Chamish wrote this 15 years ago:
Shimon Peres takes care of all the players
There may be a dozen people in Israel with the power and influence to have organized the Yitzhak Rabin assassination. Of these, only Shimon Peres has direct ties to the main actors of the murder. Consider the most likely of the plotters:
Carmi Gillon - Head of the Shabak (Security Services) at the time of the assassination. Despite being forced out of office for incompetence by the Shamgar Commission Of Inquiry, Shimon Peres appointed him chairman of his peace center.
Yoram Rubin - Triggerman of the murder. Despite being head of Yitzhak Rabin's personal bodyguards, those which failed to protect him, on the very night of Yitzhak Rabin's murder Shimon Peres appointed him to be head of his bodyguard unit.
Menachem Damti- Yitzhak Rabin's last chauffeur, whose trip to Ichilov Hospital took twenty times longer than it should have. In fact, Yitzhak Rabin cancelled his regular driver Yeheskiel Sharabi 90 minutes before the fatal rally and he was replaced by Damti, who was the regular driver of Shimon Peres.
Jean Frydman - Shimon Peres's French financier, who funneled millions of dollars into the Ifshar Fund to promote the Oslo process. His partner in Ifshar was Tel Aviv mayor Shlomo Lahat, strangely, a Likud Party member.
In my book Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin. I examined the roles of Carmi Gillon, Rubin, Damti and Shimon Peres in close detail. I only touched on Jean Frydman when I quoted his bizarre statement; "I have such guilt feelings, I can't sleep." After acquiring a copy of an interview with and article by Jean Frydman from the Paris Match (16/11/95), we can all understand why.
I will quote from Jean Frydman's own words and comment after:
"I am a member of the real peace camp. I have been so for the past four years at the urging of my good friend Shimon Peres, a man I like very much. We agreed that Israel's military occupation was negating Jewish values and demoralizing our youth. Shimon Peres, a peace now man, was with me on the joyous day in Tel Aviv that the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Jorgen Holst, revealed the protocols of the agreement signed with Arafat. Shimon Peres didn't believe the agreement would hold and felt it could be derailed. I remember him telling me, "It's now up to Israeli public opinion. We need to quickly form an organization that will sway the Israeli people." I replied, " It's all yours."
The Norwegian Foreign Minister Jorgen Holst was the first murder suspect of the Oslo Accords. In excellent physical shape, he died at 53 of an unexpected heart attack. A widespread rumor said he died of knowing too much. Jean Frydman, a media tycoon, out of the goodness of his heart, gives Shimon Peres a carte blanche for his plan to brainwash the Israeli people, in the summer of 1993. "Shimon Peres immediately flew to California to convince Secretary of State Warren Christopher of the reality of the Oslo Accord. Both he and Clinton were skeptical of the agreement reached behind their backs. Once they realized Shimon Peres wasn't bluffing, Clinton said," Now your problem is Israeli public opinion."
For some reason Shimon Peres had to fly to California to get Christopher and Clinton's permission to mount his and Jean Frydman's propaganda campaign. In short, he told the two Council On Foreign Relations reps, "The French have agreed to fund the campaign. We need your approval and mass marketing experts." The rest of the paragraph is nonsense. I interviewed one of the Oslo negotiators, Ron Pundak, and he told me he phoned Christopher from the very first evening of the talks in January 1993. The State Department guided the negotiations from their inception.
"After the Taba Accord, I realized that Israeli public opinion was in the hands of the far Right. Then at a rally of the right wing Likud, someone displayed a photomontage with Yitzhak Rabin in an SS uniform. Others shouted, "Death to the traitor Yitzhak Rabin." When told of the incidents, Yitzhak Rabin was furious. He was well past fear but felt an injustice had been done to him. On Saturday, October 6, I was at Shimon Peres's home. I told him, 'We cannot leave the streets in the hands of the Likud and far Right. We have to put up a fight."
