Amir - not from our direction but from totally different directions. Avishai Raviv, who was not one of ours [Raviv was a Shin Bet security service agent working among far-right activists], is one of them. Third you don't begin to understand the huge and vast gulf that separates angry words, however harsh, from [pulling] the trigger and committing murder." What do you mean in the reference your document makes to Avishai Raviv? "Mister, was he the one who created a photograph of Yitzhak Rabin dressed in an SS uniform? Was he the one who said to Yigal Amir - and there are 35 witnesses to this - 'Let's see if you're a real man by killing Rabin'? A person like that was not put on trial, and no one opens his mouth to protest. "The Rabin Center - and I am saying hard words against the center which pays my salary - was upset at the fact that Margalit Har-Sheffi [now serving a prison term after being convicted of failing to try to prevent Amir from assassinating Rabin] was interviewed on television. But the Rabin Center has so far not said a word about the fact that Avishai Raviv is walking about freely and until not long ago received a salary of NIS 10,000 a month. "If there was no protest at these things, then something here was not real. There was an attempt here to stir up the public against religious Zionism, in order to eradicate religious Zionism - something very similar to what was done at the time in the wake of the assassination of Arlosoroff [referring to accusations leveled at right-wing nationalists for the murder of a Labor movement leader, Chaim Arlosoroff, in Palestine in 1933]." Are you saying that Avishai Raviv wanted Yigal Amir to assassinate Rabin? "Avishai Raviv knowingly incited Yigal Amir to do it and he was not tried. How is it possible that you people do not protest this?" Are you saying that the Shin Bet knew about this? "What differences does it make? If you are asking me whether the Shin Bet knew about it, that is a different question. I am not dealing with that. A few books have already discussed that. I am now talking about the fact that there was no 'satisfaction' for Yitzhak Rabin's spilt blood. The blood of Yitzhak Rabin cries out from the earth. It is crying out against a person who is walking free ... The leaders of the country and the leaders of the left are responsible for that spilt blood." * * * Admittedly, Meidan is off course; in fact he's taking the wrong course altogether. Raviv did not provoke Amir to murder Rabin, since Amir shot blank bullets and Rabin's bodyguard Yoram Rubin did the dirty deed. BUT, here is a Rabin Center employee demanding the truth and threatening to "explode bombs" at his chosen time. It's a most refreshing change from the flagrant criminality of the Peres Center, almost a breath of fresh air that Yitzhak Rabin would enjoy inhaling. end Acknowledgments I had a pretty busy week myself. I returned from America and the next night lectured to 150 plus people in Maalot, two days later to over 350 in Moshav Ramot and then last night to 80, mostly academics, in Rishon Letzion. But I have not forgotten my American adventure and wish to thank a few more fine people. Let me start with the most generous couple I ever had the privilege of meeting, Vendyl and Anita Jones of Dallas; my undying appreciation to Beryl Heskelevitch, Daniel Khaymovitch and Avi Goldstein for organizing three memorable New York speeches; to the Searcys of Canyon Lake, Texas for the crappie and bluegills I caught; to Steve Myers for a perfect radio interview; to Ron Fraser and crew for following me around all day with their cameras; and to Sharon Eby-Martin for the wonderful morning in Juarez, Mexico. That's not everyone but I'm not finished. |
April 10, 2001 - Forty Days At Sea. |
I left on March 2, returned, April 11; forty days of lecturing in America. I finally met the loyal legions who created this peculiar career of mine and discovered they have almost nothing in common. In New York, my sponsors were religious Jews, including one memorable evening at the Lubatvitch world headquarters in Brooklyn. In Springfield, Missouri, the prophetic David Lewis Ministries were my hosts, while in Denver, the American Freedom Network organized a memorable evening. There, I was told, they take a historical view of Jesus, regarding him as a divine freedom fighter against the New World Order of the times, the Romans. My plane landed in Salt Lake City at 7:50 and Joel Skousen rushed me to a nearby university campus for an 8:00 PM lecture. The lecture hall was packed with Mormons who knew more about my work than any audience yet. In Dallas, the maverick