NAMING THE YESHA SPIES

 By Barry Chamish chamish@netvision.net.il

Poor deluded Israelis believe that the current moment of justice, when the government actually has freed the army to arrest their murderers, is a lasting trend. They will soon learn that the Oslo game is just on brief hold and the real goal of intimidating the Jewish residents of Yesha from their homes is merely on the backburner.
Admittedly, the more perceptive see the signs. Two more Yesha rabbis have been murdered in the past month, Shapira and Dickstein, upping the total to about an even dozen in the past four years. And there is no denying that the murder of Rabbi Eliahu Shapira of Peduel wasn't random  terrorism. He was ambushed by a highly trained hit squad which possessed exact intelligence about his whereabouts.
And another Arab girls' school was bombed without deaths and again Jewish settler "extremists" were blamed. These same "extremists" blamed for similar school bombs in East Jerusalem and Tzur Bahr don't exist. They are the creation of a group of Shabak officers, working hand in hand with the CIA and PLO, to remove Israel and its citizens from Yesha. And guess who the Israeli behind the plot is? Read on:

CIA begins training Palestinian officers
By Amira Hass, Ha'aretz 17 September 2002

"A training course for Palestinian Authority security officers got underway yesterday in Jericho. The course is being run by a team of security experts from the Central Intelligence Agency, Jordan and Egypt, and is taking place at the Intercontinental Hotel in Jericho.
"'The session will be part of a training program with the goal of developing  the capabilities of the security services as part of the
reforms launched by  the Palestinian Authority," head of West Bank preventive security, Zuheir Manasra, said on Sunday.  The current course will last 20 days, after which, different groups will be  trained.
"Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat gave his approval to the  training, despite the fact that, according to Palestinian sources, Israel  prevented 100 Palestinian officers from taking part.
"According to Israeli sources, this is a very 'preliminary' stage of a U.S. plan to implement reforms in the Palestinian Authority. The program was developed by a CIA team that spent several weeks in the region and met with  senior Palestinian officials. Also involved in the plan were Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
"As part of the reforms within the Palestinian Authority, the foreign security experts are helping train Palestinian security services, which both  Israel and the United States accuse of not doing enough to prevent terror attacks against Israel.
Officers from the West Bank preventive security service, headed by Zuheir "Manasra, were present at yesterday's course, in addition to those of the  Gaza Strip General Intelligence, headed by Amin al-Hindi. Palestinian  policemen and firemen also took part.
"According to Rashid Abu Shabak, head of preventive security in the Gaza Strip, the U.S. guaranteed the training program would be carried out as planned, but did not impose upon Israel to let everyone participate. The ban on letting officers take part in the course is not a personal one, but rather aimed at certain organizations, such as the West Bank General Intelligence, headed by Tawfik Tirawi.
"While the Palestinian Authority position remains that Palestinians should be able to kill non-civilians for the time being, FM Peres praised the current training program run by the CIA, Egypt and others security services to improve the skills of PA security forces."
There you have it. Shimon Peres and CIA director George Tenet are once again buttressing the PLO and the victims of the training will be Yesha Jews.
The plot of the scenario is to once again prove to Israelis and the world that the Jews of Judea and Samaria are violent, irresponsible criminals whose biblical and historical claims to their homeland is forfeited by their murderous behavior. This, the plotters believe, can be achieved by fabricating violent acts and blaming them on selected "settlers." That requires agents planted in the Yesha Council and local councils providing exact intelligence on potential patsies.
So, let's short-circuit the devious operation by naming these agents, from excellent sources.
The first is a near legendary figure in the drama leading up to the Rabin assassination. His name is Nathan and he asked that I not publish his last name. It's a weak firewall since many readers will recognize him, but it's now up.
Less than a month before his murder, Rabin addressed a highly hostile group of a thousand English speakers at the Wingate Institute near Netanya. Before he made it to the podium, he was supposedly attacked by a religious settler with murderous intentions. The film of the attack was broadcast worldwide for days.
The attack was a fake forged by the Shabak, Israel's secret service. The attacker was either chosen at random or by mistake. That was Nathan, as he explains:
"I was standing with my seven year old son waiting to hear Rabin's speech when I was attacked and beaten senseless. Then I was dragged away."
Unfortunately for the Shabak, they chose the wrong sucker to blame for attacking Rabin. Nathan had been the chief Rabbi of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for seventeen years. When his hearing was held, even radical leftists like Nomi Chazan testified that he was neither violent, nor extremist in his views. All charges against him were quickly dismissed. Not that Israelis know that. What they remember is that a radical settler tried to harm Rabin  at the Wingate Institute, just before he was murdered.
"The Shabak officer who tackled and beat me was Yuval Schwartz. He dragged me away and his beatings continued until I was taken to jail. I was told by people who know him that it was lucky I survived. I admitted nothing to him because there was nothing to admit. I was just standing in the crowd with no malevolent intentions towards anyone, including Rabin. Even then I had the feeling that he was practising on me, seeing if he could get away with blaming an innocent person for attacking Rabin when he didn't. Now, I believe he was conducting a dry run for the Rabin murder."
Which has to be the right conclusion. Yuval Schwartz was the officer in charge of security for the November 4, 1995 rally where Rabin was murdered. However, he seemed far more concerned about Shimon Peres' security than Rabin's. The next two pictures were never published in the Israeli media, or any country's media. These are the first time they have been released. 

