BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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pranksters and prods them into committing outrages. Like
Raviv, he befriended Yigal Amir and even acted as his
matchmaker with his screwball fiancé Larissa Trembovler.
Since my last piece on Eskin, three people wrote telling me
how he tried to recruit them into his gang. They will be
witnesses, if they agree, in my appeal to this travesty of a
verdict.
And I have one other witness, Amir A., who was Rabin's
emissary to Arafat. He provided me with inside information
proving Eskin's intelligence ties.
Eskin did not appear at the trial with a letter from the Shabak
denying he was associated with them. That could have been
acquired from the Defense Ministry. He brought no proof
whatsoever that he was not working for the Shabak and I
brought ample evidence that he was a widely known Shabak
provocateur.
Judge Lakhovitzky admitted my evidence carried great
weight, so he reduced Eskin's damages by 5/6, from 18,000
to 3,000 shekels. To do so, he had to change Israeli laws
protecting journalists from the kind of nuisance the Eskins of
the country can inflict on a free press.
As soon as he verdict was released on the internet, two
journalists, Raanan Bavli and Shahaf Pilovitz wrote me. Both
are editors of sites and forums on the Rotter portal. The
message was the same. You have to fight the verdict or the
precedent will destroy internet freedom in Israel.
Which I think was the idea in the first place.
Eskin didn't wake up after seven years and decide he was
damaged by me. He was sent. And he gave all kinds of hints
that he was coached. Lately, one attack against me has
appeared over and over by my paid detractors. A year and a
half before Ehud Barak's Lebanon escape, two helicopters
crashed in northern Israel killing 73 soldiers. A minute later,