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June 26 - I Must Explain. |
Hello my wonderful correspondents; I've had WAY too many complaints about my previous posting; remember, the one with the long indictment against Peres by a Cambridge legal organization? I thought I made it clear that I viewed the document more humorously than anything else. The joke was that the British elite couldn't care less about left/right, Sharon or Peres, they just plain hate Israel. I didn't think any one would take their contorted brief seriously, but people did. And people even thought I wrote it. Of course, I didn't. I was exposing the British elite's mentality towards Israel through it. But I guess I just didn't make my point well. Okay, I'm sorry to all who misunderstood my intentions. There is a plus side to all this; it seems a lot of far leftists read the brief and it has deeply tarnished Peres' image in their eyes. I can only make it up to you my usual way; with a balancing article. This time it's NOT by me. It's by the respected novelist and commentator Gary Showalter. Allow me to stress, this time, no mixups, I am not responsible for its contents. But unlike last time, I DO support them. And as long as we're here, why don't we update the information that has come in this week; - The Versailles Ballroom Collapse: After a month, no commission of inquiry has been formed. The families of the victims are shouting coverup. On the day of the memorial ceremony for the dead wedding party, a roof collapsed in an Ashkelon school. This time, the building was almost empty but the timing of the potential disaster was eery. Why? Because the Versailles collapse makes no engineering sense. This was not an entire building which gave way to pressure, only the central floor caved in on the fourth level. So why didn't the floor on the third level stop the falling people and debris? Or why not the 2nd storey floor, or even the first? Why did everything and everyone fall to the very foundations of the building? The authorities are blaming the Pal-Cal flooring system when it has never collapsed before. But that excuse is crumbling as fast as the dance hall floor in the wake of one question: one floor may collapse under the weight of the wedding guests but how do FOUR floors give in one after another? Unless there is a logical engineering answer to be found, the issue of sabotage is going to take over. - The story of the Shabak's closing of the Haredi newspaper Kol Ha'ir before it was to publish the names of two of Rabin's murdered bodyguards continues to expand. Previous to the closure, one Amnon Noibach visited the publisher and warned him to lay off Peres. The publisher, Asher Zuckerman refused and the paper's backer was mortally threatened. He backed out of his commitments and Kol Hashavuah closed down for a month. During that time, Noibach, whose daughter is Israel Channel One news reporter Karen Noibach, raised over a million dollars to found a rival, less politically dangerous haredi newspaper, Mishpacha. To buy his silence over his filming of Shabak inciter Avishai Raviv's criminal activities, a policeman, Yehuda Miller, was given an enjoyable job as the new paper's photographer. - A very interesting response to my recent posting about Avraham Burg's trip to Washington and the anticipated CFR funds about to come his way to make a run for top office: The informant reports, "When Burg was head of the Jewish Agency, a frightening policy change took place: the Russian offices eliminated scrutiny and permitted anybody who applied to immigrate to Israel to move there. We didn't understand what he was doing letting in organized crime, white slavers, and alcoholics who had no Jewish ties at all. Some of the immigrants were real Jew haters. Now we believe his policy was purposeful and its intent was to dilute the Jewish character of Israel through mass immigration of very shady gentiles." - I'm being harassed and it's heating up. Two months ago, the Income Tax Authority placed liens on my house and car, claiming I owed $80,000 in back taxes. At great expense, I hired an accountant who found serious discrepancies and pleaded my case to them. They eliminated the principle but insist that I pay fines totally $3,500. The fight goes on. Yesterday I had two more injustices thrown at me. The City Of Jerusalem sent a messenger, whom my wife insists tried to sneak into the house, with a note threatening to cut off my water and abscond with my property unless I pay a bill on a property I sold in 1990. That's right, eleven years ago. Of course I could not legally have sold the property unless all bills to the municipality were paid off in the first place. One clerk told me by phone that she'd never seen anything like this before. She added that if I was being billed after eleven years, then someone had to look specifically for me deep in the city computers. And the same day, my server Netvision sent a registered letter saying I would be cut off if it received one more letter of complaint against me. I already went through this whole thing with them last year. The nature of my work guarantees that there are going to be people who don't like it. A cutoff would be an act of political repression. no matter how many company regulations justify it. So, if your mail is returned, Netvision did its worst. My emergency address will be bchamish@yahoo.com. Wouldn't it be nice when that day arrives if Netvision lost lots of customers in protest? So for those who seek ulterior motives in my work, ask them if they would accept so much harassment in theirs. Thanks for your patience. Here's the balancing Peres piece promised to you. Please forgive me for any misunderstandings surrounding my previous sendout. "The Most Dangerous Man in the Middle East" Gary Showalter 26 June 2001 As of June 20th 01, Shimon Peres, and not Ariel Sharon, controls the "kitchen cabinet" of Ariel Sharon's government. This is the group that decides how and when Israel reacts to attacks by Arafat's terrorists. Note this well Shimon Peres now has veto power over Ariel Sharon. In 1990, Peres pulled his original "dirty trick", when he schemed with the haredi parties to destroy the unity government of Yitzhak Shamir. Secret negotiations held in Oslo between members of the PLO and of the Israeli government (Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas) led to a mutual recognition in September 1993. Due to the agreements reached there, in secret and without the knowledge of Yitzhak Rabin, Peres was able to replace the decisions made in Madrid with the de facto agreements made in Oslo. With this dirty trick, Shimon Peres damned the people of Israel (both Arabs and Jews) with the presence of Yasser Arafat and his murderous terror gangs. During the bloody years since the signing of the Oslo Agreement, Shimon Peres has traveled the world to raise money for the PA. Through his Shimon Peres Center for Peace, he was worked to develop the infrastructure of the PA, to bring in industry and investment money into the PA. Time and again, Shimon Peres has forced the government of Israel and the Israeli media to avoid any statements that would reflect badly on Yasser Arafat, since it would not look good to embarrass our "partner for peace". It has been the policy of both the Barak and the Sharon governments that there will be no "international observer force" deployed in the West Bank and Gaza. Yet, on November 9, 00, Mabat on Channel One reported that Ehud Barak believed that Shimon Peres was behind these proposals. On June 12th of this year, the IDF radio reported that Shimon Peres worked with the EU to put just such an observer force in place. Needless to say, the Sharon government was furious with this, and the force has since been removed. It is the stated policy of Ariel Sharon that there will be no negotiations with the PA while under fire, and yet that is exactly what Peres is working toward, in cooperation with the EU. The above represents a short list of the machinations of Shimon Peres. This man, who has never been elected to any position in the national government, has once again managed to maneuver himself into a position of power contrary to the will of the people of Israel. The people of Israel specifically voted against a Peres-led government when it voted in the last national elections. Yet, that is exactly what we have today. Shimon Peres, has dedicated his life to building the State of Palestine for Yasser Arafat. He has worked diligently to ensure that Arafat has the political and financial support of the nations of the world. He has worked to suppress anti-Arafat reporting, and to suppress resistance to his policies by the people of Israel. This man is once again in control of the government of Israel. Shimon Peres, more than any other, is today the most dangerous man in the Middle East. He has brought Yasser Arafat and his murder gangs within the borders of the State of Israel, and all that has happened since has brought the entire region to the verge of war. All of the warnings of the "Lebanonization of Israel" by military experts since before the Madrid Conference, studiously ignored by the left-wing press in Israel, have now come true. The non-stop bloody murder of Israelis (and the pillaging and murdering of the Arab population at the hands of Arafat's many militias) since the signing of the Oslo Agreement can, and should be, laid at the feet of Shimon Peres, and no other. Every demonstration, every article, every political event, every contact with any Member of Knesset from now on should focus on this man and his deadly policies, with the stated goal of forcing him out of political life. Such a stench must be raised that the Labor Party will have no choice but to disassociate itself from this man. Ariel Sharon must be forced to go to the Labor Party and demand a replacement for Shimon Peres in his government. This will only happen if the people of the State of Israel make its voice heard in very angry protest against the presence of this man in the Sharon government. I ask you to keep in mind these words from the personal diary of Moshe Sharett, a former Prime Minister of Israel: "I have stated that I totally and utterly reject [Shimon] Peres and consider his rise to prominence a malignant, immoral disgrace. I will rend my clothes in mourning for the State if I see him become a minister in the Israeli government." end |
