|
by Barry Chamish: written July,
04 1999
Tuesday, July 6 was
supposed to be the first day
provocateur Avishai Raviv's trial
for not preventing the murder of Yitzhak Rabin. The truthseekers of
Israel were ready and thanks to radio and newspaper articles by Adir
Zik and Nadia Matar, hundreds were planning to attend as witnesses.
So the plotters cancelled the trial and rescheduled it for September
first, same place, Jerusalem Bet Mishpat Shalom, same time 8:30 AM.
Those protecting Avishai Raviv and the murderers of Yitzhak Rabin think they can outmanoeuvre
and wear down those Israelis who want the truth of Yitzhak Rabin's demise revealed.
They are wrong. The issue of Yitzhak Rabin's murder and Avishai Raviv's role in it will
never go away until all the questions are answered.
Every time those in charge of the coverup pull one of their stunts,
I will release more sensitive information that I have previously held
back because I lacked the full story. Last month, right after Tel Aviv
Police closed the complaint jointly signed by twenty citizens on March
10 to reexamine vital evidence and, essentially, reopen the Yitzhak Rabin murder
investigation, I released the hint: Shimon Peres, France. I did not elaborate.
A French Jewish journalist published an accusation that Mitterand advised
Shimon Peres about his own staged assassination plot early in his career and
that Shimon Peres was more than merely fascinated by the details. The journalist
noted that Shabak chief Carmi Gillon was in Paris the night of the assassination,
he believed, receiving post-murder intelligence commands. The newspaper
which printed the story came under such heavy attack that the journalist
suspects he hit the scenario on the head.
Since I was missing complete documentation, I did not include this episode
in my book Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin. However, I believe the French
Connection to Yitzhak Rabin's murder is real and that if Carmi Gillon wishes
that it wasn't, he had better, once and for all, explain what he was
doing in Paris on the night of Yitzhak Rabin's murder.
In the wake of Avishai Raviv's trial cancellation, I'm angry again.
This time I will release the bizarre army and personal records of Yoram
Rubin, Yitzhak Rabin's personal bodyguard, whose lies to the police,
Shamgar Commission and the judges at Yigal Amir's trial I recorded in
great detail in my book, and by process of elimination of those who
were in Yitzhak Rabin's car for his final journey, is considered the
prime murder suspect by many of my readers.
I received Yoram Rubin's army records from a soldier and patriot.
I can say no more. He explained, "I've never seen a military career
like it. Nothing matches his later career as Yitzhak Rabin's personal
bodyguard. Such a position requires an altruistic and courageous personality;
someone trustworthy who is willing to put another person's life first
for an average salary. Yoram Rubin's file describes someone else, whose life
should have sent alarm bells ringing in the Shabak."
The Secret IDF File On Yoram Rubin
From 23/11/83 to 10/04/84, Yoram Rubin began his military career in
a combat soldiers' course, eventually achieving the rank of Master Sargent.
On 24/4/85 he was made commander of a riflery squad, not a high ranking
position, nonetheless a proud achievement.
Then on 24/4/86, he was suddenly demoted to truck driver, a position
he retained until after the Yitzhak Rabin assassination when on 26/3/97, he
was reinstated as an infantryman.
This is part one of Yoram Rubin's career that doesn't make sense to my informant,
as he explains: "Yoram Rubin must have done something incredibly wrong,
though whatever it was is not in his official record. No infantry squad
commander would voluntarily switch to truck driver. It's the lowliest
and dirtiest position in the army and most of the drivers have names
like Peretz and Abutbul, not Yoram Rubin.
"But that's not the real problem. No truck driver is going to become
the prime minister's personal bodyguard. That doesn't ever happen, even
in something like Yoram Rubin's case, where he had a lot of family pull in
the security world. An infantry sargent demoted to truck driver would
never be considered for such a sensitive post."
Part two of Yoram Rubin's story feels far more sinister. From March 1994 to
April 1995, while Yoram Rubin was a truck driver in the Reserves, and Yitzhak Rabin's
personal bodyguard in civilian life, he began taking unexplainable trips
abroad. On 3/4/94 Yitzhak Rabin took a three day trip out of Israel, returning
on the 6th. Then four days later, on the 10th, he took a two day trip,
returning on the 12th. He took a four day trip from 22-26/8/94 and finally,
from 14-16/3/95, he took a two day journey. This was his last trip abroad
until Yitzhak Rabin's assassination six months later. But after Yitzhak Rabin's death,
the trips began again, as we shall see.