Since the Taba Accord, which gave Egypt a hundred extra yards of sand in the Sinai, became law, it is hard to see how public opinion was in the hands of the far Right. After that, the lies come thick and heavy. The photomontage and death threats came from Shabak provocateur Avishai Raviv and the minions of his straw group, Eyal. Yitzhak Rabin knew this and was not furious at the far Right but at Carmi Gillon for his illegal use of Raviv. According to research by Israeli journalist Adir Zik, Yitzhak Rabin ordered Carmi Gillon to his office and let loose a barrage of invective against Carmi Gillon, to which Carmi Gillon assured him that Raviv and Eyal were under tight control and were his responsibility. So Jean Frydman's account of Yitzhak Rabin's reaction is a flagrant falsehood. Because the State Prosecutor has mounted a coverup of Eyal's crimes, we cannot be absolutely certain that Shimon Peres was apprised of them. However, it's a pretty safe bet that Shimon Peres knew everything Yitzhak Rabin did plus much more about the Shabak's covert war on the settlers. After all, he and Jean Frydman were organizing the public relations side of things. So, in all likelihood, every word of Jean Frydman's is a conscious lie.
"On Monday, Shimon Peres and I were in Yitzhak Rabin's office. He asked me one question:"Will you take responsibility for this great event?" I told him, "Yes, on condition that I do it the way you want." Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres gave me the green light. "Let's go," they said. With Lahat, we organized a dozen generals for our Israeli Woodstock, our war for peace.
I suggested to Yitzhak Rabin November 4th as the date of the event, but he hesitated. He had an official dinner. Finally, he reorganized his agenda and accepted. I wish I had not arranged things for the day of his death." If Yitzhak Rabin already had a commitment, who was Jean Frydman to insist he change his schedule? Jean Frydman does not explain why he was so insistent.
"We distributed posters reading, Say Yes To Peace, Say No To Violence, Kings Of Israel Square, Tel Aviv. We constructed a large stage, and a grand podium. Shimon Peres and I worked with the security personnel assigning 750 police officers, 250 border guards, sixty elite sharpshooters and three helicopters to patrol the skies. This was in addition to the Shabak forces who permanently protected Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. We placed special detection equipment at each entrance of the perimeter." Jean Frydman and Shimon Peres organized the security of the rally. If there were 750 police officers, all but a few were directed away from the sterile area where Yitzhak Rabin was shot. If there were metal detectors at the entrances, they were not placed backstage. If the crowd was well lit, some people arranged for the sterile area to be bathed in darkness. Jean Frydman confesses that he was one of those people. And why not? He paid for the rally. Shimon Peres's close ties to the murder now extend past the head of the Shabak, the driver, and Yitzhak Rabin's bodyguard right to the very person who organized the security for the assassination rally. And from there, to France.
Intelligence Briefs:
During the course of my work, I am privileged to receive insider information from people who request anonymity. The following briefs came from highly reliable sources. - The Dakar mystery is solved. The submarine sunk because its electronics were faulty. Before the submarine was launched, Moshe Stern, an engineer for Israel Aircraft Industries which built the craft, warned his superiors that the ship's balancing mechanism was defective. He predicted the ship would overturn in deep water and suggested a working apparatus that he had designed. He was turned down and when the sub disappeared, his life was threatened. If he testified to what he knew, numerous officers and staff would be charged with manslaughter. He died at age 53. His family related the story.
- Another family member reports that Eyal member Moshe Ehrenfeld was abducted by two Shabak agents, taken to an isolated spot and was given dire threats to his well-being if he testified at the trial of Avishai Raviv.
- A legalist explains that Shimon Peres's race to the President's House is based on the American experience. President Ford pardoned Nixon and thus covered up further Watergate revelations, while President Reagan pardoned Caspar Weinberger and others involved in Iran Contra. Shimon Peres will use the same tactic to pardon Carmi Gillon, Yoram Rubin, Dorit Beinish and others to stanch the Yitzhak Rabin murder truth.