June 21 - You Just Gotta See This. |
Everyone, you just gotta see this. If you think the British only pick on Ariel Sharon, SURPRISE!!!!! If you felt the BBC should have compiled a program on Yasir Arafat's war crimes to be balanced...SURPRISE. The British went after the next best thing, Shimon Peres' alleged war crimes. What a world we live in. This past weekend the Israeli press openly asked why Peres is advancing Carmi Gillon's career once again by appointing him Danish Ambassador. Even Haaretz's Tom Segev asked why the man who was behind the Rabin murder "snafu" is being rewarded time after time by Peres. Poor Tom just hasn't caught on yet!!! The best article was by Adir Zik in Hatsofe. Noting that the Danes are protesting Gillon's appointment because of the torture of Palestinians while he was head of the Shabak, Zir noted, "Danes are Danes and they have only one way of seeing the world. But we are Jews and Israelis and we know there is much more to this Gordian knot between Peres and Gillon and it is the truth of the Rabin assassination." Now look how this twisted European mentality works with Peres. Although Gillon's name is not specifically mentioned in the following report, you'll recognize him. Now, we Jews are learning in ugly detail who Peres really is. Hebron community leader David Wilder heard an appalling piece of evidence on a radio interview with the writer Rabbi Nahum Rabinovitch. Even before the Oslo Accord was even thought of, a journalist Rabinovitch knows asked Peres how he would deal with the Jews of Judea, Samaria and Gaza if he regained power. He replied, "I wouldn't have to deal with them using my policy. Half will have fled their homes and the other half would be dead." That is the Peres we have come to know. The Peres/Gillon act we know knocked off Yitzhak Rabin in cold blood. And the Danes think they have a problem with Gillon because he was too tough on Arabs. At least they're all alive today, which is more than we can say about the hundreds of Jews dead in the wake of Peres' "peace" diplomacy. Now for those of you furious at the BBC for its blatant anti-semitism in its one-sided attack on Sharon's military past, have we got a treat for you!! Look what preceded the show by a few years and may have well been its inspiration. Ladies and gentlemen, for your reading pleasure; The Crimes Of Shimon Peres. Enjoy. - Barry Chamish Movement for the Advancement of International Criminal Law The Movement for the Advancement of International Criminal Law (MAICL) was set up by international lawyers in Cambridge, UK, in 1998 to work to bring State leaders and officials who have committed unlawful acts of violence against the human person to justice in a court of law. SUMMARY OF ALLEGATIONS AGAINST MR SHIMON PERES 1. INTRODUCTION. On Sunday, January 24, 1998, Cambridge will be visited by Mr Shimon Peres, who is to attend a political meeting in Robinson College, Grange Road, at 3p.m. Mr Peres (original name: Shimon Perski, born 16 August 1923 in Wolozyn, Poland) has held the positions of Defence Minister, Foreign Minister, Finance Minister and Prime Minister of the State of Israel. He held the position of Foreign Minister most recently from 13 July 1992 until 4 November 1995; and the position of Prime Minister from 1984 until 1986, and then again from November 1995 until 29 May 1996. He currently holds no political office. Mr Peres has committed unambiguous violations of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957, the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the Taking of Hostages Act 1982. These are all indictable offences in English law. In each case, the place of commission of the relevant act, the nationality of the victims, and the nationality and status of the perpetrator are of no consequence in English courts. Indeed, as these are all crimes against international law, Her Majesty's Government has the international obligation aut dedere aut judicare; that is, to try or to extradite. As there are no requests to the UK for extradition, Mr Peres must be tried within this country. Therefore Mr Peres must be arrested as soon as he enters into the jurisdictional area. 2. THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS ACT 1957 The Geneva Conventions Act 1957 states: "1(1) Any person, whatever his nationality, who, whether in or outside the United Kingdom, commits, or aids, abets or procures the commission by any other person of, any such grave breach of any of the scheduled conventions as is referred to in the following articles respectively of those conventions, that is to say - .... (d) article 147 of the convention set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act, shall be guilty of felony and on conviction thereof - (i) in the case of such a grave breach as aforesaid involving the wilful killing of a person protected by the convention in question, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for life." Article 147 of the Fourth Schedule to this Act (which is the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War) states: "Grave breaches to which the preceding Article relates shall be those involving any of the following acts, if committed against persons or property protected by the present Convention: wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments, wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement of a protected person, compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power, or wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed in the present Convention, taking of hostages and extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly." The persons and property protected in this section of the convention are defined in Article 4 of the Fourth Schedule to this Act, as: "those who, at a given moment, and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals." It is internationally recognised that Israel is the Occupying Power in the Gaza strip, to the south of Israel; in the West Bank, to the east of Israel; in the Golan Heights, to the north-east of Israel; and in southern Lebanon, to the north of Israel. It has been the Occupying Power in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Golan Heights since June 1967; and has been the Occupying Power in southern Lebanon since the period 1978-1982 (the exact date of the commencement of the occupation is a matter of some contention). This situation is continually reaffirmed by the General Assembly of the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and by almost every single government in the world, including Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom. UK ministers continue to refer to the West Bank and Gaza strip as the "Occupied Territories", and have always supported international resolutions which call for Israel's withdrawal from south Lebanon. It follows that the Fourth Geneva Convention, and thus the Geneva Conventions Act 1957, is applicable to acts within these regions, and that the inhabitants of these regions - the Palestinians and certain Lebanese - are protected persons. This position was stated explicitly by the United Nations Security Council on 18 December 1992, in unanimously adopting Security Council Resolution 799 (1992), which in paragraph 2: "Reaffirms the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 to all the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem [...]" [This resolution is reproduced in full as Item 1, annexed to this summary] 2.1. The Mass Deportation of December 1992 Resolution 799 (1992) was prompted by acts of the Israeli government which are highly significant in assessing Mr Peres's compliance with the Geneva Conventions Act. On 16 December 1992, after one Israeli soldier was killed, 1600 Palestinians were taken into custody by the Israeli army. According to a plan drawn upon by the Israeli Cabinet in its meeting of 17 December 1992, 415 individuals were selected out of this number to be deported. The Cabinet resolution stated that the deportees would be denied the right of a prior hearing. Thus, without any form of judicial process, these individuals were blindfolded, handcuffed, and put onto buses which drove through Israel's northern border with Lebanon, into the area occupied by Israel in southern Lebanon. The buses drove onto an uninhabited and undeveloped hill to the north of Israel's occupied zone, near a checkpoint named Marj al-Zahour. Here, the Palestinians were taken off the buses and abandoned. The Israeli government announced that it would prevent these individuals from returning into Israel or the Occupied Territories for a period of three years (later reduced to 2 years), and would remain in a state of exile until that period had expired. Israel did not provide any materials or goods to these expelled individuals, who had to wait for the Government of Lebanon to provide basic supplies as a humanitarian gesture. Since the individuals were abandoned at a height of 1000 metres above sea level in the middle of the winter, illness and suffering inevitably resulted. [The facts of the situation, along with a copy of the Israeli Cabinet resolution on the mass deportation, is contained in a report by the Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. The Centre's own summary of this report is appended, as Item 2] The actions of the Government of Israel were condemned internationally. The United Nations Security Council, in the above mentioned resolution, in paragraph 