archaeologist Vendyl Jones presented me to his convention of Bnei Noah, gentiles who accept the Old Testament but reject the New. In El Paso, my presenter was Eliezer Ben Yosef, a Reform Jew with a Saturday morning radio show. And my last stop in Hawaii was organized by Peter Goodgame, unaffiliated with any movement. If there is a thread of commonality amongst my sponsors and audiences, I couldn't find it. Put them all in a room and the party would break up early. This diversity was a kind of revelation. Those people who find in my work the best explanation for what is happening to Israel today are united only in their love of the Jewish people, their battle against the New World Order and their profound hospitality towards a speaker who came a long way to meet them. Before I left, I vowed not to keep up with news from Israel unless it was too disturbing to ignore. My idea was to both take a vacation from the hothouse and return with a refreshed viewpoint. The strategy mostly worked and I have nothing to add to anyone's knowledge of the Middle East. In fact, my most striking memory has nothing to do with politics of any kind and shortly I'd like to take the liberty of expanding on new information I was given on a very different subject for me, seasickness. However, religion and politics did rear their heads on the trip and I suppose it would be in best character to point to a few highlights: * I arrived in New York to awful news. The worst snowstorm in fifty years was set to hit the city on the night of my first lecture and bury the landscape in two feet of snow on the evenings of the next two. My New York tour was to be wiped out, including a Television interview I had been looking forward to; The Americans For A Safe Israel program on Manhattan Cable TV. But then Ray Antoky and G-d decided to help me out. Ray provided my accommodations on condition that I wear tefillin on my trip. For those unacquainted with this tradition, tefillin are written prayers placed in small boxes attached to the head and arm by thin leather straps. He and a dozen buddies chipped in $350 to purchase a handcrafted set of tefillin and just hours before the blizzard was set to hit, I put them on. I hadn't worn teffilin since my bar mitzvah but they felt comfortable. I recited the prayer for wearing the tefillin with the rabbi who made them but added one phrase: "And please stop the storm." The storm missed New York City by ten miles. I managed to get to Manhattan for the TV interview. None of the lectures was cancelled, in fact hundreds arrived at the Lubavitch world headquarters for the speech. Do I think it was because of the tefillin? Yes. * I was privileged to have been interviewed on numerous radio shows in the past forty days including five hours on the legendary Alex Jones program and an hour on Hawaii's most popular morning show, hosted by Rick Hamada. But the most troublesome program came out of Omaha. The host, Marty, told me that he would like to support Israel wholeheartedly but its laws against evangelizing prevented it. I replied, "How would you like it if a bunch of Jews came into your neighborhood trying to change the faith of your children. Or how would you like it if Scientologists handed out pamphlets in your church?" He admitted he would not like it al all. "Well, we Jews don't proselytize your young people because we respect your faith too much for that. Naturally we expect the same respect shown to us." He said he had never considered that side of the issue but it made sense. Then he opened the phone lines to callers. One of the first brought up the silly matter of the Khazarians. A few decades back Arthur Koestler wrote a book about the Khazar empire whose leadership, late in the Middle Ages, did covert to Judaism. Then he took the crazy leap of hypothesizing that all Ashkenazi Jews are descendants of Khazars who migrated to Eastern Europe at the fall of their empire. This caller insisted that 95% of Jews are actually not descended for Abraham but rather of a Medieval Turkish tribe called the Khazars. "Do you think," I asked, "that if 95% of Jews were from Khazaria we would have forgotten that? Jews have long, exact memories and we know where we were. If it was in Khazaria we wouldn't have forgotten it. And if we were Khazars, Yiddish would be a Turkish-based language, which it is not. I don't think there are any Khazarian words in Yiddish. The Khazarian royal court did covert to Judaism, mostly for political reasons, but the Khazar people didn't or we would have remembered it." Marty stated that my reasoning had to be right and invited me back on his show two