| by Barry Chamish
13 Nov 2005
Saturday Evening, November 12, 2005, Tel Aviv
- 100,000 gather at the annual Yitzhak Rabin official memorial
ceremony for YitzhakRabin. Included were me and twelve of the
bravest and best Jews Israel has to offer. Here's how we got there:
In late September, I vowed to gather people to come to the ceremony
with signs demanding the Yitzhak Rabin truth. The call to gather
was made more urgent by the promised appearance of the disgraced
ex-president Bill Clinton. By mid-October the Committee To Reinvestigate
The Yitzhak Rabin Assassination was on board and two meetings
were held to plan the rally. It was decided that preceding the
rally, they would hold a press conference, with all members and
me speaking for five minutes and then all taking questions.
I prepared myself for the fiasco.
As I expected, you couldn't get any of the speakers off the platform
with a hook for forty minutes each. When my turn finally came,
I announced the rally and got off the mike in five minutes. Then
I got out of the place, or at least I planned to until who walked
in but Yigal Amir's sister
Hadas, phoney wife Larissa and their Shabak tagalong named
Nachum.
So I spent a little time watching and talking to the official
Amir gang. What was clear was they had no intention of ever freeing
Yigal Amir. There was no family desperation to liberate an innocent
brother or husband. So I told them off for their ingratitude and
got out of the ugly atmosphere pronto.
Once I had left, the tagalong took the mike to explain what a
dangerous Shabak agent I was. Then the "wife" announced
that she would have nothing to do with anyone who considered Shimon
Peres a suspect in the murder.
I was told that sealed their fate for almost everyone in the room.
The Amir family is doing the Shabak's bidding. Like I didn't know
that anyway.
This was a press conference with almost no press and it had nothing
to do with organizing a presence at the memorial rally. And in
fact, only one member of this committee even showed up at the
rally and he left after half an hour, once the dirty work began.
The real planning of the rally belonged to me and Tova Rubin.
I wrote and she printed 6,000 flyers asking relevant questions
about the murder in Hebrew and English. I brought a five foot
long sign asking Who Really Murdered Yitzhak Rabin in both languages
and wore my tee-shirt with the same message.
Now add the twelve best Jews in Israel and we really rocked the
place.
Stage one - We handed out the flyers to the tens of thousands
of rally goers coming at us up Ibn Gvirol Street. Most took mine
and read them. Three threw them back in my face. And one called
the police to stop us. Fortunately for us, Attorney Dov Even-Or
had arranged a city permit to be there and he was nearby to scare
the cops away. We were free.
Stage two - When the traffic thinned out and the proceedings began
we began parading. We proudly walked with my sign, two of the
men brought their own signs and I was wearing my shirt. It was
too crowded to get to the front of the gathering but we found
our perfect spot, under the screen where the ceremony was being
projected. Facing several thousand rally-goers we stood firm and
proud.
Then Peres began his speech and I took out a horn to blast his
words away. I was politely warned that this went too far and desisted.
Another in our group but a hundred yards away, David Rutstein,
apparently didn't take the warnings and was manhandled to the
ground by the police and briefly arrested.
When the despicable Clinton began his speech, I booed long and
loud. This led to a ruckus. We were surrounded by a pretty angry
crowd and lots of cameras. The star of this moment was a tiny
Haredi lady named Reena, who stood her ground like a tiger.
After that, we were followed by the cameras wherever we went.
When the rally ended, we stood on the raised traffic island as
the proudest group in Tel Aviv and let 50,000 passers-by see our
message.
We brought the truth to the lion's den and the negative cost was
low. Twice the sign was ripped from our hands, and twice we fought
to get it back. But now, consider the plusses:
The next day, the IDF radio station broadcast our activities and
then interviewed Yitzhak Rabin's daughter Dahlia. She admitted
that she also was dissatisfied with the official version of her
father's death and wanted answers.
Then the popular Tel Aviv station FM103 reported our work and
interviewed a political scientist who concluded that because Yitzhak
Rabin's murder was political, we had every right to be at the
memorial service doing what we felt was right. The station was
then barraged with faxes and e-mails commenting on his controversial
conclusion.