2: "affirms that deportation of civilians constitutes a contravention of its [i.e., Israel's] obligations under the [Fourth Geneva] Convention". In this resolution, the Security Council also stated: "Having learned with deep concern that Israel, the occupying Power, in contravention of its obligations under the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, deported to Lebanon on 17 December 1992, hundreds of Palestinian civilians from the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem" [third preambular paragraph] "Strongly condemns the action taken by Israel, the occupying Power, to deport hundreds of Palestinian civilians, and expresses its firm opposition to any such deportation by Israel" [operative paragraph 1]. As noted above, this resolution was passed unanimously, thus securing the support of Her Majesty's Government in identifying the actions of the Government of Israel as a breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Moreover these actions constituted a "grave breach", because they fall within a number of the categories of Article 147, quoted above, namely: wilfully causing great suffering; serious injury to body or health; unlawful deportation or transfer; unlawful confinement of a protected person; wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed in the present Convention. Mr Shimon Peres was the Foreign Minister of Israel at the time of these actions. As a core member of the Israeli Cabinet, he took part in the issuing of the Cabinet resolution which sanctioned the deportation. As the act of expulsion took place in a foreign country, Mr Peres in his role of Foreign Minister, must have been directly involved in the decision-making process resulting in the abandonment of the 415 protected persons. Indeed, whilst Mr Peres was on an official visit to various European countries in February the following year, he repeatedly attempted to justify the expulsion of the 415 Palestinians despite the strenuous criticisms of many European countries and intergovernmental institutions [see the two appended articles from The Times, reprinted as Item 3]. 2.2. The use of torture on protected persons In the period 1992-1996, various forms of torture were practised upon Palestinian detainees by the General Security Service of Israel (the GSS, popularly known as Shin Bet or Shabak). The incidences and methods of torture have been widely documented [see in particular the extensive bibliography provided on page 9 of the Report of Amnesty International of August 1996, annexed in full as Item 4]. Despite denials from the Government of Israel, which refers to these practices as "moderate physical pressure", the have been repeatedly identified as torture and condemned by the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the United Nations Committee against Torture. In April 1994, United Nations Committee against Torture stated that the Israeli administration of the use of torture (the so-called 'Landau Commission Report'), "permitting as it does 'moderate physical pressure'...is completely unacceptable to this Committee". It added that it was "greatly concerned at the large number of heavily documented cases of ill-treatment in custody that appear to be breaches of the Convention including several cases resulting in death". The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture stated in a letter dated 29 June 1994, "that he had continued to receive information indicating that persons detained for political reasons in the occupied territories were routinely subjected to various forms of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment" [both quoted in Item 4, p.6]. However, the practice of torture by the Israeli government did not terminate with these criticisms; in fact, "exceptional dispensation" to use increased pressure was allowed by the Israeli Cabinet in October 1994, and the Ministerial Committee on the GSS ruled that violent shaking could continue, despite a death of a Palestinian detainee after violent shaking of his head and torso [Item 4, pp.1-2]. Through an analysis of testimonies, Amnesty International has identified the following methods of torture in common use in Israel in 1995: hooding, whereby a dirty and sometimes wet sack is placed over the head the detainee for prolonged periods; position abuse, whereby the detainee is made to stand or sit in painful positions for prolonged periods of time, often accompanied by hooding; sleep deprivation for a period of up to five days; food deprivation; beatings, including beating with cables, as well as kicking and punching; threats of disablement; loud music [Amnesty International Report of July 1995, appended as Item 6, page 8 with additional information from pages 1, 6-7 and 9-11]. In reviewing the period from 1993 to 1998, Amnesty International report that torture has become entrenched as a regular part of the work of the General Security Service, and estimates that: "probably at least 800 Palestinians suffer torture every year" [Amnesty International Report of September 1998, appended as Item 7, p.5]. The following cases have been cited by human rights organisations as instances of torture in the period from July 1992 to November 1995, when Mr Peres was Foreign Minister: Nader Qumsieh was arrested on 3-4 May 1993, and subjected to several sessions of torture in the Dhahariyyeh Detention Centre between the 7th and the 11th of May. He was forced to kneel for long periods, with his hands tied behind his back. He was repeatedly hit around the face, and on his stomach, abdomen and genitalia. By 10 May, his genitalia were severely swollen, and was taken to see a doctor [Item 4, p.5; Amnesty International Report of 15 March 1994, appended as Item 5, p.10]. Bassem Tamimi, aged 26, was arrested on 9 November 1993. After being violently shaken, he went into a coma for five days. He was released without charge on 6 December 1993 [Item 4, p.5]. Hani Muzher, a student at Bir Zeit university, was arrested on 13 July 1994. He was interrogated continuously for a week, subjected to sleep deprivation and shackled in painful positions. He was denied access to a lawyer until 11 August 1994 [Item 4, p.4; Item 6, pp.8-9]. Hamed As'ad Hamed al-Kuni, a 17 year old high school student, was arrested on 24 October 1994, and held in Nablus prison. He was continually hooded, and kept in position abuse on a low chair with hands and legs tied for 120 hour periods. He was beaten on his back, testicles, penis and head. He was prevented from going to the toilet, so that he had to relieve himself in his clothes, which he was not allowed to change for 20 days [Item 6, pp.10-1]. Ziyadah al-Qawasmah, aged 19 and in his final year at high school, was arrested on 13 November 1994. He was deprived of sleep for 6 days periods during interrogation [Item 6, p.10]. Salem 'Ali, aged 31, was arrested on 29 January 1995, and interrogated for a period of six weeks. He was subjected to violent shaking of his body, sometimes knocking his body against the wall, and was beaten by his interrogators. He was tied to a chair each night and deprived of sleep. He was forced to kneel on his toes, and exposed to the intense cold and loud music. He was not indicted or tried for any criminal offence [B'Tselem report from June 1995, whose summary is appended as Item 8]. Musa Masharqeh, a 26 year old economics graduate, was arrested on 7 March 1995. He was subjected to prolonged sleep deprivation, being allowed to sleep for only one or two hours out of every 48, and at weekends. He was held in painful positions for long periods of time, usually seated in a low, kindergarten chair. He was violently shaken several times, and threatened with death or the rape of family members. He was held for a period of 63 days [Item 4, pp.3 and 6]. Khaled Farraj, a student, was arrested on 12 March 1995. He was subjected to prolonged sleep deprivation, whilst in position abuse. He was stretched backwards over a chair, and made to squat on his toes whilst under interrogation [Item 4, pp.3-4]. Ahmad Sa'id was arrested on 29 June 1995, and interrogated for a period of 130 days. He was made to stand, sit and squat in painful positions for up to 20 hours a day. He was beaten, and threatened with mutilation. He was subjected to sleep deprivation, once being denied to sleep for a period of 11 days [Item 6, pp.9-10]. The following cases have been cited by human rights organisations as instances of torture in the period from November 1995 to May 1996, when Mr Peres was Prime Minister: Daher Muhammad Salah Abu Mayaleh was arrested on 15 February 1996, and held at Ashkelon Prison. On 22 April 1996, he was violently shaken and was unconscious for five hours. On being returned to interrogation, he continued to be violently shaken for a further period of 30 days, and was subjected to sleep deprivation [Item 4, pp.4-5]. 