- I asked you not to vote. But only a third agreed. So
here is what is being connived for you wasting your time: The "nationalist"
camp won 65 seats, while the
- "moderate" camp won 55 seats, including 11
Arab parties. The Jews swamped the "peace" camp. But that camp
had one party that got the most votes, Kadima, and the nation's president,
Shimon "the Pieman" Peres, comes from Kadima. So, although the
nationalist leader Binyamin Netanyahu could put together a government in
a matter of days, the "moderate" leader Tzipi Livni will get
the first shot at government-building by Peres. It's going to take a pile
of bribery and blackmail but she's going to cobble together a coalition
including Yisrael Beitenu, Shas, Labor, and get ready, if the fight becomes
deadly enough, even their true ideological partner, the Likud.
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- Sounds bizarre, the loser becomes the winner? It's nothing.
I was on court, front and center, for the rigging of the 1996 Israeli elections
by Netanyahu. Now follow closely, I rarely have the opportunity to be nostalgic.
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- On April 3, 1997, I was supposed to lecture at Hebrew
University on Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin, organized by my still formidable
friend, Brian Bunn. As it turned out, the Labor Party led by Knesset member
Eitan Cabel, and the secret service, Shabak, organized a violent rally
against me that turned me into front page news. The intent was to humiliate
me, the result was to start my new career as a political crimes writer.
Not that I'm thanking them. They didn't mean to and it's an insecure life.
Not that there aren't rewards, like you reading this.
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- The morning after the riot, I received a phone call from
Yaacov Mor. He introduced himself as, "The economist for the Minister
of Welfare And Social Affairs, Eli Yishai." Today Yishai is the leader
of the Shas Party. Mor continued, "But I previously worked for the
Shabak. What I want to know is what you have that made the Shabak try to
bury you."
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- So, I invited Mor to my home to see my evidence. Back
then I had some 80 documents, not the 2500 I ended up with, but they were
devastating in proving Yigal Amir did not shoot Rabin. I had the police
ballistics results showing that Rabin was shot at point blank, something
Amir could not have physically done, and I had the hospital reports declaring
that Rabin was shot 3 times, and once from the front, neither of which
Amir was responsible for.
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- Yaacov was a naturally sympathetic fellow, and without
hesitation I handed him my evidence collection, which he read in silence
over the next half hour. When he finished, he put his right index finger
vertically over his lips and used his left hand to guide me outside. When
we reached the street, he said, "I'm not talking in your house. You
have to be thoroughly bugged. Do you know those documents are authentic?"
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- I said I did.
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- "Then why didn't you get a job in Nepal or have
an 'accident?' Do you know how high up this murder had to go?"
- I answered that I did know how high up it had to go.
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- "I'll tell my Minister what I saw and I'm sure he'll
contact you."
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- The next morning Eli Yishai's secretary called me. "Minister
Yishai would like to have your documents and in return, will give you the
most important story of the Rabin assassination. Do you agree?"
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- Indeed I did. In fact, I would have given the documents
anyway, that's how much I still believed in the inherent honesty of the
political system. That would change for good in the next two days.
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- Bright and chipper, Yaacov picked me up for the cheery
ride to building Kirya 3, opposite the Knesset, and home to Eli Yishai's
office. I made a little error, giving my documents to the secretary before
I closed the deal. She guided me into a small office, closed the door,
and I heard a vigorous conversation in the hall outside. Finally, the Shas
Spokesman, Yisrael Sudri, then 24 or so, and today I believe he holds the
same job, came in, shut the door behind him and sat down.
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- "The Minister could not attend the meeting,"
he announced, "But he wants you to know that he backs every claim
I will make."
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- A bit of a comedown but I accepted the arrangement, like
I really had a choice.
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- "It's about the 1996 elections...Netanyahu didn't
win. Peres won by 3% just like all the polls had it. But the Likud had
documents, and we think you've collected some of them. We're sure of it,
actually. In February of '96, the leaders of the Likud met the leaders
of Labor for a frank discussion of the elections. The Likud presented the
documents, then someone, we think Netanyahu, held a few in his hand and
said, 'If you bring up the name of Yitzhak Rabin even once in your campaign,
we'll release these to the media." Netanyahu lifted another bundle
of documents and said, 'If Peres wins our tv debate, we'll release these."
Finally, he takes all the documents and says, "And if Peres wins the
elections, we'll release them all."