The informant asked me to do a bit of investigating for him. He noted,
"Very few Israelis can afford the luxury of a two or three day
trip, let alone two of them in a week. This is nearly out of the question
for someone on a bodyguard's salary. I have discussed this with a few
trusted friends and we came to the conclusion that as Yitzhak Rabin's bodyguard,
he accompanied him on foreign trips. But we don't know this for a fact.
We'd appreciate if you could find Yitzhak Rabin's itinerary for these dates.
If Yitzhak Rabin was out of the country, fine, Yoram Rubin has an explanation. If
not, he should be made to give one."
This bit of research was a piece of cake. While Yoram Rubin embarked on his
first voyage, Yitzhak Rabin was testifying at the Shamgar Commission Inquiry
into the Hebron massacre. During Yoram Rubin's second trip, Yitzhak Rabin was in Tel
Aviv addressing the Histadrut convention. During the third Yoram Rubin trip,
Yitzhak Rabin was in Jerusalem cancelling a planned meeting with the Meretz
caucus. And while Yoram Rubin was abroad for his fourth and final trip prior
to the assassination, Yitzhak Rabin was giving a major speech to the Knesset,
condemning Islamic terror in unbridled language.
Yoram Rubin took his mini-trips on business unrelated to guarding Yitzhak Rabin. On
hearing my results, the informant said, "I thought so but I had
to be sure. Whatever these trips were for, and they were not weekend
vacations, why did they stop six months before the assassination and
start again right after?
"My colleagues tried to come up with any and every explanation.
Maybe he had a gambling problem and took three day gambling junkets?
If so, why did he kick his addiction for six months and start again?
Why would the secret service employ a gambling junkie to guard the prime
minister in the first place? Did he have a lover abroad? Why fly to
her twice in a week instead of just staying a week? Nothing worked.
These flights form an abnormal pattern for a bodyguard, in fact for
nearly everyone. He obviously wasn't paying for them, so who was?"
And now part three of the mystery of Yoram Rubin's life: the Shimon Peres continuation.
After the assassination Yoram Rubin utterly lied to the Shamgar Commission
of Inquiry into the Yitzhak Rabin Assassination. ( It seems Chief Justice Meir
Shamgar gets to preside over all the juicy coverups). He testified that
after the first of Amir's shots, he pounced on Yitzhak Rabin. The amateur film
of the event proves he did nothing of the kind. The same for his testimony
that Yitzhak Rabin helped him get up and the two of them jumped into the limousine.
Yoram Rubin blundered just as badly on his supposed wound. He insisted that
Amir shot him from above and that the bullet travelled from the elbow
to the armpit horizontally, a ballistic impossibility. But Shamgar accepted
every one of his lies, thus providing the basis for the coverup of the
Yitzhak Rabin assassination.
Undoubtedly the Shabak and its Secret Service division, were well aware
of Yoram Rubin's lies: so why did they immediately assign him to be the new
prime minister Shimon Peres' personal bodyguard? And why would Shimon Peres
be insane enough to trust the bodyguard who bungled away the life of
his predecessor? And why did Yoram Rubin's trips start again? He took his
first in nine months from the 5th to the 12th of January 1996, as the
Shamgar Commission was preparing its deliberations. It was the first
of 16 such journeys abroad from then until the IDF records stop on 28/5/98.
The trips now were more frequent, 16 in two years and five months and
bit longer, averaging 5-6 days in duration.
The informant notes, "Yoram Rubin had travel expenses rivalling the wealthiest
businessmen in the country. Do you think it makes any sense for a civil
servant in a sensitive security detail to be a jet-setter? I'll tell
you what my people think: we believe he was receiving and depositing
money for services rendered and for keeping quiet. And that's why we
think Shimon Peres took him on as his personal bodyguard without hesitation.
That's what we think." I will present Yoram Rubin's IDF records to anyone
who wishes to see them.
end
|