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Ahmar was arrested on 15 February 1996, and interrogated for 40 days at the Moscobiyyah Detention Centre in Jerusalem. He was subjected to violent shaking, with his hands handcuffed behind his back. He was forced to sit for long periods of time on a very small chair [Item 4, p.3]. In none of these cases, did the Government of Israel take action against the members of the GSS who directly committed the acts of torture, despite international pressure to do so. The only similar case within this period which triggered a Governmental response was the death of 'Abd al-Samad Harizat on 22 April 1995 after violent shaking of the head and torso on twelve occasions over a twelve hour period. The subsequent GSS disciplinary hearing decided that the GSS member involved in the interrogation process should be given a disciplinary warning, but could continue working with no further sanction [Item 4, pp.6-7]. The General Security Service is supervised by the Cabinet Committee for GSS Investigations, which in turn is subordinate to the Israeli Cabinet, which appoints and dismisses members to the Cabinet Committee. The Cabinet Committee is chaired by the Prime Minister [the structure of the Committee is detailed in Item 7, p.5-6]. The Cabinet Committee draws up the guidelines which members of the GSS use in interrogating detainees. Due to the frequency with which the GSS resorts to torture, it seems to be a legitimate inference that the Cabinet Committee, and thus the Cabinet as a whole, sanctions the use of torture. Therefore, as a core member of the Cabinet during the period from July 1992 until November 1995, Shimon Peres can be considered to have abetted the uses of torture detailed above. As Prime Minister from November 1995 until May 1996, he bears a much more direct responsibility for the activities of the GSS, as he was chair of the Cabinet Committee overseeing the GSS. In this period of time, he can be considered to be aiding, abetting and procuring the commission by other persons of the international offence of torture. Aiding, abetting and procuring the commission by other persons of acts of torture of protected persons constitute a violation of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957. Mr Peres, therefore, has violated this Act. 2.3. 'Administrative detention': the denial of the right to a fair trial and the taking of hostages Administrative detention is a procedure under which detainees are held without charge or trial, and no criminal charges are filed. Administrative detention orders are issued by the Ministry of Defence for the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem, and by the district military commander for the rest of the Occupied Territories. These authorities are empowered to detain individuals for periods of up to six months (extended to one year in February 1995), and may extend detentions for an unlimited number of additional six month periods. There is no limit on the cumulative length of administrative detention. For this reason, some detainees are held for a number of years, without every being charged or tried; in this way, some protected persons from the West Bank and Gaza Strip remain in detention for up to four years [see B'Tselem's report from May 1997, the official summary of which is appended as Item 9]; and certain prisoners from Lebanon have been held in administrative detention for 10 years [see the submission of Human Rights Watch to the Human Rights Commission of 13 July 1998, appended as Item 10, p.1]. Detainees are provided with no information as to why they are being detained. Whilst there is an appeals process which detainees can utilise, the review is limited to checking the legality of the reasons given for the detention, and detainees are regularly denied access to virtually all the evidence against them, as the evidence is presented to the court in camera. Furthermore, there is no possibility for the defence lawyer to cross-examine witnesses or even to inquire about their existence [Amnesty International Report of April 1997, appended as Item 11, p.1]. In its report of April 1997, Amnesty International provide detailed case histories of 15 Palestinians held in administrative detention for long periods of time [Item 11, pp.3-10]. These include: * Wissam Rafeedie, held in administrative detention from August 1994 until time of publication. At his appeal hearing, the information on which his detention was based was kept secret, and therefore his lawyer had no chance to refute any of the prosecution's claims. * Imad Sabi, held in administrative detention from December 1995 until April 1997. * Ahmad Qatamesh, the longest serving administrative detainee. He was arrested in September 1992, and charged two months later. However, the judge ruled that there was not enough evidence to convict him, and the military authorities placed him under administrative detention instead. He remained in administrative detention at the time of publication. * 'Usama Jamil Isma'il Barham, held in administrative detention from November 1993. His administrative detention order has been renewed 9 times. * Khaled Dalayshah, held in administrative detention since 22 January 1992, with a brief period of release in 1993-4. * 'Abd al-Rahman al-Ahmar, arrested in November 1995, and held in administrative detention from February 1996 until time of publication. Where Palestinian prisoners are brought to trial by Israel, it is before a system of military justice which operates throughout the Israeli-controlled regions of the Occupied Territories. Amnesty International state that 6,200 Palestinians were brought before military courts during 1994, and many were convicted on the basis of confessions and testimonies obtained under duress [Item 6, p.1]. The detainee may be denied access to a lawyer for a period of up to 90 days, in clear contravention of the Principle 7 of the United Nations Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, which states that access to a lawyer should be no later than 48 hours from time of arrest or detention [Item 6, p.5]. Amnesty International notes that there appears to be a presumption of guilt in these courts, rather than a presumption of innocence [Item 7, pp.10-11]. Palestinian have thus been denied the rights of fair and regular trial, and have been subjected to unlawful confinement. Whereas the Government of Israel attempts to justify its actions by claiming that there is a state of emergency warranting exceptional measures [e.g. in Item 11, p.2], the Fourth Geneva Convention allows no such excuse. The right to a fair trial is non-derogable right according to this Convention; moreover, a derogation from this right is a grave breach of the Convention. The continued holding of Palestinians in administrative detention, without charge or trial, has been considered to constitute the taking of hostages by some human rights groups; that is, to ensure that they are used as "bargaining chips" in dealings with Palestinian groups [e.g., Item 10, p.1]. Whereas this may be the case with Palestinian detainees, it is much more clearly so with the Lebanese detainees. Israel has repeatedly indicated its willingness to exchange these prisoners for Israel soldiers who went missing in action in Lebanon during the 1980s. Israel has held 21 Lebanese detainees in Israel, almost all captured during the conflict in the 1980s, as administrative detainees [see the 1997 report by Human Rights Watch, Without Status or Protection, the summary of which is appended as Item 12]. In addition, Israel held during the 1992-96 period approximately 130 Lebanese individuals in detention in the Khiam Detention Centre in south Lebanon, in an area occupied by the Israeli army (the Israel Defence Forces, IDF). Both these groups of people are protected persons, in the sense of the Fourth Geneva Convention, as they "find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals" (Article 4 of the Fourth Geneva Convention), and are thus entitled to the rights laid out in the Convention. The denial of the protected persons' rights of fair and regular trial, and their status as unlawfully detained follow from the nature of their imprisonment, as administratively detained for the 21 Lebanese individuals in Israel, and as detained without trial or charge at the Khiam Detention Centre in Israeli-occupied south Lebanon [on detention without trial at Khiam, see Amnesty International's report of July 1997 on Israel in south Lebanon, appended as Item 13, pp.6-7]. In addition, these persons can be considered as hostages. Israel's exchanges of its prisoners with the remains and information about soldiers missing in action is well-documented [see Item 12; Item 10, p.1; Item 13, pp.1-2, 5]. When Amnesty International enquired about two of the Lebanese nationals held inside Israel, the then Deputy Minister of Defence and prominent figure within the Peres-led Labour party, Ori Orr, stated: "we will release them when we have more information about Ron Arad [an Israeli airman captured in Lebanon]" [Item 13, p.1]. Similarly, a spokesperson for the Israel Defence Forces justified a decision to prevent the mother of a Lebanese detainee from visiting her son in an Israeli prison by stating: "The action was in line with Israeli army policy involving any detainee who is linked in any way to the Ron Arad affair. As long as there is no news of Ron Arad, there will be no meetings with [Lebanese] detainees in Israel and no information about the detainees will be released" [Item 13, p.5]. Both of these statements, indicating that the Lebanese detainees were being used as hostages, were made in 1996 during the period when Shimon Peres was Prime Minister of Israel. There is no reason to believe that they do not reflect the official government policy of the time. Shimon Peres bears direct responsibility for the actions of the Government of Israel for the time in which he served as Prime Minister, from November 1995 until May 1996. In this period, protected persons continued to be denied their rights to a fair trial, to be unlawfully confined, and to be used as hostages. In fact, after a period in which the number of people being held as administrative detainees declined prior to Mr Peres becoming Prime Minister, the number of administrative detainees rose sharply in February and March 1996 under Mr Peres's premiership, when at least 1,000 Palestinians were arrested by Israeli forces, and many of these were put into administrative detention [Item 7, p.3; Item 11, p.2]. Due to these actions, Mr Peres is responsible for grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, and has thus committed an indictable offence under English law. 2.4. 