weeks later. If I ever earn some sort of legacy, it might have something to do with having straightened out a few anti-semitic notions held by people who have no reason to dislike Jews if they thought about a few things a bit differently. * The Texas leg of my tour was the longest and most confusing. While some crowds were ample, over 150 in both Dallas and San Antonio, others were the smallest by far of the tour. And the smallest of the smallest was to a group of 15 Israelis in the Dallas home of Rabbi Moyal. Despite the paucity of people, I gave my best as always but wondered why I flew 8000 miles to address an audience of two dozen souls. The answer came a few days later when Wayne Linksman accompanied me to a gala Dallas Jewish social event, The Kosher Chili Cookoff. One person after another told me they heard I gave a very controversial but thought-provoking lecture at Rabbi Moyal's home. A couple of Israelis gave me the cold shoulder at first but within an hour came back to ask if what I was doing really was healthy for Israel. I told them that it was beyond healthy, it was vital to the nation's survival. " Both of you know how corrupt our government is." I noted. "How long do you think we can survive this level of corruption? The very people who murdered Rabin are still ruling us, so when do you start saying this has gone too far?" One Israeli, Iranian-born asked, " Why are you stirring things up and why should we talk when no one of influence is willing to say anything?" Rabbi Malka provided the answer. He had attended my lecture and had been deeply affected. He came up to me and said, "I brought something for you.It's from Friday's Yediot Ahronot. I have a subscription." He flipped through the weekend magazine section until he found an interview with the leading spokeswoman of Israeli Russians, Ida Nudel. The headline read: Ida Nudel Believes Rabin Was Murdered In A Conspiracy: That Amir Was Just The Patsy. I showed it to the two Israelis. The Persian smiled. "See," I said, "I'm not alone. Now it's your turn." There were only 15 people at Rabbi Moyal's home to hear my lecture but now I knew that was more than enough. The Secrets Of Seasickness Yitzhak Rabin made a dream come true. He provided me with an expense-paid working holiday to Hawaii. My host Peter Goodgame covered the costs for no other reason than to get the truth of Rabin's murder to the Hawaiian people. Unlike my previous sponsors, Peter had no church, synagogue or political organization behind him. He's a working man saving for a home for his handsome family but he set back his plans because he believed in me. I was humbled. And for a first-timer he did just fine. He got me a spot on Honolulu's most popular morning talk show. The host Rick Hamada conducted a superb interview and a fine crowd arrived for my lecture later that evening. Once over, I was free to pursue a dream, to catch a marlin off Hawaii. Accompanying me was Ron, a longtime American soldier. And lest you believe there are no black helicopters harassing American citizens, Ron flew his share of missions on these choppers, until his Christian conscience opened up. "The goal of the black helicopters is urban warfare." He told me. "I was in a special ops unit which trained with foreign troops and I can tell you that armies are being used today to control or eliminate troublesome individuals and groups." On this tour, I had about ten other former military men with not dissimilar stories. I guess my work is of great interest to former soldiers. Ron reserved two seats on a six seat party boat and it was just a matter of time before he would be clicking shots of me beside my lifetime dream marlin. I had never been in a squall on a small boat. I had never spent eight hours in nine foot swells,going up and down, side to side, up and down until I became sick. Not just sick, I've been sick before. I was so sick that when a fish, after seven fruitless hours, finally took my lure briefly, I prepared myself to let Ron reel it in. The dead and dying do not reel. After disgusting myself and all aboard, the nightmare was over. Only one of us caught anything, two had come down with serious seasickness, while another spent the day lying in the cabin to prevent his from worsening. I had paid $150 to spend the day on a never ending roller coaster. Once on land I recovered my health but I was humiliated by the whole experience. But Peter came to my rescue. "You have nothing to be ashamed of, "he said. "I want to introduce you to my neighbor Gordie. He knows all about what happened to you." Gordie's home is decorated in blown glass fishing