BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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As I arrive, a Kassam rocket falls on Neve Dekelim 200
yards from me, badly wounding a Chabad rabbi. It is the fifth
time he's been attacked and many residents tell me he is
being targeted.
Before my lecture, I meet with three rabbinical scholars, and
after the lecture with a former woman student of Rabbi
Shlomo Aviner, one of the organizers of the last gasp protest
march set for the next day. They have gathered damning
evidence that Aviner is a Shabak plant inside the Yesha
Council. They are certain he has already sabotaged the
march beyond repair.
The evidence is indeed damning. In one of his books, Aviner
admits to working for an Israeli intelligence agency. He told
the Maariv reporter Kalman Lipskind that, "Every now and
then the Shabak asks me to write an article for them." As the
case builds, one scholar makes the claim that Aviner is a
Sabbataian. He notes that his name appeared on an internet
list of Israeli freemasons. He has been brought before
rabbinic courts for falsifying decrees concerning the correct
time for marital relations. In the religious world, this is about
as serious a charge as can be laid. It means he sanctioned
children born into sin.
"And it's Aviner," I was told," who has been destroying the
resistance movement from within. It is he who has ordered
his soldier students to obey commands to attack us. It is he
who has decreed no resistance to the police. And he is a
major organizer of tomorrow's march, so you can be sure it
will be a sham."
The lecture hall is packed. I give the speech of my life. The
audience is stunned but come question time, their meekness
is revealed. One woman tells me no Jewish soldier would
hurt another Jew. I answer that foreign soldiers wearing IDF
uniforms will do the dirty work. Soldiers without ten words of
Hebrew in their vocabulary, had already practiced beating on
protesters in Tsfat the week before.