'Operation Grapes of Wrath' On 11 April 1996, just over a month before the Israeli elections, Prime Minister Shimon Peres ordered the launching of an air and artillery attack upon Lebanon, which came to be known by its Israeli name, 'Operation Grapes of Wrath'. The attack, which targeted sites in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, as well as throughout the country, lasted for 17 days. At least 154 civilians were killed in Lebanon due to this bombardment [the list of names is appended as Item 14], the majority in a single incident, when Israel shelled the UN Compound at Qana in which refugees from the fighting had gathered. Many of the people killed in the bombardment were protected persons, under the definition of Article 4 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, as they found themselves "in case of a conflict [...] in the hands of a Party to the conflict [...] of which they are not nationals". Since Israel had control over a large part of the airspace over Lebanese territory and over the coastline which forms Lebanon's western border, and given that Israel had advised residents of southern Lebanon to evacuate northwards given that the Israeli forces would be acting within that territory [Amnesty International's report on Operation Grapes of Wrath, July 1996, appended as Item 15, pp.3, 5], the people left within southern Lebanon can be considered to be protected persons. A grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 occurs when acts of wilful killing and extensive destruction of property, not justified by military necessity, are committed. Three particular acts of the Israeli Defence Forces fall within this category. Firstly, an IDF helicopter rocketed a vehicle carrying 13 civilians fleeing the village of al-Mansuri on 13 April 1996. This attack killed two women and four girls. The vehicle was clearly designated as an ambulance, with the appropriate lights, siren and markings on the hood and sides of the vehicle. UN soldiers and eye-witnesses report no evidence of any military equipment in the car, and video footage taken at the scene gives no justification to Israel's subsequent claim that the vehicle was a legitimate military target [the factual evidence is presented in Item 15, pp.6-7]. The second clear case of a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention was the attack on 18 April 1996 on a house in Upper Nabatiyya, just north of Israel's occupied zone. In this attack, seven children, including a three day old baby, one teenager, and one woman were killed. Shimon Peres indicated that the IDF was acting on the assumption that all civilians had left this area. As Amnesty International note in their report on this attack, the house was clearly a civilian object, and was deliberately targeted as could be seen from the directness of the multiple attack by warplanes. The assumption that civilians had left this area could thus be no excuse for targeting a civilian house [Item 15, pp.7-8]. The third clear case of a grave breach was the attack on the compound of the Fijian battalion of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon at Qana, which resulted in the loss of 102 lives. 800 civilians were inside the UN compound at the time, and many of them were wounded. Whilst the Government of Israel claimed that the UN compound was hit by mistake, the evidence points in the other direction. The United Nations mission to Lebanon, headed by Major-General Franklin Van Kappen, stated as his conclusion that: "While the possibility cannot be ruled out completely, it is unlikely that the shelling of the United Nations compound was the result of gross technical and/or procedural errors." [UN's Report on Israel's bombing of the United Nations compound, appended as Item 16, p.4]. This conclusion is drawn for a number of reasons, laid out in paragraph 13 of the report. Probably the most significant reason is that two Israeli helicopters and an airborne remotely piloted vehicle (a reconnaissance 'drone') were present at the time of the bombing, and would have observed that the bombardment was directly hitting the UN compound. Even if the IDF did not know that 800 Lebanese civilians were sheltering in the compound, the attack would constitute a clear breach of the laws of war in directly or indiscriminately targeting civilians. However, it is highly likely that the IDF did know that there was extensive refugee sheltering in UN compounds, as this information was widely reported in the news media and communicated by the UN to the IDF under the impression that this would prevent mistaken attacks on those areas by the IDF. After a detailed investigation, Amnesty International also came to the conclusion that the IDF intentionally attacked the UN compound [Item 15, p.9]. As Prime Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres bears direct responsibility in international law for these three attacks. There is a direct and unbroken chain of responsibility from the military officers who directly prepared the attacks to the Prime Minister. Even after the attack on the UN compound at Qana, this chain of command was not broken; a low-level and internal IDF inquiry was ordered into the circumstances of the attack on Qana, and its findings were kept secret except for its conclusions which absolved all Israeli personnel of blame [Item 15, pp.11-12]. No inquiries were ordered into the bombing of the ambulance or the attack on the house in Upper Nabatiyya. The Prime Minister thus bears Command Responsibility for the acts of his subordinates. As these three acts constituted grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, Shimon Peres has committed an offence against the Geneva Conventions Act 1957. 3. THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 1988 Section 134(1) and (2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides: "(1) A public official or person acting in an official capacity, whatever his nationality, commits the offence of torture if in the United Kingdom or elsewhere he intentionally inflicts severe pain or suffering on another in the performance or purported performance of his official duties." "(2) A person not falling within subsection (1) above commits the offence of torture, whatever his nationality, if:- (a) in the United Kingdom or elsewhere he intentionally inflicts severe pain or suffering on another at the instigation or with the consent or acquiescence:- (i) of a public official; or (ii) of a person acting in an official capacity; and (b) the official or other person is performing or purporting to perform his official duties when he instigates the commission of the offence or consents to or acquiesces in it." This section incorporates into English law the Torture Convention of 10 December 1984, and uses the same definition of the crime as this Convention. Additionally, this Convention sets out the obligation that the State must, if it does not extradite the offender, "submit the case to its competent authorities for the purpose of prosecution" (Article 7). The evidence that Shimon Peres committed the offence of torture has been given above, in section 2.2. However, section 134(1) and (2) apply to Mr Peres's actions even if it is not accepted that the victims were protected persons under the definition of the Fourth Geneva Convention. By aiding, abetting and procuring the commission by other persons of acts of torture, Mr Shimon Peres has committed an offence against the Criminal Justice Act 1988. 4. THE TAKING OF HOSTAGES ACT 1982 Section 1 of the Taking of Hostages Act 1982 provides: "A person, whatever his nationality, who, in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, - (a) detains any other person ( 'the hostage'), and (b) in order to compel a State, international governmental organisation or person to do or abstain from doing any act, threatens to kill, injure, or continue to detain the hostage, commits an offence." For the Taking of Hostages Act it is not a necessary condition that either the detained person or the person whom the accused is attempting to compel must be a protected person. Mr Shimon Peres, in his time as Prime Minister, continued with the policy of continuing to detain persons in order to compel others to engage in specific acts, as the evidence provided in section 2.3 above indicates. He has thus committed an offence against the Taking of Hostages Act 1982. 5. CONCLUSION LIST OF DOCUMENTS APPENDED 1. Security Council Resolution 799 (1992) 2. Summary by B'Tselem of their report, "Deportation of Palestinians from the Occupied Territories and the Mass Deportation of December 1992" (June 1993) 3. Articles from The Times, 9 January 1993 and 21 January 1993. 4. Amnesty International Report: "Under Constant Medical Supervision" (August 1996). 5. Amnesty International Report: "Torture and Ill-treatment of Political Detainees" (March 1994) 6. Amnesty International Report: "Human Rights: A Year of Shattered Hopes" (July 1995) 7. Amnesty International Report: "Five Years after the Oslo Agreement" (September 1998) 8. Summary by B'Tselem of their report, "Detention and Interrogation of Salem and Hanan 'Ali" (June 1995) 9. Summary by B'Tselem of their report, "Prisoners of Peace" (May 1997) 10. Human Rights Watch's Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (July 1998) 11. Amnesty International Report: "Administrative Detention" (April 1997) 12. Summary by Human Rights Watch of their report, "Without Status or Protection" (October 1997) 13. Amnesty International Report: "Israel's Forgotten Hostages" (July 1997) 14. List of the victims of Operation 'Grapes of Wrath' 15. Amnesty International Report: "Unlawful Killings During Operation 'Grapes of Wrath'" (July 1996) 16. United Nations Report on Israel's Bombing of the United Nations Compound at Qana, Lebanon (7 May 1996) More Middle East Info Back to MAICL Index |
June 19 - Coup Against Peres Planned In Washington. |