Attachment one is a photo of Schwartz, his head obscured by a policewoman, just as Peres has descended the stairs and entered the "sterile area," where all non-security personnel were supposedly forbidden entry. He is obviously guarding Peres' safety, but for how long?
Look at attachment two. Schwartz is now guarding Peres' rear. And that's where he stays until Rabin's murder; behind or beside Peres. And that's exactly where he was at the moment Rabin was shot. Moments before, the "amateur" film of the murder shows Schwartz conversing with Peres in front of Rabin's limousine. He had far more interest in the movements of Peres than the safety of the Prime Minister. That is mighty selective treatment by the Shabak's Head of Rally Security.
"When I was incarcerated, they placed three Shabak agents in my cell. Two have continued their work in Yesha since then. Everyone seems to think that Avishai Raviv was the only Shabak provocateur around. He's just the one who got caught because he wasn't very bright. The ones in my cell were a lot smarter and have escaped indictment so far. It's a matter of time.
"The less clever one was Sammy Ovadia. The Shabak recruited him because of embarrasing family activity. Later, after the Rabin murder, they planted him and his wife in Har Bracha. Today he lives in Netanya.
"The bright one was Ronen Bar Shira. He had been at the top of the settlement bureaucracy; he was the registrar of the Gush Emunim youth movement. Now that must have been really handy for the Shabak. I learned he was recruited over financial irregularities. The two of them tried to trick me into incriminating myself over Rabin, like asking me if I knew how many settlers were trying to murder him, but there was nothing for  them to find about me. But I found out who they were."
The next two informants' claims were vaguely confirmed by a non-committal resident of Neve Tzuf who admitted hearing the charges from other residents of the community. And I admit it is not as strong testimony as Nathan's but I will include it because it illustrates just how deeply the Shabak surveillance reaches: right to the religious leaders. With some reservations, here goes:

Informant one: We have a rabbi in Neve Tzuf named Jonathan. ( I have his last name which I will withhold...for now). He came from America as a spiritual leader. What his role is, is to implicate politically active people in scandal and ruin them in the community.
Two: We all think he was sent from America with a goal; to spread demoralization in the community.
One: One respected family man was drummed out after this Jonathan wrote a memo accusing him of molestation. The charges were trumped up but he still has enough influence to get away with deceit.
Two: He's working at tearing us apart and even these claims against him are tearing us apart.
 And that's part of the plan to remove the Jews from Yesha. Their rabbis and political leaders will be accused of crimes they didn't commit, dissension will spread and if that doesn't work, Peres and Tenet's CIA-trained hit squads will permanently eliminate the stubborn troublemakers.

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The first Hebrew language video of the truth of the Rabin murder is now released. It is a compilation of my two previous speeches at the Windmill Hotel Rabin Assassination conferences, along with professionally edited commentary. It is a first rate product, ideal for waking up
 skeptical Israelis. Included in the two hours of video proof, are the amateur assassination film, filmed testimonies of eye-witnesses, and Shimon Peres truthfully describing the murder to PBS. Additionally, 15 once highly restricted documents are included to accompany the filmed explanations.
 This is a fast-moving, entertaining tool that will force the blindest Israeli to see. Oh yes, it wasn't cheap to produce and it costs 50 shekels. If that seems reasonable to you, write me and a copy will be mailed to you.

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For those who wrote, and even phoned, to inform me that Natan Gefen was slandering me on Israeli internet forums, thank you. It was distressing to read how low he has sunk. Gefen was a pioneer of Rabin murder research and without his early work, our knowledge of the event would be much poorer. And I have never hesitated to give him all the credit he deserved in my writings.
 But he has not publicly released a new piece of evidence in over five years. On two occasions when he did stumble on vital proofs, he chose to try and sell them to the highest bidder. Sadly for him, such bidders did not exist to make his fortune.
From what he wrote about me I can only conclude that he has become a petty, jealous, picayune ant. It's too bad but he has been irrelevant for  five years anyway.

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THIRD ROOT & BRANCH ASSOCIATION JERUSALEM CONFERENCE ON THE RABIN ASSASSINATION (Hebrew) Wednesday, October 16, 4:00-11:00 P.M., Windmill Hotel, 3 Mendele Street, Jerusalem, NIS 30 admission per person

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THIRD ROOT & BRANCH ASSOCIATION JERUSALEM CONFERENCE ON THE RABIN ASSASSINATION (English) Thursday, October 17, 4:00-11:00 P.M., Windmill Hotel, 3 Mendele Street, Jerusalem, NIS 30 admission per person contact rb@rb.org.il to reserve places