There are many gaps in the story of Rabin's assassination. But we can reliably fill them from the context. Israeli ruling establishment has a history of political assassinations, including Arlozoroff, the Season, and most likely the Kahanes and Zeevi. Assassinating Rabin won't be outrageous. The establishment also has a documented history of blatant disregard for the law, such as Beilin-Peres negotiations with the PLO in Cairo before Rabin's elections. Beilin and Peres are heavily invested in the peace process, and one more "victim of the peace process" was not a high price for them to pay. Both hated Rabin and numbered many grievances against him.
The two conspiracies were running concurrently. One was a normal Shin-Bet's provocation against the right wing, in line with the subsequent framing of Goldstein, the purported Kahane Chai's planning of the attack on Arab school, etc. Shin-Bet's agent Champagne worked in Hebron for years, and Yigal Amir was just one of his targets. Shin-Bet aimed at framing the right, not killing Rabin. So Amir, unknown to himself, was shooting blanks at Rabin. Shin-Bet infiltrated Amir into the sterile area of the highest security and warned the guards to stay away from Rabin to give Amir clear shot. That much we see on the video: Rabin's guards step when Amir draws his gun. Subsequently, the shouts are heard, "It's blanks!" The shooting was theatrically staged after the immense peace show. It was planned in the sterile area rather than in the square so that no one stops Amir. Shin Bet, accordingly, placed video operators near the scene to have evidence against Amir, thus the Kempler's video. To retain credibility, the video has to be amateurish. Rabin was likely aware of the plot because on the video he looks at Amir seemingly quietly, without gesticulation. The Shin-Bet's plot was going on for years. Champagne spent much time with Amir and conservatives.
A big change came about shortly before the peace rally. Rabin publicly refused the concessions to Arabs and called for annexing the West Bank. It seems that he entered one of his hysterical mood swings. It became paramount for the Peres-Beilin group to get rid of Rabin. Planning the removal of Rabin - at that stage, not necessarily by murder - they came to know of Shin-Bet's provocation plot, an insignificant operation among many similar ones. At that point, Peres or Beilin instructed Shin-Bet to move fast forward with the fake assassination, but also planned a follow-up: the real assassination of Rabin in his car. Although Shin-Bet was profoundly leftist and both Peres and Beilin had many appointees there, the security service undoubtedly knew nothing of the planned real assassination. Rabin was probably killed by a guard who worked for Peres. Rabin's own guard was killed in the ensuing skirmish, and honorably buried a few days later after "committing suicide."
Now Shin-Bet realized that the Peres-Beilin group framed it. The secret of Champagne could not be kept for long and as soon as it came out, Shin-Bet was implicated in Rabin's murder. That's no small thing: a Shin-Bet agent convinced a right-winger to shoot Rabin. That smacks of a putsch. So Shin-Bet released the Kempler video to prove that Amir didn't kill Rabin. Shin-Bet didn't want to take a crash course with Peres and Beilin, and didn't dispute the official version of Amir assassinating Rabin, but secured its own back by proving that Amir didn't kill Rabin.
Read more http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/6944.htm and http://www.zoa.org/2007/10/israeli_foreign_2.htm
Shimon Peres came to power over Rabin's dead body.
Thanks for the info, Danny.
I like how they call Igal Amir an "Ultranationalist", because he opposes giving land for 'peace'. Newspeak absurdities tend to get more ridiculously amusing with time.
i think any leader that betrayed israel the way rabin and sharon has done it will have a consequences, i dont justify the killing of any state leader but the leader that puts israel in such jeopardy will loose its position.amir became a reaction of such cosequence.
Why won't you justify killing an evil leader? Hitler? Peres?
Actually, Rabin didn't agree to betraying Israel. The conspiracy theory supporters bring that as a possible reason for his assassination.
Even a high-ranking leader can make mistakes, and can be deceived. It is easier to believe they are all-knowing, and that everything they did was with a clear intention, but that is not always the case.
The information itself is highly disturbing. Even if the allegations will be proven, the wheel cannot be turned backwards.
You have got it mostly correct. But, Yigal Amir was and is a government employee. It is very important for Yigal Amir to be known as "right wing" so that when he comes out of jail that he should have friends, community, etc.
Regarding who gave the order, etc. We know that Rabin walked into the car healthy and went to the emergency room with a bullet to the chest.
You are probably correct about Shimon Peres but it is speculation.
some Israelis are reluctant to discuss such matters/theories — isn't it against the law in Israel to "falsely accuse" a public figure -like a slender ? especially if it's all powerful Shimon Peres? over the murder — did Shimon Peres gain anything, Beilin/Burg? or they miscalculated?
Danny, Rabin and Peres and who ? Hitler?? please …
Whatever Rabin did, it didn't change the reality of Arabs and Israelis, and any successor just continued in line — whatever agreements, if they are so bad, have Knesset to vote and reject them, have a referendum,
if not rejected, then it's the voice of the people,
if Rabin was so bad, you give him too much credit, his successors could nullify anything he did… instead they continued the peace process - land for peace demagogue– no matter what affiliation, and so far it seems the more detrimental to *palestinian* cause than alternatives (kill em all/exile em all), as now accepted by world media
if he was not killed and instead retired into some Negev kibbutz, would you advocate to execute him in his retirement? that's stupid
Rabin, when executed, was not retired, but a prime minister who refused to repeal Oslo. Execute him in the retirement? Most certainly. That's the crime of "musar," a Jew who cooperates with Gentiles in such a way as to endanger the Jews, even if unwittingly.
Is this a site for escapees from a funny farm?There were so many baseless assertions in the essay,which made me wonder if the are any neo nazi provocatuers out there who wish to besmirch the name of Jews who follow Hillel's dictums.It shames me as a jew and an Israeli citizen to read ignorant rubbish from people who never served a day in the Israel Defence Forces.I speak as a former N.C.O,armoured infantry in the I.D.F You may talk until the cows come home about Rabin being a traitor and "firing on survivors of the Altelana"(a lie)but let's see all of you becoming Israeli permanent residents and serving as officers in elite fighting units,as Rabin and Barak did.Was Julius Caesar also wasted by shabak agents?
Keith: most of us here live in Israel.
The only fact you dispute is that Rabin was commanding the shooting at Altalena. That's a well-established fact; Rabin famously bragged about it at a diplomatic reception in Washington. Do you have any argument to the contrary?
What does all of that has to do with Hillel? "Do no harm to your neighbor?" Hillel also told to the ignoramus, "Now go and study!" You may want to consider that latter part. It is a Jewish law to kill those who endanger Jewish community; Oslo Agreements definitely endangered Jews as there were more casualties since Oslo than in the Yom Kippur war.
Hey Danny,
I am coming out with a book about this whole experience in exposing the rabin fraud thru web sites and internet search engine. There is a twist in the book that may propel the book to international best seller status. Hopefully, you will be on board from the beginning..Cuz, it is the winning techniques that win. The other side is not too strong.. They just got lucky that leaders on our side are a bit timid.. and not so smart.