For the past two days, leaders of the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) have been meeting with Labor MK Avraham Burg in Washington to plan a political coup against Shimon Peres, the leader of the Labor Party and its most powerful cabinet member. The CFR sent CIA head George Tenet to Israel last week to threaten PM Sharon with deadly consequences if he interferes with the plan to destroy the settler movement by the end of the summer.Tenet was pleased by the successes of the PLO murder squads he had trained in Virginia but was most disturbed by reports of Shimon Peres's mental condition. He was informed that Peres was cracking under the strain of fear that his organization of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination was being widely exposed. He was subject to irrational bursts of anger and even his public statements were becoming increasingly nutty. Before he even returned to Washington, Tenet recommended Peres's immediate removal. Avraham Burg has been long groomed for power by the CFR. His father, Yosef Burg, served longer than anyone in the Israeli cabinet, beginning in Ben Gurion's days, and trained his son well where the real sources of political power lie. The CFR believe that it can repeat the success they had in electing Ehud Barak with Burg. They view him as a young, nominally religious candidate with potentially wide appeal, who can take over where Barak left off when Sharon is ousted from power. As a religious Jew, he would be held blameless for the disintegration of Jewish villages in their ancient homeland. Burg had meetings with Colin Powell (CFR) and National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice (CFR) to outline the coup plans. To overwhelm him with the seriousness of the plot, additional meetings were arranged for Burg with Bill Clinton (CFR) and Sen Hillary Clinton. The top leadership of the CFR have concluded that Peres must go, willingly or not, and well before his role in the Rabin murder becomes a national scandal the likes of which Israel has not seen before. It is essential that Burg be placed in power before that day comes and vast cash resources will be thrown at a Burg campaign to, first, take over the leadership of Labor and then the country. The CFR realizes that time is running out on their obsessive goal of ridding Judea, Samaria and Gaza of Jews. They are amazed that these people have not caught on to who is behind the covert war against them, and still believe their government and army has an interest in protecting them. However, great pains are being taken to keep the ignorance intact. A delegation of American presidents of major Jewish organizations is touring Israel, concurrent with the Burg talks. It is led by one Mort Zuckerman, who is not only a CFR member but was on the board of the notorious CFR Middle East Task Force Report of July, 1997, which demanded that Israel's borders be reduced to those of 1948, with half of Jerusalem handed over to the PLO. Zuckerman submitted a dissenting opinion of the report's conclusions but one should not view that fact as anything more than window dressing. He is as aware as anyone of the CFR/CIA's plot against the settlers and is in Israel maintaining control of any objections to it raised by his delegation of American Jewish leaders. Unless the settlers miraculously awaken from their delusions and protect themselves bravely and intelligently, they have no more of a chance to continue their lifestyle than the other victims of CFR/NWO manipulations like the Afrikaaners, Rhodesians, Serbs etc. Their ONE AND ONLY longterm chance is to exploit the opportunities offered by those who are exposing the ghastly crimes of their enemies within Israel. They're Talking Update Those who read the claims of the Shabak informants in my last posting, They're Talking, will be pleased to learn that the information is being confirmed, despite a couple of tiny errors in my transcription which I will point out now. Asher Zuckerman, publisher of Kol Hashavuah confirms that a few weeks after the Rabin murder, he was about to publish a report about the murder of two of Rabin's bodyguards. His backer was approached with a threat to his life and he shut down the newspaper. Later it reopened with a new name. The informants were exactly right. Yehuda Miller of Maale Levana (not Levanim as I wrote) did photograph Avishai Raviv in criminal action and he was fired from Israel Police. The informants were right but forgot to add that as a sweetener for his silence, a job as photographer for the weekly magazine Mishpakha was arranged for him. He still holds the position. A correspondent went to the 100 block of HaChoresh Blvd. (not Coresh as I misheard) in Ramot and confirmed that a villa matching the description of the Shabak interrogation and surveillance center the informants reported, does exist. And because the information is proving accurate, suspicions have been raised by the murder of a Military Intelligence/Shabak colonel, Yehuda Edri, two days after the posting was released. For one day, both Haaretz and Hatsofe published the truth of the assassination, then they stopped. Edri met his Arab informer outside Jerusalem and was shot by him. This should not have happened. Edri was travelling with two bodyguards. Neither searched the informer before he approached Edri. In fact, neither left the car to take up protective positions. The bodyguards let Edri get murdered. One bodyguard was shot by a bullet aimed at Edri, while the assailant chose not to shoot a seemingly helpless bodyguard seated in the backseat of the car. He shot and killed the informer. The informer's employer wrote a personal piece published on the front page of the Jerusalem Post. She described an Arab sick of PLO corruption with no fight against the Israelis. She concluded that he was not a murderer type and that his family must have been threatened. Edri was a religious Jew living in the "settlement" of Maaleh Adumim. He was assassinated under most suspicious circumstances. We hope it was not because someone thought he was one of the people who passed on the information in, They're Talking. He wasn't, at least not directly. The real informants have not contacted me again, as they promised, so I searched my notes for quotes I chose not to include the previous posting. I rejected most because the informants admitted they were just rumors. One, however, should have been included. I was told the Shabak took over Yigal Amir's police investigation right after the murder and staged the filmed interrogation of Amir with his forced cooperation. This wasn't included because it was previously reported in Natan Gefen's book Fatal Sting and oft-repeated since. Still, this is confirmation. Of the uncertain claims: Source 1 - "While on the topic of the Kahalani brothers, you should know they had a brother in the army who start mouthing off about how the Shabak framed his brothers. He died of a 'suicide,' though no one I know of in the service believes that's what happened." Source 1 - "I've heard that a few agents are assigned to covering up forest fires. When the PLO want concessions from the government, they burn down Israeli forests. There is barely a tree left on the Tel Aviv/Jerusalem highway and Rabin's government hid the arson from the public. Now they're working on the Galilee, burning down those forests the same way. To cover this up, we identified a 'security risk,' a visionary Gog and Magog philosopher who wrote about his vision of Israel burning, and the police used him as the fall guy for the fires." A certain claim from a different source: A New York correspondent who I met at my NY lectures twice, and who I trust, wrote recently that he had met Yigal Amir's mother Geula in New York. He asked her opinion about my book and she was not delighted with it, believing that I had hurt her chances to raise money among the religious Right for her son's defence by implying that he was a Shabak asset. She was asked why her son doesn't just tell the truth and she admitted what we knew all along; Amir has been told that if he so much as whispers anything near the truth, his family will start dying one by one. An awful evil is being committed to Israel. The settlers are being abandoned to their murderers by Ariel Sharon, who lives daily with a foreign gun at his head. And Israelis, especially the Jewish residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, can't understand the obvious. So they'll keep dying until barely a sole is left in his home and then they'll express their indignation by voting for Burg in the next elections. |
June 13 - NEWS: Avishai Raviv Trial Postponed Once Again. |
Avishai Raviv Trial Postponed Once Again With Margalit Har-Shefi sitting in prison for "failing to prevent" the assassination of Yitzchak Rabin, the trial of Avishai Raviv on similar charges has once again been postponed. Rabin was assassinated five and a half years ago, and the original indictment was handed down in April 1999, yet only two sessions of the trial have ever been held. MK Benny Elon said that it is hard to understand the reasons for this, but hinted that the GSS and the State Prosecution are working together against holding the trial. "For instance," Elon told Arutz-7, "Raviv's lawyer, who asked for the latest postponement, is Eitan Peleg - a long-time GSS agent who was the one to file suit against the journalist who first revealed Raviv's GSS codename." Many feel that Raviv's pre-assassination actions make him liable for prosecution not only for not preventing Rabin's death, but also for encouraging it. "I have nothing against Raviv," Elon said. "I am interested in his trial being held so that once and for all he will open his mouth and tell us what really happened in this story." Following several delays and re-schedulings, yesterday became just the latest scheduled court date to find itself canceled. Arutz-7's Adir Zik recounts the history: "Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein announced that he would hand down the indictment in November '98. It was finally handed down only in April '99, with the first session scheduled for July. This date was pushed off until September, then was pushed off again, and the first session was on Oct 3, '99. The next session was to take place over two months later, in December, but was pushed off until Feb 22, 2000" Between then and now there was exactly one more session; another one was supposed to have been in February of this year, but that was pushed off until yesterday, at which time it was again postponed. |