We didn't make world news as we had hoped and as we would have
if only another hundred people had joined us. But we accomplished
something undefinable and after the ceremony was over, six of
us sat together at a Tel Aviv pub to figure out what happened
that night. Here are some of the notes I quickly took:
- Far, far more people read our flyers and politely ask to know
more than resisted them. When I spoke to the young people who
wanted to know what I meant by Who Murdered YitzhakRabin, I saw
the same faces as the settler youths who had asked the same question
at their rallies. The difference between these kids is really
minimal.
- The only people who violently opposed us were old men. And there
weren't many of them. If there were 100,000 people at the rally,
easily half were wearing uniforms of the Scouts or political youth
movements. If these groups hadn't been organized to come en masse,
there would have been almost no one in that square mourning Yitzhak
Rabin.
- And I was a hero to dozens of those kids, Peace Now included,
who saw me recently on television and had read my books. And these
kids, yes Peace Now as well, helped us all night long by explaining
our cause to those who didn't understand it. And by the way, the
press photographers took rolls of film of this magical encounter
without being able to explain it to themselves.
- But as for the leaders of these kids...Here's Noar Avoda at
work. To stop us from distributing the flyers, two Labor Youth
leaders volunteered to distribute them. After wasting a few hundred
we figured out they were ending up in the bins. So the next generation
of Labour is already being prepared for lying and deceit. Anything
for the right cause.
- And who should pass by me but Yitzhak Rabin's Health Minister,
Ephraim Sneh. "Hey Sneh," I shouted to him. "Was
it two bullets or three?" He knew what I meant. Bet he didn't
expect me there to ask. He thought he was in hallowed territory,
protected from Israel.
- And, just like any other rally, I met people who admired my
work and passed on information. One young man proudly showed me
where I mentioned him in my Yitzhak Rabin book. Amir knew him
from school and ran to the other entrance of the sterile zone
when he saw him. He noted that he had a tiny role in history.
Another Laborite in his fifties told me, "You don't know
what you did in the last two weeks. Peres was thrown out of leadership
because of the suspicions that he murdered Yitzhak Rabin. I know
people who switched to Peretz just to get rid of the murderer."
The lion's den was filled with my people and most were good.
All they needed were a few facts leading to an awakening. And
the twelve of us provided it to tens of thousands of our people.
Of the twelve, two were over sixty, and three were middle-aged
women.
Now, let us ask where everyone else was.
Where was the Committee To Reinvestigate The Yitzhak Rabin Assassination?
Weren't they taking credit for planning this counter-event? And
where were the other Yitzhak Rabin investigators and writers?
It turns out it's much easier to be brave behind a computer screen.
And where were the fine people of Kedumim who I spoke to just
a week earlier and told them this was a way to save your homes.
I guess they really want to be uprooted without a fight.
And where were the Gush Katif activists? They had a chance to
arrive en masse and show the world what was done to them. But
they were far too busy having their winter coats stolen from them
by the Shabak and gathering in Jerusalem to talk to themselves
in an auditorium to take real action. And that goes for all the
right/religious protest leaders. It struck us all at that Tel
Aviv pub, that they are all too cowardly to face the Israeli left.
They are actually afraid of confronting scary groups of teenage
leftists and a few angry old men.
And that is why they are losing.
end
Monday, Nov. 14, 2:30 PM, at Mount Herzl, is Yitzhak Rabin's religious
memorial ceremony. You might want to show up to make restitution.
On November 15-16, Israel's worst enemies; James Wolfensohn,
Javier Solana, Abu Mazen et all will be gathering in Netanya to
praise Yitzhak Rabin and plan our demise. Don't let them soil
our land. To join the Netanya protest call Tova 09 8847542. Remember,
Bullhorns while wearing Tshirts stating that Shimon Peres ordered
the murder of Yitzhak Rabin seems to do the trick. The worst thing
that can happen is that you will be arrested for an hour and released.
Simply tell the police that you love Yitzhak Rabin and want Shimon
Peres arrested for his murder. Try to get arested when the cameras
are around.
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