floats. These are thick green glass balls up to two feet in diameter used to float huge fishing nets. He picked them up floating free during his many voyages. "Feel the smoothness of the glass, " he said. "This is the best glasswork made in the world today. They are perfectly designed not to shatter at sea. Now look here, the blower left his signature in the glass. When I started collecting them, it was for their beauty. Now there are collectors everywhere and I hear they're sold in galleries in Paris." Gordie is a middle-aged, tanned sea salt. He skippers fishing boats in major tournaments and has worked from Washington State, to Alaska to Hawaii. I told him about my day. "So you had a bad day? You didn't feel anything! I once had it for 30 days straight with nowhere to go. I knew what death was, you didn't even get a hint of it." I disagreed because what I felt was as close to death as could be but he was right about the duration of Hell. An Israeli lady named Naveh, living in Hawaii, later told me about her nine day bout on a trip to Palmyra, an island a thousand miles to the south. As bad as I had it, it gets worse over time. "There is no sickness known to mankind as powerful as seasickness," added Gordie. "I'm told the last stages of AIDS is as close as it gets. It makes men crazy. I took a guy out, real tough, loved his guns. Just a few hours after it hit him he said to me,'Gordie, I've got a Baretta in my jacket. There are two shots in the clip. You have to get it and finish me off." I told him no and he grabbed my shirt and yelled, "You gotta do it Gordie. I can't live another second like this. Just do it and throw me over. No one will know. "And he wasn't the worst. I'll tell you how crazy it makes you. I used to work on this island in Puget Sound. The only way to get to it was by a small ferry and I saw the same people on it all the time. Well one day we got caught in a winter storm and I didn't think we'd make it. That ferry boat got tossed as bad as any small yacht in a squall. And this guy got the sickness so bad he almost fell in the water a few times. The last time though, I saw him crawling to the side on purpose. I knew he was going to jump and grabbed him. 'Just let me go,' he said, 'It's the best thing.' Well, I didn't and we made it to the island. He hasn't been back to the mainland since and I'll bet it's been twenty years. Nothing will get him on a boat ever again and there's no other way out." Gordie has made a study of seasickness. "It's 90% psychological. The dramamin and ear patches only work because people think they do. But when you get into really rough water, seven out of ten people get hit and the figure is the same for those who take the precautions. I once proved it was psychological. I took this arrogant (expletive) fishing and he kept bragging how the sea never got to him. So I worked on him all day, you know, 'Are you okay, you look a little queasy,' I'd cook up greasy food and offer it to him, talk about moving, flying, falling, asked him to read small print, and it worked. Had him begging me to turn back but I said not until we caught a big one. "Another couple bragged they could take any sea but I wasn't a mile off the sandbar before they begged me to leave them on the bar. So there they are sprawled on the sandbar in the middle of nowhere refusing to get on the boat. The husband yells that he paid for the day and I could use it to catch fish. I caught $3000 worth that day. By evening they were prepared to sail to shore, maybe ten minutes away. "But that was nothing compared to this lady who wanted me to sail her to Kono, four days away. I told her I made arrangements in Kono and once we were past our island there was no turning back. No problem, she said, she'd been on boats before. It took less than half an hour before the sickness got her. Half a day later we're at the edge of the island and after that it's open sea. 'I have to get off,' she announced, and I told her no way. She sees a boat anchored maybe half a mile a way. She shouts,'I'm not staying here,' jumps in the water and swims to the other boat. I radioed him and she was safe in the end but that's how crazy the sickness makes you. I don't know of another that saps you of all rationality and makes you do suicidal things. "And if you think it's only the passengers who suffer, it's just as hard on the crew. How'd you like to be on a boat where the skipper gets seasick and can't operate the craft? I've seen that lots of times but the worst was when the sickness killed the skipper. Seasickness will kill you two ways. After the belly is empty, it attacks what's left. In