BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

110
110
of Rosa Rabin, that you may smother him and the specter of
him, and cast him into bed, and dry up his wealth, and
plague his thoughts, and scatter his mind that he may be
steadily diminished until he reaches his death. Put to death
the cursed Yitzhak. May he be damned, damned, damned!"
After Rabin's assassination one month later - as Israel and
the world mourned a great statesman - Eskin boasted of his
prowess on Israeli television. The curse worked.
Avigdor Eskin's 'Pork-Related Crimes'
May 28, 1997 - Israel -- The man who put a curse on Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin a month before he was assassinated
was convicted in an Israeli court on Wednesday of violating
the Prevention of Terrorism Act, a court spokesman said.
"He was convicted under. . . the Prevention of Terrorism
Act," spokesman Moshe Gorali told Reuters. "The conviction
relates to the interview he gave on television about the pulsa
denura (curse) succeeding." Gorali said the section of the
act violated was that against encouraging violence. Avigdor
Eskin, according to local news reports at the time, stood
outside Rabin's house on the eve of the Jewish high holy day
of Yom Kippur in 1995 and cursed Rabin with the ancient
curse of pulsa denura -- Aramaic for "lashes of fire." The
curse Eskin put on Rabin read in part: "And on him, Yitzhak,
son of Rosa, known as Rabin, we have permission. . . to
demand from angels of destruction that they take a sword to
this wicked man. . . to kill him. . . for handing over the Land
of Israel to our enemies." He said the curse generally worked
within 30 days. Gorali said Eskin would be sentenced next
week. The Justice Ministry said he could receive a maximum
sentence of six years.
February 6, 1998 - Israel -- Israeli extremist Avigdor Eskin
was released on bail last week by a decision of an Israeli
court. Eskin, who was accused of planning to throw the head
of a pig wrapped in pages of the Quran inside al-Aqsa
mosque, made bail of NIS500,000 on January 21, 1998.