BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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that he was damaged. And it only took him seven years to
feel the pain.
My attorney, Dov Eben-Or wrote my defense argument and
quoted Israeli law which puts the onus of responsibility on
the publisher in such cases, not the writer.
So what did Judge Chaim Lakhovitzky do? He changed the
law. In an incredibly long-winded ruling, he declared that
because the Internet is based on forwarded messages, web
site owners cannot be responsible for damages the way a
newspaper is by law. From now on in Israel, writers who post
on the Internet are liable for any message they write.
Eskin is a known Shabak provocateur and I proved it. I
presented articles from much more influential sources
claiming just that and the most widely read such claim
appeared in Haaretz a full year before my little paragraph
appeared on the tiny American site. Another witness was
Dahlia Pelesoff-Rabin, daughter of the late Prime Minister,
who was quoted in a leading women's magazine insisting
that she had followed Eskin's antics closely and had been
told that he was acting for the Shabak.
But pity little Avigdor's daughter who was banned from
school because little old me had damaged her father's
reputation. The judge, for reasons I'm beginning to more than
suspect, dismissed the proven fact that one word in Haaretz
reaches hundreds of thousands of Israelis whereas, my
claim was read by not a one of my countrymen.
I asked the judge an obvious question. "Why is Eskin suing
me and not Haaretz or Dahlia Pelosoff-Rabin?" Now get this
reply: "Because he didn't want to."
I knew the fix was in at that moment.
If Eskin isn't a Shabak provocateur, he fits the pattern like a
glove. Like his fellow provocateur Avishai Raviv, Eskin seeks
the weak-minded and the weak to join his gang of merry