BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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I showed Israel the ambulance beside Rabin's car, the watch
showing how Shamgar lied about the murder time, the
infamous songsheet. I defended myself with the facts and my
co-guests did not even try to answer them.
After sitting quietly for nearly ten minutes while Yatom
spewed ugly venom against the supposed inciters of the
Rabin murder, I became brazen. I told the host, "Do you
know he just slandered half the country and you let him?"
After the show, neither Yatom nor Guy would accept my
book as a present. But I knew a little about Yatom, so here I
am telling the former head of the Mossad, "Are you aware
that the London Observer wrote that Netanyahu gave you
the Mossad job in return for silence about Rabin?" Yatom
turned red and replied, "I already had the job from him."
That night, somebody decided I was serious enough to sit on
the same panel as the country's most famous prosecutor and
the former head of the Mossad. Even odder, they agreed to
sit with me.
And the next night was just as significant. I was invited as a
guest on Channel Ten's prime time talk show, London And
Kirschenbaum. The guest before me was Ami Ayalon, former
head of the Shabak. My, what company I was suddenly
keeping.
Yaron London is the nation's most influential literary critic
and Moti Kirschenbaum was chairman of the Israel
Broadcasting Authority at the time of Rabin's murder. In my
book, I lambast him for authorizing two staged reports about
Yigal Amir and Avishai Raviv's phony organization, Eyal.
And he was hopping mad about that. He had his say and I
didn't think I'd get mine. But I reminded him that other guests
were permitted to speak freely and I was off and running. I
presented an overview of Israel television's role in creating
Eyal and Amir and he agreed that mistakes were made. Most
important of all, he admitted the reports on Eyal were staged.