the most severe cases, the body will dehydrate the organs and refuse to accept liquids. Or, the severity will cause a cardiac arrest. "That's what happened to this skipper. Straight out of Gilligan's Island. The skipper is dead at the wheel and the first mate doesn't know how to control the boat. He radios for help and I get there and see the boat doing short circles in the water. And no one aboard figured out anything was wrong. The girls all covered up in their beach blankets when I approached. How you can't suspect something is amiss when your boat has been doing sharp circles for two hours is explainable by the fact that despite federal regulations, lots of people take intoxicants on boats. And that's a real bad idea. I've seen passengers throw everything overboard when they get the sickness. First they vow never to touch the vile inebriant ever again as long as they live, then over go bottles of booze, cocaine, pot. The only one I try to stop from going overboard is the pot. The cancer and AIDS patients who want it legalized because it stops nausea are right. It's the only stuff I ever saw that is a cure for seasickness. All the other advice like lie down, concentrate on one point, or even steer the boat to keep busy is worthless. But that stuff works. "And the skippers hate it when the passengers come down with the motion sickness. For one thing, the plumbing in the head gets clogged and it takes forever to clear it. One skipper tells passengers not to use the head for seasickness because just a few weeks back a passenger got so sick he fell unconscious in the head and died of drowning. Right in the head, he tells people. No way it happened but that's how desperate he is to keep his plumbing flowing. And the passengers always believe him and when it hits them, they go to the edge of the boat. "Which is awful because everyone sees him and then begins the domino effect. Now boats aren't seasick friendly. The edge is too thick to go on the knees and use. And if you stand, it's overboard for you lots of times. I had this great product idea. It's like a big airsickness bag only with a harness attached to your head. You just find a corner somewhere and don't bother anyone else. I'd like it to be bio-degradable so you can throw it in the ocean before you land. I'd call it, In Case Of Seasickness Take One. "If you think you had a bad day, I say you're wrong. You learned a lesson . Man is a land animal; he was never supposed to go to sea. His body rebels with all it has. But if there is ever to be greatness,truth or discovery, we have to fight it until we finally get our sea legs." I have succumbed to Gordie's wisdom. I will take the next opportunity to go to sea and catch my dream marlin. I wouldn't be me if I surrendered to mere unnatural risk. The final leg of the tour. Twenty four hours of flying from Honolulu to Tel Aviv. I change planes in New York to El Al. Yediot Ahronot is given to the passengers and I read my first Hebrew newspaper cover to cover in forty days. I find out that after a meeting with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who for forty days in America I had been proving was the prime suspect in Rabin's murder, Prime Minister Sharon has agreed not to build new settlements in Judea and Samaria. A fellow passenger observes, "No one understands it. He's no different than Barak." I took the taxi from Ben Gurion Airport home. The driver asks why I was away so long and I answer that I gave lectures in America on Rabin's murder. "Oh that," he replies. "I knew Avishai Raviv personally. I even bailed him out of jail once. We all know what happened. Raviv gave Yigal Amir a gun with blanks in it. He shot the blanks and Rabin's bodyguard murdered him after that. Why do you need to give a lecture about that? Everyone knows already." After a hazardous journey, I was clearly reaching land. |
March 1 - Last Thoughts Before I Travel. |
Har Shefi - The Rabin murder is enjoying a revival thanks to Margalit Har Shefi's impending incarceration and the postponement of Avishai Raviv's trial until June 2, when it will be postponed again. A campaign has been organized to pressure President Katzav into pardoning her. A word of advice: If the organizers insist on arguing that Har Shefi couldn't read Amir's mind and thus didn't take his threats against Rabin seriously, their campaign is doomed. Har Shefi is innocent because Amir didn't murder Rabin...period. Will the campaign organizers find the courage or will to base Har Shefi's freedom on the truth, for a big change? Colin Powell- Here it comes. People are confused and surprised by the supposedly