June 11 - They're Talking. |
I ask my readers not to inquire who my sources are. I will be using deceptions to hide their identities. The Evolution Of Raviv Source 1 - We wish you had made it clearer that the Shabak is not a monolith, it's compartmentalized. You are taking down a lot of silent heroes who don't deserve to be associated with the dirty tricks department. We wish you understood the kind of heroism taking place in the service by young men whose committed duty is to prevent mass murder in the country. They're story should be told too. If the public knew the filthy job they were doing and what daily dealings with vile scum terrorists does to their permanent life's perspective, the damage that is about to be exposed publicly could be minimized. You don't know it but you're on the edge of being proven right about many of your claims. That's going to happen with or without our help. We're just speeding up the process. We took the decision to talk to you because things have gone too far. Even you don't know how serious matters really are. We'll tell you some things we know and they'll know it had to come from inside. We'll stop short of naming certain names that could get you, or us, killed. Let's start with Avishai Raviv. You didn't get the whole story. You don't understand how things got out of hand. And you don't know what he was doing before there was an Oslo Accord. Start with 1992: His assignment was to destroy the Tekhiya Party, the most committed Knesset representative of the settlers. The plan worked like this. He had spent five years infiltrating far right wing groups and now he was ordered to unite them into one party which would draw away enough votes to annihilate Tekhiya but not enough to actually sit in the Knesset. He asked the Kach people to join his movement but they turned him down flat. However Gershon Solomon's Temple Mount Faithful initially accepted his proposal. Solomon was going to head the list and Raviv began politicking for him. But Solomon soon suspected Raviv's motive and backed out. Raviv was furious and asked his followers, who later would form the core of Eyal, to wreck Solomon's car and property. They balked at the idea and Raviv went looking for another party to siphon off Tekhiya's supporters. In the end he got desperate and backed a party run by a disgruntled meat company owner, whose plank was to eliminate the income tax authority. Raviv campaigned hard to have the hardline vote support what was known as the Picanti Party and drew off just enough Tekhiya support to eliminate the party from the Knesset. He did so well, we're told, he even cost the National Religious Party a seat. You never understood where Raviv came from. He wasn't merely a Shabak information gatherer, he was a pretend right winger planted by the Labor Party to neutralize the political unity of the Right. That's what the leaders of the Shabak were doing with our service even before Oslo. This was a huge breach of the Shabak's mandate, which is to guard internal security from violence and nationalistic crime. Raviv was a political tool illegally run by our chief commander Yaacov Perry. But it was Carmi Gillon's Jewish Department, as you rightly reported, which Raviv worked for. After the Hebron massacre Perry was made CEO of the country's biggest cellphone operator and that was no coincidence.He turned it into a surveillance tool of the highest order. Meanwhile, Gillon was made head of the service and he expanded the role of Raviv and others dramatically. From a political manipulator, Raviv was ordered to become a criminal instigator. You are right that the goal of the instigations was ultimately the forced removal of the Jewish residents of the West Bank and Gaza. Raviv's assignment was to radicalize young people and inspire them to commit a continuing chain of murderous outrages. This would eventually justify the army coming in and removing these criminal residents from their homes. But the settlers didn't cooperate. Raviv's superiors badly misunderstood the settlers' thinking. Maybe they were victims of their own prejudices but they weren't prepared for how meek these people really are. Today, when the atrocities against them are being turned on high, they still remain almost totally timid. The planners didn't get proper intelligence on the effect of their rabbis either. Far from being firebrands, the rabbis were preaching fatalism. While their best people were being murdered, the rabbis taught that it was the victims' time to die. And though the covert actions carry on with increased sadism, the rabbis are holding courses in etiquette and values. The plan to remove the settlers is way behind schedule and Arafat is going crazy. He thinks he was taken for a ride. The way we were told it happened was that after the Hebron massacre, Rabin was supposed to have the army round up the Jews of Hebron and Kiryat Arba and start the removal process. He refused and that was the moment the plan to murder him was hatched. You didn't get that either. Source 2 - Another aspect about Raviv that you didn't report is how poor his decision making was. This guy is not terribly clever and we were always having to silence people who caught on to what he was doing. You got the arrest of Shmuel Cytrin right. After he started spreading the word that Raviv worked for us, he was arrested on no charge and kept at a safe distance in prison. But you didn't find out about the trouble we had with Yehuda Miller, a police officer living near Raviv in Maale Levanim. Raviv decided that he could hide his service ties by telling everyone that Miller was his police commander. Miller found out about it and told Raviv to stop the lying. But Raviv just turned up the heat. He even had his mail sent to Miller's address. Miller, it turns out, was a first rate photographer and he began capturing Raviv in criminal action on film. He had enough to bury Raviv and all his officers, right up to Gillon. In the end we got him kicked out of the police and terrified to tell anyone what he knows. I use the word 'we' with reservations. I had nothing to do with these operations and have learned to hate the people who did. Not everyone, there were kids caught up in their duty who had nothing to compare to, I almost feel sorry for them, but their officers were engaged in serious irregularities and they knew better. As for the platoon that did the killing, I have not an ounce of forgiveness towards them. Rabin's Dead Bodyguards Source 2 - We knew you would ask so we prepared partial answers. We don't know that much, but we know it's worse than what you wrote. Source 1 - All we know about Yoav Kuriel was that he was in a Shabak course and taken out. Almost always that means he went into the deep underground on assignment. I never knew him but I do know that after he was buried, we had to talk to the people who buried him. I can't imagine that the commanders thought they could hand a body riddled with bullets and missing internal organs to a legitimate burial society and not expect the undertaking crew to talk about what they saw afterwards. We made it clear to one of the crew living in Bnai Brak, his name was Baruch as I recall, that the loose talk would have to end then and there. He has been most obedient since then. And we had to lean on this guy Biton from Pardes Katz who was blabbing about what he saw. Source 2 - There were a couple of other of our people who were eliminated; one was from Ashdod or Rishon, I think, another guy named Tzvi, as I recall was buried in Jerusalem the night of Rabin's murder. A minyan was gathered in a hurry to supervise the burial and, of course, someone reported the incident, this time to a Haredi paper in Bnai Brak. This paper was called Hashavuah and they were about to publish the victim's name. We just closed down the paper and confiscated the damning issue. The paper was re-opened under another name right after. Source 1 - At the risk of repeating myself, my friend uses the word 'we,' when neither of us were involved in the operations. People in the service talk to each other, we are human after all, and that's where this information comes from. There are now enough of us who have had it with the situation that we decided to fight back. I am sure that most of our buddies agree with what we are doing. At first, no one believed your conclusions about the Rabin murder. You were checked out, and it was concluded, now don't be insulted, that you were too weird to ever be taken seriously. Source 2 - The service really underestimated you. They never dealt with a personality like yours. The intelligence reports painted you as an oddball who could be neutralized with ease through the media. No one anticipated that you had these kinds of persuasive talents. We have guys in the service who are convinced you either have hidden powers or are working at a high-ranking mutineer's behest. Either way, a lot of us have reached the conclusion that it is inevitable the Rabin murder is going to rock the service like never before. We want to make sure the damage won't be permanent. The only people who should be prosecuted are those who killed Jews, and there aren't many of them. We want them purged from our ranks. Uzi Meshulum (A rabbi who exposed the kidnappings of thousands of, mostly, Yemenite infants in the early days of the state). Source 2 - At the same time that the service was being exploited to smear political opposition to the Oslo process, we were being used to snuff out another political threat, Rabbi Uzi Meshulum. I bought the