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LIES FROM THE TOP DOWN!, June 13, 2000
This review is from: Lies, Israel's Secret Service and the Rabin Murder (Hardcover)
This book will infuriate, frustrate and frighten you -- but it is a 'must read!' It proves beyond a doubt that the Rabin assassination was much more complicated than has been presented. Crucial evidence was lost, tampered with, or stolen. Doctors' reports disagree. The book leaves the reader with haunting questions. David Morrison, a practicing psychiatrist in the United States for 20 years before moving to Israel, joins a growing number of authors who are challenging the official version of who, how and why the late Prime Minister of Israel was killed. Despite attempts by Israeli politicians, the media, and book distributors to suppress alternative opinions, the disturbing questions will not go away. Even the family of Yitzhak Rabin have publicly voiced their doubts and disbelief.
One of the most important contributions of this book is to place the assassination in context -- a deliberate and sustained official attempt to destroy the opposition. The police, the Secret Service ("Shabak"), and other institutions of government maintained a systematic attempt to discredit and undermine the settler movement and its supporters. The plot involved Ministers and the Attorney General's office, one of whom is now on the Israeli Supreme Court. Rabin's tenure in office may have been one of the greatest threat to Israeli democracy.
Morrison carefully shows that the Shabak had been caught lying to official commissions of inquiry during the previous administration of Yitzhak Shamir. But the real shift came with Rabin's appointment of Carmi Gillon to head the organization. With opposition to his policies growing, and his popularity slipping dangerously, Rabin saw that the real threat to his policies was from the Right -- Israeli settlers and their supporters. Gillon's war against the settler movement involved recruiting agents to infiltrate their communities and engage in provocative acts, including violence. One of these agents was Avishai Raviv, who is currently on trial in Israel, although all the proceedings are closed.
Raviv set up phony "terrorist" organizations, attacked and claimed responsibility for killing Arabs, and incited violence. His activities, although known by the government, elicited arrests and wide-spread attacks in the media against the Right wing opposition and the settler movement. It was Raviv who lured Yigal Amir into his cult and encouraged him to kill Yitzhak Rabin.
Morrison presents a number of disturbing contradictions in the official version of Rabin's death, and the events surrounding that tragic event. There are major discrepancies in doctors' descriptions of Rabin's wounds, and their locations. The official autopsy report indicates that Rabin's spine was unhurt, while all other doctors that examined him noted that his spine was shattered.
Yoram Rubin, Rabin's bodyguard testified that he was shot by Amir. His clinical report shows that he was only treated for superficial wounds. Leah, Rabin's wife, was told by Shabak agents at the time not to worry because Amir was only shooting blanks. There is no explanation for the absolute breakdown in security surrounding the Prime Minister. There are contradictions in ballistic evidence. The bullets that were recovered were missing for 11 hours between the time of the murder until their mysterious arrival at the police station. Moreover, the bullets do not appear to have been fired from Amir's weapon.
Was it a "sting" operation -- an attempt to discredit the right-wing -- gone awry? A conspiracy gone wrong? Or an insider "hit?" One of the things I learned from the murder mysteries I've seen in movies is the detectives always ask: who stood to gain the most?
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Indeed, beneath contempt!, November 3, 2003
By A Customer
This review is from: Lies, Israel's Secret Service and the Rabin Murder (Hardcover)
As one who lives in Israel, recalls the live radio and TV broadcasts of that night and the newspaper details the next day, Dr. Morrison's book is indeed an eye opener into what most other people simply glanced over, chose to ignore as irreleant in the first place or have gone into denial about, simply because the consequences of inspecting the facts are potentially earth shattering and scandalous.
Unlike Barry Chamish's earlier book on the same subject, this book is footnoted with the precise sources of information, most of them readily available to the general public.
Even Rabin's daughter, in an interview several years ago to the Israeli Woman's magazine "La'Isha", stated at the time that there are questions regarding the events of the night of the assasination that are blatantly not answered by the official storyline.
Other than attempts to smear Dr. Morrison, this book has yet to be contradicted or have its questions resolved. If you haven't heard of the book until now, it's because so many people would wish it would just disappear.
It is indeed beneath contempt that the Israel government and left wing press have stifled the issues brought up and have caused a complacent and exhausted Israeli public to long ago forget what they themselves said and reported at the time.
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Beneath contempt, July 3, 2001
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This review is from: Lies, Israel's Secret Service and the Rabin Murder (Hardcover)
This is yet another in a series of authors who try to twist history to prove that "Rabin was not murdered by the extreme right and even if he was, he brought it upon himself". We have certain words for enemies of the Jews who say similar things about our six million murdered brethren. Unfortunately the menu does not allow me to give it "minus five stars".
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