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- "Now, I don't have to remind you that Rabin's name
was not mentioned once in Labor's campaign and that Peres looked like a
scary monster on the tv debate. But how could the election results be faked?
We are going to leave you the name and phone number of a Tel Aviv law school
PhD candidate. His thesis is on the '96 elections. He'll tell you."
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- I arranged to meet the PhD lawyer-to-be at a very empty
and remote Tel Aviv restaurant. We sat in the remotest table and he made
his voice inaudible at a range of five meters, in fact he almost whispered
the whole meeting. It turns out, it didn't help.
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- "This Labor-Likud partnership destroyed over 160,000
votes for Peres, and replaced them with spoiled ballots."
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- Back to the present. That's almost 5% of the vote spoiled.
In the 2000 elections, there was a highly publicized campaign to deliberately
spoil votes as a protest, and 'only' 61,000 were spoiled.
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- "Think back to the election night. Peres is declared
the winner by all the polls but refused to address and thank his crowd
in Tel Aviv. But at midnight, a smiling Netanyahu addressed a half empty
rally in Jerusalem promising them that by morning he will be Prime Minister.
Then at 2 AM, the revolution in vote change appears out of nowhere. By
the morning, Netanyahu wins. He knew the results were fixed."
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- I added an obvious thought. "So the Likud's documents
proved Peres murdered Rabin?"
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- He gazed at the table and answered, "Is there another
possibility?"
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- The lawyer-to-be added, "I trust you. I have strong
proof that the vote destruction was organized by Interior Minister Chaim
Ramon. Contact me tomorrow and we'll meet again to see my thesis."
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- The next day, he called me. "I got a phone call.
We can't meet." I asked, "Do you mean today?" He replied,
"I mean ever." He banged down for good and I don't recall his
name.
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- But I told his story to audiences whenever I felt it
was appropriate. The usual reaction was, "So why didn't Netanyahu
use the documents to get rid of Peres and Labor for good?" The answer
is Labor and Peres have enough information on Netanyahu to have made this
a one election deal. That'll do until and if the whole story is ever told
by someone who was there.
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- Then, in Bet Shemesh in 2001, I told the story to a crowd
of over 80 and one response hit the jackpot. The man added, "I was
an election poll supervisor and when the polls closed, we took votes for
Peres out of the boxes and burnt them out back. We replaced them with spoiled
votes and resealed the boxes. I never understood who allowed this to happen,
but I didn't want Peres elected so I played ball."
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- As for story back-up, my Bet Shemesh organizer was David
Morris. Another 80 people heard the truth about this man's polling station
at the lecture. As for Sudri, I chose to expose him after he appeared at
Peres' 80th birthday bash. I was protesting outside when he appeared. I
told him, "How could you celebrate Peres? I know what you told me?"
He walked by, then turned around and shouted, "You're ruining
the country."
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- So when I suggest that voting props up a political system
run by murderers and their aiders and abetters, recall that as Shimon Peres
gives Tzipi Livni the nod to form a coalition including Eli Yishai's Shas
Party. But if Netanyahu is somehow given the first shot, recall that he
still holds the big cards on Peres.
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- 'Judea, Samaria and the 'peace' process.' If you like
it, write me for my complete DVD collection, all eight of them. Just make
a fair offer.
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- pt 1 ~ http://blip.tv/file/1689803
- pt 2 ~ http://blip.tv/file/1691549
- pt 3 ~ http://blip.tv/file/1692673
- pt 4 ~ http://blip.tv/file/1694615
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- Watch me at:
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- http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E9A044AE24067CBA&playnext=1
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- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3557853190547322236
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- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7088685722391870150&q=c
hamish&total=58&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=7
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- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBt-LxzXllA
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- Readers really like the other service I provide; supplying
alternative articles sent to me. I'm now sending over 200 e-mail pages
a week, which can be read or discarded. I think, by reaction, that most
are actually read. Providing the service means putting a couple of hours
into these letters, organizing them and getting them to you almost daily.
I'll commit myself to six months of work in this experimental period. One
reaction of many: "You're opening a world I didn't know existed. It's
useful but awful."
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- You decide what it's worth.
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- Barry Chamish
- POB 840157
- Saint Augustine, FL 32080
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- Paypal: chamishba@gmail.com
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- Let it be said that I accurately predicted this war in
my book Bye Bye Gaza. http://www.lulu.com/content/575116
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