propaganda that he was a dangerous cult leader threatening widespread violence in our society. Most of us did at the time so we cooperated in his silencing. Now we know that his message was honest and that it threatened the very basis of the Labor movement. If it was allowed out, Labor's first heroes were going to be pilloried, the political movement would have no moral imperative to continue and thus the Oslo process would die. We were used again. As far as the service was concerned, Meshulum's fatal mistake was naming his Shin Bet infiltrator, Ilan Raz. We do not appreciate having our men exposed and their lives thereafter threatened. We planned to move in on Meshulum big-time for that. But Raz tried to warn Meshulum. He had actually come around to admiring him, and that by the way, is breaking regulation number one; Get close to your target but not too close. He told him to stop his campaign immediately or we would come down on him very hard. He even tried bribing him but Meshulum wouldn't budge. We laid siege to his compound with army and police snipers everywhere. They killed one of Meshulum's young supporters. Meshulum was put into prison and now he seems to have forgotten everything to do with missing infants. And the story gets worse. The Prison Services medical head, Yaacov Ziegelboim was appalled by the medical treatment Meshulum was receiving and was on the verge of reporting the facts to the proper authorities. A bomb in his car put an end to that. Our public relations people shifted the blame to Meshulum's followers. They are like the settlers; they talk big, they used to call protest rallies thinking they could persuade the public to seek justice but they never took murderous actions. Yet the propaganda was so effective that the public believed the bombing was by an extremist Yemenite. I have no proof but I'm convinced, and I'm not alone, that victims like the Amir and Kahalani brothers were chosen because they were Yemenite. Part of the overall operation was to convince the public that Yemenites were unstable and their claims shouldn't be taken seriously. We Mean It Source 1 - We worked out a strategy that we can live with. We are going to allow you to report a highly sensitive piece of information. It should show the dirty tricks people that we aren't kidding. Their operations have to stop and now. This will be the last information you get from us. Next time we'll find a more conventional media outlet. That is a promise. You will not be contacted again. Source 2 - I suggest you take a trip to Coresh street in Ramot and look at villas around the number 100 block. You'll see one with a special garage door. Suspects from the Ramallah area are taken there for interrogation. Let them find a new villa. If we don't see a change of policy, the next reporter we talk to will get more, much more information. We are looking for an internal order that lets us know that the Shabak will have only one function from now on, to protect Israelis from their real enemies. Source 1 - And like I said before, you must report that the Shabak is where our country's finest men serve. Most of us have no role in any of this subterfuge. We are confident that we will be forgiven by the public when the full story comes out. And it will. end * * * I asked if one of my early informants, Moshe Pavlov worked for the Shabak. Neither knew him. |
June 2 - It's Time For Rate the Rumors. |
The Rumor Scale: * - don't listen to it ** - don't bet on it *** - where there's smoke... **** - there's fire! Feisel El-Husseini Was Murdered. Suspicions that the PLO's Jerusalem chief Feisel El-Husseini did not have a heart attack in Kuwait but was knocked off are everywhere. The day of the funeral, the Israeli newspaper Hatsofe ran a front page piece called, Suspicions About Husseini's Murder Rampant In Europe. Even the hardline Middle East Report noted the "suspicious circumstances" of the death. It seems Husseini and his entourage got into a loud row with Kuwaiti security personnel at his hotel and then he was taken to the hospital, reportedly, already dead. Hatsofe noted that Arafat hated Husseini and cut off his Jerusalem funding, thus was a suspect but the Middle East Report identified a better motive. Arafat's days are numbered. The two front-runners to take over his mantle were Husseini and PLO Police Chief Jibril Rajoub. Rajoub is the CIA's puppet, and they personally trained his elite guards and hit squads. The heads of CIA are appointed by the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR), who control events in the Middle East. The CIA has a huge presence in Kuwait and they know how to eliminate pesky rivals. **** A fine scenario and one that makes more sense than the trim and healthy 61 year old Husseini suddenly having a heart attack while brawling with security personnel. Omri Sharon Was Kidnapped By The PLO Last month, PM Sharon suffered a small setback when he was reprimanded by the Knesset for sending his son Omri to Europe on a secret mission with the PLO leadership. A few days before, reports of Omri's meeting were leaked to the Israeli press but not the full story behind them. Sharon's son was lured to Europe but not on a diplomatic mission, at least not intentionally. Sharon would have been far too suspicious to send his son unprotected to the lair of the PLO. Israeli security law absolutely bans such meetings out of the fear of kidnapping and blackmail. Omri Sharon was tortured and warned that he would be sought out wherever he went if his father dared open a serious war with the PLO. Sharon got the message. He is left with only one choice: he must save his son or his country. So far, his son is coming first. ** It's easy to dismiss except for that nagging quandary: Sharon would never have endangered his son or the country in the first place by willingly sending Omri directly into the claws of the beast. The Versailles Wedding Hall Crash Was Sabotage After ten days, Israel Police engineers cannot identify the cause of the crash of the Versailles. They originally arrested 11 building owners, subcontractors, engineers but released the builder and his partner, who had been doing improvements on the Versailles for a few months previous to the disaster. Their workers were Arabs and one of them interviewed on Israel TV on the night of the tragedy lied outright about the work his crew had been doing and then suddenly forgot how to speak in Hebrew. They were in a position to loosen the building's pillars and retaining walls using a material called Snail-Dynamite. It is a replacement for dynamite when blasting is impractical. It is absorbed by rock and concrete and over a few weeks to months breaks them down into more manageable rubble. The police have vilified the engineering method used in the building's floors but can recall no other cave-in similar to the Versailles in buildings which utilized the method. If true, Israel will suffer other building collapses until the people have no more heart to live in their country. It's all part of the demoralization plan. * Nothing is impossible but for the time being we should draw the line. Maybe the police engineers will find the cause of the collapse. If their explanation isn't convincing, then we'll raise the rating. We pray we don't have to verify it after another building disintegrates. If The Dead Weren't Russians, Israel Would Be At War Today If those nineteen teenagers exploded to bits in Tel Aviv had names like Recanati or Weizman, and lived in Savion or Ramat Aviv, Sharon would have been forced to take the proper military action to save his land. But the victims were immigrants from Russia, a few not Jewish, others raised by single mothers. They weren't worth fighting for. Many Russian Israelis feel just this way and have been protesting in the streets. They are certain the bombing showed the true bigoted face of the Israeli ruling elite. ***1/2 - The victims' families have no political pull. If the teenagers were of the landed gentry, the political and military pressure would have proved too much for Sharon to resist. The country might not be united in a war for the settlers but the elite will defend their own children once they are cut down like animals by the savages. Perhaps, the suicide bomber knew precisely where to detonate his explosives. Carmi Gillon Is Hauling His Tuches Shimon Peres has just appointed Carmi Gillon to be Israel's Ambassador to Denmark. Now why would Peres do that and why would Gillon accept? Gillon earns four times more as chairman of Peres's Peace Center than he will make as an ambassador. What for the huge cut in salary? And why the hurry? The appointment came out of nowhere. Well, not really. Gillon was head of the secret services (Shabak) from the early days of the Oslo "peace" process and in that position he carried out a long series of heinous crimes against those who opposed Oslo, especially the Yesha settlers who had to be removed from their homes according to the unpublicized clauses of Oslo. The high point of the Peres-Gillon syndicate was the Rabin assassination. Gillon thought Peres's power was enough to assure him protection, wealth and fame, so he hopped onto his train. However, the train got derailed by the Rabin murder. Too many people know the truth now and the whole story, including the dirty tricks/hit team run by Gillon could be exposed by Avishai Raviv's trial scheduled for this month. Gillon wants to be as dissociated from Peres as possible and has chosen a comfortable country from which to fight extradition when the detritus hits the fan. **** Yeah, that's what happened. It would be nice if a few people protested Gillon's appointment as an ambassador to their country. Even a letter to the media or Foreign Ministry would be a fine gesture. In these troubled times of ours, even rumors must be followed up. They have a way of turning into the truth. |
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