sympathetic new Secretary-of-State Colin Powell's call for even-handedness in the Israeli/Pal. conflict. Same old policy, press Israel into retreat. Now how many times must I repeat the same message? Powell is a member of the Council On Foreign Relations. He owes his power to them and he takes his orders from them. There is no individualistic Secretary-of-State, there is only the CFR. Powell, like all his predecessors at the post, are frontmen and nothing more. Eitan Haber - Remember him? He is the journalist cum Rabin's office manager who, on the assassination night, absconded with Rabin's belongings at the hospital and then emptied Rabin's file cabinets of their incriminating contents. Remember Ehud Barak? Before he left his Interior Ministry office after the 1996 Netanyahu victory, he gutted the file cabinets of all "sensitive" records. Well, as a final gesture to Haber, Barak opened the government's "sensitive" Rabin files to Haber exclusively because he is writing a book about the murder. He will, of course, write himself out of the plot. The Villain - If anyone wonders how I acquire high-level intelligence, look at the following letter from a long-loyal correspondent, as a fine example of how you help get the truth out: Listen to this, I met Jack Kemp last week. I was at this function and he was there. I spoke to him for 5 minutes. He's a good supporter of Israel. So listen to what he told me. The person who was most anti Israel and works for the council on Foreign relations is RICHARD N. HAASS. This idiot is a self hating Jew. Do you know anything about RICHARD N. HAASS.. He told me, he was the person directly U.S Policy in the Middle East even today. He also told me, when he was in the Bush Administration, 89 to 83, this guy Richard Haas was the Anti-Israel guy and was directing the policy. Jack Kemp is a high level source. He has identified Israel's top enemy in the CFR. I had planned to run a deep search on him but time doesn't permit me right now. So, maybe, someone else will. Another Villain - Now look at the following new item: New York Times News Service February 22, 2001 ROME -- Pope John Paul II on Wednesday installed 44 new cardinals in a ceremony combining pageantry with the purpose of molding the institution that will someday pick his successor. It was the largest single investiture of cardinals. After the cardinals recited an oath of fidelity to the pope and his successors, the pontiff received them one by one at his golden throne, handing them as they knelt before him the red biretta, a silken, square-ridged hat that symbolizes their rank as princes of the church. Pope John Paul has appointed 166 cardinals, more than any other pope. Only 10 of the 135 cardinals who are eligible to vote for the next pope were not appointed by him. Among the new elite were three American prelates: Cardinal Edward Egan, 68, of New York; Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, 70, of Washington; and Cardinal Avery Dulles, 82, a Jesuit theologian at Fordham University and son of U.S. statesman John Foster Dulles. Why should this be of interest to anyone interested in Israel's salvation? For those who read about the Dulles' plots against Israel in the Loftus/Arons book, The Secret War Against The Jews, the answer is clear. For those who haven't, permit me to quote from Christopher Simpson's book, The Splendid Blond Beast: "Allen Dulles exploited his post in the Office Of Strategic Services (OSS) to quash war crimes prosecutions of senior Nazi officials and German business leaders who cooperated with him in a series of clandestine schemes to secure US advantage in Central Europe...Meanwhile, John Foster Dulles helped forge consensus on Wall Street and in the Republican Party in favor of an ' internationalist' US foreign policy based on rebuilding the German economic elite into a renewed bulwark against revolution in Europe." Based on my reading of Phelps' Vatican Assassins and Saussy's Rulers Of Evil, I have accepted that it has been the Jesuit's 'Black Pope,' the real ruler of the Vatican, who is behind the Secret War Against The Jews. Unknown to most Jews, the papal appointment of the Jesuit Avery Dulles to American Cardinal is a poignant lesson in modern Jewish history. Shimon Peres - Peres fought like a cornered rat to drag his party into Sharon's government. He is well aware if he is out of power for even a day, he will not be able to control the Rabin murder truth from remaining concealed, nor his central role in the assassination. He knows it and Sharon knows it. What a thing to return to. |
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